SSIS Variables and Expressions Webinar Recording
Thank you to everyone who attended my free webinar hosted by Pragmatic Works yesterday (September 20, 2011) on SSIS Variables...
2011-09-21
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Blog Posts
The Ten Thousand Year Clock
Ran across this in my reading about the Ten Thousand Year Clock, a project funded by Jeff Bezos. Awesome dream....
2011-09-21
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What Should I Carry in My Laptop Bag
I have a tendency to carry more than I need, the equivalent of the Batman Utility Belt. I just went...
2011-09-21
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What Will Be The Shared Experience at Summit 2011?
Last year it was the Tina Turner impersonator. Was it last year or the year before where the servers spun...
2011-09-21
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Who says you cannot mix business with pleasure?
There is an advice out there that says never to mix business with pleasure. It is not true in all...
2011-09-21
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24 Hours of PASS: Answer questions…
I will try my best to answer some of the questions after the Standard Operating Procedure webcast for 24 Hours...
2011-09-20
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Analytic Functions – CUME_DIST / PERCENT_RANK
This post is part of the series discussing the new Analytic functions in SQL Server “Denali”, CTP3.
Analytic Functions in SQL...
2011-09-20
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Auditing Users in a Failover Partner Database
Auditing Users in a Failover Partner Database
SQL Audit is Watching
I read a question on a discussion list today asking if...
2011-09-20
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How to monitor number of VLF’s in your database
A few weeks back we did a blog post about a file grow bug that has been fixed with SQL...
2011-09-20
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Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008
Sticking to their eight week release cycle, Microsoft has released two different Cumulative Updates (CU) for SQL Server 2008. The...
2011-09-20
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Blogs
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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Question of the Day
The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers