This is part 1 of my Row Level Security blogs for my upcoming book project. Row Level Security is a very interesting feature. Unlike Dynamic Data Masking (link), which looks interesting on it's face, once you dig in the utilization of the feature looks to be limited by how granular you can make the security work. Row Level Security on the other ...

It is quite difficult recently for me to find some time to write a new post, so I don’t seem to be leading the rankings of the most frequent bloggers. I rarely recently have opportunity to lay my hands on the code too, so natural sources of ‘inspiration’ are less often. Hopefully this will change in 2012 and I will have more opportunities to write ...

File this under the “I can’t believe there is still stuff that I keep learning about SQL Server 2005!” though thankfully most things I find I learn are things I wouldn’t be all that likely to use. I was asked today how I felt about using the syntax: GRANT EXECUTE TO [username] to give users rights to all procedures in the database (and you ...