Wayne Sheffield

My blog about SQL Server

Browsing Posts published in April, 2013

If you can establish a connection to a SQL Server, but are having problems logging in to it, you will get an 18456 error. This error is deliberately obfuscated in SQL Server so that the user can’t tell why the error failed (and thus try to crack into the server). All the user will get […]

We all have a bucket list – that list of things that we want to accomplish before one, well, kicks the bucket. Perhaps you want to ski the Swiss Alps. Learn a foreign language. Learn to play a musical instrument. Surf the Hawaiian swells. Visit far-away places. Get romanced by a Frenchman in Paris (which […]

It’s time for our monthly blogging party, commonly known as T-SQL Tuesday. This month, Bob Pusateri is providing the motivation by selecting the topic, and he would like to know how we came to love presenting. Being the inquisitive type, Bob would like to know things like what was the first time you gave a […]