Feed SQL Server logs into SIEM
Keeping track of all the security related logs can be hard. Using your security team to shoulder some of the load can help. Learn how in this article.
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Security Audit
Rogue Colleagues
Can you trust your colleagues? We all want to, but there are always temptations, especially when life gets hard. Steve wonders today how we look at the issues of security inside of our organizations.
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SQL Server Security Audit Basics
SQL Server Server Audit has grown in functionality over the years but it can be tricky to maintain and use because it lacks centralization and analysis tools. It can do a fast and lightweight audit of many different activities including DML and DDL at both Instance and Database Levels - even the work of the DBAs. How do you check logins and permissions? How do you script an enterprise-wide audit solution? How can you hope to analyse the log data you get? Feodor Georgiev gets you started.
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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