vCentre Useful Queries: Part I
After posting on twitter last week that I needed something to write a blog post about my good friend Christian...
2011-06-14
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T-SQL Enhancement: THROW
When bulding solid T-SQL solutions, it is often necessary to implement some level of error handling. One of the most...
2011-06-14
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'Topping and Tailing' strings in database tables
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When you are having to extract just part of a string in TSQL, there are a number of techniques you...
2011-06-14
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SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW)
Bluntly put, this is something that you always want to be taking advantage of.
As a Database Administrator I’m always on...
2011-06-13
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SSAS Maestro - Day 1 - Redux
Well it’s been an exciting couple of weeks leading up to this course. We have tweaked what we could in...
2011-06-13
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Speaking at SALSSA June 15th 2011:Understanding Storage Systems and SQL Server
I am very exicted to be speaking at the San Antonio PASS chapter SALSSA! It’s been way to long and...
2011-06-13
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SSAS - Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property
For many Analysis Services developers building dimensions with many attributes and hierarchies is something that comes as second nature to...
2011-06-13
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SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error
A Fuzzy Lookup Task in SSIS that I was working on was bombing out, and I had a heck of...
2011-06-13
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PASS Update #56-SQLRally 2012 Site Selection
Note: This is a good, bad, and ugly post. We took some chances, got some things right, got more than...
2011-06-13
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What’s a Disaster?
In working on my Preparation for Disaster presentation and doing research, one of the questions that came up early for...
2011-06-13
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My Social Media Rules
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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