Every now and then I have to check object dependencies in a “data store”. For “old style” SQL databases this can be easily achived via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) with the option of “View Dependencies” in the context menu of the object you are intrested in - easy peasy…

Getting a new laptop is a lot of fun, everything is soooo fast…. …. till you remember that you have to reinstall everything. ;-)

Visual Studio is the tool to create all kind of SQL-related solution, e.g. Database-projects, Integartion Servicee Solutions and Analysis Service Solutions (especially OLAP-Solution). Today I install Visual Studio Community 2022 ¹ at a newly setup server to do exactly this.

In one of my last projects, we had to add Azure AD Guest Users to an Azure SQL DB hosted in our tenant. Luckily creation of guest users within our tenant was already enabled, Azure Subscription was associated with an Azure Active Directory and therefore we could concentrate on adding such users to our Azure SQL DB (as will this post).