Brian is back with a new security article, this time working through the details of the fixed database roles. There are some important concepts here. In particular if you're not totally clear on the difference between dbo and db_owner, read this article.
2019-09-18 (first published: 2003-12-12)
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Why do stored procedures help with security? In this piece, MVP Brian Kelley explains why SQL Injection and information gathering are hampered with stored procedures.
2015-06-12 (first published: 2013-02-18)
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SQL Server MVP Brian Kelley brings us a great new article that solves a problem that might help your security. In this short piece, we learn how we can use logon triggers to block users based on their IP address.
2013-11-08 (first published: 2009-03-09)
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Longtime author Brian Kelley brings us a new article on security and Kerberos authentication in SQL Server.
2011-03-28 (first published: 2008-12-11)
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Day 3 of Security Week at SQL University is now in session. You're implementing a third party solution and you...
2011-02-11
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Welcome to this semester's security week at SQL University. In previous semesters we've covered the technical aspects of SQL Server...
2011-02-08
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Cross-posted from a Goal Keeping DBA blog:
Just recently, my oldest son entered the ranks of the teenagers. I shouldn’t actually...
2010-12-10
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After seeing several cases in the past couple of months where I felt the basics of troubleshooting were violated, I...
2010-12-07
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Self-marketing is not my strong suit. I don't feel very comfortable doing it, but Andy Warren (twitter | blog) suggests that we...
2010-11-01
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Members of the securityadmin role can escalate to sysadmin rights. Here's how to restrict them back to 2000 levels.
2010-09-02
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By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers