Tag Archives: AD group

Discover How User Is Accessing SQL Instance (PowerShell and T-SQL)

When your security gets unruly, it can get time consuming to figure out how a user is accessing a SQL instance. Sometimes you may know that a user is getting access via one certain AD group but you aren’t sure if any other groups are granting access. Furthermore, a user might be in a group… Read More »

SQL Server – Disabled User Account Overrides AD Group Authorization!

Just a quick note on a scenario I ran into, and what I did to fix it: Scenario A user was running a stored procedure that created a table. Rather than having a table created in the "dbo" schema, it was creating a table with their user name as the schema, as in: DOMAIN\Username.TableName. The… Read More »