Category: Security

• The sys.asymmetric_keys Catalog View

  

  2014-05-26 - Cryptography, DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  The sys.asymmetric_keys catalog view is a one-stop shop to get information about the asymmetric keys in the current database. Read on to discover how to use it.

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• LOGINPROPERTY – Getting to know your SQL Logins even more

  

  2014-04-07 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  LOGINPROPERTY is a SQL Server catalog function that can be used to query a total of twelve properties for SQL Logins not even revealed by the sys.sql_logins catalog view. Read on to find out how to use LOGINPROPERTY and which properties it can return.

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• sys.sql_logins – Getting to know your SQL Logins

  

  2014-04-06 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  The sys.sql_logins catalog view can be used to retrieve additional information on SQL Logins that is not included in the sys.server_principals catalog view. Read on to find out what additional information is revealed by this catalog view.

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• What are my own effective permissions? Get Answers with sys.fn_my_permissions.

  

  2014-02-25 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  Are you looking to identify your effective permissions in SQL Server, the permissions actually in effect after taking things like denies or role membership into account? Read on to see how sys.fn_my_permissions can help.

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• Identify All Possible Permissions using sys.fn_builtin_permission

  

  2014-02-24 - DMVs & CVs, General, Security, Security

  The sys.fn_builtin_permissions catalog function returns a result set that contains one row for each possible permission that you can grant (or deny) in SQL Server. Read on to find out how to use it and how to interpret the results.

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