TSQL Tuesday #26 or #23 – Identity Crisis

This second chance, gives me the opportunity to finally talk about a topic that has been on my to-blog list for quite some time.  I hope this post will show some different ways of joining in TSQL.

S3OLV update and Reminder

We are now just a few days away from our first meeting of 2012.  We have some good content lined up.  Check it out here. I am looking forward to the presentation on XML and […]

Meme Monday January 2012

Meme Monday was pushed back this month to the second Monday of the month.  That is a good thing or maybe a bad thing or maybe a non-discussion at all.  I guess it really depends […]

Thoughts on SSSOLV December Meeting

This is very late – I know.  The meeting was held on December 8, 2011 and I haven’t yet shared my recap/thoughts about the meeting. We hold the SQL Server Society of Las Vegas user […]

January 2012 Las Vegas SQL UG

This month I am attempting to get a jump on things a bit.  I am hoping to get the info out in a more timely fashion throughout this new year for the User Group meetings […]

December Recap

The past few months I have been pretty busy.  December is no exception to that.  Between normal work, moonlighting as a general contractor on my own basement, and trying to keep up with my family […]

My Top 5 for 2011

I have seen a few recap posts bouncing around the net and started thinking about my own blog.  So out of curiosity, I decided to take a look at my top 5 posts for 2011. […]

Public Role and Security

A good rule of thumb with the public role is to leave it be.  Do not add permissions to this role.  Add permissions on a per database  and per group of users basis.  Create roles within the database and grant permissions to that role – in each database.  And remember the rule of least privilege – don’t grant more permissions to a user/role than necessary to perform the job function.  Just the same as in an airport – everybody has their role and it is strictly defined.  If the user need not have access – then don’t grant the permissions.