Category: Security

• How to GRANT Permissions in T-SQL

  

  2014-01-24 - General, Security

  The T-SQL GRANT statement is a surprisingly complex statement that can be used to control fine grained permissions. In its basic form is has three sections that answer the questions What?, Where? and Who?. Read on to get all the details.

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• How to identify the SQL Server Service Account in T-SQL

  

  2014-01-23 - General, Security

  In SP1 for SQL 2008R2 a new DMV was introduced: sys.dm_server_service. It provides information about SQL related services including the service account name. Read on to get all the details.

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• ORIGINAL_LOGIN() – How to identify the Original Login Name

  

  2014-01-22 - General, Security

  ORIGINAL_LOGIN() is a SQL Server function that returns the original login name that was used to make the connection to the instance. Read on to get all the details.

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• The Mystery of the SUSER_NAME() and SUSER_SNAME() functions

  

  2014-01-11 - Fundamentals, General, Security

  The SQL Server functions SUSER_NAME() and SUSER_SNAME() both return the current login name. So why are there two? Read on to find out what the difference is.

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• Prevent unauthorized REVERTing after EXECUTE AS

  

  2014-01-10 - General, Security

  Worried about unauthorized REVERTing after using EXECUTE AS? Read on to get all the details about EXECUTE AS WITH NO REVERT and EXECUTE AS WITH COOKIE.

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