Security Basics: The Principle of Least Privilege
Whenever I’m asked about creating a security model for an application or database, I tell folks to follow the Principle...
2017-07-17 (first published: 2017-06-30)
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Recording of PASS Security VC Webinar
If you were unable to attend this month’s PASS Security Virtual Chapter webinar, The Dirty Business of Auditing, it has...
2017-06-29
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The Three A’s: Auditing
Authentication and Authorization, the first two of the three A’s of security, control who gets access to what. However, at...
2017-07-13 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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The Three A’s: Authorization
Having covered authentication yesterday, let’s move on the second A, authorization. Authentication was about proving identity. Now that we know...
2017-07-10 (first published: 2017-06-27)
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The Three A’s: Authentication
When I start talking with folks about security, one of the areas of confusion I often find has to do...
2017-07-05 (first published: 2017-06-26)
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#SQLChat on Performance Issues
Twitter can often be a great source of information for the SQL Community, especially with the #SQLHelp hashtag. Another resource...
2017-06-23
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PASS Security VC Presentation – The Dirty Business of Auditing
On Thursday, June 22, at 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT, I’ll be presenting for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter.
Registration...
2017-06-19
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Speaking at Charleston PASS on May 18, 2017
During the day of the 18th I’ll be at the Syntax Code and Craft Conference in Charleston, SC. That evening...
2017-05-12
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Slides from 24 Hours of PASS – Data Security
As promised, here are my slides from the 24 Hours of PASS on Data Security:
S1 – Brian Kelley_WhatYouAbsolutelyMustKnowAboutSQLServerSecurity (.pptx – 733 KB)
S7 – Brian...
2017-05-09
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Slides from SSWUG 2017 Spring Virtual Conference
As promised, here are the slides for my two presentations from SSWUG’s 2017 Spring Virtual Conference:
SSWUG_Spring_Building an Auditing Framework for...
2017-05-08
326 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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