Security analysts last week warned of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server software. The worm, called SQLSnake, scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts ...

SQL Server 2008 continues to do so. The SQL Server polices that can be enforced include password complexity, password expiration, and account lockouts. This functionality was not available in SQL ...

I'm rebuilding our SQL 2000 box and trying to figure out the best way to configure the permissions settings. The first question is whether to use a local or domain account for the SQL service account.

SQL Server manages this by creating an account in the database as well. You don't have to make the account names the same, but you'll save yourself a huge amount of stress by keeping everything the ...

Security analysts are warning of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server software. The worm scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts that aren’t protected by ...

I am pretty much at a loss here, this should be easy. All I am trying to do is install a simple instance of SQL 2008 R2 Express on a Windows 2K8 x64 Server. No luck. The domain name is COPPER, the ...

Microsoft’s first major release of SQL Server in many years includes such sweeping improvements that it’s sometimes hard to see the old SQL Server underneath. Not a single area of the database remains ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

Understand SQL Server Security SQL Server grew out of the UNIX world, and administrators maintained accounts (at that time) in a fashion similar to the "no domain" scenario in Windows. They created ...