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Cloning a SQL Server Login with all permissions using PowerShell

Cloning a SQL Server login with permissions that match another login is a common task. In this post, Jeffrey Yao shows how this an be done using PowerShell.

SQLBits 2017

SQLBits 2017 has been announced. The conference will take place on April 5-8, 2017 in Telford, UK.

Non-Numeric Measures in DAX

Enhance the functionality of your SSAS Tabular and PowerBI output, by understanding HOW-, WHY- and WHEN to leverage the power of DAX to create text, date or Boolean measures.

What do you do when you inherit a mess at work?

I have seen three common responses to database messes. My favorite is nuclear.

Azure SQL Database - Authenticating Application Access by Using Azure AD Tokens

Learn how to leverage Azure Active Directory when connecting to Azure SQL Database from applications or services in a non-interactive manner, by relying on token-based authentication.

Maintenance Routines for AlwaysOn

How to determine what replica(s) to perform maintenance routines

The Right Stimulus

Phil Factor ponders the I/O implications of different drinks with coding.

Representing Hierarchical Data for Mere Mortals

Why is it that we use XML, but with so little enthusiasm when it does so much, and is so feature-rich? Phil Factor argues that there are better ways of doing it, more complete than JSON, but easier to read than XML. To try to convince you, he gives a set of flying demos, using PowerShell and his PSYaml module, to illustrate how YAML can let you work faster, and more accurately.

First Class Jobs

This week Steve Jones examines the idea of making jobs in SQL Server, first class citizens.