Andy Warren

I started my SQL journey here at SQLServerCentral as one of the founders, helping to build a place to share and learn that continues to thrive under the editorial guidance of my friend Steve Jones. I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years ranging from our local SQL group (oPASS, SQLOrlando) to serving on the Board of Directors of PASS to designing and building the framework of SQLSaturday (which has gone on to produce more than 1000 locally managed events since we started in 2007). These days I manage a DBA team, but over the years I've been a trainer, consultant, contractor, and DBA. I'm rarely present on social media, the best way to contact me is here, LinkedIn, or via email.

It’s Time to End Password Reuse

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Last week Ebay announced that some accounts were compromised, including passwords with as yet unstated encryption. Those who aren’t tech...

2014-05-26

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Get User In Reporting Services

by Andy Warren

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2014-05-26

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 11

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Just received the first flyer design – thoughts?

2014-05-24

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 12

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Meetup.com did refund my $19, good!
Team oPASS added SQLSaturday #318 to their calendar, you can see it here, or here’s...

2014-05-24

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 10

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

My experiment with Meetup.com hasn’t worked out well so far. I set up the event site and sent it around...

2014-05-23

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Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Here’s a SQL error you might get:
not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context.
If you don’t...

2014-05-23

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An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem...

2014-05-22

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Writing A Question Of the Day–More Notes

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

One of the things I’m trying to do now is include a link to a blog(ger) in the explanation. That...

2014-05-22

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 9

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I’ve heard more than once that Meetup.com is a good way to reach new people so we’re looking at how...

2014-05-21

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Submitted My Application For the 2014 PASS Nominating Committee

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I just finished up the short and not very painful application to be a candidate for the NomCom this year. ...

2014-05-21

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Blogs

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates

By Brian Kelley

On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...

How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

By Meagan Longoria

When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...

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Multiple Deployment Processes

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Upgrading Admin Queries

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Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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