http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Security, Administering, Strategies posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Auditing, analyzing and documenting your SQL Server installation is becoming more important all the time, especially as more and more attention is being paid to the security of your environment. Chad Miller brings us a look at a framework and a sample document you can use in your environment to conduct an audit. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/conductingasqlserveroperationalaudit/2079/2005/10/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/conductingasqlserveroperationalaudit/2079/SQL Server Alerts provide a great way for the server to notify a DBA that some event has occurred, usually something bad that they need to fix. However alerts can also be used to drive business logic processes and enable some types of actions to be safely performed without requiring extraordinary rights by a user. Author Leo Peysakhovich brings us some ideas on how we can use alerts to implement business logic processing. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlserveralerts/1435/2004/08/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlserveralerts/1435/When transferring a database to a new server, you are bound to experience a user problem. In this article by Neil Boyle, he shows you how to transfer passwords and accounts seamlessly to a new server. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/fixingbrokenlogins/193/2004/07/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/fixingbrokenlogins/193/In this follow up to one of our most popular articles, Andy responds to comments posted by readers and discusses how to manage SQL logins effectively in your applications. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginsparttwo/780/2002/08/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginsparttwo/780/When transferring a database to a new server, you are bound to experience a user problem. In this article by Neil Boyle, he shows you how to transfer passwords and accounts seamlessly to a new server. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/fixingbrokenlogins/193/2004/07/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/fixingbrokenlogins/193/