Tag Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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I/O vs Logical I/O
Leave a commentSeptember 5, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; While the difference is very important 90% of the time you won’t care and should just add the two …
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SQL Homework – September 2018 – Backup and Restore continued.
Leave a commentSeptember 3, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
In the very first SQL Homework post you were asked to take a backup. In fact it asked you to …
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Copying formatted text out of a grid column.
7August 27, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I was reading a post today by Bert Wagner (b/t). Displaying Long Variable Values in SQL Server By the way, …
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Nada to Speaker: Demystifying and Diminishing Dynamic SQL Difficulties
3August 20, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Last Thursday I spoke at NTSSUG (North Texas SQL Server User Group). This is my local group (only 1.5 hours …
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What are my permissions?
1August 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Permissions are a common concern. One of the most frequent requests I get is I need X, Y and Z …
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Complicated linked servers and a bunch of head-desks: T-SQL Tuesday #104
Leave a commentAugust 14, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Wayne Sheffield (b/t) is our host this month for the long running blog party (104 months now and running!) started …
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SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail. Why database mail? …
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SQL Homework – July 2018 – Create a SQL Agent Job
1July 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 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
5May 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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