Kenneth Fisher

My name is Kenneth Fisher and I am Senior DBA for a large (multi-national) insurance company. I have been working with databases for over 20 years starting with Clarion and Foxpro. I’ve been working with SQL Server for 12 years but have only really started “studying” the subject for the last 3. I don’t have any real "specialities" but I enjoy trouble shooting and teaching. Thus far I’ve earned by MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCTS Database Administrator 2005, and MCTS Database Developer 2008. I’m currently studying for my MCITP Database Developer 2008 and should start in on the 2012 exams next year. My blog is at https://sqlstudies.com/.

How to remove additional (unwanted) log files

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Using multiple data files is a common best practice for a number of reasons, but multiple log files? Typically a...

2014-11-05

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Force only certain values to be unique

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures....

2014-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-22)

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My DTS Package won’t load with the error “here were errors loading package”

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

You are trying to open a DTS package (yes some people still use DTS packages) and receive the following error:
Error...

2014-11-03

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Playing with the log – Before the first full backup

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

The log file tends to fascinate me. In fact one of my favorite posts is where I looked into the...

2014-10-29

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Update to “The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.”

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I certainly hadn’t planned on creating a part two of my post on clustered index columns but in the comments...

2014-10-29 (first published: 2014-10-20)

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A script to list the DTS connection information for every package on the instance.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

For those of you who have moved completely to SQL 2012 & 2014, Lucky you and don’t judge! For the rest...

2014-10-27

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UNION vs UNION ALL

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are...

2014-10-16

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TSQL Tuesday #59: My Hero, My Inspiration, My Wife

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

TSQL Tuesday is a blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) almost 5 years ago. This month Tracey McKibben (b/t)...

2014-10-14

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You can’t use aggregate/windowing functions with CROSS APPLY

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

One of my favorite features of CROSS APPLY is the ability to use it instead of a calculated variable. Well...

2014-10-13 (first published: 2014-10-06)

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Required reading before upgrading SQL Server.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I was watching a great presentation by Brent Ozar(b/t) on why to move to SQL 2014 and in the Q...

2014-10-08

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Blogs

AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

By Vinay Thakur

Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...

ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel

By Koen Verbeeck

A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...

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Dynamic Unpivot

I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...

Writing as an Art and a Job

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String Similarity II

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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