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DBA Myths: Is an identity column always unique, in order, and without gaps?
Leave a commentNovember 20, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Identity columns are all over the place. Probably 80-90% of the tables I see have them and they are almost …
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DBA Myths: The system sessions are the ones with a session_id 50 or less
Leave a commentNovember 18, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Anecdotally any session_id that’s 50 or less is going to be a system session and anything over 50 will be …
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The curious case of CHAR(0)
10November 14, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Over the years I’ve seen quite a few strange things with SQL Server. This one may not have been the …
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What the ???? T-SQL Tuesday #120
5November 12, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Hey, it’s T-SQL Tuesday again! I almost forgot about it what with Summit and all. Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter) is our …
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Pass Summit 2019 Keynote Day 2
3November 7, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m blogging the Keynote! One of my bucket list things has always to live blog a keynote at Pass Summit …
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Volunteers
1November 6, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
This week is the PASS Summit and it has me thinking about all of the amazing work done in our …
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SQL Homework – November 2019 – SSMS built in reports
Leave a commentNovember 4, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Time for some homework again. I know Pass Summit is this week so you may be a bit busy but …
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That slippery slope
1October 30, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
We need to have processes and rules. They are important to any business. That said, exceptions are also going to …
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#PowershellBasics: The GetType() and GetTypeCode() methods
Leave a commentOctober 28, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers …
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Want to be more comfortable with the Extended Events Viewer?
Leave a commentOctober 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ll admit, I’m a lot more comfortable with tracing and the profiler than I am with EE (extended events) and …
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