I have worked with SQL Server for many years now, back to Sybase SQL Server days and there has always been confusion over Logins and Users. Even though they typically use the same name they are ...

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

Last time, we talked about security from a user's point of view. In this post, let's discuss how applications should authenticate with SQL Server. Like user logins, application logins need to be ...

So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

The first parameter ('BUCKSOFT\Marjorie') is the name of the SQL Server login you want to grant access to this database. You can supply a second parameter for the Database user name, but if you leave ...