Tag: GRANT

• How to identify active database permissions using sys.database_permissions

  

  2014-02-22 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  The sys.database_permissions catalog view can be used to identify active database permissions that are defined in the current database. Read on to find out how to interpret the output of this catalog view.

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• Security Pitfalls – Column Level GRANT overrides Table Level DENY

  

  2014-02-20 - General, Security, Security Pitfalls

  While a DENY on one level of a security hierarchy in SQL Server always overrides a GRANT on a different level, there is one important exception. Read on to learn more about this exception and how it affects your security management.

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• Permission Delegation Done Right – Role Based Delegation

  

  2014-02-18 - General, Security

  Role base permission management can make permission management and permission management delegation a lot simpler. Read on to see how roles can be used to make grantable grants obsolete.

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• Permission Delegation Done Right – Preventing Cascading Revokes

  

  2014-02-17 - General, Security

  Grantable grant are an easy way to delegate permission management. However, revoking a grantable grant can cause trouble. Read on to see how using roles in conjunction with grantable grants can alleviate that problem.

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• DENY CASCADE does not CASCADE the DENY

  

  2014-02-16 - General, Security, Security Pitfalls

  What the DENY CASCADE statement does seems obvious. But is it? Read on to see what DENY CASCADE actually does and if that matches your expectation.

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