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I’m a big fan of maintaining and updating your technical skills, but sometimes its difficult to measure your ability at...
2011-05-31
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Taking It to the Extreme: SQLCLR and Parallelism - a NYC event coming soon!
Here’s another awesome SQL event coming to New York City. (Keep reading for your discount below!) It’s already getting hot...
2011-05-31
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An Unexpected Service Gotcha
Recently I was participating in a round of storage rearranging with a client (aka the storage dance) which consisted of...
2011-05-31
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SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!
It’s that time of year again, actually a little earlier than in previous years as we’ll be holding our fifth...
2011-05-31
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Use Connections Properly in an SSIS Script Task
There are lots of scenarios in SSIS where you'd want to use a connection within a Script Task. Unfortunately, the closest help documentation - the comments inside the Script...
2011-05-31
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Use Connections Properly in an SSIS Script Task
There are lots of scenarios in SSIS where you'd want to use a connection within a Script Task. Unfortunately, the closest help documentation - the comments inside the Script...
2011-05-31
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Identity Reseeding
I love the identity property. I use it in many of my tables, mostly because it gives me a fairly...
2011-05-31
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What Encryption Algorithms Are You Using?
Security is an important consideration when designing a database application. Who can get access to what data? How much damage...
2011-05-31
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Using “NOT IN” in a query can provide mixed results
The topic came up at work awhile back with using various includes/excludes such as IN, NOT IN, and EXISTS. A...
2011-05-31
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Speaking at 24 Hours in the Cloud
On June 1st GITCA will run a 24 hour round-the-world virtual event focusing on Cloud Computing. Please visit http://sp.GITCA.org/sites/24Hours for...
2011-05-31
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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,...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
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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