Tag Archives: security

The Opportunistic Hacker

Posted on April 14, 2015 by way0utwest

You’re sitting in Starbucks, working. You need to use the restroom and you ask the hip, cool looking person sitting coding next to you, with whom you’ve chatted with for the last hour about C# and SQL, to watch your … Continue reading →

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Source Code Security

Posted on March 31, 2015 by way0utwest

I’m not surprised, and I had expected to read about something like this much sooner. Apparently someone at the ride sharing company, Uber, posted a security key online in a GitHub distribution. I assume this was some sort of code repository … Continue reading →

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ALTER SCHEMA TO ADD PERMISSIONS

Posted on March 18, 2015 by way0utwest

I’m sure some of you have wanted to do this: ALTER SCHEMA Steve AUTHORIZATION Steve You realize this doesn’t work, and you can’t grant the user Steve, rights to his schema after it’s created. You can do this: CREATE SCHEMA … Continue reading →

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Allowing a User to Create Objects in a Schema

Posted on March 12, 2015 by way0utwest

I was testing something the other day and realized this was a security area I didn’t completely understand. I decided to write a few posts to help me understand the issues. I want to give a developer rights to create … Continue reading →

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