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Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches
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Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches

by Don Jones
April 2014
Beginner
256 pages
8h 42m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. Authentication: who are you?

Security experts often refer to the “three As” of security: authentication, or who you are; authorization, or what you can do; and accounting, or auditing, which is what you’ve done. In this and the next two chapters we’ll explore those concepts as they apply to SQL Server. We’ll begin with authentication. Are you who you say you are? SQL Server uses a two-layer system of authentication—logins and database users—with lots of variations and options. Some of these options are in the product because they’ve always been there; some of them are new concepts for SQL Server that are designed to meet changing business and operational requirements.

6.1. Understanding logins

The first layer in traditional SQL ...

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