September 2019
• Checking the Version and Build Number of an SSIS Package
  
September 2018
• Checking Whether Connections to SQL Server are Encrypted
  
November 2017
• Amazon RDS - Common Issues with native SQL Server backup and restore
  
October 2017
• SQL BITS Conference - London 2018
  
February 2017
• SQL Server TCP Port vs TCP Dynamic Ports
  
January 2017
• Registered Servers vs Central Management Servers
  
November 2016
• Amazon RDS – Creating a native (.bak) Backup of a SQL Server Database in RDS
  
June 2016
• Searching ALL SQL Server Logs using TSQL
  
May 2016
• Setting up Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Part 2 of 3
  
• Best Practices for Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Part 3 of 3
  

SQL Matters is a resource for SQL Server Developers, Architects, DBAs and others interested in SQL Server and related technologies . Our site contains a wide range of articles, tips, blogs, quiz questions and other information about the SQL Server range of products. This includes Integration Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SSRS), Analysis Services (SSAS) and some other products that we feel might be of interest to the SQL Server community such as PowerPivot and Report Builder.

Here are some examples of technical information that you might be interested in :

• Formatting a number with thousand separators
• Splitting the query window in SSMS
• Determining the last time SQL Server was started

SQL Server has several fixed database roles such as db_datareader and db_datawriter, which grants the user read and write access respectively to all the tables in the database. Curiously there is no role to grant a user permission to execute stored procedures, but fortunately this is easily created as explained in this tip.

This SQL script creates a comma separated list of all columns in a table. This can be useful for creating SQL INSERT and SELECT statements etc.

What is the result of the following SQL query ?
Choose one : a) 3    b) 6    c) 50    d) 100