2023-12-08
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SQL Server security
Why Haven’t You Disabled SA? Wrong Answers Only.
On social media, I asked folks, “Why haven’t you disabled the SA account in your SQL Servers? Wrong answers only.” The results were pretty funny:
2023-12-01
2023-11-17
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2023-10-14
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Removing Weak Security from SQL Server
The password options for BACKUP at deprecated, which Steve thinks is a good thing.
2023-08-25
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2023-08-02
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How to Change the SQL Server Database Owner
Discover the importance of database ownership in SQL Server and learn the process of changing database owner using SQL Server Management Studio or ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement
2023-07-31
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2023-07-26
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2023-07-12
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2023-06-28
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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