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I use a Perl script that reads the previous 24 hours of logs per server and filters out successful logins, so server restarts and failed logins and jobs stand out...
January 3, 2016 at 4:07 pm
SQLBlimp (12/24/2015)
January 3, 2016 at 2:11 pm
Paresh, have you checked the default databases for your user logins? A starting point to look at this would be something like:
select name, dbname from syslogins
Syslogins is deprecated and...
January 3, 2016 at 1:39 pm
dragonfly (12/21/2015)
I mean - how long has the backup role been around. You'd think an organisation like Symantec would be...
December 21, 2015 at 11:31 am
david.irvine 7489 (12/18/2015)
happycat59 (12/1/2015)
Mmm, that was nasty. I oh so want to see someone try to create anything remotely like that on my watch.
Oh, yes, I want that! Where...
December 18, 2015 at 8:41 am
You definitely don't want antivirus scanning any *.?df files, I don't know if there's any other file extensions for SQL Server that should be excluded. You can also find...
December 17, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Ray K (12/14/2015)
I submitted my presentation abstract for SQL...
December 17, 2015 at 2:06 pm
Is your system in use 24 hours a day? Do you have any scheduled jobs starting at 2am, specifically, any new or recently changed jobs? I find the...
December 17, 2015 at 2:05 pm
I knew it was deprecated and removed, still, I wanted to look it up on BOL. I didn't know there was a *= operator in programming languages now! ...
December 17, 2015 at 8:30 am
They've arrested the apparent VTech hacker: a 21 year old Brit. Apparently he is a bit of a hacker who stumbled upon some information, started scratching, and got in...
December 15, 2015 at 4:43 pm
Beatrix Kiddo (12/15/2015)
... * the pay wasn't great and the politics were terrible :-D.
I think if I had Beatrix Kiddo working in my office, I'd make EXTRA SURE that the...
December 15, 2015 at 8:47 am
RonKyle (12/13/2015)
... Presumably most everyone knows about SQL injection. ...
The children's toy maker VTech was hacked in November via SQL Injection. VTech had NO SSL on their site:...
December 14, 2015 at 9:42 am
One of my favorite Foxtrot comics had Jason typing the following in to the computer:
Marry hat hey lid tell lam, ids fleas woes wide has know.
The spell checker finds no...
December 9, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Gary Varga (12/9/2015)
... No worries Jeff. I am not easily offended. (If that was you intention then you need to try harder ;-))
I take it "Your mother was a hamster...
December 9, 2015 at 10:05 am
That's ridiculous. That's a power play to show that the interviewer is smarter than the interviewee and it's thoroughly nonproductive and wasteful of everyone's time. If you were...
December 8, 2015 at 10:23 am
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