A tale of updating a legacy system bug
Even simple changes that don't look like they will affect anything often do.
2020-01-07
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Ben Kubicek
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How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?
Today we have a guest editorial from Ben Kubicek as Steve is away from the office. It is hard to be humble, but it is needs to learn something new.
2019-11-27 (first published: 2016-11-07)
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A Self-Serve System to Refresh Databases (Part 3)
This is the wrap up of this series on a system for developers to restore production database in test. It gets pretty detailed on the web setup side.
2019-05-16
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A Self-Serve System that Allows Developers to Refresh Databases (Part 2)
Dive deep into the details of part 2 in this series of creating a solution so Developers can start a restore of Production to test.
2019-05-09
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A Self-Serve System that Allows Developers to Refresh Databases (Part 1)
Empower developers to refresh their own test systems with production backups.
2019-05-02
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Who should have Sysadmin rights?
The point of this article is that only service accounts and/or specific network sql admin accounts should have sysadmin rights.
2019-03-11
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Two Things I Would Change in SSISDB Setup
I suggest these two changes to the SSISDB setup to prevent issues down the road.
2019-01-11 (first published: 2016-03-29)
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2019-01-07
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I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
2018-12-11
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2018-11-15
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