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  • RE: Prevent DB creation

    Talking about users creating databases, I assume we're really just talking about the development envrironment here, and when it comes time to deploy to production, you can adust the file...

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  • RE: Prevent DB creation

    I've never used it, but there is this Enterprise feature called 'Policy Based Management' whereby you can setup rules that govern things like server and database settings or even object...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Avoiding Stored Procedures

    Sean Lange (8/31/2016)


    Eric M Russell (8/30/2016)


    Personally, I dislike coding CRUD procedures, because it turns into busy work and becomes a distraction with all the numerous tasks that have to...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Datetime as INT

    There are no dumb questions, only dumb decisions. Whoever designed the MSDB job activity tables didn't make the temporal columns as user friendly as they could be.

    Here are a couple...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Restrict access on single database from admin user

    webrunner (8/31/2016)


    Eric M Russell (8/29/2016)


    You'll need to create this database on another instance for which you are the only SYSADMIN. Also, you'll need to enable transparent database encryption (TDE) on...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Fuzzy Matching

    Unless you're using a 3rd party product like Melissa, then attempting to auto-magically identify and recode mistyped company names is probably beyond the level of effort you would be willing...

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  • RE: Fuzzy Matching

    The SOUNDEX hashing function is primitive and will result in many false matches when comparing strings of multiple words, even if they are very dissimilar. Basically, it retains the first...

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  • RE: MSSQL As Search Engine

    I would say that's generally true. SQL Server, or relational database engines in general, are ideal for applications where the entities are normalized tables and data access patterns are predefined....

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  • RE: Restrict access on single database from admin user

    SQL_Student (8/30/2016)


    Thanks that seems interesting, have never used that before... Will that encryption allow the database to be accessed remotely (eg allowing other instances to write into that db with...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Avoiding Stored Procedures

    We're perhaps just kicking a dead horse. I still freshly remember this topic when it was originally published four years ago, and it has come up again numerous times long...

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  • RE: Clustered Index Scan or Index Seek + Key Lookup

    Define "better".

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  • RE: Restrict access on single database from admin user

    Azure SQL and SQL Server 2016 also have a new feature called Always Encrypted, which in a nutshell is a combination of TDE and transparent column level encryption where the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Restrict access on single database from admin user

    You'll need to create this database on another instance for which you are the only SYSADMIN. Also, you'll need to enable transparent database encryption (TDE) on this database to prevent...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: How to prevent a table from being truncated or dropped

    MMartin1 (8/26/2016)


    I guess things like this happen when there is no effort to learn what the other roles are, like ddl admin.

    But you probably know that db_ddbadmin will grant them...

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  • RE: How to prevent a table from being truncated or dropped

    Granting developers and other users membership in the SYSADMIN role is like planting a Tree Of Good And Evil in the middle of the Garden If Eden and then commanding...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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