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Updateable CTEs
1October 18, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
CTEs are cool things. You can essentially create one or more in-line view(s) within your query. One thing that isn’t …
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Permissions required for developing with Temporal Tables
1October 16, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Temporal tables are one of those new (2016+) cool features that recently came across my desk. Basically, a temporal table …
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sys.objects VS helper functions (OBJECT_ID, OBJECT_NAME, etc)
1October 11, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve you’ve done much work with the system views (DMVs for example) then you’ve had to translate an object_id into …
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Small identity columns
5October 9, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
We frequently talk about dealing with outgrowing INT identity columns. What we don’t talk about all that often is small …
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The Alpha and the Omega. The BEGIN and the END.
2October 4, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
The BEGIN/END block is a fairly standard thing if you’ve ever done any coding, but it never hurts to do …
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Haunted SQL
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I decided that for Halloween this year it would be fun to tell SQL ghost stories. When I tweeted about …
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SQL Homework – October 2017 – Sample/Test Database(s)
Leave a commentOctober 2, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month your homework was to set up your own lab. Now it’s time to put a sample database or …
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SQL Puzzle – Prime Numbers
6September 27, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
My goal here is to have something fun (and hopefully educational/thinky) (and yes, I did just make up the word …
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Saving and restoring session options settings
4September 25, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
There are a fair number of options settings. ANSI_NULLS, ARITHABORT, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, etc. Each session has its own set of configurations. …
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Do what I say, not what I do
Leave a commentSeptember 20, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I told you not to use NOLOCK even though I use it sometimes. I told you not to shrink databases, …
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