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Tag: Security

Auditing Oddities – Why Would a Select Query Cause An Insert/Update/Delete Audit Record To Be Generated?

January 16, 2025 Sean Gallardy

Quite the interesting problem was brought to me by a friend, in that they had a database level audit setup…

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Posted in: Auditing, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Auditing, Security, SQL Server, unexpected behavior

SQL Server, TDS, and Everything Is A Vulnerability To Security

June 11, 2024 Sean Gallardy

Security must be making the rounds again as I’ve recently had quite a few inquiries about a “vulnerability” in SQL…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Drivers, Heavy Sigh, Security, SQL Server, SQL2022, TDS

Contained Availability Group Creation Access Violations

December 4, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Contained Availability Groups are the most recent update to the Availability Groups feature, and a great update at that! They…

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Posted in: Configuration, CUs and GDRs, HA/DR, Logins, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Access Violation, Always On, AV, Availability Groups, Contained AGs, HADR, Security, SQL Server, SQL2022

What’s Up With AzureAttestService?

April 24, 2023 Sean Gallardy

When SQL Server 2019 came out, there was a new service installed along with SQL Server called, “AzureAttestService”, however there…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always Encrypted, Azure, Encryption, Security, SQL Server

Cluster Resource DLL Connectivity In Availability Groups

March 11, 2023 Sean Gallardy

I was recently asked a question, while fixing a cluster connectivity issue, about how the cluster resource dll knows on…

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Posted in: HA/DR, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Availability Groups, HADR, NotReallyASQLProblem, ODBC, Security, SNAC, SQL Native Client, SQL Server, WSFC

DBATools Decryption Issues Are Not A SQL Server Bug

January 25, 2023 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Let me start off by saying that DBATools is a great tool that is immensely helpful to the community, if…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Assumptions, DBATools, Decryption, Encryption, NotReallyASQLProblem, Security, SQL Server

FFS Not Everything Is A SQL Server Vulnerability

October 6, 2022 Sean Gallardy 2 Comments

The Dude I get asked if I know anything about <newest SQL vulnerability as reported by random website>, quite often.…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: NotReallyASQLProblem, Security, SQL Server

Auditing To the Security Event Log – SQL Server Error 33204 and OS Error 8

March 22, 2022 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

It’s Great When No One Asks Questions You’re taking the best steps to track what goes on in your instance…

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Posted in: Security, SQL Server Filed under: Auditing, Security, SQL Server, Windows Server

olved steries #1 – SQL FCI Failovers

April 29, 2021 Sean Gallardy 7 Comments

Overall Introduction I’ve had some feedback that people would like to know some of the stuff I see and how…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Performance, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Always On, Cheater Cheater, Drivers, FCI, GottaLoveSecurity, HADR, IRPs, NotReallyASQLProblem, olved steries, Security, SQL Server, Windows IO

SQL Server Self-Signed Certificate “Vulnerabilities”– FFS Get Off My Lawn

January 5, 2020 Sean Gallardy 1 Comment

Refresher It may be news (or not) to you that SQL Server can utilize the latest transport security standards when…

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Posted in: NotASQLServerProblem, Security, SQL Server Filed under: Certificates, NotARealProblem, Security, SQL Server, TLS

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