Balancing Priorities
This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...
2009-06-02
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...
2009-06-01
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Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do...
2009-05-29
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
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Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Speaking at Augusta Developer's Guild
Tomorrow night, May 28th, I'll be speaking the Augusta Developer's Guild. This is a make-up from earlier in the year...
2009-05-27
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Sick? Stay home!
Yesterday I did something I wouldn't have thought of doing a year ago: I stayed home. When I woke up,...
2009-05-19
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SQL Injection - Why I Don't Think Parameterization is Enough
Note:Since there have been several comments on this, I'm using parameterization at the application layer in the security sense of...
2009-05-15
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Rant: Is It an Effective Control or Not?
This is spurred on by a comment a pen tester made. He was referring to a particular technology and said...
2009-05-05
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A Dead Zune and Choices
Shortly after the Zune debuted, I purchased one. And I've been happy with it. It's done everything I expected out...
2009-05-04
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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