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Find application password expiration date

I changed password of my application on one sql server? when I am using Login property command I am getting last login date. I want to know when my application password is going to expired in SQL ...
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One call to `decryptbypassphrase` for decrypting all columns

If I use ENCRYPTBYPASSPHRASE to encrypt the full table then how can I decrypt full table easily by using DECRYPTBYPASSPHRASE? Actually I have to use DECRYPTBYPASSPHRASE ('passphrase', column_name) ...
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Why should an application not use the sa account

My first question ever, please be gentle. I understand that the sa account enables complete control over a SQL Server and all the databases, users, permissions etc. I have an absolute belief that ...
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Changing passphrase for EncryptByPassPhrase

I am using EncryptByPassPhrase to encrypting some columns. If I want to change the passphrase in the future, how can I change it?
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What is the equivalent of a “Certificate of Destruction” when using a cloud-hosted database?

We have a Rails application hosted by Heroku and using an Heroku Postgres database. Some of the information we store is considered to be sensitive by our users, and we've been asked if we can provide ...
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Creative workaround for granting edit rights to individual jobs for a group?

We have two developers that say they can not function without full rights to a few jobs on our database server. They both want rights to the same jobs. Given that it seems that MS doesn't seem to be ...
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Different Results From sys.databases As Different Users

We have a SQL Agent job that is configured to run as user "dbo". This job gets a list of databases defined in sys.databases that match a naming scheme. The job then performs some dynamic SQL to ...
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What are SQL Server Securables?

I migrated two applications to the new server. One of the them works without any issues but the other ran into back end sql permission problems like The EXECUTE permission was denied on the ...
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Does Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-049 affect SQL Server 2008 SP3?

The security bulletin does not list SQL Server 2008 SP3 under affected software but it came out prior to that service pack. We are running SP3 but this issue is still showing up on a vulnerability ...
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correct security and user setup for SQL Server database

I am currently on setting a sql server database on a database server. A front end web application running off a web server communicates to the database. What is the best approach for setting up users ...
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System test Database user management

We are in development stage and to be able to give the developers an integration test environment, we need to give them access to the database, they can share and test their code in the system ...
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The server principal “<mydbuser>” is not able to access the database “<mydatabase>” under the current security context

When I try to install a new database, I'm getting this error from SQL Server 2008. The server principal "<mydbuser>" is not able to access the database "<mydatabase>" under the current ...
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SQL Server, remove all users' access right to a table object

As a clean up job, I am trying to remove all users' (including non public users) access right to a single table object (apart from superusers) and will subsequently grant new access rights. Is there a ...
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Database security through stored procedures [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Do stored procedures prevent SQL injection? I'm curious about some database security techniques I've been learning in class recently. Namely, I have implemented a SQL ...
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What are the security implications of sp_executesql?

By default, in SQL Server, the [public] role has EXECUTE rights on sp_executesql. However, I've inherited a database server where the previous DBA has revoked the EXECUTE right on sp_executesql. As ...
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User Rights - Can alter Sp's but not tables

How can i make user permissions so that user can CREATE\ALTER\DELETE Store Procedures, but cannot CREATE\ALTER\DELETE tables in database.
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How to implement an effective ACL/auth in a relational db?

We are looking at implementing an ACL that fulfills the following requirements: Most users have access to an item (access to the item by default), but a few is denied access. Most users do not have ...
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DB Master Key Encrypted By *Correct* Service Master Key?

My client has frequently run process where we move databases from a prod environment to lower environments (refresh QA with prod database, etc). These DBs have database master keys on them. We have ...
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Set permissions on all objects for SQL users

I have a procedure that loops through all objects in the database and assigns them proper permissions to that object. I want to know if there is a better way to do this? I use a model database to ...
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The SELECT permission was denied on the (View) object after explicit grant select on view to user

I have a database with a View Named '1098Statement' We are doing testing for an application with user name 'appuser'. I have tried the following solutions to granting select on the view and keep ...