Monthly Archives: June 2017
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SQL Crossword : T-SQL Keywords : June 2017
4June 28, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I did a SQL crossword last month (not my first one either) and it was pretty popular so I asked …
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Temp table quiz
10June 26, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Brent Ozar (b/t) posted a pop quiz on twitter earlier today. Go ahead and give it a shot .. I’ll …
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Dynamically generate the command line DMA statement for each database
1June 21, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
If you are upgrading your instance to 2016 (or 2017 soon) then you probably are going to want to run …
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Adding Identity to an existing column
2June 19, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
A friend had an interesting problem today. A really big table (multiple millions of rows) and no primary key. He …
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Turning ANSI_PADDING off, and why you shouldn’t
4June 15, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I ran into an interesting error the other day while doing a partition switch. Partition switch failed because : column …
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Buzzword Bingo
Leave a commentJune 13, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Grant Fritchey (b/t) is our host for T-SQL Tuesday this month and surprise surprise he’d like to talk about DEVOPS. …
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UDP vs TCP
3June 7, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
If you’ve worked much with named instances you’ve probably had to deal with the question “What port is that instance …
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Backup to NUL
9June 5, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Yes, I spelled that correctly. NUL not NULL. NUL is basically a location you can send a backup to. In …
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