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SQL Server 2012: How to create a Server Role?

Recently, during my many missions, a client asked me to give access rights to the SQL Server Logs from SSMS to his application managers.

 

As you know, you must give the role “securityadmin” to have such rights but with this role you can also manage logins, CREATE DATABASEs and change passwords.

This is “too many rights” for

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SQL Server 2012: Feature Pack

Since the third CTP version of SQL Server 2012 codename Denali, you have some features available to provide an additional value for Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 like the other SQL Server versions. This Feature Pack or Manageability Tool Kit are available but are not the final version. I have compiled all information in this blog to find it easily.

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Oracle Database Firewall

Le marché du Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) devenant de plus en plus important avec des produits tels que Imperva, Guardium ou Sentrigo, je me suis intéressé au produit Oracle Database Firewall, qu’Oracle présente comme un substitut aux différents acteurs du marché des DAMs.

Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 and database policies

I have seen at a customer that the SQL Server’s policy doesn’t follow the Microsoft’s recommendations about antivirus and databases(kb 309422), such excluding *.mdf,*.ndf and *.ldf files. In addition the policy for Oracle doesn’t exist in case of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 known as FEP 2010.

I have decided to create databases policies for FEP optimized by dbi

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SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: a new panel of DMVs

Dynamic management views (DMVs) return server state information that can be used to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems and tune performance.
Since few months, I test the future new version SQL Server 2012 codename Denali and I was very surprised form the news DMVs from this version.
I will just explain some DMVs very interesting for

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Oracle RunInstaller crashes while installing Cloud Control 12c on OEL 5.7

A few days ago I downloaded the Cloud Control 12c binaries for Linux x86_64 from the Oracle Technet.

My friend, Hervé Schweitzer, configured an OEL 5.7 VM for test purpose and I was quite eager to install this new software. I checked the O.S settings, the required parameters, aso …, everything was fine. My OMS repository database (11.2.0.3) was ready.

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