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Confusion between Login and User in SQL Server

By Vedran Posted on 2018-04-28 Posted in Security and encryption No Comments

There is often confusion between Login and User in SQL Server. What is the difference and what is the link? I hope to clear that out in this short video:

Procedure with Execute as login?

By Vedran Posted on 2013-03-24 Posted in Security and encryption 7 Comments

Sometimes we need a low-privileged user to do a specific administration task or task that require some server-level permissions (such as VIEW SERVER STATE, ALTER TRACE etc). Of course, we do not want to give that account server-level privilege, because …

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Keep your transaction log backups at least to second full backup. Even if the latest full backup is corrupt, you can recover without any data loss. E.g. if you take full backup weekly, diff backup daily, and transaction log backup hourly, keep your transaction log backup at least for 2 weeks, so it reaches the second full backup.

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