http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Security, SQL Server 7, 2000, Best and Worst Practices posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Microsoft has released a new tool to analyzer your SQL Servers and see how they conform to their list of common best practices. Give it a try and let us know what you think. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1262/2004/02/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/1262/Andy returns to the Worst Practice series this week with a short article looking at how connection strings in applications affect what you see in sysprocesses. Perhaps less controversial (in our opinion) that some of the other worst practices, this is something easy to fix and definitely worth fixing! Read the article and post a comment - explore other points of view! Readers posting a comment will be entered in a drawing for a copy of the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/2003/08/01http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/worstpracticebadconnectionstringsandbadinfoinsyspr/802/In this article by Neil Weicher, he talks about encryption of data and files for SQL Server. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/securityworstpracticeneil/592/2002/01/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/securityworstpracticeneil/592/Continuing with the Worst Practices Series: Steve Jones examines why encryption in the database is a bad idea. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/wp_encryption/527/2002/01/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/wp_encryption/527/Learn how to secure your data by implementing SQL Server security best practices. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/437/2001/09/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/437/