Best Thing I Learned at PASS Summit
If you haven't heard, PASS is running a contest where you could win conference registration to this year's PASS Community...
2009-06-19
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Brian Kelley
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Mentors and Perspective
We had my organization's semi-annual combined IT and financial meeting this morning. At the end of these meetings awards and...
2009-06-12
669 reads
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
834 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 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
1,064 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 I boil it down to this very simple definition: Giving the rights to do the job. No more. No less.
2009-06-04
1,912 reads
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
1,324 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
3,155 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
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