2008-02-27 (first published: 2008-01-21)
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2008-02-25 (first published: 2008-01-15)
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Sorted views in 2005 and TOP clause
These examples show how You can circumvent the problem with not working TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY in views.
2008-02-22 (first published: 2008-01-22)
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2008-02-21 (first published: 2008-01-09)
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2008-02-18 (first published: 2007-12-27)
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2008-02-14 (first published: 2007-12-20)
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2008-02-13 (first published: 2007-12-18)
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Change column type on constrained columns
Use this proc if you need to alter a column that is part of a primery key
2008-02-04 (first published: 2007-12-10)
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String Tokenizer with Complex Search
Sample solution to replace string in expressions with multiple delimiters.
2008-01-31 (first published: 2007-12-05)
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2008-01-29 (first published: 2007-11-23)
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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My Social Media Rules
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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