Happy Hour at SQL in the City Austin
Tomorrow is SQL in the City 2019 – Austin. If you’ve registered, you’re going to want to come. From Kendra’s great opening keynote to Brian’s demo to a couple...
2019-05-21
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Containers: Getting an Image
I’m working with Docker running on Windows or Linux. There are other ways to do this, but Docker seems to be a pretty strong standard. I’ll leave it to...
2019-05-21
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Building Your Brand Right
I was interviewed yesterday by Stephen Wynkoop (twitter) for the upcoming SSWUG Virtual Conference on May 23rd. One of the questions was about how to keep management engaged on...
2019-06-07 (first published: 2019-05-21)
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Workshop – Kubernetes Zero to Hero – Installation, Configuration, and Application Deployment
Pre-conference Workshop at SQLSaturday Baton Rouge
I’m proud to announce that I will be be presenting an all day pre-conference workshop at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge on August 16th 2019! This...
2019-05-21
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Workshop – Kubernetes Zero to Hero – Installation, Configuration, and Application Deployment
Pre-conference Workshop at SQLSaturday Baton Rouge I’m proud to announce that I will be be presenting an all day pre-conference workshop at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 23rd 2018! This one...
2019-05-21
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Predicate Execution Order on Mixed Data Type Columns
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server’s cost-based query optimizer does a pretty good job of figuring out what order to filter your data to get fast query...
2019-06-04 (first published: 2019-05-21)
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Predicate Execution Order on Mixed Data Type Columns
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server's cost-based query optimizer does a pretty good job of figuring out what order to filter your data to get fast query executions....
2019-05-21
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Predicate Execution Order on Mixed Data Type Columns
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server's cost-based query optimizer does a pretty good job of figuring out what order to filter your data to get fast query executions....
2019-05-21
10 reads
Microsoft SQL Server Error 5243 – Top 3 Ways To Fix This Issue
Maintaining the SQL server database is always the first priority of the SQL administrators. But sometimes SQL database users have to face Microsoft SQL server error 5243 and error...
2019-05-21
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Microsoft SQL Server Error 5243 – Top 3 Ways To Fix This Issue
Maintaining the SQL server database is always the first priority of the SQL administrators. But sometimes SQL database users have to face Microsoft SQL server error 5243 and error...
2019-05-21
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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...
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