Invite for T-SQL Tuesday #58 – Passwords

It is T-SQL Tuesday again and this month is the 58th month in the T-SQL Tuesday history. T-SQL Tuesday was introduced by Adam Machanic (B|T) almost five years ago in December 2009.

The Invite: Write About Passwords

This time the T-SQL Tuesday topic is: Passwords. Anything that you can think of, that has to do with or is related to passwords is a welcome topic. To give you a few ideas about what you could write, I compiled a short list of possible topics:

• How do you pick a good password?
• How do you remember all your passwords?
• Tell a password story or draw a cartoon.
• Did a password once change your life?

Those topics are not really SQL Server related, so you might argue that they do not fit a T-SQL Tuesday. I think that they still would make valuable posts, but in case, you want to play it "closer to home", here are a few more ideas:

• How do you manage all the SA and application passwords in your organization?
• How do you or should you store passwords in your database?
• How do you enforce password hygiene for SQL Logins in your environment?
• Did you once write an application (or procedure) that made use of the password hashes in sys.sql_logins

And, if you still think that "passwords" is not a fitting topic for T-SQL Tuesday, write about why you think so.

Hope to see you (or at least your post) next week at the party.

The Rules

There are a few rules and regulations that you should follow while attending this party so that nobody feels left out or mistreated.

1. Your post must go live between 00:00:00 GMT on Tuesday the 9th of September and 00:00:00 GMT on Wednesday the 10th.
2. Your post has to link back to the hosting blog post (this one), and the link must be anchored from the T-SQL Tuesday LOGO (found above) which must also appear at the top of the post.
3. Trackbacks should work. However, it is safer to tweet about your post and include my Twitter handle (@sqlity) and the #tsql2sday hashtag.