Summit Preference Voting
This year the PASS organization is asking us to vote on the PASS Summit 2011 sessions, not as a means...
2011-05-18
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New Microsoft BI Labs site
Interesting new BI site from Microsoft called “BI Labs“. This site says: “BI Labs is a collection of experimental business...
2011-05-18
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The Recursive CTE
(Yet another boring org chart example – except this one has multiple roots)
One of my apps has a hierarchial org chart...
2011-05-18
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PASS Summit Session Votes
I blogged a week ago about the sessions that I submitted for the PASS Summit this year. At the point...
2011-05-18
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How To Make Your Laptop 100x Faster
Simon Sabin had his own take on increasing laptop speed. He had some good ideas, but he inspired me to...
2011-05-18
2,336 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. You'll use an UPDATE statement or a destination table that needsto use...
2011-05-18
10 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. You'll use an UPDATE statement or a destination table that needsto use...
2011-05-18
13 reads
How To: Use the Same Data Flow Column Twice As a Parameter in SSIS
Every once in a while, you'll have a slightly more complex UPDATE statement in an OLE DB Command or Destination. ...
2011-05-18
1,378 reads
Where to put the logic? SQL? Code?
A discussion of where logic should go and why SQL might be the best place.
SQL is a powerful language and...
2011-05-18
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Not. Quite. There. This Time I Failed the Lab
Since I’ve been blogging about my progress through the SQL Server MCM certification, it makes sense to follow-up with my...
2011-05-17
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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