Security Basics: The Principle of Least Privilege
Whenever I’m asked about creating a security model for an application or database, I tell folks to follow the Principle...
2017-07-17 (first published: 2017-06-30)
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Blog Posts
SSMS Tip #1: Annotations and Map Mode for Vertical Scroll Bar
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for SQL Server 2016 added some interesting enhancements for the vertical scroll bar: Map Mode...
2017-07-17
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Updating a SharePoint List Item With Flow When You Don’t Have The ID
I recently worked on a project that used Flow to update a SharePoint list each time an item was updated...
2017-07-17
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When not to use Management Reporter
Management Reporter is easy to use to create Management Reports and it does not require a developer to do it....
2017-07-16
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Building Always On Availability Groups - Part 1
Introduction
By David Postlethwaite
Ensuring that your databases can survive a major outage such as a server failure and can continue to...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Friday Reading 2017-07-14
Fun week, and what a Lions final test last weekend. Still can’t believe it!
Here’s what I’ve been reading…
STOPAT And Date...
2017-07-14
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Toolbox - Where Did All My Space Go?
This is the first in a new series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Capture Important Parameters of the SQL Server Replication
Whenever there is a business requirement to add a new article to an existing publication, you want to know how...
2017-07-13 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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My Evening With SQL Tool Service
Hello!
I’ve been writing a PowerShell Module that will handle deploying SQL Server Agent Jobs by using the Agent namespace in...
2017-07-13
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No, Binary Collations are not Case-Sensitive
Quite often people will use, or will recommend using, a binary Collation (one ending in “_BIN” or “_BIN2“) when wanting...
2017-07-13
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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