Rebind and Rewind in Execution Plans
Ever looked at an execution plan? If you answered no, you can’t possibly have ever tried to tune a query,...
2011-06-15
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Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit
The emails came in today and 2 out of 4 of my sessions were selected. Both are the ones I...
2011-06-15
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Things That Should Be In TSQL
Relation Types
create type type_T(i int primary key clustered, j int check (j > 0)) -- relation type. Includes constraints!
create table T(type_T)
Relvar Assignment
This...
2011-06-15
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vCentre Useful Queries: Part II
After posting on twitter last week that I needed something to write a blog post about my good friend Christian...
2011-06-15
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ColoradoSQL in June
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend so...
2011-06-15
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Getting Backup File Information from a Table Valued UDF - SQLCLR to the Rescue?
Update:
After all of this SMO stuff failed (changing the permission set to unsafe got around the security exception, but instead...
2011-06-15
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SQL Books Arrived Today
A small post regarding a couple SQL books I bought from Amazon.
A couple new books arrived in the mail from...
2011-06-15
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SSAS Maestro–Redmond Day 2–Redux
Wow, what a day 2! This was our first day of lecture and it was a doozy. Stacia and I...
2011-06-14
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SSIS Configurations: When and How
Configurations in SSIS are a lovely tool that when implemented correctly can greatly reduce package maintenance. It is very possible...
2011-06-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #19 – Disasters & Recovery
There are three types of disasters that are seldom expected. Read about the fun of dealing with these different types of disasters.
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2011-06-14
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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
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