Not More Than 16 Characters?!?

Microsoft, you’re killing me. This is the warning I received when typing in a password for Office 365:

I blinked when...

Row-level Security Just Got Better: Passing Report Credentials to Analysis Services in SQL Server 2016

A new ground-breaking feature in SQL Server 2016 allows report user context to be passed through shared data sources, enabling...

When were statistics updated?–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

AG Worker Thread Blocked by Log Backup

We have an internal monitoring query that checks for system threads that are blocked. Recently, we received an alert email...

Because

Because there’s nothing else I can do at the moment.
 
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I am speaking at SQL Saturday Louisville 2016!

That’s right.  My way of giving back to the SQL Server community, I am presenting my first SQLSaturday session at...

I am speaking at SQL Saturday Louisville 2016!

That’s right.  My way of giving back to the SQL Server community, I am presenting my first SQLSaturday session at the upcoming Louisville #531, Saturday, Aug. 6th, 2016. My...

It’s 2016 RLS for T-SQL Tuesday #79

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again. I missed last month, being busy with travel, though I should go ahead and write...

MS Exams Increasing In Price

Just glanced through the MCP newsletter and see that the price of the exams (or at least the one I...

My first SQL Server 2016 POC

Very, very recently I did my first Proof Of Concept (POC) with SQL Server 2016. At an actual client of...