Tag Archives: code language
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Use TOP instead of SET ROWCOUNT
13October 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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The MERGE statement doesn’t have a WHERE clause.
5September 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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Detaching a database
1September 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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DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in a DELETE statement
3September 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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DBA Myths: You can’t use an alias in an UPDATE statement.
4September 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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A T-SQL query to get current job activity
30September 5, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently had the task of collecting job activity for the purposes of turning it into a report for some …
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Lots of ways to UNPIVOT a table
Leave a commentAugust 21, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently read an awesome post on http://www.stackexchange.com questioning how to change columns to rows ie UNPIVOT. One answer demonstrated …
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sp_SrvPermissions
Leave a commentAugust 19, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Last week I posted my stored procedure for database permissions, sp_DBPermissions. A couple of days later I was demonstrating it …
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How are COALESCE and ISNULL different?
6August 7, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
At first glance these two functions seem very similar, and superficially they are. For example COALESCE(fieldname1, fieldname2) and ISNULL(fieldname1, fieldname2) …
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Database Permissions Queries
3August 5, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Over the last year of blogging my thoughts and queries I’ve discovered something interesting. I posted Where is my Backup? …
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