Category Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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Who’s using that database?
1March 9, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
A common problem when trying to alter a database (take it offline, add a filegroup, whatever) is that someone else …
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I want to blog but …
2March 4, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I don’t know how to get started. Pretty simple. There are a number of free blogging sites out there. Personally …
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – March 2014 – Powershell something
4March 2, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be …
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Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2
8February 23, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Feb 16, 2015 Dear Diary, A few weeks back I introduced HAL002 to a database managed by some annoying devs. …
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Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
15February 18, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you …
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Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
44February 16, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Nov 12, 2014 Dear Diary, They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see …
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TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security: Rollup
2February 12, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
When I decided on security as my topic for February’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party my thought was that security was …
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Dealing with layered function calls
5February 5, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are …
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