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/.

Dealing with a long string

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Every now and again you have to put a really long string (more than 8000 characters). Dynamic SQL is the...

2014-06-25

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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V5.0

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each of the stored procedures...

2014-06-23

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Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it may be your problem.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager...

2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)

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I don’t want to grant permission to all the tables in the database at once.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

A couple of weeks ago I did a post on granting or denying permissions to all the tables within a...

2014-06-16

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What is this default trace you speak of?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I frequently see the default trace mentioned in answers to forum questions, blog posts, articles, even training sessions. My knowledge...

2014-06-12

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MJ Swart offers free technical editing

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

A little while back Michael J Swart(B/T) offered to help you become a better writer. This was exciting for me...

2014-06-09

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Who has the DAC open?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

The other day I started seeing the following error in my SQL log.
Error: 17810, Severity: 20, State: 2.
Could not connect...

2014-06-05 (first published: 2014-05-28)

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15 years of experience with Identity columns

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...

2014-06-04

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What is the difference between Money and Decimal(19,4)

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

One of my co-workers and I were discussing the difference between the data type MONEY and the data type DECIMAL(19,4)....

2014-06-02

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Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...

2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)

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Blogs

My 2024 in Data: Reading

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My 2024 in Data: Speaking

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Backup issues

I''m running a stripped backup (2 files) to a Network share. It's a 32gig...

Function Defaults

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Function Defaults

I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
    RETURN @one + @two
END

How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two?

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