Server Level Audit using Management Studio
Hi Friends, When we are using SQL Server in our organization then most of the time we required Auditing. Microsoft provide Auditing feature from SQL Server 2008 onwards but this is an Enterprise...
View ArticleServer Level Audit using TSQL
Hi Friends, In my previous blog I describe about auditing and auditing setup using management studio. You can go to that blog by using this link; Today here we will setup the server level audit using...
View ArticleIdentify TCP Port Number of a SQL Instance
There are a lot of instances when you are asked to identify TCP port number for a SQL instance unless you use default port (1433) across the board. There are several ways to achieve this and as a DBA...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 – Temporal Tables Part 1
Hello Friends, Several new features announced by Microsoft in SQL Server 2016. We have seen a few of them in my previous blog posts. In the same row, we will bring a look today on next interesting...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 – Temporal Tables Part 2
Hello Friends, In my previous blog post, we have seen two different ways for the creation of a temporal history table. First was the default, where SQL Server will create the table and assign a default...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 – DML Operations on Temporal Table
Hello Friends, In my previous blog posts, we have seen multiple ways for the creation of temporal table. You can go to those posts by clicking on below links: SQL Server 2016 – Temporal Tables Part 1...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 – Query Time Based Data on Temporal Table
Hello Friends, In my previous blog posts, we have seen multiple ways for the creation of temporal tables and DML operation impact. Today we will have a look at Query Time Based Data on Temporal Table....
View ArticleSQL Server Data Protection – Where to Start?
Hello Friends, In last few months we heard a lot about GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation. We have seen so many discussions on this topic. Organizations which come under this law already...
View ArticleSQL Server Management Studio – Data Classification
Hello Friends, The first step in Data Security or Data Protection is identifying sensitive data. We have to check every table one by one and identify every column which stores sensitive data, so that...
View ArticleSQL Server Vulnerability Assessment using SSMS
Hello Friends, As a Database professional, we all are aware about the importance of Data (Most Valuable Asset for a Company). There are lots of things we do to protect our data and to meet the...
View ArticleSQL Server Data Classification – Importance of Proper Naming
Hello Friends, In one of my previous blog post we have seen Data Classification tool in SSMS. This tool helps us in four steps – Discovering, Classifying, Labeling and Reporting of sensitive data. This...
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