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Let NonAdmins Get Logins
I saw a question recently about how to allow some users to see the logins on a server without being a sysadmin or securityadmin. This was in support of a migration effort, so users needed read rights without being able … Continue reading
Backups Aren’t Backups Until a Restore Is Made
One of the interesting things I saw in the recent GitLab outage and data loss was the fact that none of their backups were available. They use PostgreSQL and I’m not familiar with the ways in which the modern PostgreSQL … Continue reading
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