Catalog View: sys.sql_logins
When it comes to logins to SQL Server, there are basically 3 types:
SQL Server-based loginsWindows user accountsWindows security groupsThe latter...
2009-04-22
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Brian Kelley
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SQL Server Security Basics: Logins vs. Users
When I discuss SQL Server security, one of the basic concepts I concentrate on is the difference between logins and...
2009-04-21
22,729 reads
Security Basics - The C-I-A Triad
In the course of giving my security presentations over the past year, I've learned that quite a few folks have...
2009-04-20
9,093 reads
Getting Started with Technical Presentations
I was talking with a gentleman last night after the Greater Charleston .NET User Group about career development. He's not...
2009-04-17
787 reads
It's a .NET World!
Next week I'll be giving presentations in Charleston and in Florence here in South Carolina.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - Pee Dee...
2009-04-07
630 reads
Midlands PASS Meeting Tonight!
Next Meeting - April 2, 2009
SPEAKER:Paul S. Waters
During Paul’s 16 years of working in IT, he has held a variety of...
2009-04-02
688 reads
SQL Server Authentication Modes and Surface Area Test
One of the videos I did for JumpStart TV is up on the front page:
SQL Server Authentication Modes
It is an...
2009-03-16
1,138 reads
CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin membership
In a previous blog post on Detecting When a Login Has Implicit Access to a Database, I mentioned that having CONTROL SERVER rights means having implicit rights into the databases. Robert Davis posted a comment asking if there was a difference with respect to explicit permissions between being a member of the sysadmin fixed server role and having CONTROL SERVER rights.
2009-03-16
3,550 reads
[Off-Topic] Eleven Year-Old Making a Difference
Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a couple of times to Locks of Love . This past Saturday I participated in a hair collection drive led by 11 year-old Sarah Brotman: Midlands girl gets a haircut...
2009-03-13
1,452 reads
Microsoft March Security Bulletin Release
This month there were 3 security bulletins released and 1 re-released:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2009
First, let's tackle the...
2009-03-10
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers