I recently presented at SQL Saturday 184 in North Haven and was able to listen to Grant Fritchey’s present “Query Tuning in the Clouds”. What I got out of the presentation was the sense all your tuning skills could be used to optimize a Windows Azure SQL database. I knew Windows Azure SQL Databases have been around for a couple of years but never had the time or need to research them. With a possible data center consolidation in the future, I was wondering if my company could leverage a…
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User Design with SSMS
Most of the articles that I presented so far for database development have been centered around the exact Microsoft T-SQL syntax to perform a certain operation. At the University of Rhode Island, I learnt how to program in Pascal before typing in my first ANSI SQL statement. In short, I will always be some type of developer in my heart. However, many people do not come from a computer science and math background. The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has menus and dialog boxes to achieve many of the same…
Crafting Databases – Part 2
The CREATE LOGIN and CREATE USER statements are part of the Data Definition Language (DDL) defined by Codd. Basically, a server login has to be defined so that person can connect to the server and a user login has to be created to map the server login to a particular database. I am going to continue my talk with the BSA hypothetical business problem from Part 1. Server logins allow access at the server level which can be defined using Windows Authentication or a SQL Server Authentication. Windows Authentication assumes…