Tag Archives: Microsoft SQL Server
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What’s a differential backup?
2January 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Of the different basic types of backups (full, differential and log) I find the differential the most interesting, and frequently …
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Read-only tables
4January 21, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Sometimes you need a table that is read only. You don’t want anyone to be able to write to it …
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Controlling the firewall for an Azure SQL DB via T-SQL
2January 16, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day I took a Microsoft Learn course about securing Azure SQL DB. It was really enjoyable and I …
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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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