Understanding Kerberos, Part II
The majority of the time, the problems I see with Kerberos are due to a bad SPN (Service Principal Name)...
2011-10-18
3,984 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Understanding Kerberos, Part I
A get a lot of questions where I work about Kerberos and how it works for SQL Server, whether we're...
2011-10-17
4,251 reads
Speaking at the 2011 Carolina Technology Conference
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, I will be speaking at the Carolina Technology Conference in Columbia, SC. I'm scheduled for...
2011-10-14
1,402 reads
Cloud? Chotto Matte Kudasai.
If you're not familiar with Chotto matte kudasai, it means "A moment, please," in Japanese. The cloud is big news....
2011-10-14
1,200 reads
A Disturbing Trend: Government Sponsored Malware
It is understandable that nations may undertake operations against other nations. This is believed to be the origin of StuxNet...
2011-10-13
932 reads
Piiiiiiiigs, er DBAs, in Space!
If you don't get the reference, it was a set of skits on the old Muppet Show and it starred...
2011-10-13
987 reads
Learn to Help Yourself
I used to work with a guy who was adamant that before you asked him for help, you had done the...
2011-10-11
1,294 reads
PASS Summit Attendees: Remember to Network and Maintain
Previously, when I had attended conferences, I had used them to attend as many seminars or talks as I could...
2011-10-10
1,408 reads
Advanced Persistent Threats and Us
In a blog post from last year, Richard Bejtlich (blog | twitter) talked about a concept called an Advanced Persistent Threat...
2011-10-07
1,313 reads
Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2
When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
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Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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