Minimally Viable Security
Today Steve talks about the need for a basic level of security in our software.
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Secure Programming
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SQL Injection Is Not Acceptable
An alert from the US government says that SQL Injection isn't an acceptable problem.
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Securing Code Early
Last year I started to get alerts from Microsoft Repos that someone had put a piece of security information in their code that pertained to one of my Azure services. At first I was worried, but then I realized this was the public version of AdventureWorks we maintain in Azure. We've published the login so […]
2019-04-17
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Best Practices for Credit-Card Software
Visa has developed Payment Applications Best Practices and will begin implementing mandates concerning them
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Lean Six Sigma – Brief
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T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals
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Project Management – Part 1
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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