Enhance your SQL Server security skills with five quick steps

The basic concepts of security are pretty simple to comprehend. But if you're going to

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run rock solid database systems, you're going to need to know more about security than just the importance of stored procedures, column encryption and strong passwords. Here are five things you can start now to point yourself down the right path of building up your SQL Server security expertise.

Learn about information security a little at a time and before you know it, SQL Server security will become a way of thinking and working, that's guaranteed to help you stand out above the noise.

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