Transform your SQL Server permissions

SQL Census helps users understand who has access to their SQL Servers (including Active Directory groups) and simplify existing SQL Server permissions. A new feature reworks discrete user permissions into database roles, giving users the same effective rights in a more controllable structure. Download and use SQL Census (in preview) for free.

SQL Server on Linux and AD

Azure SQL Database - Azure AD Authentication

One of the challenges when considering migrating your on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database is its lack of support for Active Directory-integrated authentication. With the advent of Azure SQL Database V12, the authentication capabilities have been expanded, allowing for more flexibility that leverages Azure Active Directory. In this article, Marcin Policht provides an overview of this functionality.

SQL Authentication Via AD Groups Part III: What About Orphaned Users?

With AD Authentication via groups, SQL Server is vulnerable to orphaned Windows users' logins being added to SQL Server at a later date. This article gives an improved user audit script that detects orphaned DB Users and also a delete script.

PowerShell To Get Active Directory Users And Groups into SQL

Use Powershell to query AD for Users, Groups and GroupMembers

Enumerate Windows Group Members

Here a quick script showing how to get all the Active Directory users in a AD group.

SQL Authentication Via AD Groups Part II: Who has what access?

In a previous article, we discussed how to liberate the DBA from SQL Logins with AD Groups. A good point was raised: How can the DBA know who has what access? Here is a solution.

Liberating the DBA from SQL Authentication with AD Groups

It's 15 years after the beginning of the century. Time to eliminate the security exposure of SQL logins, and implement integrated security. Active Directory Groups make this easy for the DBA.

Azure Active Directory - Schema Extensions

The Azure Active Directory Graph API enables some interesting scenarios that you can implement in your applications by enabling you to query and manipulate directory objects in Azure AD. In this article, Rick Rainey provides a clear walkthrough of its implementation.

Overcoming the OPENQUERY Record Limit for AD

Sometimes you have to pull more than 50,000 records. A script to do that inside the 1000 record limit.