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/.

Disaster Recovery’s big brother Operational Recovery

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’m going to get slammed for the title by someone but I stand by it. First some definitions.
Disaster Recovery...

2013-06-20

938 reads

ORDER BY the numbers

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Have you ever needed to order by a calculated column? You might have written it something like this:
SELECT LoginID, YEAR(HireDate)...

2013-06-19 (first published: 2013-06-17)

2,776 reads

Best practice recommendations for writing Dynamic SQL

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Note this is not “Best Practices when USING Dynamic SQL”. These are just good habits I’ve come up with over...

2013-06-13 (first published: 2013-06-12)

5,582 reads

Using the OVER clause

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Over the last few years I’ve learned quite a bit about different techniques in SQL Server. This particular one has...

2013-06-10

681 reads

Backup a password, change it, then restore it.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

A couple of months ago I talked about moving a login from one server to another without the password. The...

2013-06-05 (first published: 2013-05-30)

2,334 reads

Easy way to generate a restore script.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Easy way to generate a restore script.
I was asked today if I had a canned restore script handy. I don’t....

2013-06-05

995 reads

Pattern searches beyond ‘%string%’.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I was asked today to take a table with a social security column and put all 0s if the column...

2013-06-03

903 reads

Using CROSS APPLY to calculate an aggregate across a single row.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’ve had CROSS APPLY on the mind recently. You could probably tell since its been the subject of my last...

2013-05-28

1,464 reads

The many uses of CROSS APPLY

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Over the last few years of studying SQL I’ve noticed 4 different uses for the command CROSS APPLY.
In the first...

2013-05-23 (first published: 2013-05-20)

21,502 reads

Using CROSS APPLY instead of a calculated variable

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Earlier this week I posted The many uses of CROSS APPLY and I’m quite glad I did. I’ve been working...

2013-05-22

869 reads

Blogs

The Benefits of Teaching

By Brian Kelley

Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...

Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!

By DataOnWheels

I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...

The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says

This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...

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Forums

Deny Connect problem

By Brandie Tarvin

I have a login I need to deny connect to on a server, but...

Website Stability 2025/12/05

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

All week we've had issues with the site being up and down. There's been...

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I created a post (or tried) in the 2022 Admin forum. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?post_type=topic&p=4694880 But it's...

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Fabric Mirroring

In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?

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