Category Archives: T-SQL
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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.
10May 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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What is the datatype SQL_VARIANT
3April 16, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
The SQL_VARIANT data type is an interesting beast. It is a data type that can store most types of data. …
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Why you should never use default string lengths.
Leave a commentMarch 25, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
TL;DR; You probably don’t know what you’re going to get. Even if you do know the person maintaining your code …
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DROP IF EXISTS
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s amazing the things that SQL can do these days. It’s also amazing how many of them I’ve managed to …
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