Patrick

Patrick Keisler is a Senior CSA - Engineering for Microsoft with over 20 years of SQL Server experience working in various fields such as financial, healthcare, and government. You can follow him on Twitter or listen to him speak at various SQL Saturdays and user group meetings.

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How to Convert FileTime to DateTime

One of my customers recently wanted to rename each of the SQL audit files will the datetime stamp of when it was created. I explained to them the filename...

2025-01-15 (first published: )

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Trace Flag 3625 Follow Up

Several months ago, I discussed my customer’s intention to enable trace flag 3625. Since that time, we have observed an intriguing phenomenon when encountering a login failure. To demonstrate...

2024-12-13 (first published: )

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How to Test Trace Flag 3625

Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...

2023-12-22 (first published: )

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SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First

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Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how...

Google Moves Up Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline

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In cryptography, the RSA and ECC algorithms which we use primarily for asymmetric cryptography...

The Book of Redgate: No Politics

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In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this...

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Dancing Robot Goes Rogue

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advice as i migrate my winscp based ssis pkg to our prod server

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Hi , i installed winscp on my pc, added it to GAC thru vs...

Identities and Sequences II

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Identities and Sequences II

In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?

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