Oh Look, A Horseless Carriage
Never forget, we’re making buggy whips. And everybody we know drives little buggies and they need our buggy whips. We’ve...
2015-01-28
1,090 reads
The Scary DBA
My First Board Meeting
Parents, you know that feeling you get after you’ve brought home that brand new baby (or in my case, babies) where...
2015-01-30 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,362 reads
Understand the True Source of Problems
There’s an old joke that goes, “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.” While the person in question swings...
2015-01-19
783 reads
Two Weeks on the PASS Board
The one absolute promise I made about serving on the PASS Board is that I would let you know what...
2015-01-16
535 reads
Common Table Expressions Are Not Tables
There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
8,493 reads
I Am Grateful For
A while back I wrote about saying “Thank you” to people. Last night I was listening to NPR on my...
2015-01-09
701 reads
Execution Plans, Performance Tuning and Rum
This is me on the last cruise
In just a few more weeks I’ll be setting sail on the first of...
2015-01-06
1,092 reads
Speaker of the Month: January 2015
I love it that my first post of the new year is going to be Speaker of the Month. I’m...
2015-01-02
430 reads
“Pretty Plans vs. Performance” or “Grant Gets Pwned”
If you get an execution plan that looks like this:
I wouldn’t blame you for immediately thinking about query tuning. Especially...
2014-12-29 (first published: 2014-12-19)
6,168 reads
Speaker of the Month: December 2014
For the month of November I was at the PASS Summit and Live360, so I didn’t get to find new...
2014-12-08
555 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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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