Tag Archives: best practices

  1. Why is security important in a dev environment?

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    August 23, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher

    I was asked a rather interesting question during an interview recently. It went something like this: Your resume says you’ve …
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  2. Work requests: It’s broke. Fix it.

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    August 12, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher

    Many years ago I was given a work request that literally just said: It’s broke. Fix it. I’m sure you …
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  3. All triggers have to be able to handle multiple row operations.

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    September 3, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher

    Quick post today. Recently I was helping a co-worker write a trigger. Basically there is a table of servers that’s …
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  4. Blogging and coding best practices

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    September 25, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher

    I had a discussion a while back, I think it was with Grant Fritchey (b/t) but I just can’t remember. …
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  5. Debugging techniques (focusing on T-SQL)

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    September 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher

    tl;dr; Add PRINT and/or SELECT statements. Comment/uncomment out pieces of code to isolate problems. Change INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements to SELECTs. Disclaimer: …
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  6. Deleting a lot of data

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    April 12, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher

    I recently had the task of deleting a bit over a billion rows from a table. Now I could have …
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  7. What’s the difference between Files and Filegroups?

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    March 28, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher

    tl;dr; Filegroups are a logical construct used to separate tables and indexes from each other, files are the physical construct …
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  8. GDPR – After the restore

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    March 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher

    I joined in on an interesting conversation the other day on twitter. It was about some unusual ramifications of GDPR …
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  9. Simply Debugging

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    March 7, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher

    Debugging is a life skill. Yes, the term comes from IT (literally removing a bug from a computer believe it …
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  10. The default filegroup, and why you should care.

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    February 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher

    You know you can have multiple filegroups right? You might have a separate filegroup for the data (the clustered index …
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