Tag Archives: T-SQL
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Strings vs Identifiers
3June 20, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A common mistake, and one I make frequently myself is to use a string in place of an identifier, or …
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The identity column, the insert and the linked server.
1June 14, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; When doing an insert across a linked server you have to include the list of fields to be inserted …
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Updated query to view data in the error log
1May 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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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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DB_NAME() vs ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
1March 15, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I’d never seen ORIGINAL_DB_NAME until recently and I thought it would be interesting to highlight it out, and in particular …
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Windowing without a partition by or an order by
2February 21, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
If you’ve never worked with windowing functions they look something like this: The other day someone mentioned that you could …
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Synonyms, how and why.
6February 15, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Did you know SQL Server has a thing called a synonym? It’s not something you see used very often even …
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What’s dbo?
3January 22, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems …
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Fun with sp_rename
Leave a commentJanuary 11, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in …
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Variables in Dynamic SQL
Leave a commentNovember 16, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
I had someone ask me about this the other day. Specifically getting variable data out of a dynamic SQL statement. …
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