Tag: Access
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DBA Scripts: Get Orphaned Users
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security An orphaned user is a database user whose SID no longer matches any server login, usually left behind after a database restore or attach on a different server, a migration, or a login that was dropped without cleaning up the database users…
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DBA Scripts: Get Login Security Audit
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security What’s Actually Happening at the Login Level, Not Just Who’s Allowed Permissions and Role Membership covers who can do what. These three scripts cover something different: what’s actually happening at the login layer right now. Get-FailedLoginSummary surfaces brute-force patterns and locked accounts…
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DBA Scripts: Get Permissions and Role Membership
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security Who Can Actually Do What, at Every Level Sysadmin Members answers the single highest-stakes question: who has unrestricted access. These four scripts answer everything underneath that: explicit object and schema grants inside a database, explicit server-level grants and denies on logins, database…
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DBA Scripts: Get User Permissions Audit
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security The One Login You Actually Care About Right Now Most permissions checks answer a broad question: who has sysadmin, what roles exist, what’s granted where. Useful for a periodic audit, but not what you reach for when someone asks “why does Sarah…
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