Author Archives: Kenneth Fisher
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Commenting a branching IF-THEN-ELSE.
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m a big fan of comments (MSSQL, Powershell), so along those lines here’s an interesting way to comment an IF-THEN-ELSE …
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#PowershellBasics: Adding data to a string using subexpressions.
7October 14, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m working on a project right now where I want to add the date/time to the end of a filename. …
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Code examples : T-SQL Tuesday #143
Leave a commentOctober 12, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s TSQL Tuesday! John Armando McCormack (blog|twitter) is our host this month and he’d like us to share some of …
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Dealing with foreign keys when deleting rows.
2October 7, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Deleting rows from a table is a pretty simple task right? Not always. Foreign keys, while providing a ton of …
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SQL Homework – October 2021 – What can you tell me about the server your SQL Server instance is on?
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Here are some really common questions I get: How many CPUs does ServerA have? How much memory does ServerA have? …
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A DBA horror story in database file extensions.
4September 30, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
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Audit Columns
3September 28, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the easiest ways to collect information about table activity is to add a series of audit columns to …
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#PowershellBasics: Bulk insert.
Leave a commentSeptember 21, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I talked about invoke-sqlcmd. It’s a nice easy way to run a query or a .sql …
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#PowershellBasics: Running a .sql script file.
5September 16, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
As with all programming tasks there are a number of ways to do something, this is just one that I …
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Database Sizes
7September 14, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Quick query today. I needed a list of database sizes so came up with this: Nothing exciting, but I figure …
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