Personal Goal Accomplished: Speaking at the PASS Summit
I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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I mentioned on twitter that a family tragedy about a decade ago had resulted in a false start with respect to this goal: After a false start about a...
2019-11-07
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A new piece of malware which hooks into SQL Server, skip-2.0, has been making the tech media rounds. If you’ve not read about it yet or you’re looking for...
2019-10-25
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Brian is back with a new security article, this time working through the details of the fixed database roles. There are some important concepts here. In particular if you're not totally clear on the difference between dbo and db_owner, read this article.
2019-09-18 (first published: 2003-12-12)
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If you remember the flurry of news from the beginning of 2018 about side channel attacks called Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft has included in its July update a patch...
2019-08-20 (first published: 2019-08-07)
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It doesn’t look like this would affect SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 since the earliest reported platform is SQL Server 2014, but in Microsoft’s release of...
2019-07-17 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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After my presentation at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics conference, I had a information security professional stop by to ask a few questions. He’s in the position where...
2019-06-24 (first published: 2019-06-10)
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July 9, 2019 will be here soon. With it comes the end of support, including security updates for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 unless you either...
2019-06-21
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Security through (by) obscurity is where we try to protect an asset by hiding it. Anyone who has ever played the game Capture the Flag knows that a motivated...
2019-06-21 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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I’m reading Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader. In talking about Amazon’s pursuit of a second headquarters, John Rossman wrote the following regarding ownership: Amazon’s second leadership...
2019-06-12
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Self, I am writing this to you in my mid 40s. I know when I was 20, I wasn’t thinking about 30, much less 40. Here’s some advice I’d...
2019-06-11
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By Steve Jones
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with...
By Steve Jones
the McFly Effect – n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people...
At a recent conference I was asked how I executed code during my presentation....
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