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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

by Marek Chmel
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring credentials

A credential is an object associated with authentication information required to connect to an external resource. If you need to connect to any external resource outside of SQL Server, you need a proper way of authenticating to the resource. This resource can be, for example, a file share with important XML files to be processed daily on SQL Server. In such cases, a credential object can be used to connect to this file share.

Creating a credential can be done via T-SQL or SSMS; in most cases, it's a Windows account with a proper password. The following code will create a new credential on the server:

CREATE CREDENTIAL [WindowsAcct] WITH IDENTITY = N'DOMAIN\ServiceAcct', SECRET = N'P@ssw0rd'--you need to specify the ...
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ISBN: 9781786462541