More Supply Chain Attacks
Code is vulnerable to supply chain attacks, which aren't something many of us think about.
2025-03-21
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Security
Lower Your Attack Surface Area
We all know security is important, but we sometimes make the job harder when we don't handle data appropriately.
2025-03-19
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List the Databases To Which You Have Access
Explanation: sys.databases contains information about all databases on the SQL Server instance. • HAS_DBACCESS(name) = 1 filters out the databases you dont have access to. •ORDER BY name sorts the result alphabetically.
2025-03-04
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Is Ransomware Fading?
There is a report that less ransomware ransom is being paid. Perhaps that's a good sign for all of us.
2025-02-19
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The Era of Cloned Humans
AI has tremendous possibilities but also a number of security issues. Steve highlights one scary security issue today.
2025-01-27
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2025-01-04
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Data Control Language (aka Security)
Like ancient Gaul, SQL is divided into three sub- languages. The DDL (Data Declaration Language) declares the data. This is where we find the data types, constraints, references and other structures that have to do with how the data stored . The DML (Data Manipulation Language) uses those declarations to change their contents or to invoke them. It does not change structures and schema objects.
2024-12-04
What’s In Your Development Database? The Answer: Production Data
Are your developers working with live production data, completely made-up synthetic data, or something in between? I posted a poll here on the blog and on a few of my social media feeds, and here were the results:
2024-11-06
A Guide to SQL Security in Django
If you encounter Django in your environment, are you thinking about SQL Injection and security? If not, read this article and learn how to protect your data.
2024-11-01
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The Cloud Security Problem
Cloud security can be better than on-premises, but it requires work and knowledge.
2024-10-30
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Blogs
The trade-offs associated with low-code solutions
Low-code solutions often accelerate development and make tasks accessible to people who can’t or...
Monday Monitor Tips: Looking Back in Time
By Steve Jones
Often we find out about a problem reported by a customer after the incident...
Can You Tell Why a Plan Didn’t Go Parallel?
Let’s face it, most of the time, you probably don’t want your SQL Server...
Forums
Where to see how a Partition schema and function is defined
Please see the below. The dependencies of a table(the table depends on) shows Partition...
Is there a way to determine an Azure Data Factory Trigger's "next run time"?
Many job schedulers (e.g., SQL Agent, Airflow, Azure Logic Apps) can report when a...
The Table Backup
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Question of the Day
The Table Backup
I run this code in SQL Server 2022. What happens?
BACKUP TABLE beercount TO DISK = 'beercount.bak'See possible answers