T-SQL Tuesday #120 – Recap
The wrap up post for T-SQL Tuesday #120. 9 bloggers contributed this month.
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2019-11-29 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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Setting Certificate Backup Permissions for an Instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was testing some security change, and...
2019-11-20
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Execution Plans in Azure SQL Database
Yes you can still get execution plans for Azure SQL Database, you cannot get this from the Azure Portal so it is good to know for your tuning days....
2019-11-20
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Installing SQL Server on Windows? Don’t forget these two useful switches
A few days ago on Twitter I wrote: Couldn’t connect to new SQL Server install because I forgot to enable TCP/IP. I’m the lead author for a Microsoft Press...
2019-11-20
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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes
Recently Microsoft released a Non-Root SQL Server 2019 container and that’s the default if you’re pulling a new container image. But what if you’re using a 2017 container running...
2019-11-20
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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes
Recently Microsoft released a Non-Root SQL Server 2019 container and that’s the default if you’re pulling a new container image. But what if you’re using a 2017 container running...
2019-11-20
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Upgrading SQL Server 2017 Containers to 2019 non-root Containers with Data Volumes
Recently Microsoft released a Non-Root SQL Server 2019 container and that’s the default if you’re pulling a new container image. But what if you’re using a 2017 container running...
2019-12-02 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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DBA Myths: Is an identity column always unique, in order, and without gaps?
Identity columns are all over the place. Probably 80-90% of the tables I see have them and they are almost ... Continue reading
2019-11-29 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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Why oh Why? Effects of Antivirus on a DB Server
At best these phantom backups cause undue headache in troubleshooting. At worst, they make it impossible to recover in the event of a database related disaster. Join me for...
2019-11-20
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Why oh Why? Effects of Antivirus on a DB Server
At best these phantom backups cause undue headache in troubleshooting. At worst, they make it impossible to recover in the event of a database related disaster. Join me for...
2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-20)
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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The Range of Customers
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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