Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
22 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
673 reads
Logging the history of my past SQL Saturday presentations
(2020-Dec-31) PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) is the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. On December 17, 2020 PASS announced...
2020-12-31
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Storage savings with Table Compression
In one of my recent assignments, my client asked me for a solution, to reduce the disk space requirement, of the staging database of an ETL workload. It made...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
499 reads
Daily Coping 31 Dec 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-12-31
74 reads
Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
75 reads
Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2020-12-31
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Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2021-01-06 (first published: 2020-12-31)
5,153 reads
Experiments With Go Arrays and Slices
Simplicity Over Syntactic Sugar
As I’ve been learning Go, I’ve grown to learn that many decisions to simplify the language have removed many features that provide more succinct expressions in...
2021-01-07 (first published: 2020-12-30)
377 reads
Blogs
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,...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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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