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/.

Duplicate rows in a table

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I recently got the following email:
“I just keyed in two rows into a table with all identical column values. How...

2013-02-11 (first published: 2013-02-04)

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Something to watch out for when using sp_rename on Stored Procedures, Functions and Views

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

For those who don’t know, the stored procedure sp_rename allows you to change the name of a user-created object. Basically...

2013-02-11

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EXECUTE, not required, but advisable.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

The other day one of the developers I work with gave me a script similar to this:
BEGIN TRAN
sp_rename 'tablename.columnname', 'newcolumnname'
COMMITHe...

2013-02-06

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Small changes, big effects

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

We got a call last week about an application that was running slowly. The server was showing about 80% CPU...

2013-01-30

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My view isn’t reflecting changes I’ve made to the underlying tables.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Problem: You’ve added columns to the base table of one of your views, but the view isn’t reflecting the change.
Over...

2013-01-29 (first published: 2013-01-21)

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Model database

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Most DBAs have at least some idea what the system databases are for. Master has the list of databases & logins,...

2013-01-28

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IsMSShipped

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I just wanted to do a brief highlight of a handy little object property. For those of you who aren’t...

2013-01-23

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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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Blogs

Becoming a creator, my website experience

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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...

T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement

It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...

The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say

This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...

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Forums

fast farward curson vs while loop on @table

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hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...

Economics of AI: What is the Real Cost to Profit?

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Poor Name Choice

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Question of the Day

Getting the Indexed Columns

I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?

SELECT   
    INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail')

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