CONNECTing to SQL Server

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CONNECTing to SQL Server

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February 2, 2016 at 8:12 pm

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64780 More actions · Answer 1

At first I had the server option selected as well.

Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so I removed that tickmark.

Oh well. Apparently my mindreading skills are still not good enough.

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Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2016)
At first I had the server option selected as well.
Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so I removed that tickmark.
Oh well. Apparently my mindreading skills are still not good enough.

Yeah, agonized over that for a moment, and ended up guessing he wanted CONNECT SQL as well. Just a lucky guess, though. C'est la vie.

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287024 More actions · Answer 3

Heh - I was so busy thinking about the endpoint that I forgot to click the database. A lesson to always think about the whole problem and not just focus on the part you're not sure about. :hehe:

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 4

Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2016)
At first I had the server option selected as well.
Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so I removed that tickmark.
Oh well. Apparently my mindreading skills are still not good enough.

There's also the CONNECT ANY DATABASE which seems to be the same as the CONNECT at the database level. Or am I wrong?

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64780 More actions · Answer 5

Luis Cazares (2/3/2016)
Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2016)
At first I had the server option selected as well.
Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so I removed that tickmark.
Oh well. Apparently my mindreading skills are still not good enough.
There's also the CONNECT ANY DATABASE which seems to be the same as the CONNECT at the database level. Or am I wrong?

You are absolutely right. CONNECT ANY DATABASE at the server level grants permission to conenct to each and every database on the server as if CONNECT permission had been granted in each individually. See http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/111116/[/url] for an article published on this site about the feature when it was introduced.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 6

Hugo Kornelis (2/3/2016)
At first I had the server option selected as well.
Then I recalled that the connect option at server level is actually called CONNECT SQL, not just CONNECT, so I removed that tickmark.
Oh well. Apparently my mindreading skills are still not good enough.

I wondered about it to, and thought that CONNECT SQL would be considered as a variant of CONNECT (with SQL meaning "the instance to whose MASTER database I am currently connected" or something like that). That ws of course pure guesswork - I lay no claims to mindreding skills.

Now if the option had been "SQL" instad of "server" (and maybe that should be "instance" anyway?) it would have been quite clear and also utterly wrong.

Tom

webrunner SSC-Dedicated Points: 31713 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/2/2016)
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Nice question, thanks. I missed Endpoints.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259085 More actions · Answer 8

Nice question, thanks.

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akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 9

Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (2/2/2016)
Nice question, thanks Steve
Knew about Server and database, had to check up on endpoints, though.
Learned something new...

So did I.

patricklambin SSCrazy Eights Points: 9994 More actions · Answer 10

Good question but I have read it too quickly so I gave only Database as answer. Bad luck...but I would have forgotten Endpoint...