PASS Summit Session Follow-up: The Plan Cache Whisperer
I’ve wrapped up my session at my first session at this year’s PASS Summit. My session this Thursday was The Plan...
2015-10-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 70 (“Filtered Indexes in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 69 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is the continuation from...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015: So Far
It’s Kilt Day!
I want to give a quick assessment on how the Summit has been for me so far. Monday,...
2015-10-29
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Default Sessions
The focus of this article will be to introduce the default sessions deployed with SQL Server. Some of these are internal and "private" while others are more "public" and...
2015-10-29
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Default Sessions
So I have blasted through a lot of technical articles about Extended Events. There is a lot of groundwork that...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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My PASS Summit 2015 Presentation
I’m going to present my session about working with parameters in PASS Summit on Thursday at 03:15pm. The title of...
2015-10-29
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PASS 2015 Session Report – KeyNote and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Features, Best Practices & Roadmap
So PASS officially kicked off this morning leading into the next 3 days of back to back sessions. You could certainly tell that the keynote was on… I mean...
2015-10-29
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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
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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