1. More than sp_help

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    August 14, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    If you have worked with SQL Server for very long you have probably run across the extremely useful system function …
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  2. T-SQL Tuesday #57: SQL Family

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    August 12, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is SQL Family and is brought to us by Jeffrey Verheul (b/t). It’s an amazing …
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  3. SchemaBinding – What & Why

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    August 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    What When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying …
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  4. Deny vs Revoke

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    August 4, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Quick quiz. Which of these two commands is the opposite of GRANT? DENY REVOKE   Well lets start with some …
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  5. The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.

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    July 30, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes …
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  6. What is ANSI_NULLS and why will I be glad when it finally goes away?

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    July 28, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently I wrote about what it means that a value is NULL. Right at the beginning I mentioned ANSI_NULLS and …
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  7. Why am I getting a primary/unique key violation?

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    July 23, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    This may seem like a question with a simple answer but there is a bit more to it than you …
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  8. Add them to ALL the roles!

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    July 21, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I seem to get a lot of permissions questions these days and one of the more frequent ones goes along …
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  9. Yes, Virginia, you can have too much white space.

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    July 16, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    When I was in college and taking programming classes (back in the days when “a T-Rex ate my 5.25 inch …
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  10. What does it mean that a value is NULL?

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    July 14, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Let’s start by assuming that ANSI_NULLS are ON. If you aren’t sure what ANSI_NULLS are exactly, don’t worry, I’ll be …
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