Category Archives: SQLServerPedia Syndication
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Using Snippets
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
A while ago I talked about Templates. This is an easy way to get a, well, template of a piece …
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Too many indexes!
6October 13, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Indexes are great. They speed up our queries. In fact, without them relational database systems wouldn’t work. Different indexes work …
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If backups are taken in silence can a recovery still take place?
3October 11, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
My friend Andy Mallon (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. In case you aren’t aware T-SQL Tuesday is a …
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Floor, Round, and Ceiling
5October 5, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
I saw an interesting question today about rounding. Specifically they always wanted to round down. Now as it happens that …
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Pinned Tabs
5September 27, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s funny how easy it is to find information you aren’t looking for. A few weeks back Stephen Bennett (b) …
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Nil to Speaker: Improving your PowerPoint skills
1September 26, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
As I work on my speaking skills one of my tasks is improve my PowerPoint presentations. To that end I’ve …
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A quick fix for a full identity column.
2September 21, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
A while back I wrote a post on everything I knew about identity columns. In it I mentioned the following: …
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Using an ORDER BY in a view
27September 19, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
For many years it’s been a best practice to never put an ORDER BY in a view. The idea is …
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Emojis in SQL Server
13September 15, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
I blame Aaron Bertrand (b/t) and Kevin Kline (b/t). Aaron who posted a great #BackToBasics blog about naming stored procedures …
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Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database
1September 13, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
So to start, what’s a BACPAC? Per the Azure documentation When you need to create an archive of an Azure …
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