How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases
This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.
The post How to...
2020-12-29
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PASS is Gone
On January 15, 2021, PASS will cease to exist. https://www.pass.org/PASS-Blog/ArticleID/888/ArtMID/99177/preview/true I cannot tell you how much this disappoints me. PASS has been around for my entire database career, and...
2020-12-29
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Requesting an Update for My SQLSaturday.com Bid
Someone asked about the bid, and I have had no response, so I sent this.
2020-12-29
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Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups
For all the groups the most immediate need is to rescue what they can of the mailing list stored at PASS.org and to have a new landing page and/or...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-20)
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Speaker Guidance: Save Your Data
The PASS organization (and likely SQL Saturday) are shutting down their sites on 15 Jan, 2021. This means that potentially lots of links and data will disappear. There are...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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Time to Set Service Dependencies for SQL Server, it’s Easy
In this article, I share one easy script that could help eliminate one database feature as a culprit to an anomalous data masking suddenly getting enabled.
The post Time to...
2020-12-29
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Time to Set Service Dependencies for SQL Server, it’s Easy
In this article, I share one easy script that could help eliminate one database feature as a culprit to an anomalous data masking suddenly getting enabled.
The post Time to...
2020-12-29
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The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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The Side Job
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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