First, I must say that I don't know why these exist in an undocumented form. They have been around for a long time and a search on their names gets me back pages of hits. Being undocumented means that their actual implementation may change slightly from...

I am grouping here two topics (orphaned users and loginless users) that are actually very different, but I have often seen confusion between them, so I am covering them together in an attempt to dispel that confusion. In a previous discussion of logins...

To avoid any confusion, this post is not about the use of certificates for securing the communication between a client machine and the server; instead, this refers to the use of certificates created via the CREATE CERTIFICATE DDL. I am prompted in...

I have kept silent on this feature while it was being developed, but as it has now been publicly advertised in various ways (being mentioned here , here , here , and here , for example), I think it is probably time to write a bit about it. Given that...