Ben Johnston

Ben is a data architect from Iowa and has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 in the late 90's. Ben focuses on performance tuning, warehouse implementations and optimizations, database security, and system integrations.

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17 September 2023
17 September 2023

SQL Server Row Level Security Deep Dive. Part 4 – Integration, Anti-patterns, and Alternatives

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One of the primary reasons to implement RLS is to facilitate reporting and ease the administrative burden. This section covers some considerations for using RLS with the primary Microsoft reporting engines and gives you an idea of things to look for in your reporting engine. Some anti patterns and alternatives to RLS are also examined. … Read more
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10 September 2023
10 September 2023

SQL Server Row Level Security Deep Dive. Part 3 – Performance and Troubleshooting

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Previous sections gave a brief introduction to RLS, including some common use cases. They also showed how to implement RLS using a few different methods. This section focuses on performance and potential issues you may encounter. There are two main areas where RLS can impact performance. The first is the user or authentication lookup. Some … Read more
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03 September 2023
03 September 2023

SQL Server Row Level Security Deep Dive. Part 2 – Setup and Examples

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The previous section in this series was an introduction to Row Level Security (RLS) and some use cases. This section focuses on basic setup of RLS, methods for implementing RLS and performance considerations with those implementations. The RLS access predicate is applied to every row returned to a client making performance a big factor in … Read more
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