One of the biggest threats in IT industry & Database world is unprecedented attacks aka most commonly termed as 'SQL injection'. There is no doubt that biggest database vendors, one of them as Microsoft so far providing recommendations regarding security-related configuration settings since...
Here is a quick snippet on enabling a SQL login to password expiration and password policies as per the Windows server: Open the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. In the left pane, go to the desired server and navigate to the Security folder and expand it. Expand the Logins folder. Right-click on the...
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Since the inception of SQL Server 2005 data encryption and cryptography functionality has elevated to a new level, this wasn't the case until SQL 2000 version. The overall security improvements within SQL 2005 is mainly with 'certficate' authentication, the 3 levels are: Authentication –...
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