What are Schemas for? All of you are familiar with the default and built-in schema "dbo". When you create an object without a schema, "dbo" becomes the schema for the object. Generally, it is NOT considered a good practice from a manageability or security perspective to have everything owned by "dbo". The alternative is to … Continue reading SQL Server: Time To Switch Schema Of All Objects Away From “dbo”
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PowerShell: Lookup Active Directory Accounts Flexibly/Exhaustively For A List Of First/Middle/Last Names
Before we begin, if you are running Windows 7 or above and if you do not have the PowerShell Active Directory module installed, please do so first by downloading and installing “Remote Server Administration Tools”. I personally cannot live without this module. Please be sure to check out my related blog post which uses the function described … Continue reading PowerShell: Lookup Active Directory Accounts Flexibly/Exhaustively For A List Of First/Middle/Last Names
SQL Server: Curse Of Linked Server Security And The Fix: Pass-through Authentication
A great and related reference to what we will discuss in this blog post is this one: https://thesqldude.com/2011/12/30/how-to-sql-server-bulk-insert-with-constrained-delegation-access-is-denied/ Linked Servers in a sentence or two: Linked servers in SQL Server are connection definitions from one data source to another (or same instance) so that queries can be written joining tables spanning the multiple data sources. Although … Continue reading SQL Server: Curse Of Linked Server Security And The Fix: Pass-through Authentication
Compare AD group membership of two users
Our Windows security setup is completely (well, mostly 🙂 ) AD groups based. When new employees are hired, we ask for an existing employee after whom the new employees permissions should be mirrored. In other words, if we added the new employee to the same AD groups (that are related to SQL Server of course), … Continue reading Compare AD group membership of two users
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