Category: General

• ALTER AUTHORIZATION – Setting the Owner of a Securable

  

  2014-02-28 - General, Security

  ALTER AUTHORIZATION can be used to set the owner of a securable. Securable ownership is independent of the three security hierarchies. Read on to get all the details on how securable ownership might impact your security management.

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• How to find all Implied Permissions using sys.fn_builtin_permissions

  

  2014-02-27 - General, Queries, Security

  Are you looking to get the complete list of implied permissions for a given permission? Read on to discover a query returning just that list, based on a recursive CTE against the sys.fn_builtin_permissions catalog function.

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• Data Pages and the Row Offset Array

  

  2014-02-26 - General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  SQL Server stores actual table data in pages of type 1, data pages. Read on to see how to navigate a data page and how to find each row using the row offset array.

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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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