Search Active Directory (AD) from your desktop
Ever see a Windows group and want to know all the users in that group without having to ask your...
2011-05-27
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Re-blog – May 20-26
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-05-27
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MCITP: 2 Down 2 to go
It’s time for the weekly update. Much like last week, we had more issues with taking this exam today. I scheduled exam 70-433 for first thing in the morning...
2011-05-26
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MCITP: 2 Down 2 to go
It’s time for the weekly update. Much like last week, we had more issues with taking this exam today. I...
2011-05-26
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SQL Server, Storage and You Part 2!
I saw 500 faces an rocked them all!
To those who attended my webinar today THANK YOU! If you didn’t…. There...
2011-05-26
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SQL University Troubleshooting Week: Keeping an Open Mind
Office politics during a major event can be dangerous. It pays to be seen as contributing to solving the problem...
2011-05-26
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SQLRally 2011 Women in Technology Luncheon
On May 12, during the first-ever SQLRally , we held the first-ever SQLRally Women in Technology luncheon! I moderated, and our...
2011-05-26
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Endpoints Need Privileges Too
Yesterday I delivered a session for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on Service Broker. In preparing for the session I...
2011-05-26
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Survival Mode & Dodging Burn Out
One of the benefits of experience is that you can see problems coming, that doesn’t mean you have enough experience...
2011-05-26
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No Shrink-y Tempdb
I caught the end of a Twitter conversation the other day between Wes Brown (Blog | @WesBrownSQL), Paul Randal (blog | @PaulRandal),...
2011-05-26
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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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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