Why am I getting an NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS error when creating or altering a stored procedure?
If you have to deal with linked servers then you probably have or will run into the following error: Login ... Continue reading
2019-05-08
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Blog Posts
Correlated Subqueries vs Derived Tables
Correlated subqueries provide an intuitive syntax for writing queries that return related data. However, they often perform poorly due to needing to execute once for every value they join on....
2019-05-07 (first published: 2019-04-23)
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Embed Azure Data Studio Notebooks in your website
Notebooks are a functionality available in Azure Data Studio, that allows you to create and share documents that may contain text, code, images, and query results. These documents are...
2019-05-07
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Embed Azure Data Studio Notebooks in your website
Notebooks are a functionality available in Azure Data Studio, that allows you to create and share documents that may contain text, code, images, and query results. These documents are...
2019-05-07
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Pausing / Resuming Azure SQL DW
Before writing about pausing (and resuming) Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DW) it makes sense to discuss the architecture of this product. At a high level it involves a control...
2019-05-07
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Paying down technical debt
One of the cool things that I do as an Evangelist at Redgate is to periodically visit company headquarters in Cambridge. The other Evangelists and I get to meet...
2019-05-07
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Same Webcast, New Name: Introduction to Auditing Features in SQL Server
I’m giving another webcast through MSSQLTips.com. This one is on May 9, 2019, at 3 PM EDT. It’s called Introduction to Auditing Features in SQL Server. We renamed it...
2019-05-07
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Temporary Staging Tables
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...
2019-05-07
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Temporary Staging Tables
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...
2019-05-07
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Temporary Staging Tables
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb....
2019-05-07
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers