Reference thread:
"OK. I have to ask. WHAT makes avoiding xp_CmdShell a "best practice" especially since the people that can turn it on are also the people that can use it?
--Jeff Moden"
"At an e-commerce place I worked I complained to management: Look I have too much power as DBA. What if I go crazy delete all database files and bring down your business to nothing. I don't want to have that much power.
A database system must be protected even from DBAs. I admit, it is not very easy.
Kalman Toth"
How do you protect the database server from yourself?
Kalman Toth Database & OLAP Architect
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