Author Archives: Kenneth Fisher
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SQL Homework – August 2021 – Security Standards
Leave a commentAugust 3, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
A few years back (wow time flies) I had you Work with Security. It’s been a while so if you …
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Server vs Instance. A rant.
1July 29, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. …
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Speaking: In person vs webinars vs recordings
Leave a commentJuly 27, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I don’t speak all that often. A few times a year for the most part. Because of that I don’t …
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How do I unlock a SQL Server Login using T-SQL (without changing the password)?
1July 22, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
We recently had an application login (SQL Server authenticated) in one of our training environments start locking out on a …
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Experiment: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled will BCP pull the non masked data.
1July 20, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull …
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Padding a string in SQL Server
1July 15, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to …
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Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Leave a commentJuly 8, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Thanks for agreeing to do this Kellyn. I’ve always found you to be one of the more interesting personalities in …
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The SQL Server community and the rising tide (and all that).
Leave a commentJuly 6, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I was speaking with one of my favorite people in the SQL Server community, Grant Fritchey (blog|twitter), on twitter today. …
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Leave a commentJuly 1, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy …
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Another reason I prefer side-by-side SQL Server instance upgrades.
1June 29, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
This is a quick non-technical discussion (i.e. not a how to in any way) of some of the benefits of …
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