Notes on SQLSaturday Admin Tools
Introduction
One of the items I’ve had on my todo list for a while is to write up notes on the...
2014-10-08
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SQLAndy
Thoughts on the Student to IT Pro Seminar
Miscellaneous notes as I think on this.
I’ve been reading through feedback from the students. Reading the raw feedback is interesting...
2014-10-06
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Let’s Create More After Hours Events at the Summit
We’ve got a good handful of events listed for After Hours so far, but couldn’t we have more? A couple...
2014-10-02
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Fixing SCOM After a Hardware Upgrade
Quick note in case I need again some day. The team recently moved all the user databases for a monitoring...
2014-10-09 (first published: 2014-10-02)
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Monday Night Networking Dinner at PASS Summit 2014
For the fifth year Steve Jones and I are organizing the Monday Night Networking Dinner at the PASS Summit. It...
2014-10-10 (first published: 2014-10-02)
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Renewed as MVP for 2015
Took a break to check email and saw the confirmation that I was renewed for another year. Pleasant news for...
2014-10-01
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PASS Voting Extended Until October 14th
The Board of Directors has extended voting in the current election through October 14th. Read the post from President Thomas...
2014-10-07 (first published: 2014-09-30)
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Speaking at Space Coast SQL Users Group on October 10th, 2014
I’ll be driving to Viera for the monthly Space Coast SQL Users Group meeting next week. Topic still to be...
2014-09-30
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Notes On SQLSaturday Orlando #318
Notes from a speaker/volunteer perspective:
It was a lot of fun to talk to the students at our Student to IT...
2014-09-30
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Notes On Our First Student to IT Pro Seminar
This past week we did our first try at the Student to IT Pro Seminar, run concurrently with SQLSaturday Orlando....
2014-10-01 (first published: 2014-09-29)
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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