SQL Server Backup / Restore from URL
I think many have covered how you should backup your SQL Server database to Azure storage (also known as backup to URL) but what about restoring? Lets assume you...
2019-11-07
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Voting for the PASS Board
Voting is open for the PASS Board, as of yesterday (Nov 6). The candidate page is up, and there are 6 amazing candidates for 3 slots. They are: Chris...
2019-11-07
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Getting Started With Terraform
TEST Getting started with using Terraform for infrastructure can be a bit daunting if you've not dived into this stuff before. I put this together as a write up...
2019-11-07
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Create Azure Data Studio SQL Notebooks with PowerShell
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSSQLNotebook. which you can also find...
2019-11-07
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Hi, I’m Hamish Watson and I’m running for the PASS Board of Directors.
Hi, I’m Hamish Watson and I am running for the PASS Board of Directors: https://www.pass.org/Governance/Elections.aspx This blog post is why I decided to run for the board, why I...
2019-11-06
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PASS Summit 2019 – Day 1 Keynote
Today is the first full day of the PASS Summit, and this morning we kicked things off with a 2-hour opening ceremony and keynote. Networking and Growth PASS president...
2019-11-11 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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MS Ignite Day #2 Recap
Day 2 was my opportunity to be focused and dive into a few technologies that were really peaking my interest, namely Azure Synapse Analytics and SQL Server 2019. Since...
2019-11-13 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements
Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform...
2019-11-13 (first published: 2019-11-06)
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SQL Server 2019 is here
With the release of SQL Server 2019, I wanted to highlight in a single place some things that I’m excited about. Drawing on sessions I presented this year at...
2019-11-06
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Volunteers
This week is the PASS Summit and it has me thinking about all of the amazing work done in our ... Continue reading
2019-11-06
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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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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
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OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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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