Excel Malformed File Vulnerability - Remote Code Execution
Today, Microsoft release a security advisory about a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. This one affects both PCs and Macs....
2009-02-24
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Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database
Yesterday I blogged about how to figure out what database principals corresponded to what server principals. The key is to...
2009-02-23
1,872 reads
New Video Appearing on Front Page of JumpStart TV
All of the videos I've done are up under my profile. However, the video for The difference between GRANT, DENY...
2009-02-23
1,497 reads
Mapping Database Principals to Server Principals
A question on the forum asked how to find all the database mappings for a particular login. If you're on SQL...
2009-02-22
9,780 reads
Looking Forward to Getting My Kindle 2
When the Kindle 2 was first announced, I debated about whether or not to get it. Then I realized I...
2009-02-21
1,369 reads
Adobe Acrobat/Reader 0day - Disable JavaScript
There is an active attack in the wild for the newly announced Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader vulnerability. While the...
2009-02-20
2,064 reads
You Must Trust Someone
After some recent talks with security folks and auditors, one of the things I have had a hard time getting across...
2009-02-20
3,086 reads
You Must Trust Your DBAs
This is a follow-on post to You Must Trust Someone. My point in that post was to establish that being...
2009-02-20
1,948 reads
Another Reason to Avoid Cross-Database Ownership Chaining
This past weekend we were moving database files around because we added new LUNs to an existing production cluster. We went at the old tried and true way, we detached the databases, moved the files, and re-attached the databases. That seemed to work well...
2009-02-20
2,133 reads
The Limited Usefulness of Encrypting File System (EFS) and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
This is something that hit me as I was presenting to the Charlotte SQL Server User Group last night.
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2009-02-18
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Blogs
I recommend Smart Brevity (book) for communications
By Brian Kelley
Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all
By John
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine....
Monday Monitor Tips: Learning While Using the Tool
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have...
Forums
Using Python notebooks to save money in Fabric: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Your AI Successes
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Switch partition: NULL boundary id
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
Question of the Day
Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers