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/.

Database default locations

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

One of the options you had when installing your instance was setting some default file locations.
Defaut data file locationDefault log...

2014-10-01 (first published: 2014-09-29)

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Intro to Auditing in SQL Server on SQL Shack

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I had an article published yesterday on http://www.SQLShack.com.
Intro to Auditing in SQL Server.
It’s worth reading if I do say...

2014-10-01

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Changing configuration settings with sp_configure

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I was recently asked where to go in Configuration Manager to change the settings for xp_cmdshell. It was then that...

2014-09-24 (first published: 2014-09-22)

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What I know about batch files

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

For a SQL Server guy it sometimes amazes me how often I’m in and out of batch files and how...

2014-09-24

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What are trace flags?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Trace flags are one of those things that I’ve heard about more and more over the last five or six...

2014-09-18 (first published: 2014-09-11)

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Triggers are not toys!

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

For the love of all that’s SQL, triggers are not toys! I’m not even talking about logon triggers or DDL...

2014-09-17

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I SCHEMABOUND my scalar UDF and you won’t believe what happened next.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Sorry for the click bait but I just couldn’t resist, and to be fair I was pretty impressed with this...

2014-09-15

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T-SQL Tuesday #58: Passwords

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

It’s that time again. The second Tuesday of each month we have a blog party called T-SQL Tuesday. The host...

2014-09-12 (first published: 2014-09-09)

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Finding a job!

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’ve been told over the years that I’m pretty good at finding jobs. I mean in the last 25 years...

2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-27)

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Pausing an MSSQL Instance

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I’m sure most of you have looked at the control options of the SQL services right? Start an instance, stop...

2014-09-04

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Blogs

AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

By Vinay Thakur

Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...

ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel

By Koen Verbeeck

A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...

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Forums

Dynamic Unpivot

I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...

Writing as an Art and a Job

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String Similarity II

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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