RE: BCP Utility to output contents into CSV

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May 23, 2013 at 6:26 pm

Sigerson (5/23/2013)
Needs no tweaking of permissions or access, other than turning xp_cmdshell ON and OFF.

I'm just curious... why do you turn xp_CmdShell OFF? Since anyone (including an attacker) with "SA" privs can turn it on, there's no non-trivial benefit to turning it off. Since only "SA"s can use it to begin with (unless you've made the horrible mistake of granting someone a proxy), there's also no non-trivial benefit to turning it off.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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