John Sansom

John Sansom (Blog | Twitter) is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) of SQL Server and publisher of the free SQL community ebook DBA JumpStart, an inspiring collection of advice for Data Professionals, written by 20 SQL Server experts. Awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor(MCC) award, John is a prolific blogger and can be found regularly writing about SQL Server and Professional Development over at www.johnsansom.com.

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Attacking the Weakest Link

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When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...

Webinar – Microsoft Fabric for Dummies

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On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...

Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE

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I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...

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Multi row tally query with max value

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Hello folks, I would be very grateful if someone could assist me with this...

Looking for a Recommended Azure SQL Managed Instance Book

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Can anyone recommend an Azure SQL Managed Instance book? I'm looking for information about...

timeout in vs for ssas tabular deploy is 0 but i still timeout deploying

By stan

hi we run 2019 std but i'm testing this on 2016.   following some old...

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Question of the Day

The Backup File Extension

I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?

BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'

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