Stéphane Haby

SQL Server tips: How to migrate database-users in another domain without touching permissions

By a customer, I must migrate a database from a domain to another. The goal is to keep the database-user permissions, take the new SID from the windows login of the new domain and change the database-user name.

SQL Server 2019: Copy files through SQL Server

Three new interesting extended stored procedures comes with SQL Server 2019. I was very interested to discover these new store procedures: Sys.xp_copy_file is to copy a specific files from a folder to another Syntax: exec master.sys.xp_copy_file ‘source folder+file’, ‘destination(…)

SQL Server Tool: MSSQL-CLI

MSSQL-CLI is a useful new command line tool. Not so new because this tool exist since 2018 but a little bit unknow. You find this tool on GitHub here. One of the(…)

SQL Server Tips: Path of the default trace file is null

In addition of my precedent blog about this subject “SQL Server Tips: Default trace enabled but no file is active…”, I add a new case where the default path of the trace file was empty. The(…)

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about(…)

SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan…

Beginning of this year, it is good to clean up orphan users in SQL Server databases. Even if this practice must be done regularly throughout the year of course. 😉 During my cleaning day, a new case appears that(…)

SQL Server 2019: Java in SQL Server hard to believe, no?

It has already been a few months that we are testing the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2019. I already blogged about a previous version of SQL Server supporting R and Python. With the new version(…)

SQL Server Temporal Table – How to store a history table in another file?

Few days ago, a customer asks me if it is possible to move the history table to slower but cheaper storage. The question behind this is whether it is possible to create a history table on a separate filegroup(…)

SQL Pass Summit 2018: SQL Server 2019 features coming soon!

It’s the 20th anniversary of the event and the keynote today was amazing (see the blog from Christophe) for different reasons but the more important is that is every time better people. Not(…)

SQL server security pre-conference @SQL Pass Summit 2018 in Seattle

After long hours of flights, Christophe Cosme and I finally arrived in Seattle at the SQL PASS Summit 2018. We picked up our badge and bag and now we are ready to begin… This first day for me(…)