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Protect your database and SQL Server environment with these tips and articles. Have you considered database attack vulnerabilities? SQL Server security issues discussed here include SQL injection, how to lock down SQL Server and how to meet compliance laws. Learn how to improve database security practices with software security tools for testing, code hardening and the Surface Area Configuration feature in SQL Server 2005. Understand the need for data encryption in SQL Server security and get methods to implement it. Also discussed in the topics section are SQL Server password and permissions issues. Ultimately, you'll prevent attacks from malicious hackers.
IN THIS TOPIC:  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (145) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (30) , NEWS (23) , DEFINITIONS (2)

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SQL Server security made simple and sensible
TIP - The many layers of SQL Server security can be confusing. Learn to connect to SQL Server and retrieve data from databases, as well as the ins and outs of object ownership.
FAQ: How to troubleshoot and grant SQL Server permissions
FAQ - Permissions problems affect your users login abilities and their access to certain aspects of SQL Server. Troubleshoot permissions issues with these FAQs submitted by your peers.
SQL Server security: Controlling access via database roles
TIP - Database roles for SQL servers can increase the security of your enterprise. Understand how to set up database roles, and learn how they function.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance checklist: IT security and SQL audits
TIP - Get security practices, procedures and documentation to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. This tip includes checklists to guide SQL DBAs and developers to inspect systems.

  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 145
Meet compliance requirements with improved database security practices
Submitted By: SearchSQLServer.com | 05 Nov 2009
TIP - Small but consistent changes are the trick to securing your SQL Server database and maintaining compliance with the latest industry rules and regulations.
Securing the server and database in SQL Server
Submitted By: SearchSQLServer.com | 30 Oct 2009
TIP - Hardening SQL Server at the database and server levels is crucial to a secure environment. Learn why in part two of our SQL Server security series.
Hardening the network and OS for SQL Server security
Submitted By: SearchSQLServer.com | 30 Oct 2009
TIP - To help prevent a major breach of your DBMS, it's important to secure all individual systems in an environment, including the network and operating system.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 30
FAQ: How to troubleshoot and grant SQL Server permissions
SearchSQLServer.com | 04 Sep 2008
FAQ - Permissions problems affect your users login abilities and their access to certain aspects of SQL Server. Troubleshoot permissions issues with these FAQs submitted by your peers.
FAQ: SQL Server passwords
SearchSQLServer.com | 10 Apr 2007
FAQ - Troubleshoot SQL Server passwords with these frequently asked questions. See how to recover lost passwords, create new passwords and change your SQL Server passwords.
SQL Server data encryption fast guide
SearchSQLServer.com | 18 Dec 2006
FAST GUIDE - SQL Server encryption provides extra protection to secure your database. In this fast guide, get specifics on encrypting your backup files, stored procedures, column data and more.
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  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 23
Security issues delay Yukon
SearchDatabase.com | 12 Mar 2004
ARTICLE - Security concerns are among the most obvious reasons for the Yukon delay, but analysts say that a larger problem looms just beneath the surface.
Common security mistakes
SearchDatabase.com | 01 Aug 2003
ARTICLE - Security expert Stephen Mencik's list of the Top 10 security mistakes might surprise you. He says crack IT teams constantly overlook the simplest of preventative measures.
SQL Server security threat: An expert's advice
SearchDatabase.com | 30 Jul 2002
INTERVIEW - Security specialist David Litchfield answers questions for SearchDatabase.com about what he calls the most severe security threat to the SQL Server in its history.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 2 of 2
data corruption
16 Dec 2002
WORD - Data corruption is the deterioration of computer data as a result of some external agent. Hazards to data integrity include not only computer-based problems such as viruses and hardware or software incompatibility, flaws, or ...
data hiding
25 Jul 2001
WORD - Data hiding is a characteristic of object-oriented programming. Because an object can only be associated with data in predefined classes or templates, the object can only "know" about the data it needs to know about. There ...
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SEE ALSO - Topics Related to SQL Server Security: 
Microsoft SQL Server Tools and Utilities, Microsoft SQL Server Installation, SQL Server Interoperability, SQL Server Replication, Microsoft SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Tuning, SQL Server Stored Procedures, SQL/Transact SQL (T-SQL), SQL Server Backup and Recovery, SQL Server High Availability, Scalability and Reliability



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