Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a couple of times to Locks of Love . This past Saturday I participated in a hair collection drive led by 11 year-old Sarah Brotman: Midlands girl gets a haircut...
2009-03-13
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This month there were 3 security bulletins released and 1 re-released:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2009
First, let's tackle the...
2009-03-10
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Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a...
2009-03-09
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There is an Adobe Flash Player available to address a security issue. The bulletin shows as being released February 24,...
2009-03-06
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In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having...
2009-03-06
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Microsoft's advance security bulletin has come out and it looks like they are planning on releasing 3 security bulletins on...
2009-03-06
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Yesterday I blogged about how to figure out what database principals corresponded to what server principals . The key is to match up the SIDs between sys.server_principals and sys.database_principals. But I also stated there were 3 cases where the logins...
2009-03-05
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One of the things that we have to re-learn when going from SQL Server 2000 to 2005/2008 is that objects...
2009-03-04
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A question on the forum asked how to find all the database mappings for a particular login. If you're on SQL Server 2000 or below, the tables you want to use are syslogins in the master database and sysusers in each database.
2009-03-03
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This is a follow-on post to You Must Trust Someone. My point in that post was to establish that being able to and and actually trusting your account and server administrators is a necessity. I didn't go into the business aspect of that, but basically it boils down to having a good selection process for candidates, checking out their references, ...
2009-03-03
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By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Hi everyone I asked this earlier but the desired outcome is a bit different...
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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