Category Archives: Documentation
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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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SQL Homework – February 2020 – Write a blog post.
1February 3, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Following along with last month’s documentation homework this month I want you to write a blog post. But Ken, what …
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SQL Homework – January 2020 – Document, document, document
4January 1, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Happy New Year! It being New Year’s, at least by the Gregorian calendar, I thought we could make this month’s …
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Want to be more comfortable with the Extended Events Viewer?
Leave a commentOctober 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ll admit, I’m a lot more comfortable with tracing and the profiler than I am with EE (extended events) and …
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#PowershellBasics: Get-Help -Online
Leave a commentOctober 21, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the other things I learned from the Powershell class I’m taking this week is that there is an …
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Hugo’s SQL Server Execution Plan Reference
Leave a commentMarch 18, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m a big fan of T-SQL Tuesday. Each month there is a host who comes up with a topic, and …
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Zombie SQL
5October 31, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
It Halloween so time for a scary SQL story. Ok, maybe not that scary. Ok, not scary at all, but …
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Processes can dramatically improve your work until they don’t.
Leave a commentJuly 23, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
As always with something like this, I like to start with a definition so we are all starting in the …
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Code I’d Hate To Live Without: T-SQL Tuesday #104
3July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This time our respected host is Bert Wagner (b/t). Quick aside, if you haven’t seen his …
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Default reports in SSMS
2July 13, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
As DBAs our stock in trade is information and there is certainly an impressive amount available. The diagnostic views are …
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