Depending on your environment & up-time requirements, service account passwords may take months to change; every 90 days is not reasonable. I, too, think there are much easier targets....

Great editorial. I had been trying to make the same argument at a "smaller" company (that I left) - we need safeguards in place. As a DBA, I...

"Yes IT is a closed profession for white men and the women chosen by said men to excel are not necessarily the brightest women. I still remember the brilliant women...

Good for you Majorbloodnock.

To me, the goal should be to find your employees strengths. Mine definitely align with your description. And the point should be that...

Great Topic Steve!

This is really, really important. Even though our skills direct us to technology/engineering, it is still not "cool" for "girls". It sometimes feels like a pretty...

If your business is large enough, and bound by some set of standards such as PCI, then storing passwords in clear text is a very big deal.

Not that...

Thank you so much for the clarification - this makes sense, yay.

I very much appreciate your time! I owe you one :rolleyes:

Thank you Garadin.

I suppose I really dont have the conceptual piece down like I thought I did... I am creating a trigger on the entire table, and it fires...

You are correct, I was using the media for SQL 2005 and was planning to apply SP2 afterwards. The matrix - unless I am reading it wrong - says...