Tag Archives: microsoft sql server
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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 Homework – July 2018 – Create a SQL Agent Job
Leave a commentJuly 2, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
For this month’s homework let’s try something a bit different. SQL Agent jobs are a very powerful tool frequently used …
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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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Be our guest, be our guest, put our database to the test.
3June 25, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
When I think of the public role I often think of the guest database principal (user) at the same time. …
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The identity column, the insert and the linked server.
1June 14, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; When doing an insert across a linked server you have to include the list of fields to be inserted …
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What queries are getting blocked?
Leave a commentJune 6, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Monday Grant Fritchey (b/t) put up a great post EXTENDED EVENTS, THE SYSTEM_HEALTH SESSION, AND WAITS that talks about how …
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SQL Homework – June 2018 – Alter a database
Leave a commentJune 4, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Here we are again. The beginning of another month. At the beginning of each month I put out a SQL …
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Updated query to view data in the error log
2May 31, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
This is one of my favorite scripts. It pulls all of the data from the error log and dumps it …
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