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There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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I’m giving another webcast through MSSQLTips.com. This one is on May 9, 2019, at 3 PM EDT. It’s called Auditing SQL Server from the Ground Up. You can register...
2019-05-01
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Deadlocks are usually detected and resolved automatically by SQL Server by killing one of the SPIDs involved in it. You may have an alert setup to notify you and/or users...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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As you may all know, having up to date index statistics is the key to make sure the query optimizer can choose the most optimal execution plan for any...
2019-05-01
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I have a shorter post this week, but I reckon it’s an interesting story. As part of the new Intelligent Query Processing improvements introduced in the upcoming SQL Server...
2019-05-01
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Availability groups (AG’s) is one of my favorite features of SQL Server, despite some DBA’s catalogue them as “too complex” to implement, configure, manage and maintain … I just...
2019-05-13 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...
2019-05-10 (first published: 2019-05-01)
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Yes, it’s that time again. Time to do your homework. This month your homework is to set up the DAC ... Continue reading
2019-05-01
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In today's world, people expect to be able to commit one change, then have the entire project re-deployed and automated tests run against it. Using the SSIS PowerShell...
2019-05-01
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Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
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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