2015-03-31
1,525 reads
Microservices and Databases
I ran across a post on microservices recently and was intrigued. I always like the idea of loosely coupled, independent...
2015-03-31
2,797 reads
Apress April Fools 40% Discount Promo & Healthy SQL
April 1, 2015 – I am delighted to take part in the April
Fool’s Promotion by Publisher Apress, who are
featuring some of...
2015-03-31
1,593 reads
Excel Tip #23: Adding a Trendline to Your Chart
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-03-31)
7,925 reads
PASS Board Update: March 2015
Hello all,
It’s been a while since my last update. Sorry. I’ve just been traveling and presenting and working on books...
2015-03-31
1,113 reads
SSRS report footer is NOT lost in Excel
With all the recent changes and updates within the Microsoft PowerBI universe, SSRS core technology gets less and less attention....
2015-04-07 (first published: 2015-03-31)
14,205 reads
Why I Want to Have Coffee With You
Yesterday I read an article entitled “Why I Don’t Want to Have Coffee With You”, in which the author writes...
2015-04-10 (first published: 2015-03-31)
7,906 reads
An Easter SQL
Since Easter is nearly upon us, I got to thinking once again about how challenging it is to calculate the...
2015-03-31
3,768 reads
Intro to SQL Server Automation with PowerShell
March 26th, 2015, a date which will live in infamy!
Well, at least for me it will. March 26th, 2015...
2015-03-30
915 reads
Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 5: Interquartile Range
By Steve Bolton
…………The last seven articles in this series of mistutorials on identifying outlying values in SQL Server database were...
2015-03-30
5,887 reads
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