My 7 wishes for access control in SQL Server and Azure SQL security
/1 Comment/in Miscellaneous, SecurityOn resigning from my role as a Program Manager for Security in Microsoft Azure Data
/0 Comments/in Life, SecurityLogging Schema-changes in a Database using DDL Trigger
/0 Comments/in Miscellaneous, Scripts, Security, Tracing & MonitoringBlocking when missing Permissions – The strange case of the blocked index rebuild
/2 Comments/in Locking & Blocking, Schemas, SecurityTime for a new challenge: Senior Program Manager Microsoft SQL Server Security Team
/0 Comments/in Conferences, Security, SeminareFull day PreCon Practical Performance Analysis in Melbourne at Asia & Australia Tour 2018
/0 Comments/in Azure, Conferences, HADR, AlwaysOn, Locking & Blocking, Performance, SecurityAs it has almost become a habit by now for me, I will be touring Asia this summer. This year not only Asia, but for the first time also Australia. (There, however, is winter, which sometimes leads to funny confusion in agreements until you get used to this.) 1st stop: Singapore – Azure SQL Database […]
Survey: patched for Meltdown & Spectre?
/0 Comments/in Patching, Security, Surveys/UmfragenIt has been over 4 weeks now that the very serious security bugs named Meltdown and Spectre, affecting almost any CPU made in the last decade, have been publicized and patches have been made available for various systems and software. Some patches even had to be withdrawn and recreated (AMD had not maintained its documentation). In […]
The No Good, Terrible Processor Flaw and SQL Server Deployments
/0 Comments/in Patching, SecurityYou can find this article by Allan Hirt at its original location: http://sqlha.com/2018/01/04/no-good-terrible-processor-flaw-sql-server-deployments-nearly-everything-need-know/