Author Archives: Kenneth Fisher
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Viewing errors with extended events
3September 27, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
A little while back I came across this post: Identifying failed queries with extended events. It has a script to …
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Conversion Precedence
1September 20, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit datatype conversions. In it I ran this code: With the …
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Making the mouse pointer easier to see.
6September 15, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I know this is way off my usual content but the other day someone was mentioning how easy it is …
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Putting counters in names
6September 13, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s not all that unusual, or unreasonable to put a counter in a name. For example let’s say you need …
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What’s next 4th time
6September 8, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s now been about two and a half months since I was given notice and decided to blog about my …
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Creating a SERVER ROLE created a LOGIN as well.
1September 6, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
One of my co-workers came to me the other day and told me that they found their network id as …
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SQL Homework – September 2022 – Query window challenge
Leave a commentSeptember 1, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I had every intention of doing Replication Part 2 this month but had a thought I liked better. I will …
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When good enough is good enough
3August 30, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
Any time I’ve learned about the optimizer there is always one important thing that’s brought up. The optimizer is not …
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Explicit and implicit datatype conversions
2August 25, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
Did you know that 1/2=0? If you didn’t you could be in for some interesting surprises. 1/2 returns 0 because …
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Why is security important in a dev environment?
10August 23, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I was asked a rather interesting question during an interview recently. It went something like this: Your resume says you’ve …
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