Tag Archives: microsoft sql server
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sp_SrvPermissions
Leave a commentAugust 19, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Last week I posted my stored procedure for database permissions, sp_DBPermissions. A couple of days later I was demonstrating it …
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“My transaction log is too big!”
4August 12, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
“My transaction log is too big!” I wish I had a dime for each time phrase has been spoke, written, …
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How are COALESCE and ISNULL different?
6August 7, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
At first glance these two functions seem very similar, and superficially they are. For example COALESCE(fieldname1, fieldname2) and ISNULL(fieldname1, fieldname2) …
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Database Permissions Queries
3August 5, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Over the last year of blogging my thoughts and queries I’ve discovered something interesting. I posted Where is my Backup? …
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Using DTEXECUI to generate a DTEXEC command line statement the easy way
8July 31, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
SSIS is one of those tools that I love and hate at the same time. It’s a great ETL tool …
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Notes on debugging Database Mail problems
10July 29, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve had to debug database mail problems several times over the last year or so. Below is a collection of …
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I’m going to my first SQL Saturday!
Leave a commentJuly 24, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I got to go to the Pass Summit in 2011 and had a fantastic time despite some travel issues caused …
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Generic Dynamic SQL Stored Procedure
5July 22, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently I came across a post on http://www.StackOverflow.com that basically asked how to write a generic stored procedure to handle …
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Scripting a partitioned table or index, a caution.
14July 15, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher
I was researching a problem with a partitioned table that had somehow become unpartitioned and discovered something rather interesting. First …
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