Turn Off Delete

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Turn Off Delete

geoffhopkins123

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June 11, 2014 at 2:39 pm

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Is there anyway I can turn off delete in SQL server? I want to prevent anyone inadvertently deleting rows in tables. I thought worse case I could have triggers on tables to perform roll back, just did not know if there was a better idea?

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

I'm not so sure about this, but you could deny delete on your tables/schema. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176128.aspx

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 2

Luis Cazares (6/11/2014)
I'm not so sure about this, but you could deny delete on your tables/schema. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176128.aspx

That's an option, but bear in mind that anyone with sysadmin can still delete as they cannot be denied anything.

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399333 More actions · Answer 3

I'd go with the DENY approach and then make sure that only appropriate people have access to the system.

However, that's not even the scary thing. The scary thing is when someone with administrative rights drops a table, or a database, or runs a restore on the wrong server overwriting the database. All kinds of things can go wrong and there's little you can do to prevent all of them. Best bet is to have a very good backup process in place, test those backups, and practice restores to a point in time.

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