A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware
It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...
2011-10-13
949 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!
If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...
2011-10-13
1,001 reads
Learn to Help Yourself
I used to work with a guy who was adamant that before you asked him for help, you had done the...
2011-10-11
1,313 reads
PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain
Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...
2011-10-10
1,418 reads
Advanced Persistent Threats and Us
In a blog post from last year, Richard Bejtlich (blog | twitter) talked about a concept called an Advanced Persistent Threat...
2011-10-07
1,328 reads
Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2
When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
2,726 reads
Two Great Talks on the State of Internet Security
Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...
2011-10-05
1,047 reads
Have end users who need an introduction to SQL Server book?
At the beginning of this year, my introductory text to SQL Server, appropriately titled Introduction to SQL Server, became available for sale....
2011-09-19
1,342 reads
Looking to interact with those proficient in Japanese
In the 1970s my mother and her younger sister married U.S. Marines. Both came to the States when their husbands...
2011-09-12
809 reads
Don't Wait to Start Blogging
I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...
2011-08-15
2,257 reads
Blogs
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
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Pay for Performance
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Question of the Day
The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers