Azure DP-900 (Data Fundamental) Certification perpetration
Nothing Is hard when you decide to do it, from two weeks I earned my Certification of Azure Data Engineer and today I passed Exam DP-900 and I got...
2020-08-22
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Blog Posts
3D Printing Ear Savers Aug 6th 2020
I have now printed over 20,000 ear savers. I hit 20k printed yesterday on Aug 5th, exactly 4 months after starting this project. As of 7PM Eastern today, my...
2020-08-21 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Daily Coping 21 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-21
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Down Tools Week 2020 (10 minute video/podcast episode)
In this episode of Dear SQL DBA, I talk about how Redgate runs "Down Tools Week," what I'm working on as part of the project, and how this has...
2020-08-21 (first published: 2020-08-06)
223 reads
Daily Coping 20 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-20
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Extended Events Gets a New Home
One of the most versatile and awesome power tools given to SQL Server now has a new home! This new home will serve as a fabulous repository of extensive...
2020-08-20 (first published: 2020-05-18)
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Find All Heaps In Your Database
This is just going to be a quick post but I was asked the question the other day, how can I find all the tables in the database that...
2020-08-20
1,087 reads
SQL on-demand in Azure Synapse Analytics
The new SQL on-demand (to be renamed SQL serverless) offering within Azure Synapse Analytics opens up a whole new world of getting insights into data immediately, at low-cost, using...
2020-08-20 (first published: 2020-08-10)
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Azure SQL – Advanced Data Security [video]
A quick 2 minute overview video (from me) about ADS – Advanced Data Security. The unified package from Microsoft providing the ability to discover / classifying sensitive data, mitigate...
2020-08-19
34 reads
Daily Coping 19 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-19
20 reads
Blogs
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
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,...
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Access + ODBC Driver 18 + SQL Server 2025: ~150–250 ms per request
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The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
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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