Tracy McKibben

My real name is Tracy McKibben. I’ve been working with database products for over 20 years, starting with FoxBase running on Xenix. Over the years, I’ve worked with all flavors of FoxPro, some Clipper and dBase, and starting somewhere around 1995, SQL Server. I’ve even dabbled with Oracle, though I’ve tried to block out all memories of that experience.

At present, I’m the Senior SQL Server DBA and the DBA Team Supervisor for Pearson VUE. All opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Pearson VUE.
  • Interests: Tech, gadgets, model railroading, photography, and of course SQL Server!

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Comparing Microsoft Fabric Alternatives in AWS, GCP, and OCI in 2025

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Techno Security East: Quantum Computing Slides

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A Basic Update Trigger: #SQLNewBlogger

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SSIS raw file conversion

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Hi, Does anyone know how to handle a raw data file where some rows...

Force Strict Encryption - SQL Agent fails

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Hi, On my SQL 2022 (16.0.4195.2) test environment, I tried to enable Force Strict...

Error converting data type varchar to float

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Hi everyone I have a bunch of CSV files that I need to import...

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Question of the Day

How Many Nested Triggers?

I have DDL trigger code that I'm working on in SQL Server 2022, but I am concerned that we might end up with multiple triggers firing and the response to the user is delayed. If I want to check how many triggers have fired, or are nested, how can I do this in my code?

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