SQL Security Policies - What Are They All About?
I'm staring at the blue light of my monitor at 3 AM, the glow illuminating the empty Starbucks cups and scattered prescription bottles. Everyone says T-SQL is easy. Everyone's lying. The truth is that security policies are the cocaine of the database world—addictive, powerful, and ultimately destructive if you don't know what you're doing. Let me break it down for you in a way that matters. SQL Server security isn't just about passwords and firewalls. It's about row-level security, column encryption, and data masking. It's about knowing who can see what and why. It's about control in a world where control is merely an illusion. sql Copy -- This is how you create a security policy in T-SQL CREATE SECURITY POLICY FilterCustomersByTerritory ADD FILTER PREDICATE dbo . fn_SecurityPredicate ( TerritoryID ) ON dbo . Customers WITH ( STATE = ON ) ; The first rule of SQL security: You don't talk about SQL security. The second rule: You implement i...