yes, the sa login can do anything inside the SQL Server, which has XPs, cmdshell, etc, with potential access outside the system. In essence, the concern is that Sa can...

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean that now the server is in the US, set to a US timezone and all data is stored as...

Does this appear as soon as you start setup? There isn't a place/time to choose the instance to apply this against?

These days, PoSh would be the way to go. Find all mdfs and then compare them with what's attache. In fact, I was just thinking about updating a script I...

The wording of the question was a bit misleading. I should not have conflated a value with a type, as NULL doesn't have a type, but conforms to the type...

If your intention...

We do need to bake security in from the beginning. This should be a part of all teaching for coding, as well as early on for setting up systems. I...

It does. What you'll find...