The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
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The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
875 reads
The Challenges of Being Safe
Securing your data is a challenge. Steve Jones has a few comments no just how hard it can be to obfuscate your production data as you move it to development environments.
2009-03-09
641 reads
Blocking Users by IP
SQL Server MVP Brian Kelley brings us a great new article that solves a problem that might help your security. In this short piece, we learn how we can use logon triggers to block users based on their IP address.
2013-11-08 (first published: 2009-03-09)
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List all permissions in all databases
This script will allow you get all the users and roles with permission on objects on all databases.
2014-09-18 (first published: 2009-03-05)
28,954 reads
Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database
Yesterday I blogged about how to figure out what database principals corresponded to what server principals . The key is to match up the SIDs between sys.server_principals and sys.database_principals. But I also stated there were 3 cases where the logins...
2009-03-05
2,928 reads
You Must Trust Your DBAs
This is a follow-on post to You Must Trust Someone. My point in that post was to establish that being able to and and actually trusting your account and server administrators is a necessity. I didn't go into the business aspect of that, but basically it boils down to having a good selection process for candidates, checking out their references, ...
2009-03-03
2,022 reads
Mapping Database Principals to Server Principals
A question on the forum asked how to find all the database mappings for a particular login. If you're on SQL Server 2000 or below, the tables you want to use are syslogins in the master database and sysusers in each database.
2009-03-03
4,468 reads
SQL Server Encryption Key Management between Development, Test and Production Environments
The company I work for has decided to use the encryption technology available in SQL Server 2005. We have almost everything ironed out except for which keys to use in the development, testing, and production environments. Should we use one key for all three environments or different keys for each?
2009-03-03
2,865 reads
2009-03-02
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Back to Boston for SQL Saturday
By Steve Jones
I’m leaving again tomorrow for a trip. This time I head back to Boston...
T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit?
By Tim Mitchell
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been...
The Future of the Social Web Is in Good Hands
By Rob Sewell
The Social Web Foundation is aiming to grow the fediverse and make the social...
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