Viewing Extended Properties for Information
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
I’ve...
2015-11-18
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Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass...
2015-11-18
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PowerMap with Custom Region shapefiles - Demystified
[2015-Nov-18] Today is a global GIS Day (http://www.gisday.com/) where people across the globe celebrate and promote the use of various geo...
2015-11-25 (first published: 2015-11-18)
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Identity Column Increment Value (EVEN/ODD)
As always I’m sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when an email comes in from a developer.
“Hey DBA’s,...
2015-11-24 (first published: 2015-11-18)
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Selectively Locking Down Data - Gracefully
I have a situation where I need to retrieve the data in an encrypted column from, but don’t want to give all my users access to the symmetric key...
2015-11-18
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Identity Column Increment Value (EVEN/ODD)
As always I’m sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when an email comes in from a developer.
“Hey DBA’s,...
2015-11-17
146 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
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[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
421 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Create stub tSQLt tests in SSDT from stored procedures
I have released another tool as part of the ssdt dev pack, what this does is create tSQLt classes and...
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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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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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