A Double Day
I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...
2019-06-16
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SQLSaturday Automatic Messages
For those who haven’t used the admin tools for SQLSaturday when an event is created there are a set of messages loaded automatically. It’s up the event admin if...
2019-07-12 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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Using the Announcement/News Part of SQLSaturday
One of the interesting but not often used features of the SQLSaturday tools is the announcement/news (in the admin tools, its Message Center | Announce News) to do mini-blog...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2019 Begins
We’ll be event number 911, set for September 28th at our usual location at Seminole State College. Maybe something interesting to do there as far as a theme. Call...
2019-06-14
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Notes from Jacksonville, Atlanta, and South Florida
Misc notes: Jax. Ice cream break in the afternoon is nice, but the waffle cones on site make all the difference, the smell is hard to miss! Jax. Rooms...
2019-06-14
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Query machine name of the sql server instance - the hard or the harder way
I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
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How Developers and DBAs Collaborate in a DevOps World (video)
You’re a DBA, and your development team is all-in on doing DevOps, and they want to include the database. Should your DBA team limit the permissions or options for...
2019-06-13
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Does the case statement short circuit?
Let’s start with definitions: CASE Statement: This is basically an inline IF .. ELSE IF .. ELSE IF ….. etc ... Continue reading
2019-06-13
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Get the Source of PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS Waits
Extended Events is a powerful tool with plenty of ease of use and flexibility. This flexibility allows the DBA to capably monitor the server for any issue be it...
2019-06-13
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Get the Source of PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS Waits
Extended Events is a powerful tool with plenty of ease of use and flexibility. This flexibility allows the DBA to capably monitor the server for any issue be it...
2019-06-13
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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...
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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
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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