The Land of BBQ
I’m off to Kansas City today for SQL Saturday #53 and looking forward to a great speaker’s dinner tonight at...
2010-10-01
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Stupid Tech Support Tales
One of our desktop support technicians noticed the following error from a 3rd party vendor application in an error log:
"9/22/2010...
2010-09-30
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Geekbench 2.1.7 Released
If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a strong interest in database...
2010-09-30
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Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys
Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...
2010-09-30
1,717 reads
When the Bloc Québécois is a Nuisance for Quebeckers’ Interests: The Top 20 Countdown
The below is a republished version that has been released officially on the Canadian Federal Liberal Party's web site. Finally...
2010-09-30
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Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery.
/* Have you ever come across the problem where you have to remove spaces from a string that has too many?...
2010-09-30
3,015 reads
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released
Some of my clients and I have been waiting on this for a little while – SQL Server 2008 Service Pack...
2010-09-30
1,699 reads
Be Thorough When Making Schema Changes
This morning we made some changes to the database. We realized that as part of a re-factor we needed to...
2010-09-30
1,385 reads
SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
2,943 reads
Revisiting The West Wing
Sometimes spending some time with your spouse watching TV is right up there with comfort food, the challenge is often...
2010-09-30
1,436 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