Interview with Bob Ward
This is the eight interview we have done. This time our guest is the one and the only Bob Ward! Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft...
2019-10-30 (first published: 2019-10-18)
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Workshop Report: Overcoming Obstacles on the Journey to Continuous Delivery for Databases (video with transcript)
I am living the dream, y’all: yesterday I was finishing up my workday and needed to record a video, but realized that our puppy had spent enough time in...
2019-10-17
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SQL in the City Comes Back to Seattle
This year at the PASS Summit, Redgate is holding our SQL in the City Summit as one of the pre-con events at the conference. You can add this in...
2019-10-17
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PowerShell Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks! You can download the latest insiders edition from the link above,...
2019-10-17
18 reads
Backup Techniques for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
In the previous blog post I did a quick overview building a SQL VM (imaged) in Azure. It is now time to clarify some backup techniques because it can...
2019-10-17
42 reads
SQLCover 0.5 - Fixes, smaller features and an exciting surprise
It has been a little while but I have updated SQLCover to include a number of fixes and small features, the majority of which are improvements to the html...
2019-10-16
13 reads
SQLCover 0.5 - Fixes, smaller features and an exciting surprise
It has been a little while but I have updated SQLCover to include a number of fixes and small features, the majority of which are improvements to the html...
2019-10-30 (first published: 2019-10-16)
416 reads
Switch activity in Azure Data Factory: Container with many IFs
(2019-October-16) Developing conditional logic of your Azure Data Factory control flow has been simplified with introducing of the Switch activity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-switch-activity. Official documentation resource states, this new data factory activity "provides...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
8,572 reads
Setting Permissions for a SQL Server backup folder–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While testing a script recently, I needed to...
2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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Using indexed views? What is an imprecise or non-deterministic convert?
After last week’s post about using WITH (NOEXPAND) to query indexed views even on SQL Server Enterprise Edition, this week is a short but interesting side-road into deterministic values,...
2019-10-16
46 reads
Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
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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