Applied SQL: Orphan a user, fix orphaned users (sp_FixOrphanedUsers)
Ever heard of orphaned users? It’s a database user account, disconnected from its associated login. You typically get this when...
2014-05-05
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Blog Posts
Cumulative Update – 1 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Rollback by Microsoft !
The 1st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM was released by Microsoft.
But due to issues in setup Microsoft...
2014-05-05
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Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2014-05-05
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Enable CLR with Powershell
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter
He...
2014-05-05
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #82
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-05-05
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SQLSaturday #305 Business Analytics Edition Dallas–RECAP
So, I am flying home thinking about the event Saturday and many things are running through my head. No, not...
2014-05-05
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SQLServerCentral Editorial: Better, Faster, and Cheaper
Better, Faster, and Cheaper was published today and I hope you’ll read it, and then challenge your own assumptions for...
2014-05-05
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SSMS Add-ons
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on...
2014-05-05 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Where are my 32-bit Perfmon Counters?
I have run into this before, but not in this same way, so I decided it would be worth writing...
2014-05-05 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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Why is there a sysobjects when we already have sys.objects?
Once upon a time in a version of SQL far far away we had system tables that were easy to...
2014-05-05
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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