Monthly Archives: October 2014
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Playing with the log – Before the first full backup
1October 29, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
The log file tends to fascinate me. In fact one of my favorite posts is where I looked into the …
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A script to list the DTS connection information for every package on the instance.
2October 27, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
For those of you who have moved completely to SQL 2012 & 2014, Lucky you and don’t judge! For the …
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Force only certain values to be unique
1October 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures. …
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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
5October 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments …
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UNION vs UNION ALL
7October 16, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are …
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TSQL Tuesday #59: My Hero, My Inspiration, My Wife
2October 14, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
TSQL Tuesday is a blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) almost 5 years ago. This month Tracey McKibben (b/t) …
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Required reading before upgrading SQL Server.
5October 8, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I was watching a great presentation by Brent Ozar(b/t) on why to move to SQL 2014 and in the Q …
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You can’t use aggregate/windowing functions with CROSS APPLY
11October 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
One of my favorite features of CROSS APPLY is the ability to use it instead of a calculated variable. Well …
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Intro to Auditing in SQL Server on SQL Shack
Leave a commentOctober 1, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I had an article published yesterday on http://www.SQLShack.com. Intro to Auditing in SQL Server. It’s worth reading if I do …
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