Tag Archives: T-SQL
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Counting NULLs
4July 16, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently I was doing one of Kendra Little’s (b/t) SQL Server quizzes. Specifically the Quiz: COUNT() in SQL Server. As …
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Code I’d Hate To Live Without: T-SQL Tuesday #104
1July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This time our respected host is Bert Wagner (b/t). Quick aside, if you haven’t seen his …
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SQL Puzzle – FizzBuzz3d
18June 27, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I thought for the end of the month it would be fun to do another T-SQL Puzzle. In this case …
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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
2May 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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