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/.

Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which is...

2013-12-09

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Insert into a table using only default values

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

A while back I talked about the DEFAULT keyword and using it to tell SQL to use the default value...

2013-12-04

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Why do DBAs like to say “It Depends” so much?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Well the short answer is that they just don’t have enough information to give a definitive answer. You will notice...

2013-12-02

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Finding the metadata for a query

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

You know I occasionally find it interesting how I learn new things. I was running through a practice test for...

2013-11-25

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A pattern to do beginning of period calculations.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Beginning of period calculations are common things. Rolling month reports, queries to pull everything from last month etc require beginning...

2013-11-20

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Connection options in SSMS

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SSMS there are a fair number of options. Most DBAs I know...

2013-11-18

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Who’s on call

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Every morning we have a daily meeting and my manager asks who’s on call. And every morning some form of...

2013-11-13

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A better way to find missing indexes

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a...

2013-11-11

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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V3.0

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...

2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)

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Physical Join Operators by Ami Levin

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

For those who don’t know the three physical join operators are Hash Match, Loop Join and Nested Loops. Understanding these...

2013-11-06

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Blogs

My 2024 in Data: Reading

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My 2024 in Data: Speaking

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Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)

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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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