Worst Practices - Encrypting Data
Continuing with the Worst Practices Series: Steve Jones examines why encryption in the database is a bad idea.
2002-01-08
8,436 reads
Security
Enforcing Security in Multi-Tier Applications
The major part of the article, however, is dedicated to a topic that often confuses people and leads to some of the strongest disagreements among IT professionals and developers: the benefits and drawbacks of enforcing security in the middle (or business) tier versus the data tier.
2001-12-25
1,855 reads
Security Alert : SQL Server Security Bug and Patch
Happy Holidays database administrators! As a parting present before you go home for your year-end break, Microsoft has announced a security problem in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000.
2001-12-24
6,570 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Security
This document introduces the new security features of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. New features are outlined, and a detailed discussion is provided about how to best implement security in a Microsoft Windows 2000 domain environment. Source code examples are included for developers who want to implement the security model immediately.
2001-12-06
1,547 reads
Worst Practices - Depending on the GUI
One of the strengths of SQL Server is its ease of management and administration over other systems. Oracle, DB2, even early versions of SQL Server required command line mastery to make many types of changes. But should you really be using the GUI for most of your tasks?
2001-12-04
6,238 reads
Security Alert : SQL Server Worm Virus Attacking Systems
This past week, a worm virus began to attack SQL Servers on the internet that hold a blank password. Read some of the details about what this virus can do here.
2001-12-03
13,227 reads
Worst Practices - Assigning Users Rights
Continuing with Andy Warren's series on Worst Practices for a DBA, Steve Jones joins in this week with his worst practice.
2001-11-06
7,248 reads
Microsoft Announces a New Security Program
Microsoft has announced a new security program to help system administrators secure their sites. Worth a read.
2001-10-19
4,120 reads
SQL Server Security Best Practices
Learn how to secure your data by implementing SQL Server security best practices.
2001-09-20
3,675 reads
Using Java to Encrypt Passwords
Lots of applications store user names and passwords in the database. This article presents a method for encypting this information using Java.
2001-07-19
14,942 reads
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The String Distance I
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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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