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More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network. These two options ensure that and all other SQL Server-specific logins are abide by the login policies of the underlying operating system. This ensures that login have to change its password on first logon.

Carefully choose the membership of sysadmin fixed-server role because members of this role can do what ever they want on SQL Server. By default, sysadmin fixed-server role has this permission granted explicitly. SQL Server Administration. Moreover, to grant permissions to users, use built-in fixed server roles and database roles, or create your own custom server roles and database roles that meet your needs of finer control over permissions.

Revoke Guest user access. Due to this potential security risk, disable guest user access from all user and system databases excluding msdb. This ensures that member of public server role are not able to access user databases on SQL Server instance, unless they have been assigned explicit access to these databases.

Limit permissions assigned to a public role. Due to potential security risk, revoke public role access on the following extended stored procedures:. Furthermore, do not explicitly assign permissions to a public role on user and system stored procedures.

To list the store procedures that are available to a public role, execute the following query:. FROM [master].. System Requirements Supported Operating System. Install Instructions Click the Download button on this page to start the download, or choose a different language from the drop-down list and click Go.

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