Author Archives: Kenneth Fisher
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How do I tell what compression level my tables/indexes are?
1November 17, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s been a while since I worked with compression and the other day I needed to check which of my …
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A quick and dirty scan of a list of instances using a dynamic linked server.
5November 12, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Note: This is not exactly a dyanmic linked server. It just gets dropped and recreated in a loop. I recently …
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I get by with a little help from my friends : T-SQL Tuesday #132
Leave a commentNovember 10, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Taiob Ali (blog|twitter) is our host for TSQL Tuesday this month and he’d like us to talk about how our …
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Adding a user to an Azure SQL DB
1November 5, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Creating a user is simple right? Yes and no. First of all, at least in SSMS it appears you don’t …
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SQL Homework – November 2020 – Help!
Leave a commentNovember 3, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
If you ask any senior IT person What is the most important tool you have? there is a decent chance that …
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What do they want to hear?
3October 29, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I was helping my 16yo write his first college essay the other day. He’s always struggled a bit with writing …
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How do I test if a linked server works using T-SQL?
4October 27, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I get that linked servers are almost as despised as the dreaded cursor or (lord save us) NOLOCK, but they …
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SQL Virtual Machines
Leave a commentOctober 22, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I was recently watching the first session of the Azure SQL Bootcamp by Anna Hoffman (twitter) and Bob Ward (blog|twitter) …
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My 800th post!
Leave a commentOctober 20, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
It took me a little bit longer to get here than I expected but I finally made it. 800 posts. …
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Permissions script for Azure Synapse
3October 15, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I was recently asked to add on to my permissions stored procedures (sp_SrvPermissions, sp_DBPermissions and sp_AzSQLDBPermissions) and create one for …
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