Tag Archives: problem resolution
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What happens in a trigger stays in the transaction: T-SQL Tuesday #106
Leave a commentSeptember 11, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Anything that happens in a trigger happens within the same transaction of the command that called it. Part of me …
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SQL Puzzle: Advent of Code
Leave a commentAugust 29, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A few years back someone started the Advent of code. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s an advent calendar …
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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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Processes can dramatically improve your work until they don’t.
Leave a commentJuly 23, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
As always with something like this, I like to start with a definition so we are all starting in the …
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Interview questions: What’s the first thing you would do if a user reports slowness.
8May 28, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
We’ve been doing a fair amount of interviewing recently and one of our big questions is What do you do …
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The trials and tribulations of REVERTing from impersonation
1May 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Impersonation is a highly useful tool in your toolbox. With the EXECUTE AS clause you can allow your stored procedure …
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I’ve gotten a transaction log full error but when I look it’s not full??
2April 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Every now and again I’ll get an error telling me a transaction log is full. This can be for any …
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Deleting a lot of data
5April 12, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I recently had the task of deleting a bit over a billion rows from a table. Now I could have …
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Simply Debugging
3March 7, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Debugging is a life skill. Yes, the term comes from IT (literally removing a bug from a computer believe it …
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A day in the life of a Sr DBA/Dev
Leave a commentFebruary 28, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
If you are a Sr DBA or developer you have probably had some variation of this conversation at multiple points …
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