1. Bulk insert and an identity column

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    December 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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  2. Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds

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    December 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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  3. UDL files and connection strings

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    December 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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  4. SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS

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    December 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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  5. Oh Query, Query, Query

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    November 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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  6. My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)

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    November 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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  7. The Cloud and Shadow IT.

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    November 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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  8. Dealing with multiple AD accounts

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    November 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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  9. Parameterized dynamic SQL is parameterized.

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    November 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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  10. T-shaped knowledge and learning about the cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #108

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    November 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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