Focusing on Business Value
This was a fun talk with David Atkinson at Redgate. We talk satellites, finance, and more. Including some early history of the company. We are talking about how to...
2019-11-14 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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What SQL Server Agent Alerts Do I have setup?
I am in a situation where I have to incorporate SQL Server Agent alerts in my monitoring and alerting strategy.I needed a query (DMV) to get details on what...
2019-11-18 (first published: 2019-11-07)
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Finding out the most cached database in the buffer cache - The DMV Way
While there are many ways and criteria to find out what database is the most used, under optimized, trouble maker etc....., here is one more to find out the...
2019-11-07
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Pass Summit 2019 Keynote Day 2
I’m blogging they Keynote! One of my bucket list things has always to live blog a keynote at Pass Summit ... Continue reading
2019-11-07
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PASS Summit 2019: Day 1 Keynote – my takeaways
I’ve been at the bloggers table for two years now. I felt honored to be selected this year too. The day has started a bit differently – bloggers were...
2019-11-07
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Personal Goal Accomplished: Speaking at the PASS Summit
I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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SQL Server Backup / Restore from URL
I think many have covered how you should backup your SQL Server database to Azure storage (also known as backup to URL) but what about restoring? Lets assume you...
2019-11-07
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Voting for the PASS Board
Voting is open for the PASS Board, as of yesterday (Nov 6). The candidate page is up, and there are 6 amazing candidates for 3 slots. They are: Chris...
2019-11-07
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Getting Started With Terraform
TEST Getting started with using Terraform for infrastructure can be a bit daunting if you've not dived into this stuff before. I put this together as a write up...
2019-11-07
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Create Azure Data Studio SQL Notebooks with PowerShell
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSSQLNotebook. which you can also find...
2019-11-07
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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...
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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