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The Voice of the DBA Just SQL Auth

MEVIOtoday

Nov 19, 2009 Just SQL Auth

Clients can sometimes be the bane of ISVs. They are important for sales, and ongoing revenue, but quit a few of them will also cause problems and issues with our applications. Not that ISVs build the best applications, but they know how things work. Internal IT staffs sometimes cause extra work by mucking around with code.

I noticed a post from an ISV awhile back asking if there was a way to remove Windows authentication. Most of us know that we can't remove it, and it concerned me a bit that an ISV didn't know this. The poster wanted to know if we could make the database more secure, potentially limiting the ability of a client to muck around with the database.

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