Tag Archives: security

  1. sp_DBPermissions

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    August 14, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Last week I posted a series of database permissions scripts. I’ve been using them quite a bit over the last …
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  2. Database Permissions Queries

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    August 5, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    Over the last year of blogging my thoughts and queries I’ve discovered something interesting. I posted Where is my Backup? …
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  3. Amusing SQL Trick – Hide yourself from SQL Server

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    July 17, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I make a point of reading DBAReactions on a fairly regular basis and today while reading it I was lead …
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  4. Backup a password, change it, then restore it.

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    May 30, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    A couple of months ago I talked about moving a login from one server to another without the password. The …
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  5. How do I move a SQL login from one server to another without the password?

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    March 25, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    This is an uncommon task but one that does turn up every once in awhile. A SQL login has to …
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  6. Script to clean up “Windows” logins no longer in AD

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    March 1, 2013 by Kenneth Fisher

    I was scanning http://dba.stackexchange.com and ran across the following question: http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31478/sql-server-script-to-delete-accounts-no-longer-in-active-directory Basically the OP wanted to know how to get …
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  7. Logins vs Users

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    December 3, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems. …
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  8. EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’

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    September 9, 2012 by Kenneth Fisher

    As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table, …
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