John

John Morehouse is currently a Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 2 decades of technical experience in various industries, John now focuses on the Microsoft Data platform and specializes in Microsoft SQL Server. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate since 2015, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. John has passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to the technical community. He is a user group leader, SQL Saturday organizer, and former PASS regional mentor. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at SQL Saturday's as well as other conferences. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog, http://sqlrus.com.

Blog Post

For #JohnsDad

Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world.  Much too early.  Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his...

2021-08-17

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Blog Post

Is 18TB of Storage Enough?

Come to find out, nope, probably not.  My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology...

2021-07-26 (first published: )

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The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger

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Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness

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Pay for Performance

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...

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

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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

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