Category Archives: Problem Resolution
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Why are my permissions missing?
Leave a commentJune 22, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
You’d be amazed (or maybe you wouldn’t) how often I hear this: “I used to be able to do xyz …
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#PowershellBasics: Writing to the screen
8May 20, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Writing to the screen is a really basic debugging technique. That said, since I’m really new with Powershell this is …
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Connecting to Azure SQL Database: Requested tenant identifier ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’ is not valid.
Leave a commentMay 20, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I got this rather interesting error while connecting to an Azure SQL DB. I was connecting using …
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SQL Homework – May 2020 – Forum Lurking.
Leave a commentMay 4, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
A few months ago I suggested writing blog post(s) as a great way to learn and document your progress (among …
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Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, …
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Error message: http://System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘NULL’ to data type int.
7December 5, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I love this error. Primarily because it demonstrates two very important things. Errors matter. Make sure when you ask someone …
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Debugging techniques (focusing on T-SQL)
13September 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; Add PRINT and/or SELECT statements. Comment/uncomment out pieces of code to isolate problems. Change INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements to SELECTs. Disclaimer: …
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Why is as important as How
6August 28, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently had someone tell me, and I’m paraphrasing a bit here: We know how to fix this now, so …
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Why am I getting an NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS error when creating or altering a stored procedure?
1May 8, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
If you have to deal with linked servers then you probably have or will run into the following error: Login …
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SQL Homework – May 2019 – SQLCMD and the DAC
5May 1, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Yes, it’s that time again. Time to do your homework. This month your homework is to set up the DAC …
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