Tag Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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SQL Bits 2019: The Great Data Heist
Leave a commentJanuary 14, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
SQL Bits is almost here! It’s February 27th to March 2nd. SQL Bits is one of the most popular SQL …
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SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Leave a commentJanuary 2, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years …
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Identity in a SELECT
4December 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here? …
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Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
4December 17, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error …
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Bulk insert and an identity column
1December 12, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
TL;DR; BULK INSERT doesn’t have an easy way to specify a column list so the columns in the insert file …
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Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
Leave a commentDecember 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016 …
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SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS
Leave a commentDecember 3, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve committed to posting a piece of homework for you to do each month. I post at the beginning of …
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My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
5November 26, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use …
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SQL Homework – November 2018 – Constraints
2November 5, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
You’ve created tables before but how about constraints? Constraints allow a finer level of control over what data is allowed …
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How do I look at my error log if SQL won’t open?
1October 22, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Quick and easy post today. Hopefully you’ve opened the error log on a SQL instance. However, what happens if you …
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