The Cost of Storage
As DBAs we constantly need more storage, but do we know what the impact or cost of this storage is to our employers? Answer this week's poll.
SQL Saturday #168 - Tampa BI Edition
A free day of SQL Server Business Intelligence sessions in Tampa, FL tomorrow.
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn: Multisite Failover Cluster Instance
SQL Server Failover Clustering, which includes support for both local and multisite failover configurations, is part of the SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn implementation suite, designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server. The multisite failover clustering technology has been enhanced significantly in SQL Server 2012. The multisite failover cluster architecture, enhancements in SQL Server 2012 to the technology, and some best practices to help with deployment of the technology are the primary focus of this paper.
Failure Lessons
Steve Jones would like to see more disclosure about what works and doesn't work when deploying new systems and software.
Hierarchies on Steroids #2: A Replacement for Nested Sets Calculations
In this sequel to his first "Hierarchies on Steroids" article, SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden shows us how to build a pre-aggregated table that will answer most of the questions that you could ask of a typical hierarchy. Any bets on whether Santa is packin’ a Tally Table in his bag or not?
FileStream and FileTable in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 enhanced the SQL Server 2008 FileStream data type by introducing FileTable, which lets an application integrate its storage and data management components to allow non-transactional access, and provide integrated SQL Server services. Arshad Ali explains how.
Day 5 of The OLAP Sprint
Day 5, the first real day of the Summit. Amir Netz' session and a little cube work.
Stairway to SQL Dialects Level 2: Postgres
Level 2 of this stairway explains how to convert data declaration language (DDL) statements and data manipulation language (DML) statements from Postgres to Microsoft SQL Server.
The Future of DBAs
What's the future for DBAs with cloud services and computing? Steve Jones talks about what might be coming soon.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 - Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
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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