Tag Archives: security

The Challenges of Being Safe

Posted on October 3, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Mar 19, 2009. It is being re-run today as Steve is away at DevConnections. One thing we recommend is to make sure that production data is always kept safe, which means that you keep control … Continue reading →

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Secure Programming

Posted on October 2, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Mar 19, 2009. It is being re-run today as Steve is away at DevConnections. Writing secure software is hard. The way most people learn software, from simple examples that slowly build our knowledge, doesn’t encourage … Continue reading →

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The Need for Tape

Posted on October 1, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Mar 26, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is away at DevConnections. One of our SQLServerCentral authors sent me this post, which I found to be pretty amazing. Apparently hackers broke into a backup server at … Continue reading →

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Versions of Disaster

Posted on September 12, 2013 by way0utwest

Today’s editorial was originally released on Jan 13, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. I wrote about versioning of old software recently and how I had to restore an old version of SQL Server in response to a … Continue reading →

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