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#SQLCareer 1/4 July 19th 2018
3July 25, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Earlier this month Steve Jones (b/t) suggested that it might be helpful if those of us that work in the …
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Processes can dramatically improve your work until they don’t.
Leave a commentJuly 23, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
As always with something like this, I like to start with a definition so we are all starting in the …
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RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
2July 18, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently someone mentioned the LOADHISTORY option of RESTORE. It’s not horribly hard to find in BOL but it wasn’t the …
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Counting NULLs
4July 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently I was doing one of Kendra Little’s (b/t) SQL Server quizzes. Specifically the Quiz: COUNT() in SQL Server. As …
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Balancing Security Concerns.
2July 12, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I have a presentation I do every now again on security basics that I’m actually quite proud of. One of …
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Code I’d Hate To Live Without: T-SQL Tuesday #104
3July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This time our respected host is Bert Wagner (b/t). Quick aside, if you haven’t seen his …
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SQL Homework – July 2018 – Create a SQL Agent Job
1July 2, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
For this month’s homework let’s try something a bit different. SQL Agent jobs are a very powerful tool frequently used …
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SQL Puzzle – FizzBuzz3d
18June 27, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought for the end of the month it would be fun to do another T-SQL Puzzle. In this case …
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Be our guest, be our guest, put our database to the test.
3June 25, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
When I think of the public role I often think of the guest database principal (user) at the same time. …
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Strings vs Identifiers
3June 20, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A common mistake, and one I make frequently myself is to use a string in place of an identifier, or …
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