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On Quickly Investigating a Redgate Monitor Custom Security Alert

Phil Factor offers a clever way to report on a SQL Server intrusion, with a query that shows a full narrative description of all the security-related changes that have been detected by a set of Redgate Monitor custom metrics. Read more

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Picking over the Bones of a SQL Injection Attack

The best way to learn how to protect your databases from SQL Injection is to to see it in action and confront its consequences. This article tells the story of an attack on a vulnerable SQL Server REST interface, explaining how the attack unfolds, the mistakes that made it possible,… Read more

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Monitoring Changes in Permissions, Users, Roles and Logins

Phil Factor uses the default trace and a Redgate Monitor custom metric to alert you to unauthorized changes in security membership or permissions in any of your monitored databases. Read more

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Checking for Database Drift using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Phil Factor uses Extended Events and a Redgate Monitor custom metric to detect when the metadata of a database has 'drifted', meaning that a database object has been created, deleted or modified outside of the official change management process. Read more

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Spotting Unauthorized Configuration Settings in SQL Server

If someone makes unauthorized changes to SQL Server configuration settings, it could compromise the availability, performance or security of your servers. Using using Extended Events, and a custom metric, in Redgate Monitor, Phil Factor offers a way to get an immediate notification of such changes, and investigate their cause. Read more

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How to Detect SQL Injection Attacks using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Phil Factor shows how to monitor for the errors indicative of a possible SQL Injection attack on one of your SQL Server databases, using a Redgate Monitor custom metric that uses diagnostic data from Extended Events. Read more

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How to monitor the impact of patching on SQL Server performance

This article uses the Spectre/Meltdown bugs as means to demonstrate how you can use a tool like Redgate Monitor to assess the impact of patching on the throughput and performance of your SQL Servers. Read more

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On Quickly Investigating a Redgate Monitor Custom Security Alert

Picking over the Bones of a SQL Injection Attack

Monitoring Changes in Permissions, Users, Roles and Logins

Checking for Database Drift using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

Spotting Unauthorized Configuration Settings in SQL Server

How to Detect SQL Injection Attacks using Extended Events and Redgate Monitor

How to monitor the impact of patching on SQL Server performance

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Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

Redgate Flyway

Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Redgate Assistant

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