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  • RE: SSIS Package to export data to a spreadsheet

    Taking a minimalist approach, SQL Server's Import and Export Wizard, which is accessible by right clicking on a database in SSMS, provides the option to save the process to a...

  • RE: Skunk Works

    Even if you build what you believe to be the perfect BI application that presents every posible key preformance indicator, you can't actually expose it to end users without upper...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/18/2011)


    I don't see these as holes in SSIS, but more potential holes in process using SSIS.

    Right, a SSIS package is just an XML document, so...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    Craig Farrell (1/18/2011)

    Your department head and data integrity are miles above the average company I've worked in. That includes financial firms and healthcare providers. No I won't mention...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    Craig Farrell (1/18/2011)


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    Without anyone usually having the holistic view of everything occuring with any piece of data, we're spiraling out of intelligent data access control. We need to find...

  • RE: Data Scientists

    Any project where there is a need to analyze the data scientifically will typically have real scientists on staff on contract. I've worked on projects side by side with statisticians...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    SanDroid (1/17/2011)


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    Eric, I agree with you but this does not agree with any BI project that accessed sensitive data that I have seen.

    short story: All Company Security starts...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    marco-870908 (1/17/2011)


    @eric, so what if the exported data doesn't contain the names of customers, but DOES contain actual sales-figures of the company, sure a hacker can make use of that...

  • RE: ETL Security Holes

    Regarding the scurity of the ETL (or reporting) tools themselves, the biggest concern is not embedding login credentials into the package. The package should login using Windows Authentication and a...

  • RE: The Importance of My Cloud Data

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/17/2011)


    The pros are cracking our systems and selling information!

    We ought to have this discussion, and the best thing that can happen is better disclosure and...

  • RE: Restore point in time

    TravisDBA (1/17/2011)


    ... I actually interviewed at a position once where the manager stated right out front that ALL of his developer staff had sysadmin rights to ALL of the production...

  • RE: Restore point in time

    TravisDBA (1/15/2011)


    When restoring a database or doing any kind of structural maintenance for that matter, the only seesion that should have access to the database is the restore or...

  • RE: Restore point in time

    When performing emergency or long running maintenance operations on a database, one method to kick out all active user sessions (and insure they stay out until the database is ready...

  • RE: Scaling Up

    A decade ago, the first large SQL Server project that I had ownership of was 300 GB with SQL Server 7.0 running on a 2 CPU server with 4 GB...

  • RE: Help an Oracle newbie out

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/13/2011)


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    Do not missunderstand me, I use some GUI tools like DBArtisan - which comes handy to have SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle on a fairly standard similar format -...

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