Gatekeeping and why language matters
This is the second in a series of posts about gatekeeping in Information Technology and other fields. Negative terminology The language we use matters. In the first post I...
2019-08-07
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July 2019 – New Microsoft security update for Spectre variant
If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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All Day Seminar on DevOps in Oslo
In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting an all day session on DevOps for databases. It takes place on Friday, August 30th. You can click here now...
2019-08-07
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Temporary stored procedures
tl;dr; Temporary stored procedures are excellent for testing pieces of code that are going to go into (or come from) ... Continue reading
2019-08-21 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
Microsoft and Oracle recently announced a joint cloud partnership (I have seen the word multi/cross-cloud to explain this) which I found very fascinating to read. It is currently in...
2019-08-07
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Expose Multiple Docker Ports
I was working with containers recently with Jenkins. I didn’t want the server process running on my machine all the time, but I did need to allow some communication....
2019-08-21 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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Weekly reading #24
Hello #SQLFamily! We are packing for the longest trip this year. Next week we will start in Shanghai, then will move to Bangalore for #DPS10 and the last week...
2019-08-06
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5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. 5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans In the first part of this series I explained what an execution...
2019-08-19 (first published: 2019-08-06)
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5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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...
Forums
Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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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