Tag Archives: code language
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Why not NOLOCK?
10March 18, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Most senior DBAs I’ve met shudder when they hear NOLOCK. Ever wonder why? For the same reason they shudder at …
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There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.
1March 16, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly …
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Who’s using that database?
1March 9, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
A common problem when trying to alter a database (take it offline, add a filegroup, whatever) is that someone else …
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – March 2014 – Powershell something
4March 2, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be …
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Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
15February 18, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you …
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Dealing with layered function calls
5February 5, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are …
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SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – February 2014 – KILL with the DAC
1January 26, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be …
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Constraint names, Say NO to the default
14January 21, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it …
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Except and Intersect
7January 19, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
EXCEPT and INTERSECT are two uncommon commands. Not that they do anything odd but they aren’t exactly well known in …
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