Tag Archives: security

The Blame Game

Posted on October 12, 2017 by way0utwest

Make no mistake, this is going to be something that happens again. The former CEO of Equifax blames their massive data breach on a bad scanner and a person. I’m not talking about a data breach, of course those are going … Continue reading →

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Enabling Database Containment for an Instance – #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on October 4, 2017 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is also a part of a basic series on git and how to use it. I wanted to … Continue reading →

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The Problems with Gods

Posted on September 26, 2017 by way0utwest

When I was learning how to work with computers early in life, I ran across various documentation and writings that would liken the root account to being a god on the system. Over the years, I’ve seen other articles that … Continue reading →

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A SQL Server Bug and Data Security

Posted on September 25, 2017 by way0utwest

This week I saw a post from Microsoft Tiger Team on the issues with backup compression and TDE databases. Apparently when they added compression, they didn’t test a few edge cases. Or a few regular cases, like WITH INIT. There … Continue reading →

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