Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database
One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)
1,267 reads
The Scary DBA
Speaker of the Month: October 2015
Working on my third year of “Speaker of the Month” posts now. The good news, I haven’t run out of...
2015-10-02
478 reads
PASS Nominations Committee 2015
The Nominations Committee has done their job and the final report has been published.
Good luck to everyone running. Thank you...
2015-09-14
479 reads
Yes, Foreign Keys Help Performance
I created this example several years ago that illustrates how foreign key constraints can help performance. It’s a contrived example....
2015-09-21 (first published: 2015-09-09)
2,706 reads
Speaker of the Month: September 2015
Feast or famine.
The last several months I just haven’t seen that many speakers, let alone that many community speakers. Then,...
2015-09-04
459 reads
Targeted Plan Cache Removal
A lot of times you’ll hear how people are experiencing sudden, intermittent, poor performance on a query, bad parameter sniffing...
2015-09-02 (first published: 2015-08-24)
1,594 reads
Time to Change
I recently spent two days consulting with a company on their database development and deployment processes. They are a small, capable, team...
2015-08-19
759 reads
PASS Board Update: July 2015
I was actually travelling for most of July and some of that was on holiday with the family, the real...
2015-08-13
596 reads
Leadership: A Name and A Principle
I’m actively working to put together the leadership course that I talked about here and here. No, not full time. I...
2015-08-11
517 reads
Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache
Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
What? Still here? You want more?...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)
1,791 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