Category Archives: T-SQL
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SQL Homework – December 2020 – Participate in the Advent of Code.
Leave a commentDecember 3, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Christmas. Depending on where you live it’s a big deal even if you aren’t Christian. It pervades almost every aspect …
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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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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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HAL0004 – I don’t feel well Dave
Leave a commentJune 29, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s another HAL! Every once in a while (4 times now) I come up with a terrible terrible idea for …
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I created a table and SQL created a schema and a user.
Leave a commentJune 22, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Demo first and then I’ll explain what happened. First thing I did was run this script: CreateUsers.bat It’s a quick …
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End an ALTER DATABASE immediately if anyone is in the database.
5June 11, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
The development team has told me they’ve shut down the application, there are no more connections and I can go …
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Use session_context to create a “variable” that lasts between batches.
11May 26, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I had a brief conversation with Itzik Ben-Gan (about|twitter) on twitter and I have to tell you …
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Negative (-) is an operator and will affect the order of operations.
7May 18, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
An interesting question came to my attention the other day. A strange operation problem in SQL Server: -100/-100*10 = 0 …
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Explain CROSS APPLY like I’m 5.
5May 11, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
A good friend of mine (Randolph West (blog|twitter) asked that someone Explain CROSS APPLY like they are 5. So, here’s …
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Is there an easy way to tell what pricing tier my Azure SQL DB/DW is using T-SQL?
3April 22, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I ran into an interesting problem today. I needed to find out the pricing tier of an Azure SQL DB …
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