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SQL Server 2008 - Policy Based Management - usage of ##MS_PolicyEventProcessingLogin## under Security, Logins in Management Studio
While I was scrolling through the logins for a permission task, I found the login name such as ##MS_PolicyEventProcessingLogin## & ##MS_PolicySigningCertificate##, I was bit confused and perplexed to see what it is for? As usual searching in Books Read More...
SQL Server Data Encryption and Backup - any guidelines to follow?
When it comes to the data encryption within SQL Server 2008 you would think about Transparent data encryption (TDE) which is a new encryption feature. It sounds good that this is a high level security feature you can deploy to secure the data, and a catch Read More...
SQL Server 2008 Data Security - TDE: Transperent Data Encryption what you need to know
What kind of security features you adopt to protect your data? Login security, permissions and unauthorised access to your data, there is more you can do with SQL Server 2008 new feature called TDE - Transperent Data Encryption that is provided automatically. Read More...
See how Resource Governor can help you 'in action' in managing SQL Server resources?
As you may be aware about new features within SQL Server 2008, one of the them is Resource Governor which is a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource consumption. It will enable you to specify limits on the amount of Read More...
SQL Server 2008 Data Compression, what it is - how does it work?
As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005 Read More...
Audit the activity such as SELECT statements - CDC
Can we audit the activity inside the SQL Server 2008 to capture SELECTs activity? For the first time I though CDC will be useful to DBAs in auditing the activity on the database, but its not entirely. It is equivalent to auditing functionalities and in Read More...
Replication security information you need to know with SQL Server 2008
I was able to install SQL 2008 July CTP as a Virtual Image, tried to test few replication tasks to know what has been changed since last versions. At this time I would like to use the replication scripts from SQL 2000 version to see what it takes, nothing Read More...
SQL server 2008 (Katmai) Declarative Management Framework (DMgF) - enforce in multi-server environment
SQL Server 2008 brought new feature that is Declarative Management Framework (DMgF, we cannot name it as DMF as it stands Dynamic Management Functions from SQL 2005). This is a policy based system to manage a SQL Server instance, using SSMS you can create Read More...