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.

Twitter: @patrickkeisler
Website: https://www.patrickkeisler.com
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Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....

2012-10-23

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Which SQL Instance is Killing Your CPU?

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

You have 5 instances running. How do you know which one is killing your CPU?

As you can see from Windows...

2012-10-16

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Grant Execute Permission on All Stored Procedures

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Right out of the box, SQL Server makes it pretty easy to grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE to all...

2012-10-10

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How to Make SQL Server Listen on Multiple Ports

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Have you ever needed an instance of SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP port numbers but didn't know how...

2012-10-05

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Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it "SQLdm") is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I...

2012-09-28

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Welcome to Everday SQL

by Patrick

Everyday SQL

My name is Patrick Keisler and I have been a Microsoft SQL Server DBA for over 12 years. During that...

2012-09-22

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Blogs

A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth

By ChrisJenkins

You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...

Presenting with Visual Studio Code

By Andrew Pruski

A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...

Advice I Like: In 100 Years

In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...

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Lots of FKs

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet

By Cláudio Tereso

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Can You Let Go of Determinism

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

Lots of FKs

In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?

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