Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Secret Hedgehog project
Just wanted to share with you a secret Hedgehog project I’ve been working on for almost two years. You can see a picture below.
1 Comment » - Posted in Personal by Slavik
Monday, May 26th, 2008
So, you think you’ve removed that sensitive data
I had an interesting conversation with Alexander Kornbrust yesterday about cloning databases. Most DBAs I know copy database files from production to create staging, integration and test environments. Those environments contain a lot of sensitive information (PII, CC, etc.) which is usually either deleted, scrambled or truncated. The problem with these solutions is that most [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in DBA, Oracle, insider threat, security, technical tips by Slavik
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Weird MS SQL Server bug
A somewhat technical post on MS SQL Server encrypted triggers.
It turns out that MS SQL Server 2005 has an issue with encrypted triggers in the model database. We’ve created an encrypted database level trigger on DDL operations in all databases including the model database so that when a new database is created the trigger will [...]