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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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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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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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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Let’s say that you execute the following T-SQL:
SET CONTEXT_INFO 1234;
SELECT CONVERT(INT, CONTEXT_INFO());
The...
2018-04-09
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In answering a recent question on DBA.StackExchange related to why some characters work for parameter names and others...
2018-04-03
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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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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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