Examine the similarities and differences between Windows security and SQL Server security and you'll find that most of the concepts you already know from managing a network will map quite nicely ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part ...

Understand SQL Server Security SQL Server grew out of the UNIX world, and administrators maintained accounts (at that time) in a fashion similar to the "no domain" scenario in Windows. They created ...

With SQL Server 2016, that is no longer a problem. Implementation Row-Level Security in SQL Server 2016 (and SQL Azure) is based on a specially crafted inline table valued function.

SQL Server has come a long way in the past 5 years, though the history seems to linger. Let's look at the recent history and see what the story is with database vulnerabilities.

Examine the similarities and differences between Windows security and SQL Server security and you'll find that most of the concepts you already know from managing a network will map quite nicely into ...

Sentrigo discovered a new security hole in SQL Server, but so far Microsoft isn't paying attention. Let me show you why they should ...

“Security is the most important thing in our business,” said Gordon Mangione, vice president in charge of SQL Server. Microsoft had already started to focus more resources on SQL Server ...

July 9 marked the end of 'extended support' for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2, the last five-year phase of Microsoft's overall 10-year product lifecycle for these products.