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What happens when permission is revoked in middle of work?

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:09:25 +0000

This is one of the question asked by my friend and it seems very simple. I had a discussion with him and said that whatever the transaction it has started it will succeeded, however what I told him is not …

Use xp_logininfo to retrieve AD group members list

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:11:43 +0000

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 …

Change \ Transfer Schema for all Objects

Vidhya Sagar — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:00:55 +0000

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 …

IP Address Blocking or Restriction in SQL Server

Vidhya Sagar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:03:40 +0000

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 …

Script to Retrieve Security Information – SQL Server 2005 and above

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:57:20 +0000

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 …

Script to Retrieve Security Information – SQL Server 2000

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:50:48 +0000

How to Copy \ Move a Database that is encrypted with TDE

Vidhya Sagar — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:11:46 +0000

In my previous articles on TDE I’ve gone through what’s TDE and how to configure it. Now here in this article I’m going to test whether I’m able to restore \ attach the database without encryption key since the main …

Implementing \ Configuring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Vidhya Sagar — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:26:16 +0000

In my previous article we have discussed what is TDE, how it works, its pros and cons. In this article I’m going to cover how to implement transparent data encryption to your server. It’s very simple to implement TDE, below …

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:18:04 +0000

Introduction Securing each part and data’s in a database is now an important task for DBA’s to accomplish else the data’s might be hacked. Keeping in mind Microsoft has started encryption features from SQL 2005 and it’s greatly improved it’s …