Tag Archives: T-SQL
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Which user function do I use?
3June 24, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Earlier this week I was scripting out a table with some legacy columns (InsertDate and InsertBy for example). If you …
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Building a job to monitor other jobs
5May 4, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day Tom Roush (b/t) and Tim Radney (b/t) were having a discussion on twitter about using scheduled windows …
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Adding, altering or removing multiple columns from a table
2April 16, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I was recently asked to do some fairly heavy modifications to a table. It involved adding 6 new columns, removing …
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What is a CTE
3April 6, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
CTEs (Common Table Expressions) are one of the most interesting and useful tools added to T-SQL in the last decade. …
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Clean out all bad characters from a string.
10March 25, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I have a customer who is having a problem with a load. He is getting a fair number of bad …
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Why not NOLOCK?
10March 18, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Most senior DBAs I’ve met shudder when they hear NOLOCK. Ever wonder why? For the same reason they shudder at …
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There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.
1March 16, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly …
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Who’s using that database?
1March 9, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
A common problem when trying to alter a database (take it offline, add a filegroup, whatever) is that someone else …
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Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
15February 18, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you …
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