Authentication and Authorization
Before we dive into the concepts of authentication and authorization, it is important to discuss a feature added in SQL Server 2005 called endpoints. In earlier versions of SQL Server, clients could connect via Transport Control Protocol (TCP), named pipes, shared memory, and Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA). As long as one of these protocols was enabled on the server and the user had a valid login, the connection was accepted. SQL Server 2005 introduced a separation of this behavior via endpoints.
Endpoints can be considered a point of entry into SQL Server. Administrators can create an endpoint not only for TCP, named pipes, shared memory, and VIA, but also for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Once an endpoint ...
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