Rant: Security Isn't Sexy and It's a Shame
I grew up immersed in security. My father was a US Marine and going on and off base meant... security....
2011-08-03
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Bad Network Performance? Check the TCP Chimney Offload/Receive Side-Scaling/Network DMA Settings
We recently ran into a case where connecting to a Windows Server 2003 server with SQL Server installed on it,...
2011-08-02
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Bad Admins: Non-Production Servers
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-28
2,180 reads
Bad Admins: Taking Advantage of Maintenance Periods
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-25
1,061 reads
Bad Admins: Stealing the SQL Server Service Account
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-22
1,374 reads
Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials, Part II
In a previous post I gave suggestions on how to get speaking credentials for consideration at a larger event, such...
2011-07-21
945 reads
Bad Admins: Pocketing Backups
This is part of a series of tips on how bad/rogue admins can get access to the data in your...
2011-07-21
731 reads
Bad Admins: Stealing An Account
Yesterday I posted about manipulating group membership to get access to a SQL Server. Today comes attack vector #2: stealing an...
2011-07-14
1,192 reads
Bad Admins: Attacking via Group Membership
This is a series of blog posts about how administrators can gain access to SQL Server, even if you try...
2011-07-13
1,875 reads
Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials
One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...
2011-06-16
1,892 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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