April 3, 2013 at 7:37 am
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
April 3, 2013 at 7:42 am
April 3, 2013 at 7:45 am
SQLRNNR (4/2/2013)
Koen Verbeeck (4/2/2013)
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jasona.work (4/2/2013)
You know, silly thing, but it'd be nice if you could specify credentials for a Windows Auth connection in SSMS...I've got two logins, one for "normal" use which has no access to SQL, and an "admin" login which does. Sure I can right-click and run as, but that's a nusciance, and 30 seconds out of my day each time...
😀
And it is this sort of crap that causes people to just use their admin login all the time.
Either you have the perms or you don't. Make it simple and just have the one login.
Maybe a more useful scenario is when you want to test security with other logins.
For example an unattended domain account used to run the SSRS reports and you want to check if it can access the ReportDB correctly.
Just thinking out of the box here 🙂
I can see having an account or two around for things like that (we all have to test perms now and again). I also would not advocate that such an account not be disabled unless in use for very specific durations for said testing.
That said, having each admin user have an account that is privileged and one that is not wreaks of over zealousness and stupidity imnho. In my experience, any user with two accounts will use one and shun the other. It doesn't lessen the exposure risk much if any.
Having a normal user account and just elevating privileges when needed used to be pretty common practice, "don't run as root" is a common refrain in the unix world, and when I was a VMSer it was a normal mode of working day to day with reduced privileges and only setting privileges when needed. I can absolutely understand the psychology behind your comment however, I rarely see a windows centric administrator who didn't want full privileges all the time and there are some folks that will view other people's accepted practices as "stupid and overzealous" if they have certain personal attributes I'm all too familiar with.
Just sayin!
April 3, 2013 at 7:51 am
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
Depending on the time of day, either straight or filtered through ground-up and roasted Coffea arabica or Coffea robusta...
You know, just gotta have the daily dose of 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione
😀
April 3, 2013 at 8:02 am
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
straight and not in my lungs.
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April 3, 2013 at 8:18 am
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
I don't drink water, fish frolic in it.
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April 3, 2013 at 8:22 am
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
Straight.
April 3, 2013 at 8:25 am
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?
Fermented with barley and hops.
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April 3, 2013 at 8:29 am
Sean Lange (4/3/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?Fermented with barley and hops.
+1 🙂
April 3, 2013 at 9:03 am
Chad Crawford (4/3/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?Straight.
Mostly straight, not sparkling...
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April 3, 2013 at 11:13 am
SQLRNNR (4/2/2013)
jasona.work (4/2/2013)
You know, silly thing, but it'd be nice if you could specify credentials for a Windows Auth connection in SSMS...I've got two logins, one for "normal" use which has no access to SQL, and an "admin" login which does. Sure I can right-click and run as, but that's a nusciance, and 30 seconds out of my day each time...
😀
And it is this sort of crap that causes people to just use their admin login all the time.
Either you have the perms or you don't. Make it simple and just have the one login.
Just an FYI, this was a firing offense at JDEdwards, and for good reason. We had numerous people click on an email or hit a web page that downloaded a virus, which caused company wide issues.
It was a pain, though I'd argue now that you can use SSMS and leave it running as an admin while the rest of your machine is quarantined off as a non-admin.
Or use a VM that is logged in as your admin, but browse, email, etc. on a normal login.
April 3, 2013 at 11:17 am
I'll take my H2O straight, brewed, fermented, or back.
April 3, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/3/2013)
I'll take my H2O straight, brewed, fermented, or back.
I prefer it as part of a single malt distillate, but brewed is good enough for most occasions. 😉
April 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm
jasona.work (4/3/2013)
Lynn Pettis (4/3/2013)
I'm curious, how do most of you like your dihydrogen monoxide, straight or flavored?Depending on the time of day, either straight or filtered through ground-up and roasted Coffea arabica or Coffea robusta...
You know, just gotta have the daily dose of 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione
😀
My preference is filtered through PNG Blue Mountain.
http://coffee-png.blogspot.com/
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April 4, 2013 at 10:58 am
Hotel booked for SQLBits. Almost forgot all about that so a nice refreshing 20 minute walk in the morning!
Just got to decide which SQLSaturday's I can attend and what days on the UK SQLRelay I can make.
Sadly can't make SQL in The City as I'm rather unfortunately attending the DR / HA SQL Skills training in London that week! 😀 Which I think gives me more than a good excuse. Sadly can't make my home town Relay event for the same reason...
Rodders...
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