Scaling SQL Elastic Pools
There are a few ways to scale a SQL elastic pool. For this blog post I show you how to scale up. It can be done via the Azure...
2019-04-15
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Cool Stuff in Snowflake – Part 8: Time Travel
I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to...
2019-04-23 (first published: 2019-04-15)
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Weekly reading #11
Good day folks! Let’s make this week great (again)! It is spring already there so it is easy to get up at 6am and write the blog! Now looking...
2019-04-15
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The Two Year Plan
Earlier this year as I thought about what I wanted to try in Orlando related to the SQL community and thought about the time commitment, I realized it was...
2019-04-13
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Notes from Orlando Code Camp 2019
Notes: Speaker party was well attended which makes it more interesting, the only downside was that the restaurant overall was LOUD, so much so that sometimes you’d have to...
2019-04-13
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Global AI Night at WSB in Chorzów
The 2nd of April 2019 was a big day because of the two global IT events. The one was for developers as a new Visual Studio 2019 was born....
2019-04-13
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SQLServerCentral Design Decisions–Forum Threads
It’s been a long couple of weeks. Almost two weeks ago we cut over from our older, v2 version of the site to the new (and current) v3. Lots...
2019-04-12
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Find Occurrences of a String Anywhere on an Instance
Oh, the dreaded string search (on an entire instance). What to do?
2019-04-11
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Power BI Monthly Digest – April 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-04-11
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Creating logins and users in Azure Database
Azure Database is the PaaS solution for SQL Server databases, on a previous post we have discussed how to create one.On this post, I want to show you how...
2019-04-11
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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...
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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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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