What Encryption Algorithms Are You Using?
Security is an important consideration when designing a database application. Who can get access to what data? How much damage...
2011-05-31
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Using “NOT IN” in a query can provide mixed results
The topic came up at work awhile back with using various includes/excludes such as IN, NOT IN, and EXISTS. A...
2011-05-31
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Speaking at 24 Hours in the Cloud
On June 1st GITCA will run a 24 hour round-the-world virtual event focusing on Cloud Computing. Please visit http://sp.GITCA.org/sites/24Hours for...
2011-05-31
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Use Connections Properly in an SSIS Script Task
There are lots of scenarios in SSIS where you'd want to use a connection within a Script Task. Unfortunately, the...
2011-05-31
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How to protect code written in Stored Procedure or User Defined Function?
Introduction
We have always
been wondering on how to protect/secure our t-sql code written in Stored
Procedures and UDF in shared hosting environment...
2011-05-31
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Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest:...
2011-05-30
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Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles
What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data? Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2...
2011-05-30
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Better Writing from Hemingway
These are five rules for writing from Ernest Hemingway, which I like and recommend for use in your communications. Definitely...
2011-05-30
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SQL Query Run Time Estimation
A followup to a post about subqueries with an estimation for how long it would take for the query to...
2011-05-30
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More Bloopers for Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day, and as usual, I have a blooper reel for the editorial. However I couldn’t fit everything in...
2011-05-30
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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