Tag Archives: microsoft sql server
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A script to list the DTS connection information for every package on the instance.
2October 27, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
For those of you who have moved completely to SQL 2012 & 2014, Lucky you and don’t judge! For the …
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Force only certain values to be unique
1October 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures. …
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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”
5October 20, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments …
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Required reading before upgrading SQL Server.
5October 8, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I was watching a great presentation by Brent Ozar(b/t) on why to move to SQL 2014 and in the Q …
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You can’t use aggregate/windowing functions with CROSS APPLY
11October 6, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
One of my favorite features of CROSS APPLY is the ability to use it instead of a calculated variable. Well …
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Intro to Auditing in SQL Server on SQL Shack
Leave a commentOctober 1, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I had an article published yesterday on http://www.SQLShack.com. Intro to Auditing in SQL Server. It’s worth reading if I do …
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Database default locations
4September 29, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the options you had when installing your instance was setting some default file locations. Defaut data file location …
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Changing configuration settings with sp_configure
5September 22, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
I was recently asked where to go in Configuration Manager to change the settings for xp_cmdshell. It was then that …
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Triggers are not toys!
9September 17, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
For the love of all that’s SQL, triggers are not toys! I’m not even talking about logon triggers or DDL …
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I SCHEMABOUND my scalar UDF and you won’t believe what happened next.
1September 15, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
Sorry for the click bait but I just couldn’t resist, and to be fair I was pretty impressed with this …
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