SQL Server 2019 Revealed: Including Big Data Clusters and Machine Learning

© Bob Ward 2019

B. WardSQL Server 2019 Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5419-6_3

3. New Security Capabilities

Bob Ward¹ 

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North Richland Hills, Texas, USA

 

Security is essential to managing data. SQL Server has a proven track record of not just building a secure product but providing the necessary capabilities to help you secure your data and access to the SQL Server instance. This chapter is about what we have added in SQL Server 2019 to the story of security.

Enhancing What We Have Built

After reading and using examples for a very long chapter on performance, you may look at this chapter, see the number of pages, and ask yourself, “Hey, isn’t security important?” The answer is absolutely yes! For SQL Server, security is a very important ...