What’s in a Name?: Inside the Wacky World of T-SQL Identifiers
(last updated: 2018-04-28)
Today we are going to take a look into an area that you probably are thinking has very...
2018-04-18 (first published: 2018-04-09)
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The Uni-Code: The Search for the True List of Valid Characters for T-SQL Identifiers, Part 3 of 2 (Delimited Identifiers)
(last updated: 2018-04-18)
This is Part 3 of 2. Yes, you read that correctly. You see, way back at the very...
2018-04-16
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The Uni-Code: The Search for the True List of Valid Characters for T-SQL Regular Identifiers, Part 2
(last updated: 2018-04-28)
Recap
In Part 1 of this 2 part series, I started with the loose definition in Microsoft’s documentation for...
2018-04-11 (first published: 2018-04-06)
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Why Doesn’t CONTEXT_INFO() Return the Exact Value Set by SET CONTEXT_INFO?
(last updated: 2019-01-05 @ 23:15 EST / 2019-01-06 @ 04:15 UTC )
Let’s say that you execute the following T-SQL:
SET CONTEXT_INFO 1234;
SELECT CONVERT(INT, CONTEXT_INFO());
The...
2018-04-09
1,130 reads
The Uni-Code: The Search for the True List of Valid Characters for T-SQL Regular Identifiers, Part 1
(last updated: 2018-04-09)
In answering a recent question on DBA.StackExchange related to why some characters work for parameter names and others...
2018-04-03
567 reads
Safely and Easily Use High-Level Permissions Without Granting Them to Anyone: Database-level
Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-03-15 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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Safely and Easily Use High-Level Permissions Without Granting Them to Anyone: Server-level
Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-15)
2,642 reads
SQLCLR vs. SQL Server 2012 & 2014 & 2016, Part 7: “CLR strict security” – The Problem Continues … in the Past (Wait, What?!?)
If the new “CLR strict security” Server-level configuration option in SQL Server 2017 hasn’t caused enough confusion and pain, then,...
2018-02-23
1,396 reads
Server Audit Mystery 2: Filtering action_id gets Error Msg 25713
(last updated: 2018-06-05)
This post is, for the most part, a continuation of Server Audit Mystery 1: Filtering class_type gets Error...
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
3,245 reads
SQL# Version 4.1 is released!!
Version 4.1 of SQL# has just been released!
New functionality available only in Full version
Sys_LockResourceReturns the name of the specified Lock...
2018-02-12
1,339 reads
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