Tag Archives: T-SQL

  1. EXECUTE, not required, but advisable.

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    February 6, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    The other day one of the developers I work with gave me a script similar to this: He was getting …
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  2. Duplicate rows in a table

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    February 4, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I recently got the following email: “I just keyed in two rows into a table with all identical column values. …
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  3. Small changes, big effects

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    January 30, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    We got a call last week about an application that was running slowly. The server was showing about 80% CPU …
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  4. IsMSShipped

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    January 23, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I just wanted to do a brief highlight of a handy little object property. For those of you who aren’t …
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  5. My view isn’t reflecting changes I’ve made to the underlying tables.

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    January 20, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Problem: You’ve added columns to the base table of one of your views, but the view isn’t reflecting the change. …
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  6. How I like to learn a t-sql command

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    January 7, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently I received a security request and realized I wasn’t comfortable in my ability to script out the t-sql commands …
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  7. Red errors in the results pane

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    December 19, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    Most DBAs have seen those nice clear red errors in the results pane. And I’m sure most DBAs have noticed …
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  8. Generating multiple SQL statements from a query

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    December 17, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can …
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  9. Where is my backup?

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    December 12, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    We recently added responsibility for ~80 more servers to our team. This means that my team-mates and I are working …
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  10. Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement

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    November 26, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W. …
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