Different Ways to Find SQL Server Orphaned Users
SQL Server orphaned users are a common thorny issue in auditing. In this post, Jeffrey Yao provides a few different ways of identifying orphaned users covering various scenarios.
Still More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot
As the final entry in this series, Robert Sheldon leads you through a group of forgotten features that have been removed from recent versions of SQL Server. In some cases, the features were widely used and often loved, while others had lost their usefulness over the years or were replaced with something much better. In this article, he remembers Data Transformation Services (DTS), a handful of DBCC commands, a few utilities, Active Directory Helper Service, English Query, Web Assistant, SQL Mail, Native XML Web Services, Notification Services, SQL Distributed Management Objects, Surface Area Configuration Tool, and the Pubs and Northwind databases.
Azure DWH part 21: Using Excel in ASDWH
This time we will show how to access to Azure SQL Data Warehouse using Excel.
Understanding Migration from SQL Server to SQL Server 2017 using Data Migration Assistant
You can use the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) tool to migrate your SQL Server instance to an on-premise SQL Server 2017 or to Azure SQL Database. DMA analyzes data migration issues and provides recommendations to resolve them. Read on learn about the features of DMA and how DMA eases your SQL Server instance migration as well as reduces overall risks, allowing you to complete the migration successfully.
Improve Productivity with Collaboration Tools
In order for your team to be productive, communication and collaboration are essential. Collaboration tools allow you to get the most out of your team members.
Understanding Your Value
Fill out the 2017 salary survey to help us all understand where our compensation might lie relative to others.
Summarizing Data Using the GROUPING SETS Operator
Writing aggregate queries is one of the most important tasks for anyone working with T-SQL. Determining the expressions required in the GROUP BY clause is not that difficult, but what do you do if you need to include different combinations of group by expressions in the same result set? Alfonso demonstrates how to use the GROUPING SETS operator to accomplish this task.
Holidays and Calendar Generation
Create the definition of your holidays and have them available for any year. Create a Calendar including holidays and business/work dates.
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Detecting Deadlocks Quickly
In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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