If you are following my recent blog posts, you may have noticed that I’ve written a lot about Guest User in SQL Server. Here are all the blog posts which I have written on Policy Based Management subject. One of the requests I received was whether we could create a policy that would prevent users unable guest user in user databases. Well, here is a quick tutorial to answer this. Let us see how quickly we can do it.
SQL SERVER – A Cool Trick – Restoring the Default SQL Server Management Studio – SSMS
“I do not know where my windows went!” “I just closed my object explorer and now I cannot find it.” “How do I get my original windows layout back in SQL Server Management Studio?” “How do I get the window which was there in left side back again?” Since last…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Detecting guest User Permissions – guest User Access Status
Earlier I wrote the blog post SQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue, and I got many comments asking questions related to the guest user. Here are the comments of Manoj: 1) How do we know if the uest user is enabled or disabled? 2) What is the default for…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – Declaration and Initialization – SQL in Sixty Seconds #003 – Video
We got tremendous response to our very first video of SQL in Sixty Seconds #001 and SQL in Sixty Seconds #002. We talked about how to convert Subquery to CTE and Error and Reaction. My co-authors Vinod Kumar and Rick Morelan, we often came across very interesting and useful tips which we…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue
“No Guests PLEASE!” “Doesn’t your Indian tradition suggest welcoming guests and treating them in the best way possible?” “Yes, but I am talking about the Guest user in SQL Server.” “Oh!” This was a real conversation that happened a couple of years ago. I welcome guests as much as any other Indian…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Migration Assistant for Oracle, MySQL, Sybase and Access v5.2
Migration is always the challenge, it does not matter if people are migrating from one country to another country or birds are migrating from one continent to another continent or database is migrating from one platform to another platform. I remember years ago when I had to migrate our database from…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Case Sensitive Database and Database User – Fix: Error: 15151 – Cannot find the user , because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
Jeff asked me another question! If you do not know Jeff, you may read the following blog posts. You will get the idea of Jeff’s personality and who Jeff really is. SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 SQL SERVER – INNER JOIN Returning…
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