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Is it safe to run antivirus software on my database servers?

Some implementations of antivirus software are known to Microsoft to cause a variety of problems for SQL Server, and Microsoft has a support article dedicated just to picking the right antivirus ...
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Attacks on Postgresql listening for requests on 'localhost'

I am using jboss server for my servlets and the postgresql as the database server, listening on port 5432 on localhost. My jboss server is bound to a public IP. I want to know that since my postgesql ...
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Best practises in securing Oracle Standard edition one [closed]

I have a database server with Oracle Standard Edition One. I'm interested what are the best practices to secure Oracle? I have Java web application installed in the same server. The Java application ...
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What are the first necessary actions needed to help secure a database's schema & data? [closed]

This smells like an open-ended, opinionated, wiki free-for-all, but I'm not trying to make this a battle of opinions. It seems like there should be a good checklist out there for all to agree on ...
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Any pointers on reducing my privileges in production but not making my job excessively difficult

Running SQL Server 2005 and 2008 on Windows 2008 R2. We're going to be reducing privileges in production for developers - and I'd like to do the same for myself as a DBA, limiting rights to ...
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Determining sizes for Separated Partitions of programs, data and logs in SQL Server

As per the recommendations of the CIS benchmarks for SQL Server, I want to create separate partitions for the data, the programs and the logs on my SQL Server dedicated server. Question is, what is ...