Questions tagged [database-security]
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Namespaces for Multi tenancy in Cloud Firestore
How do we set a different database / namespace in Firestore? This would be helpful in building multi-tenancy SaaS products.

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Questions and considerations to ask client for designing a database
so as title says, I would like to hear your advices what are the most important questions to consider and ask end-users before designing database for their application. We are to make database-oriented app, with special attenion to pay on db…

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How to secure a SQL database from domain admins?
I've got a database that I'd like to keep on the main domain, but prevent domain admins from writing to it. Read access is not a concern. To do this, it looks like I'd have to ensure any accounts with write permissions use only SQL logins (since…

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Access 2010 allowing multiple users/ Implementing group security
I'm creating an Access 2010 database and would like some clarification when it comes to concurrency and security. What I would like is upon starting the app only a menu form to be displayed with several buttons including a login button. Most buttons…

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Securing Parquet Files Column-wise
I have been looking for a way to secure Parquet files, column-wise, for Spark access. Ideally, that would work the same way Apache Ranger works for Hive, i.e., a Sysadmin defines the access policies for different groups and columns.
I have been…

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Is it acceptable to leave a database (Cloud Firestore) unsecured when no site login is required?
I'm building a game with Angular and (for the first time ever) I'm trying to add a high score table. I have set up a Firebase account and got a Firestore (Beta) database working and hooked up.
I want a very simple high score system. Users will not…

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How to implement Tenant View Filter security pattern in a shared database using ASP.NET MVC2 and MS SQL Server
I am starting to build a SaaS line of business application in ASP.NET MVC2 but before I start I want to establish good architecture foundation.
I am going towards a shared database and shared schema approach because the data architecture and…

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Escaping knex mysql query statements
I'm fairly new to knex and databases in general, so this is a beginner question.
I found no clear mention in the knex docs about this.
Are non-raw knex queries automatically "safe"?
Secondly, for raw queries, I have several raw statements similar to…

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What is EXTPROC in Oracle?
For security reasons I asked DB team to add EXTPROC_DLLS:ONLY; but they said this:
"Please be informed that the KEY = EXTPROC1526 doesn’t refer to any
external process at all. This is just a key used by any process needs
to call Oraxxx via IPC…

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doctrine 2 orm and sql injection
In doctrine 2, how can I protect against sql injections when using ORM? I found the following page on the doctrine site:
http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/reference/security.html
However that is about dbal and not…

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Limit Database List to Ones With Permission SQL Server
By default if you connect to a remote SQL Server via an account that has access to say 1 of the 10 databases. You will still see in the Object Explorer all other databases, obviously due to permissions you cannot actually query them, but you can…

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Change PostgreSQL password encryption from MD5 to SHA
Is there a way to change the PostgreSQL password encryption method from MD5 to SHA?
If Yes, can you please tell me how?
I am using PostgreSQL 9.5

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How do I securely create queries in ADO.NET where the tables being selected from change?
In ADO.NET you can add parameters to a command object to securely add user input to a SQL query. What is the equivalent for the other predicates common to a SQL query?
I am writing a program that is essentially a very limited O-R mapper and SQL…

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Is PDO ... SET NAMES utf8 dangerous?
Looking at here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.concepts.charset.php
I understand that using
SET NAMES utf8
is not a good idea, but it is not clear:
What is the issue?
How to avoid it?
Which is actually the solution to set the charset…

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How to sanitize or randomize sensitive database fields
What's the most efficient method or tool to randomize a list of database table columns to obscure sensitive information?
I have a Django application used by several clients, and I need to onboard some development contractors to do work on the…

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