New SQL Server Blog Author Challenge
My good friend Ed Leighton-Dick has created a great new challenge, adapted from a challenge issued by Seth Godin back...
2015-03-23
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Announcing the SQL New Blogger Challenge!
TL;DR – In April, I’m challenging myself to write (and publish!) here regularly, and I’m extending an open challenge to other new...
2015-03-22
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Announcing: SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015 is coming up on August 2 at LSU, register today!
Email or instant message your friends, post...
2015-03-22
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Parsing XML Child Nodes and Converting to DateTime with PowerShell
As part of my organiser role for SQLSaturday Exeter (Training Day Information here and Saturday Information here) I needed to...
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-21)
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 4: Peirce’s Criterion
By Steve Bolton
…………In the last couple of installments of this amateur series of self-tutorials on outlier identification with SQL Server,...
2015-03-30 (first published: 2015-03-20)
7,052 reads
Career Ratings
I wrote the other day about measuring your career, and I gave some general advice, but I wanted to give...
2015-03-20
1,474 reads
Azure SQLDatabase v12 Premium Editions and Available Cores
A couple of days ago, during the great SQL Unplugged live show, I have asked a couple of questions the...
2015-03-19
884 reads
Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you?
Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous DeploymentDo...
2015-03-19
418 reads
Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment Do you want to get your databases...
2015-03-19
23 reads
Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous...
2015-03-19
54 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
Has anyone encountered recurring request latency when using Microsoft Access with SQL Server 2025...
The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
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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