A look back from the future. – TSQL Tuesday #100
The date is July 14th, 2026 and it’s TSQL Tuesday #200. We are still using SQL Server, and in fact...
2018-03-13
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Kenneth Fisher
2018-03-07
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SQL Homework – March 2018 – Recovery Objectives
My very first SQL Homework post was about taking a backup. The vast majority of people who work with databases...
2018-03-05
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A day in the life of a Sr DBA/Dev
If you are a Sr DBA or developer you have probably had some variation of this conversation at multiple points...
2018-02-28
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Double hop error when using SQLCMD
tl;dr; SQLCMD v2014 and up has special requirements for Kerberos.
One of the problems with linked servers (no rude noises please)...
2018-02-26
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Synonyms, how and why.
Did you know SQL Server has a thing called a synonym? It’s not something you see used very often even...
2018-02-26 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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Hobbies, stress relief, and meeting management: T-SQL Tuesday #99
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again! And in fact it’s the 99th one! Given that T-SQL Tuesday runs once a month that...
2018-02-23 (first published: 2018-02-13)
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Windowing without a partition by or an order by
If you’ve never worked with windowing functions they look something like this:
SELECT name, max(create_date) OVER
-- No this isn't meant to...
2018-02-21
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The default filegroup, and why you should care.
You know you can have multiple filegroups right? You might have a separate filegroup for the data (the clustered index...
2018-02-19
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Backups of backups or How long is my backup really available?
I’ve said before that backups are at once one of the easiest things DBAs do, one of the most important,...
2018-02-15 (first published: 2018-02-07)
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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