2.5 Ways Your ORM Is Vulnerable To SQL Injection
Someone recently told me that they don’t need to worry about SQL injection because they are using an ORM.
Oh boy.
ORMs don’t...
2018-03-16 (first published: 2018-03-06)
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Blog Posts
Identify the owner and then change the owner of a SQL Agent Job
In this post and video you will learn how to identify the owner and then change the owner of a...
2018-03-16 (first published: 2018-03-06)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 94 – Count Down Timer)
In this module you will learn how to use the Count Down Timer. The Count Down Timer is a very...
2018-03-16
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SSMS Output Window
In my experience, there have been occasions where SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) becomes unresponsive for a length of time....
2018-03-16
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Automation and cleaner code/data are the key to future success
This blog post is a copy of a post I wrote for SQL Masters Consulting as part of T-SQL Tuesday....
2018-03-15
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Book Review – Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel
As preparation for my session at Techorama.be about data modeling in self-service BI, I decided to read the book Analyzing Data...
2018-03-15
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Profiler for Extended Events: Quick Settings
Not long ago, I wrote a rather long article about a new-ish feature within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) that...
2018-03-15 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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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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The 700 Milestone
I’ve watched various SQL Saturday milestones go by. I missed 100 in Brazil, but did manage to get to 200...
2018-03-15
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What's New In SQL Server 2017? at the March '18 Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group
Thanks to everyone to attended the BRSSUG meeting tonight at our sponsor's location at the Baton Rouge Alliance Safety Council location and their awesome classroom training facility.See you next...
2018-03-15
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers