Tag Archives: microsoft sql server
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Padding a string in SQL Server
1July 15, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to …
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DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
3June 24, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in …
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CROSS vs OUTER APPLY
2June 10, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I love CROSS APPLY. I also love OUTER APPLY. What’s the difference though? The same difference as with an INNER …
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Use BCP to create a CSV (comma delimited) file from a table.
1June 3, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
This is a pretty handy little tool in your arsenal. I’ve talked about using bcp to transfer data from one …
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Creating a configurable SSMS script
1May 18, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Several times over the last few weeks I’ve gotten a request to create a new work database. The individuals from …
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How do I test if a linked server works using T-SQL?
4October 27, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I get that linked servers are almost as despised as the dreaded cursor or (lord save us) NOLOCK, but they …
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T-SQL Formatters
3August 6, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I was given a truly horribly formatted piece of SQL. Something a bit like this only worse, …
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RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
2July 18, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently someone mentioned the LOADHISTORY option of RESTORE. It’s not horribly hard to find in BOL but it wasn’t the …
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Counting NULLs
4July 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently I was doing one of Kendra Little’s (b/t) SQL Server quizzes. Specifically the Quiz: COUNT() in SQL Server. As …
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SQL Puzzle – FizzBuzz3d
18June 27, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought for the end of the month it would be fun to do another T-SQL Puzzle. In this case …
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