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Secure Linked Server - Non privledged user possible? Registry corruption?
Is it possible to use a non privledged Windows domain account to impersonate itself in a linked server?
And why would it be unable to read the registry for available network protocols?
Overview: ...
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Searching transaction logs for changes
I currently have a database with an attached CMS. The CMS has about 50+ people with various permission levels that can log in etc... I would like to know if there is a way I can look at the ...
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Administration of MySQL Users
What is the best practice for keeping and maintaining MySQL users? Say for example I have 5 programmers and a PHP application connecting to a database. Should I create 6 different users 1 for each ...
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Oracle DB administrator-specific security features
Yesterday I was presenting an internet banking solution to a potential client management. My offer is based on using MS SQL Server 2008 RDBMS.
One of the client's officers mentioned, that Oracle's ...
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User Rights - Database Security
I am having following scenarios and i am having some issues and some questions.
We have a DB Server on which we have some databases in these 2(two databases) are for my users.
Now i have created 2 ...
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Is it good practice to assign a system account for database owner?
I can see the owners of my databases usign this query
SELECT name ,
SUSER_SNAME(owner_sid)
FROM sys.databases
What are the things I should consider when choosing an account for database ...
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How do you protect against malicious PREPROCESSOR attacks in Oracle External Tables?
I'm a new DBA and I recently found out about the option of External Tables in Oracle using the PREPROCESSOR feature ( ...
