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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

2,341 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

998 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

914 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

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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)

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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

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Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database

One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...

AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server

It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...

Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone

I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...

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Question of the Day

Detecting Characters

I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:

SELECT CustomerNameID,
       CustomerName
 FROM dbo.CustomerName
 WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)

Here is the sample data I am testing with:

CustomerNameID CustomerName
1              John Smith
2              Sarah Johnson
3              MICHAEL WILLIAMS
4              JENNIFER BROWN
5              david jones
6              emily davis
7              Robert Miller
8              LISA WILSON
9              christopher moore
10             Amanda Taylor

How many rows are returned?

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