One of my clients posted a question to me about management of SQL Server service account. Since it was a nice learning for me, I am sharing my discussion via this blog post. Let us see the Best Practices About SQL Server Service Account and Password Management.
SQL SERVER – How to Find Out When Your SQL Login Will Expire?
If you are a SQLDBA, you must have created a login and you must have known about enforcing password policy to SQL Logins. Once of my client asked to provide script to find expiry details about SQL Login. It was an easy task. I went to books online and used LOGINPROPERTY function and passed name to all the possible parameters. Below would work for SQL 2008 onwards.
SQL SERVER 2016 – Encrypt Your PII Data – Notes from the Field #132
[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Lawell talks about his thoughts and observation about SQL Server 2016 Encryption. Security of the data is very important and we often spend so many hours securing our data. However, lots of people do not understand about Encrpting about their database personal information. Every single day you will find plenty of incidents where PII data is stolen or misused. I discussed about this with Mike and of Linchpin People and he was very kind to share his view on encryption of PII data and SQL Server 2016. Let us read Mike’s story in his own words.
SQL SERVER – FIX – Agent XPs Component is Turned Off as Part of the Security Configuration for this Server
One of my clients has installed a new instance of SQL Server and then wanted to create maintenance plan. They were complaining about getting some error and we’re looking forward for my help to solve the same. As soon as he did right click on a Maintenance Plan under “Management” node and selected “New Maintenance Plan Wizard” using SQL Server Management Studio as shown below. Let us learn how to fix Agent XPs Component is Turned Off as Part of the Security Configuration for this Server error.
SQL SERVER – Why DBAs Need to Know about Kerberos – Notes from the Field #126
Not everyone knows about Kerberos. Many think it is a two headed dog from mythology, well that is true but when we talk about database,
SQL SERVER – Handling XML Documents – Notes from the Field #125
[Note from Pinal]: This is a 125th episode of Notes from the Field series. Handing XML documents is not an easy task. Trust me till today I see lots of experts struggling when they have to deal with XML. In my early career I used to be scared with the XML as well. Well, now I have proper understanding of the XML documents and I am no longer worried about this subject.
In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Stuart Ainsworth explains about how to work with XML documents.
SQL SERVER – Who Changed the Password of SQL Login? – Interview Question of the Week #065
Today’s interview question was not really asked interview, but it is indeed a real world scenario which everyone should know the answer of. I strongly suggest you bookmark this blog post at once in your lifetime you will need this blog post to know who changed the password of your SQL Login?
Question: Who changed the password of SQL Login?
Answer: Continue to read the answer.