Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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Book Review: Moneyball
With the movie coming out I realized somehow I’d missed reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It’s the story of how...
2011-11-09
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Reliving Basic Training, Sort Of
Recently I had the luxury of a long afternoon lunch at Chipotle on a Sunday afternoon, catching up on some...
2011-11-07
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2011-11-04
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SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!
With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections...
2011-11-04
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Meetings as Battles
I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...
2011-11-02
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Fame and Social Media
Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...
2011-11-01
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Two of a Kind
Here’s one that I haven’t run into before. A colleague scheduled a meeting with someone else in the organization to...
2011-10-31
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Play the Bob Ross Game
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago, deadlines looming and everyone feeling the stress some. We hit a...
2011-10-28
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
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