Finding Compressed Tables
Have you been working with compression? Have you inherited a database that may or may not have some tables compressed? On occasion you may want to know what the...
2011-02-25
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Finding Compressed Tables
Have you been working with compression? Have you inherited a database that may or may not have some tables compressed?...
2011-02-25
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PASS Update #53 (Bylaws)
This week we posted some pending changes to the PASS bylaws. We try to do a review at least once...
2011-02-25
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Changes to the SSIS Slowly Changing Dimension Component
Probably not the kind of change you're expecting. I've recently been contacted by the Kimball Group, and they've asked me...
2011-02-25
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Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings
Depending on your anticipated workload and which SQL Server components you have installed, there are a number of instance level...
2011-02-25
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Selecting Speakers for SQL Saturday #70
The Call for Speakers for SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC, ended on February 17, 2011. We wanted to put the...
2011-02-25
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SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 4
Overview
We just finished the fourth day of SQLskills learning. Today was all on indexes and statistics. We learned about choosing...
2011-02-25
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Help Promote SQLRally!
In case you’re in need of some images to help us promote the largest PASS event on the East Coast...
2011-02-25
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I've Got A New Job
You've probably noticed I've been quiet on this blog lately, eeking out a post every other week on average. I've...
2011-02-24
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PASS in Five Years: It's about the Members
Andy Warren (blog | twitter) recently blogged about wanting input on What Should PASS Be? and I think it's a reasonable...
2011-02-24
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Blogs
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
Forums
Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers