The Best Security for Database Administrators
Today Steve talks about limiting security issues for administrators.
2020-09-08
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Security
Can You Catch SQL Injection?
Steve found an attack against Google's SQL database that their SREs detected.
2020-09-03
194 reads
Better Government Security Through DevOps
DevOps can help provide better security for your databases.
2020-08-26
68 reads
Recover database encrypted modules code with dbatools
If you own a database with encrypted modules but you don't have a decrypted version, this can be a horror story.
Learn how to get back the code of the encrypted modules using dbatools.
2020-08-18
2,089 reads
Attacks on Unsecured Databases
Unsecured databases are a problem, but someone is fighting this issue by wiping them out.
2020-08-11
164 reads
A Data Attack
A ransomware attack takes down Garmin, not just the company, but also Steve's data. He has a few thoughts about what this might mean for our data.
2020-08-10
155 reads
2020-08-06
69 reads
Hacking the Admin
A Twitter hack brings into the question of who can make changes in production for Steve.
2020-07-22
253 reads
Generate Role Member Reports using dbatools and the ImportExcel PowerShell modules
Being able to get information and save it on a Excel as a report can be a common and tedious task. What if we could join dbatools and ImportExcel PorwerShell modules to accomplish this in a easier and fast way? We will see how to export roles and its' member and save that info on a multi spreadsheet Excel file with handy tables ready to be explored.
2020-06-30
4,145 reads
Jumping Air Gaps
There are all sorts of viruses, worms, and malware out in the world, and some of us have had to deal with them at different points in our career. SQL Slammer was particularly memorable for me, but there were plenty of non data related virus issues I've had to work on at various employers. To […]
2020-05-27
73 reads
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Intermittent "nesting level exceeded" error
We're having a very peculiar problem with the "Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or...
Nested loop/HashJoin and left/right/full join
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