Vidhya Sagar – Blog

I was discussing with one of my colleague and during the discussion he told me that he is not able to view the list of members available in a AD group since he don’t have permission on AD forest. Normally to retrieve this he will sent the request to the AD team and they will be verifying or sending him the list. I informed him that we have an alternate (happy news to him) to use xp_logininfo SQL extended stored procedure to retrieve the list, he has used it and got the desired result. I then thought of putting it in blog since in most of the big companies DBA’s will be limited to the permission so s\he need to check with the respective team to retrieve the settings. This actually needed when an AD group is added to SQL with necessary permission and when a particular user belongs to that group is not able to access SQL, you need to cross verify the AD group members list, so at that time you can utilize this procedure. Read more…

Vidhya Sagar Security ad group list, Security, xp_logininfo

In my working environment we will be using different schema for production and development environments. Our development apps are configured to Dev schema and Production apps are configured to Prod schema, so when we restore the db from production to development environment, all our dev apps stopped working since the objects \ securable will be using prod schema. Here I need to change the schema to dev from prod, so the syntax will be like below

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Vidhya Sagar Scripts, Security Scripts, Security

I have seen some questions in forums asking for the answer “is it possible to block connections to SQL Server based on IP address”. As far as now there is no official way in SQL Server to block the connections in SQL Server based on IP address. However this can be done from the OS end, we have the following three options available, refer HERE for more.

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Vidhya Sagar Security Administration, ip blocking

In my working environment I’ve asked to write a script to find security information which should return Server Logins, Database Logins and object level permissions. I’ve written that and I’m sharing this to you since this could be helpful to you.

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Vidhya Sagar Scripts, Security permission script

In my working environment I’ve asked to write a script to find security information which should return Server Logins, Database Logins and object level permissions. I’ve written that and I’m sharing this to you since this could be helpful to you.

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Vidhya Sagar Scripts, Security permission script