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What’s a differential backup?
2January 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Of the different basic types of backups (full, differential and log) I find the differential the most interesting, and frequently …
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Read-only tables
5January 21, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Sometimes you need a table that is read only. You don’t want anyone to be able to write to it …
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Controlling the firewall for an Azure SQL DB via T-SQL
2January 16, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I took a Microsoft Learn course about securing Azure SQL DB. It was really enjoyable and I …
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SQL Bits 2019: The Great Data Heist
Leave a commentJanuary 14, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
SQL Bits is almost here! It’s February 27th to March 2nd. SQL Bits is one of the most popular SQL …
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#SQLCareer 4/4 January 2nd 2019
Leave a commentJanuary 10, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Last July (yes, it’s taken me 5+ months to finally finish this) Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be …
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Automation starts by doing something once, very very carefully: T-SQL Tuesday #110
5January 8, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
After a while the intros for my T-SQL Tuesday posts get a little boring. So without any further ado, it’s …
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SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Leave a commentJanuary 2, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years …
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Using Microsoft Learn
3December 31, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve just signed up on Microsoft’s new learning opportunity Microsoft Learn. The main categories are Azure, Business Apps, and Windows …
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Identity in a SELECT
4December 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here? …
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Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
4December 17, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error …
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