SQLAuthority News – Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments – Part 1

Migration is always a challenge. How many times we have stayed away from migrating product to another server or next version because we are worried what will happen once we migrate. There are two main reasons we stay away from migration 1) Everything is working fine at this moment. 2)…
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SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Security – A Primer

Let’s get some basic definitions down first about SQL Server Security. Take the workplace example where “Tom” needs “Read” access to the “Financial Folder”. What are the Securable, Principal, and Permissions from that last sentence?

A Securable is a resource that someone might want to access (like the Financial Folder).
A Principal is anything that might want to gain access to the securable (like Tom).
A Permission is the level of access a principal has to a securable (like Read).

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