SQLSailor is exploring(Part6) – Understanding firewall concepts for SQLDatabase on Windows Azure

Security is one of the most discussed topics for any cloud deployment plans and no organisation would like to compromise...

Identity Insert and Table Variables – CONNECT issue

I was running some code the other day and was surprised by the result.
DECLARE @tmp TABLE (myID INT IDENTITY,MyChar VARCHAR(200))

INSERT...

Who’s Responsible

This is really scary. Someone being sued for downloading a porn movie illegally. I have nothing against porn, and I...

SQL Saturday US Map

Apparently, SQL Saturday isn’t popular in the west. See for yourself. I wanted to see what cities frequently host SQL...

SQLSailor is exploring(Part5) – SQLDatabase Dashboard on Windows Azure

Well, that is one impressive dashboard of Audi RS4! It gives huge amount of flexibility for the driver to control...

When Things That Are Supposed to Protect You Try to Kill You

This past week I was presented with a very unique issue.  A call came in with a production issue on...

Notes to a DBA who wishes to know more

I just sent this off to a fellow DBA who wanted some resources. You may also be one of those,...

SQL Server : Fixing the Orphaned Users

In my last post , we have discussed about orphaned uses and how to find out the orphaned users. In this...

SQL Server:Finding the Orphaned Users

Orphaned user is a common problem in SQL server world.When I was working on internal security audit of our production...

Creating and Managing User-Defined Roles in SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 introduces user-defined server roles. These user-defined server roles are similar to fixed server roles with only difference...