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Bulk insert and an identity column
1December 12, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file …
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Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
Leave a commentDecember 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016 …
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UDL files and connection strings
2December 5, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and …
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SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS
Leave a commentDecember 3, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve committed to posting a piece of homework for you to do each month. I post at the beginning of …
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Oh Query, Query, Query
1November 28, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought I would post this a bit early so everyone can memorize the words before Hanukka starts next week. …
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My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
5November 26, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use …
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The Cloud and Shadow IT.
2November 21, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Shadow IT has been, well, maybe not the bane of the IT department, but certainly a pain in the neck. …
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Dealing with multiple AD accounts
8November 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
To help promote the seperation of duties one of the things my company has done is to divide our permissions …
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Parameterized dynamic SQL is parameterized.
3November 15, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Ok, that title sounds silly, but it’s actually a real point. The first parameterized refers to using parameters within dynamic …
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T-shaped knowledge and learning about the cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #108
5November 13, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Upper management at my company has started asking for something called T-Shaped knowledge. The idea is that we have a …
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