Power BI Monthly Digest – September 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-09-20 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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My fantasy SQL feature(s)? T-SQL Tuesday #118
It’s fantasy football time again? Oh, fantasy feature? Oh, yea, that makes a lot more sense for #tsql2sday. What’s #tsql2sday? ... Continue reading
2019-09-19 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
It’s early September, which means it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s topic comes from Kevin Chant (blog | twitter). Our mission, should we choose to accept it (click...
2019-09-10
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-19 (first published: 2019-09-10)
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-10
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Tracking Who Last Changed a Row
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #118 prompt by Kevin Chant. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and professional...
2019-09-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #118 – Your Fantasy SQL Feature
It’s early September, which means it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s topic comes from Kevin Chant (blog | twitter). Our mission, should we choose to accept it (click...
2019-09-10
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Finding the Visual Designer in Azure DevOps Builds
This post is really a reminder to me, since I don’t create pipelines all that often, and I’ve forgotten a few times how to do this. Plus, while YAML...
2019-09-09
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Get the Last Actual Plan With sys.dm_exec_query_plan_stats
I’ve always felt responsible for making such a big deal about the differences between estimated and actual plans. I implied in the first edition of the execution plans book...
2019-09-18 (first published: 2019-09-09)
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Get Started with the For Loop Container in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services is equipped with tasks and containers to make it easy to design and maintain the flow of ETL: which logic should be executed, when should...
2019-09-18 (first published: 2019-09-09)
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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