CHAPTER 4
Security and Compliance
Security is important—more so, in fact, than design, creation, and performance. If your database had no security measures in place, absolutely anyone could come along and steal or corrupt the data, causing havoc to you and your company—and not in just one database, but in every database in every server.
Security can be enforced in many ways on SQL Server: by Windows itself through Windows authentication; by restricting users’ access to sensitive data through views; by specifically creating users, logins, and roles that have explicit levels of access; or by encrypting your database, logs, and files.
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