1. The “most_recent_sql_handle” column

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    January 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    While researching my last post I ran across an interesting column I hadn’t noticed before, sys.dm_exec_connections.most_recent_sql_handle. I mentioned it in …
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  2. Transactions: Who, What and Where

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    January 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently we had a scenario where we had a handful of queries being blocked. Nothing unusual there but when I …
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  3. sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0

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    January 15, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data …
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  4. Guid vs Identity columns (Ints)

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    January 13, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I came across an interesting question on SE last week. Guid vs INT – Which is better as a primary …
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  5. Transactions: What are they?

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    January 8, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    I’ve done a couple of posts now talking about how rolling back a transaction works. I thought this time I …
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  6. Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.

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    January 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an …
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  7. Happy new year!

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    January 1, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher

    Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had …
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  8. The 12 days after release

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    December 24, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    On the first day after release my developer gave to me a performance problem on a crucial query   On …
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  9. SSMS Shortcuts and more

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    December 23, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I went and voted for #tribalawards and when I was finished they offer you links to 6 different free PDFs. …
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  10. Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.

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    December 19, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the ROLLBACK command rolls back the entire transaction all the way …
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