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/.

Using New Horizontal/Vertical Tab Groups

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

This isn’t really one of those features of SSMS that I’ve used a great deal. At least didn’t until recently....

2013-01-17 (first published: 2013-01-14)

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What port is my instance listening on?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I just had the interesting task of finding the port number that one of the instances I deal with is...

2013-01-08

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How I like to learn a t-sql command

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Recently I received a security request and realized I wasn’t comfortable in my ability to script out the t-sql commands...

2013-01-07

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Red errors in the results pane

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Most DBAs have seen those nice clear red errors in the results pane. And I’m sure most DBAs have noticed...

2012-12-27 (first published: 2012-12-19)

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Where is my backup?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

We recently added responsibility for ~80 more servers to our team. This means that my team-mates and I are working...

2012-12-19 (first published: 2012-12-12)

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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...

2012-12-17

1,124 reads

Logins vs Users

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....

2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)

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Copying Connection Managers in SSIS

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit...

2012-12-10

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Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....

2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)

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CTEs beyond SELECT

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...

2012-11-20

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Setting Up Always Encrypted

By Matthew McGiffen

In this post we're going to go through the steps to set up Always...

Using Azure Automation and Runbooks to Run Azure SQL Database Maintenance Tasks

By Tracy Boggiano

I’ve been using Azure SQL Database for quite some while and have set up...

Create and Verify Microsoft Fabric Capacity

By Dharmendra Keshari

From June 1, 2023, Microsoft Fabric (preview) capacities are available via the Azure portal....

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