Benefits for Some, All or Only a Few
As a member of the PASS Board of Directors I attended the PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) recently. You can...
2015-04-27
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The Scary DBA
PASS Board Update: April 2015
It’s been a pretty interesting month on the board.
First, we did have a little problem. I’m sure one or two...
2015-04-23
536 reads
Query Hash Formula Changes Between Versions
The question came up on SQL Server Central that someone wanted to track queries on their 2008R2 instance and on...
2015-04-21
639 reads
Azure SQL Database v12 and SQL Magazine
I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old...
2015-04-16
689 reads
Azure SQL Database Firewall Settings
The new portal for managing Azure is pretty. I’m not sure I’m in love with it, but it’s pretty.
However, one...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-13)
5,267 reads
I Am Grateful For
I decided in January that I would write regularly about people that I’m grateful for. Now it’s April. Oops.
The concepts...
2015-04-10
542 reads
Error: Unknown Property ismemoryoptimized
If you’re starting the process of moving your databases in Azure SQL Databast to v12, you need to do one...
2015-04-07
2,080 reads
Constraints and SELECT Statements
I’ve posted previously about how a foreign key constraint can change how a SELECT query behaves. Logically that just makes...
2015-04-16 (first published: 2015-04-06)
7,532 reads
Speaker of the Month: April 2015
One of my favorite events of the year is the SQL Saturday in Silicon Valley. They’ve had four of them...
2015-04-03
610 reads
PASS Board Update: March 2015
Hello all,
It’s been a while since my last update. Sorry. I’ve just been traveling and presenting and working on books...
2015-03-31
1,113 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