Agreed. Security people are paid to say no first. It doesn't make us very popular.

With that said, business must make the decision between security and functionality based on risk. For some environments these represent a suitable low-risk solution that off-loads work from the DBAs.

K. Brian Kelley

http://www.truthsolutions.com/

Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

http://www.netimpress.com/

Edited by - bkelley on 10/27/2003 3:27:43 PM