Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a drunken elf can guide Santa to houses. Since...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a...
2015-12-24
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Thoughts on Advent of Code
Over the past couple of days I’ve posted several times about the Advent of Code Contest and worked my way through...
2015-12-24
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availablility Enhancements
In this Article I have listed out SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Enhancements.SQL Server 2016 [CTP 3.2] SQL Server 2016 CTP Standard Edition...
2015-12-24
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Specifying Paths to External Items (Report Builder and SSRS) in SharePoint with PowerShell
[2015-Dec-24] My story: two SSRS items (main report and its sub-report) need to be deployed to SharePoint. Trivial task, and...
2015-12-24
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Advent of Code #3 – Part 2
Adding to my solution for #3 part 2, I finally got it, but I paid the price for not adding...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #3 – Part 1
Part 1 isn’t bad. Parse a string that has direction indicators and track each location you stop at. I’m trying...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #2
This one gives you a 1000 rows of package dimensions. You calculate the surface area needed for wrapping paper, plus...
2015-12-23
679 reads
Blogs
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
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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