Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series. I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly...
2019-09-03
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week’s post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace....
2019-09-16 (first published: 2019-09-03)
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Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
10 reads
Whitespace, Letter Case, and Other Things That Prevent Plan Reuse
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week's post briefly mentioned that SQL server may not reuse a query plan from cache if there is a small difference in whitespace.
In addition...
2019-09-03
23 reads
Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series.
I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly 9000...
2019-09-03
12 reads
Protected: Vajrasara – An interview with Lashana Lewis – Part 2
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2019-09-02
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Restoring an Expired Certificate–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. One common task that you might need to...
2019-09-11 (first published: 2019-09-02)
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Setting a Custom Variable in an Azure DevOps Pipeline with PowerShell
Here’s a quick post on something simple which stumped me for a while, in the hopes that search engines help someone else who gets confused in the same way....
2019-09-02
20 reads
20 Years of Redgate Software
Yeah, Redgate is only one year younger than my children. What’s really frightening is that I’ve been using Redgate’s products since my kids were a year old. I was...
2019-09-02
32 reads
SQL Homework – September 2019 – Getting the data in
Everything else aside two of the most important tasks of a database are to get data in, and get data ... Continue reading
2019-09-02
246 reads
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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