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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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Pagination in SQL Server
5January 15, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
It amazes me how much easier certain tasks have gotten in SQL Server. I was watching the Nov 2014 SQL …
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Finding the reason for the error “Subquery returned more than 1 value”
1January 7, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
First this type of error is because a subquery returned more than one row when it wasn’t allowed to. In …
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Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
9December 29, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And …
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Do you want to build an Audit?
1December 29, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
So I’ve written my second article for SQL Shack. This time instead of an overview of auditing options in sql …
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DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX vs ALTER INDEX REBUILD
6December 11, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I saw someone ask a few weeks ago if it was faster to drop and re-create an index or do …
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INSERT INTO SELECT vs SELECT INTO
5December 3, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
INSERT INTO SELECT and SELECT INTO may be very similar commands but they have some important differences. Every now and …
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Putting sp_ at the beginning of your stored procedure.
1November 24, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Every now and again you see articles and posts about putting sp_ at the beginning of a stored procedure. So …
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You don’t really need ORDER BY do you?
8November 19, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
You see dozens of blog posts and articles about how the order of a result set is not guaranteed without …
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