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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How U.S.-India Tariff Disputes Could Ripple Through the Indian IT Sector Although the newly...

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Question of the Day

Generating a Series I

What is returned by this code in SQL Server 2022?

SELECT value
FROM GENERATE_SERIES(4, 1);

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