Long time, no posts
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022....
2022-10-27
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SQLKitty
Adding AD group perms to SQL Server
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg...
2022-10-27
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Standards Matter
published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...
2022-04-21
What I’ve Been Up To
Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
Testing SQL Server backups and offloading integrity checks
We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
What perms does a user need to create a table variable?
This came up because a user had db_owner perms and it was only reading from a database and creating a table variable from it. I created a new user...
2021-04-05
Get the schema of a temp table
I wanted to find out what data types SQL Server auditing was using, so I put the auditing file results into a temp table and executed tempdb..sp_help on that...
2021-04-04
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Using Docker on Mac to have persistent SQL Server settings and databases
This is a super simple way to retain the data and settings that you create and change on your SQL Server Docker instance. There’s a lot of talk about...
2021-02-21
2021-02-20
Exploring a Docker container’s file system
There are three ways to get into bash in a docker container: docker exec -it containername bash docker exec -it containername “bash” docker exec -it containername /bin/bash Once you...
2021-02-15
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Blogs
Daily Coping 7 Dec 2022
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to stop for a minute when you walk outside and...
Encryption and Data Protection Regulation
One of the reasons you may be considering encryption is due to the relevant...
Types of data consulting engagements and what you can expect from them
There are multiple ways organizations can engage with a data (DBA/analytics/data architect/ML/etc.) consultant. The...
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Any good resource to learn Data Factory ?
I just joined a company and I'm new to Azure. It's a powerful tool...
query, compare and match against values in date and time columns
So, I need to calculate the distance between the UNIT for example LPKC1 to LPKC2,...
SSAS Tabular Excel reports slower after upgrade
Hello, We recently upgraded our SSAS Tabular model from compatibility level SQL Server 2014...
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