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/.

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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...

2012-11-15

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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...

2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)

2,747 reads

Time Trial sys.dm_exec_query_plan vs sys.dm_exec_sql_text

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’ve been working on a way to test performance usage on a server by database. I started out using sys.dm_exec_query_stats...

2012-11-12

1,687 reads

A review of Knight’s 24-Hour Trainer Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

About three years ago my manager came up to me and said “We need someone to learn SSIS, you’re it.” ...

2012-11-07

1,170 reads

Looping through multiple servers in SSIS

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

This is just a quickie post to answer a question on how to loop through multiple servers in SSIS. There...

2012-11-05 (first published: 2012-10-31)

4,821 reads

Discuss

How do I find all stored procedures or views that use a specific table?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Many years ago when I was still working on SQL 2000 I occasionally needed to find all stored procedures and views...

2012-10-26

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I can connect to my instance locally but not remotely

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Every now and again (today for example) I’ll get a call that one of our SQL Server instances is down. ...

2012-10-23

1,246 reads

fn_OBJECT_TYPE

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I recently started using OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME and OBJECT_ID functions; unfortunately I really could have used OBJECT_TYPE but it doesn’t exist...

2012-10-19

1,233 reads