Category Archives: Security

  1. Hiding one or more columns

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    November 12, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    This isn’t something you have to do frequently, but sometimes you don’t want the users to have access to certain …
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  2. Questions from “SQL Server Security for Everyone”

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    November 4, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    I recently gave my SQL Server Security for Everyone session at Summit 2015. (I’m still in awe about that by …
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  3. Administrative Logins and Users

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    November 2, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    If you’ve ever worked through an audit you have probably gotten a request that looks a lot like this: Please …
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  4. The powerpoint for my SQL Server Security Basics session

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    October 5, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    Well I’ve done it. I’ve spoken at an event. I’ll discuss how I felt about it and what I learned …
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  5. Zombie AD Groups

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    September 21, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    I spent something like 2 hours today trying to figure out how a particular user had access to one of …
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  6. Permissions Posters

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    July 27, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    I’ve been doing a lot of research recently for my permissions session and for a project at work. During said …
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  7. Copying a TDE database from one instance to another

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    June 22, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    I got my first real world experience with a TDE (transparent data encryption) database recently. For those who don’t know …
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  8. Clean up all (most) of the orphans on an instance

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    June 3, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    Recently we have been doing a number of instance moves as part of a large upgrade project. And as anyone …
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  9. Multiple Windows Groups with different default databases

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    May 28, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    A question came up at work the other day, mostly as a mind game, but you never know it might …
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  10. Adding new users & groups in windows

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    May 20, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher

    I do a lot of testing with security in SQL Server. And of course to do a thorough job of …
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