Jason Brimhall


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Backup Deployed Sessions

Having just completed several segments on the metadata for deployed sessions, it is time to bring all of that information together and see how it can be used -...

2015-10-05

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SET Operations and Metadata

SET operations in extended events are the extra configurations that can be made to various components. As an example, a target can be configured with certain properties via the...

2015-10-02

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Session Target Metadata

In the case of the final core component, Targets, the exploration into the metadata can be a little awkward. At least at first. Read on to see how to...

2015-10-01

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The Extended Event GUI

In the previous article in this series I shared the basics around assembling an XEvent session. The method used in...

2015-10-01 (first published: )

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The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger

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Pay for Performance

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Access + ODBC Driver 18 + SQL Server 2025: ~150–250 ms per request

By Bruno De Grauwe

Has anyone encountered recurring request latency when using Microsoft Access with SQL Server 2025...

The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User

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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
GO
I then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox
go
SELECT CURRENT_USER
What is returned?

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