1. A temper, soft skills, and almost losing a job : T-SQL Tuesday #170

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    January 9, 2024 by Kenneth Fisher

    It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! In fact, it’s the first of the year and our intrepid host is Reitse Eskens (blog|twitter). …
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  2. Baby Steps and Continuous Improvement

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    December 29, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    It’s the last Friday of the year and I’ve been struggling to think of a good way to close things …
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  3. SELECT FORMAT(COUNT(1),’N’) FROM TableName WITH (NOLOCK);

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    December 26, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    Alternate title: How do I tell how far I am on that command? This little command (frequently with a WHERE …
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  4. Can you take a differential backup of master?

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    December 19, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    In one of the sessions I attended during the Pass Data Community Summit the speaker asked “If master is in …
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  5. Making Extended Events a bit more usable : T-SQL Tuesday #166

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    September 14, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    Running a bit late this month for T-SQL Tuesday (it’s not exactly Tuesday is it!) but that’s Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) …
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  6. SQL Homework – September 2023 – Time for temporal tables.

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    September 5, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently I needed to use temporal tables. And not just for the job history table in a managed instance. In …
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  7. One job to rule them all

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    August 31, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    Three batch jobs that run all night.Seven for the DBAs to maintain and protect.Nine quick little jobs run by the …
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  8. Windows Hello may cause a “SSPI Context” error

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    August 22, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    I’m going to start out by saying I don’t know a tremendous amount about this subject. I’ll tell you what …
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  9. What’s in a SQL Server Managed Instance?

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    August 3, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    My current position involves a lot of work with SQL Server Managed Instances so you’ll probably be hearing a lot …
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  10. SQL Homework – August 2023 – Have the best practices changed while you weren’t looking?

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    August 1, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher

    It’s been a bit since I did one of these so let’s go back to the basics. Best practices. We …
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