You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server.

Say there are 1000 Windows users in a group called Accounting. To enable access to your SQL Server for those 1000 Windows users requires a single Windows login based on the Accounting group.

Some Microsoft users say that the ability to write code for SQL Server 2005 in general-purpose .Net languages may lead them to change their approaches to database programming. But other IT ...

But for some users, this could be a feasible option. Extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is set to end in July 2019, and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020.

Several attendees at a conference of SQL Server users said Microsoft can do more to secure its SQL Server database, and company executives detailed plans aimed at meeting those demands as part of ...

Only three of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.'s 30 developers have expertise in using the native programming language for Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server database. So for two major upcoming IT projects, the New ...