I recently looked at an Azure DevOps pipeline for a client that was timing out whenever an index change or other long running task was deployed using a DacPac. All deployments that ran within a few minutes successfully completed, but those taking longer than 10 minutes were failing. A quick Read more…
This is part of series of posts about associative grouping: Part 1 – Associative Grouping using tSQL Recursive CTE’s Part 3 – Associative Grouping using Spark In part one of this series we looked at how we could use recursive CTE’s to find overlapping groups in two columns in a Read more…
This is part of series of posts about associative grouping: Part 2 – Associative Grouping using tSQL Graph Part 3 – Associative Grouping using Spark Recently I was asked by a friend to have a look at an interesting query problem he had been looking at. He was trying to Read more…
What’s the Problem Stored procedures are often used to allow users to access data in tables that they do not have explicit permissions to use. The mechanism that makes this possible is ownership chaining, whereby in the context of the stored procedure, the permissions of its owner are used (often Read more…