Tag Archives: server permissions
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EXECUTE AS USER vs EXECUTE AS LOGIN
1July 26, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I use impersonation a lot. It’s a really easy way to check if someone has the permissions they are supposed …
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Simple Security Report
2May 1, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Quite a while ago I created a couple of little security scripts to help me out with permissions research. Over …
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V6.0 Finally!
7March 27, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s been almost 3 years since I updated these SPs! I can’t believe so much time has gone by! Well, …
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The CONNECT permission
11January 27, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
The CONNECT permission exists at the instance and database levels. Note: as of SQL 2012 it is CONNECT SQL at …
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Administrative Logins and Users
3November 2, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
If you’ve ever worked through an audit you have probably gotten a request that looks a lot like this: Please …
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Zombie AD Groups
4September 21, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I spent something like 2 hours today trying to figure out how a particular user had access to one of …
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Permissions Posters
3July 27, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been doing a lot of research recently for my permissions session and for a project at work. During said …
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Using sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions v6.0
1February 25, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s been a while since I posted an updated to usp_DBPermissions and usp_SrvPermissions. Sorry. I got lazy with my posting. …
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Discussing Security with Boris Hristov on SQLHangout #29
Leave a commentJanuary 12, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
Over the years I’ve done a number of posts on various aspects of security. In fact the first thing I …
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TSQL Tuesday #60: Something New Learned – What permissions does <username> have?
7November 11, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
What have I learned recently? Well as it happens I learned something rather interesting recently and was actually trying to …
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