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.

Why do I Blog?

Last week I heard about a new blog party/meme coming down the pipe for the #SQLFamily.  This new meme is Meme15 and is the pet project of Jason Strate (Blog|Twitter).  Here is the announcement. So, as […]