Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
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Brian Kelley
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Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area is all about. The surface area is the parts of the system which are exposed. For instance, in the case of a default instance of...
2009-06-10
1,874 reads
Switching to Bing
When the announcement for Bing came out, I didn't immediately go over and check it out. As a matter of...
2009-06-08
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Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do I boil it down to this very simple definition: Giving the rights to do the job. No more. No less.
2009-06-04
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Balancing Priorities
This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...
2009-06-02
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start this out, I'm not a big fan of security by obfuscation. Security by obfuscation (not code obfuscation, but security by obscurity, if...
2009-06-02
2,556 reads
Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...
2009-06-01
1,317 reads
Security Basics: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Properly
Whenever I do a security presentation, I make sure to cover the Principle of Least Privilege. And when I do...
2009-05-29
3,143 reads
Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
2,142 reads
Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Blogs
Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance...
SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless)...
Webcast Tomorrow on SQL Server Disaster Recovery
By Brian Kelley
Tomorrow, November 19, 2024, at 1 PM EST, I'm giving a webcast on SQL...
Forums
Possible SQL 2014 to 2016 Issue - Some Application Functions Slow/Failing
First time here...hoping I can find some direction and answers so I can devise...
Azure elastic job issue authenticating to Azure SQL database
Azure elastic agent jobs: I’m getting this error “The server principal “ac1971e9-381b-449b-9e1a-9cc276fc2985@b5313c9d-fb0d-47af-bc87-7c050bffbdc3” is not...
Converting job_id to join to another table.
I need help, please! I have a monitoring table that pulls in information about...
Question of the Day
What's the Ceiling?
What do I get as the results from this code?
SELECT CEILING (999.999), CEILING (-999.999);See possible answers