SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action - Sample Chapter
A sample chapter on clustering from Manning Publishing. Read it to learn a bit on clustering and preview this new book.
2009-12-18
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Press Release
TSQL Challenge 19 - Working with consolidated calculations on hierarchical structures
This challenge involves generating an organizational hierarchy and calculating the total orders created by each employee and his/her subordinates. It involves a number of challenges such as generating a resultset in the correct hierarchical form, calculating the orders created by each employee and his/her subordinates and finally calculating the total orders created by self and all the subordinates.
2009-12-14
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TSQL Challenge 18 - Generate text formatted month calendars
Can you generate a calendar with T-SQL? Take this month's challenge.
2009-11-30
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The WorkTamer Conference
The Worktamer conference is coming to a series of cities in Canada in early 2010. If you're near Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal, read about this one day event to help you boost your professional development.
2009-11-19
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TSQL Challenge 17 - Creating cross rows references with inline hyperlinks
Here is a real world scenario I came across on the MSDN forums. The forum poster wanted a method to dynamically create HTML hyperlinks, for keywords/phrases , within the description of the current column text. Enter this challenge and see how your T-SQL skills match up.
2009-11-16
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2009-11-06
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The ADO.NET Managed Providers team wants to hear your opinion
Take this survey and help out the Managed Provider team at Microsoft.
2009-11-05
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Top Ten Reasons to Attend the 2009 PASS Community Summit
There are some good reasons to think about attending the 2009 PASS Community Summit.
2009-10-22 (first published: 2009-03-24)
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SQL Bits IV
Coming to Newport in the UK on Nov 19-21, be sure to register and attend if you are nearby. A few days of great SQL Server training.
2009-10-21 (first published: 2009-09-21)
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Data Cleansing with the SSIS Data Flow
A webinar from MVP Brian Knight and Pragmatic Works this week will help you learn how to clean up data and apply business rules in your data flows.
2009-10-21 (first published: 2009-10-19)
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Blogs
Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?
While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...
Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder
By James Serra
(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
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Access + ODBC Driver 18 + SQL Server 2025: ~150–250 ms per request
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The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
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The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers