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  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    jay-h (4/22/2015)


    Eric M Russell (4/22/2015)


    ...However, the actual error message is a shill. If the perp tabs over to Google and searches on "Error: 8514294078", now their IP address (and maybe...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    Wayne West (4/22/2015)


    Eric M Russell (4/22/2015)


    Conceptually, it's like when the police leave an "abandoned" car on the side of the road and wait for theives. ...

    Law enforcement has a honeypot...

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

  • RE: Please help. Having problem executing a dynamic sql statement over linked Server

    There is no need for sp_executesql.

    This should work as is.

    SET @AlterSQL = 'ALTER TABLE ' + @DestinationTableName

    + ' ADD ' + @TempColumn + ' int;'

    EXEC (@AlterSQL)...

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

  • RE: Security Through Chaos

    Without a firewall, anti-virus software, or enforced security policy; this company can't really say with any degree of confidence what they're infected with or what their employees are doing with...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    SQLRNNR (4/21/2015)


    I have thought about this from time to time. I imagine the implementation would not be much different in principle than a honeypot.

    Give them an account and password...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    Wayne West (4/21/2015)


    Eric M Russell (4/21/2015)


    So did we learn anything today, or was this mostly an offbeat topic?

    What do you guys think about the honeypot database server to attract...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    So did we learn anything today, or was this mostly an offbeat topic?

    What do you guys think about the honeypot database server to attract hackers or for duress login...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    John Hanrahan (4/21/2015)


    The newest security is using USB keys to allow a user to login along with the password and physical access. It would have to be a pretty...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    Iwas Bornready (4/21/2015)


    I love it. Make a movie.

    We need an action movie where the hero is a fed up IT guy. It seems like we always get marginalized as supporting...

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

  • RE: What are the smartest companies doing nowadays for business reporting and analytics?

    On the Microsoft platform:

    HDInsight for raw bulk storage, SSIS for connecting most anything to most anything else, SQL Server / SSAS for building the single version of truth database,...

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

  • RE: Datamart requirements and design - where to start?

    mayurkb (4/17/2015)


    Thank you again and understood.

    Does everything that apply to data warehouse also apply to datamart? We are not really IT and not making a datamart for my company. We...

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

  • RE: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?

    The user id + duress password combination should redirect to a "honeypot" server that mimics a production envrionment in such a way that it would take some time for the...

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

  • RE: Embrace Stored Procedures

    My experience has been that, for both data warehouses and transactional databases, disk I/O is the biggest bottleneck. If you're maxing out CPU, then look for recompiles or cursors.

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

  • RE: Embrace Stored Procedures

    Encapsulating the database through stored procedures does require a degree of constant communication and collaboration between the application and database team. For example, I've seen cases where app or BI...

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

  • RE: Embrace Stored Procedures

    Here is a good article written by Adam Machanic back in 2006 that advocates the use of stored procedures using the concepts of decoupling, cohesion, and encapsulation. Funny how, after...

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

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