Daily Coping 23 Feb 2021
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...
2021-02-23
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Power BI Monthly Digest – February 2021
In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2021-03-01 (first published: 2021-02-23)
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Upgrading Durable Function Extension of my Azure Function App
(2021-Feb-22) With more applications and services being placed into a vendor cloud environment, it does require almost no effort to manage and maintain the infrastructure these applications and services are...
2021-03-01 (first published: 2021-02-23)
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Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor
If you’re a blogger, you’ve already done the hard part by creating great content — so you should share that content as widely as possible! One way is by...
2021-02-22
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Calgary Data User Group – 24 February 2021 at 5pm MST
This Wednesday, from 5pm to 7pm Mountain Standard Time, the Calgary Data User Group is presenting two sessions for your virtual attendance. 15 minutes: A lightning talk on Kubernetes...
2021-02-22
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The PASS Pro Videos are Live
The PASS Pro program was an interesting educational opportunity that came out last year. A number of people subscribed, including me. I did this more to support the org...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-22)
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Daily Coping 22 Feb 2021
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...
2021-02-22
25 reads
Old but not gone…
I am part of a weekly talk show we run at the TriPASS user group, called ‘Shop Talk’. Shop Talk was the brainchild of Kevin Feasel, our key user...
2021-02-25 (first published: 2021-02-22)
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Virtual User Group Presentations, Feb 23-24
I'll be presenting at two virtual SQL data platform communities this week on a couple well-rehearsed topics, each with fresh updates.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
DBA...
2021-02-22
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Creating presentations with Reveal and Github pages
I really don’t like Powerpoint. I’ll do pretty much anything to avoid writing a presentation in it. Thankfully for the last few years there’s been a service called GitPitch...
2021-02-26 (first published: 2021-02-21)
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Blogs
Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?
While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...
Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder
By James Serra
(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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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