Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission

Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...

Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 2

The  Identity property creates an incremental value for the specified column automatically, which is why it is widely used by developers when they designed the table and a primary...

Enable PowerShell Remoting

Enable PowerShell Remoting

I use PowerShell quite a lot to manage servers, especially SQL Servers. So I need to be able to run PowerShell...

Future Data Driven 2023 is This Week

The Future Data Driven 2023 virtual conference is coming on Wednesday, September 27. Register today and save a note in your calendar. The event has  a great schedule (scroll...

Opening the SQL Prompt Command Palette

A few years ago SQL Prompt added a command palette to let you search the commands available. This is similar to the same concept in Visual Studio Code, ADS,...

Quickly Creating a tsqlt Test for a Query

One of the things that I feel is important to building better software is testing your code. It should be easy and simple to test code and determine if...

SQL Saturday Denver 2023–VCS Primer for the Database slides

My slides are here: VCS Primer Denver 2023 This was an overview of what version control is, and the basics of Git. Not too many questions, but if you...

Yet another kind of orphan users in SQL Server

Yet another kind of orphan users in SQL Server

Or YAOU for short. (This silly acronym, I just made it up so don’t try...

A NEW’er Solution For An Old Problem: How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA Around

How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA

When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...

A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans

A Study in SQL Server Ad hoc Query Plans

We, (or maybe it’s just my dismissive attitude towards it), often think of ad hoc...