What’s in a Name?: Inside the Wacky World of T-SQL Identifiers
(last updated: 2018-04-28)
Today we are going to take a look into an area that you probably are thinking has very...
2018-04-18 (first published: 2018-04-09)
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Today we are going to take a look into an area that you probably are thinking has very...
2018-04-18 (first published: 2018-04-09)
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This is Part 3 of 2. Yes, you read that correctly. You see, way back at the very...
2018-04-16
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Recap
In Part 1 of this 2 part series, I started with the loose definition in Microsoft’s documentation for...
2018-04-11 (first published: 2018-04-06)
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Let’s say that you execute the following T-SQL:
SET CONTEXT_INFO 1234;
SELECT CONVERT(INT, CONTEXT_INFO());
The...
2018-04-09
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In answering a recent question on DBA.StackExchange related to why some characters work for parameter names and others...
2018-04-03
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Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-03-15 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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Part of having good security is giving users the fewest / least permissions possible in order to execute the code. However,...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-15)
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If the new “CLR strict security” Server-level configuration option in SQL Server 2017 hasn’t caused enough confusion and pain, then,...
2018-02-23
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This post is, for the most part, a continuation of Server Audit Mystery 1: Filtering class_type gets Error...
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
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Version 4.1 of SQL# has just been released!
New functionality available only in Full version
Sys_LockResourceReturns the name of the specified Lock...
2018-02-12
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My company is moving from an Azure PostgreSQL single server to a flexible server....
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The survey is out now and you can share your experiences for a chance...
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