Second Edition of Securing SQL Server now longer available for pre-order. It’s Shipping! (repost)
In case you missed the blog post over on securingsqlserver.com, I wanted to repost it here… I’m afraid that I’ve got some bad news. You can no longer pre-order Securing SQL Server 2nd Edition from Amazon. Instead you have to settle for ordering the book outright and having it shipped to you. That’s right, no […]
Vendor Apps and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
By now hopefully everyone knows about AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 and the high availability options that they provide to databases. One problem with AlwaysOn Availability Groups when combined with third party applications is that the third party application may configure the connection string and not allow you to change it. When you […]
Sensitive Data Must Be Encrypted
The title of this post pretty much says it all. If you store sensitive data in a database you have to work under the assumption that someone is going to try and break into the system and steal that data. Thinking otherwise simply isn’t responsible as the developer and/or administrator of the system. By not […]
Sensitive Data Must Be Encrypted
The title of this post pretty much says it all. If you store sensitive data in a database you have to work under the assumption that someone is going to try and break into the system and steal that data. Thinking otherwise simply isn’t responsible as the developer and/or administrator of the system. By not […]