Dealing with a long string
Every now and again you have to put a really long string (more than 8000 characters). Dynamic SQL is the...
2014-06-25
1,748 reads
Kenneth Fisher
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V5.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each of the stored procedures...
2014-06-23
683 reads
Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it may be your problem.
Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
2,326 reads
I don’t want to grant permission to all the tables in the database at once.
A couple of weeks ago I did a post on granting or denying permissions to all the tables within a...
2014-06-16
1,161 reads
What is this default trace you speak of?
I frequently see the default trace mentioned in answers to forum questions, blog posts, articles, even training sessions. My knowledge...
2014-06-12
832 reads
MJ Swart offers free technical editing
A little while back Michael J Swart(B/T) offered to help you become a better writer. This was exciting for me...
2014-06-09
878 reads
Who has the DAC open?
The other day I started seeing the following error in my SQL log.
Error: 17810, Severity: 20, State: 2.
Could not connect...
2014-06-05 (first published: 2014-05-28)
2,443 reads
15 years of experience with Identity columns
An identity column is an auto incrementing columnAn identity column is typically used as a primary keyA primary key that’s...
2014-06-04
1,046 reads
What is the difference between Money and Decimal(19,4)
One of my co-workers and I were discussing the difference between the data type MONEY and the data type DECIMAL(19,4)....
2014-06-02
1,581 reads
Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger
Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...
2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)
1,722 reads
Blogs
Attacking the Weakest Link
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
Webinar – Microsoft Fabric for Dummies
On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...
Migrate datetime data to datetimeoffset with AT TIME ZONE
By Will Assaf
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...
Forums
Looking for a Recommended Azure SQL Managed Instance Book
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
hi we run 2019 std but i'm testing this on 2016. following some old...
Table variable declared within cursor persists across loop iterations
If you run this code it creates a 2 row cursor loop. Within the...
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'See possible answers