1. T-SQL Tuesday #47: Your Best SQL Server SWAG

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    October 7, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Kendal Van Dyke is asking for Your Best SQL Server SWAG. …
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  2. Use TOP instead of SET ROWCOUNT

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    October 7, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Both TOP and SET ROWCOUNT are both valid methods of limiting the result sets from a query. They are however …
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  3. Filtering Object Explorer

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    October 2, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I absolutely love learning new tricks that can be done in SSMS. Everything from opening initial connections to both the …
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  4. The MERGE statement doesn’t have a WHERE clause.

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    September 30, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    What the heck? Even indexes have WHERE clauses these days. I can’t remember what I was reading when I saw …
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  5. Detaching a database

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    September 26, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    In my general quest to figure out the T-SQL to do common GUI tasks I did some browsing through BOL …
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  6. DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in a DELETE statement

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    September 24, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently I wrote about the myth that you can’t use an alias in an UPDATE statement. You can of course, …
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  7. sp_DBPermissions V2.0

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    September 18, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Last month I posted my stored procedures sp_SrvPermissions and sp_DBPermissions. I’m posting V2.0 of each with a few fixes. The …
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  8. sp_SrvPermissions V2.0

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    September 18, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Last month I posted my stored procedures sp_SrvPermissions and sp_DBPermissions. I’m posting V2.0 of each with a few fixes. The …
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  9. Brad Shultz’s blog on reviewing your database

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    September 17, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    This is possibly the best blog I have every read on the subject of reviewing a database. It is witty, …
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  10. DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in an UPDATE statement.

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    September 16, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I’ve found a very common belief among users of T-SQL (both DBAs and Developers) is that you can’t use an …
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