Author Archives: Kenneth Fisher
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What’s next? Pt 2
Leave a commentJune 30, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
Well, it’s only been about a week and a half but here’s an update. First a piece of advice. You …
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Creating a Database Audit Specification can create new users & schemas in the background
1June 28, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I love database audits. They are simple, easy to use, effective, not overly resource intensive, and can be turned on …
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How do I tell if identity_insert is turned on and if so what table?
Leave a commentJune 24, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
TLDR; The code to do this is below but it’s a bit hokey and probably isn’t worth it. It’s pretty …
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What’s next?
11June 21, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
As I’m sure a fair number of you already know I was told my position had been eliminated. They are …
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Too many coding standards : T-SQL Tuesday #151
4June 14, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
One of my favorite people, Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter), is our host this month and she’d like to talk about coding …
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SQL Homework – June 2022 – SQL Agent Jobs continued.
2June 2, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
A few years ago I gave you homework to create a SQL Agent Job and play with it a little …
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An auditing mind set
2May 31, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I little while back I presented at Pass Data Community Summit. Specifically the presentation was Auditing your data and data …
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Reblog from Brent Ozar: Designing a Data Model for Gender and Sexuality (Oh And Also, I’m Pansexual)
2May 25, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
This is a repost of a blog by Brent Ozar. I seriously doubt anyone reading this post hasn’t seen Brent’s …
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TSQL Tuesday #150: Your first technical job. Rollup.
2May 24, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
This months subject for T-SQL Tuesday was Your first technical job. I have to say I really really enjoyed reading …
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
9May 19, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a …
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