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What is time?

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There was a post on X I read today about valuing your time. The gist was that since this person had waited 9 minutes to save $4, they valued their time at $27 an hour. I get the point being made. Time is valuable and you need to set the value of your time. It […]

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2025-03-01

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Limits, Not Goals

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I just saw one of "those" questions. You know the ones: 'We're hitting an error with a stored procedure. What is the maximum number of parameters you can have?" <sigh> Look, I get it. Breaking the land speed record is cool. Getting the most people into a phone booth (look it up), also cool. Fastest, […]

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2025-02-15

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Throwing Iron at the Cloud and AI

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As organizations move to the cloud, the once essential role of the Database Administrator (DBA) as the guardian of system optimization, has been overshadowed, often viewed as a bottleneck to innovation. Yet, as technology evolves, the one thing I know is history repeats itself, and optimization skills are once again emerging as a critical necessity. […]

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2025-02-01

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JSON in Microsoft SQL Server: A Comprehensive Guide

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Introduction JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become a popular data format for storing and exchanging information. Microsoft SQL Server, starting from version 2016, introduced built-in support for JSON, allowing developers to work with JSON data more efficiently within the relational database environment. This article will explore how to store, retrieve, and manipulate JSON data in […]

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2025-01-31

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Technical Pain Behaviors

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In my family’s history of the past 10+ years, we have become well versed in nagging, ongoing, non-debilitating pain. In some ways, the lessons we have learned about physical pain correlate all too well to the types of pain that we technical people are involved with daily. But there is a huge difference, even if […]

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2025-01-25

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Boosting Data Accuracy: Resolving Common Data Quality Issues Using SQL

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Poor data quality significantly hinders large enterprises from deriving meaningful value. The variety of data is a crucial factor to account for when assessing & rectifying data quality, as diverse data types introduce unique challenges in maintaining accuracy and consistency. Good data quality and integrity are essential for accurate insights, good decision-making, and potential success of large enterprises. Inconsistent, incomplete, and inaccurate data significantly affect business operations, customer satisfaction, and financial performance. SQL provides robust functions to proactively identify and resolve these data quality issues, ensuring accurate, reliable, and consistent data for reporting and analysis.

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2025-01-24

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What is Between?

I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?

SELECT *
FROM dbo.Products
WHERE ProductID
BETWEEN 4 AND 7;

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