SQL Rally Schedule
Thursday, May 12
BI
DBA
DEV
PD / WILD
CARD
8:30 - 9:30
SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse - Under the Hood
Brian Mitchell
The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for the...
2011-04-05
1,130 reads
SQL Saturday #74 Jacksonville
For the 4th year SQL Saturday comes to Jacksonville, FL this year on April 30, 2011. Many of you already...
2011-03-30
1,519 reads
SSAS - Measures or Attributes in Multiple Display Folders
I had a client recently show me a neat little tip that I thought I would share.In the cube he...
2011-03-22
1,289 reads
Passing Values into an SSIS Package at Runtime from Outside the Package
SSIS provide several methods for passing values into your packages at runtime.The benefit of doing so allows you to change...
2011-03-14
34,714 reads
SSAS – Changing the Dimension ALL Member Name
All Analysis Services dimensions have a default All member that represents all the members for a particular attribute.For example, let’s...
2011-03-07
2,175 reads
SSAS - Preserve Measure Null Values
Generally when designing a data warehouse (at least in my experience) you don’t think about NULL values appearing often in...
2011-02-28
5,872 reads
Testing SSAS Security in Excel
There are many posts available that describe how to test Analysis Services security from inside the development environment.Today I would...
2011-02-21
1,506 reads
SQL Rally Performance Tuning SSAS Session
Last week the final sessions for SQL Rally were announced, and I was very excited to find out my Performance Tuning...
2011-02-16
1,244 reads
Pre-Order SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer
I wanted to announce that you can now pre-order your copy of my latest book to be released called SharePoint...
2011-02-07
958 reads
SQL Rally BI Sessions
This week the voting for the SQL Rally BI track went out, and I wanted to send a quick reminder...
2011-02-01
1,201 reads
Blogs
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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Question of the Day
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