Thank you for the explanation.
>They use a single account to access SQL Server. Everyone logs in to the database with the same username. It's stored as part of the connection string or built dynamicly. (Commonly called application-specifc login)
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>The other way is for each user to have their own user name to SQL Server. This can be an Active Directory account or a SQL Server account. Typically, users are then placed in a group and the group is give access rather than each individual account.
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>>I have received an email from a customer IT on the subject of setting up user access to SQL Database for my VFP application.
>>The following line in the message, especially the user of 'granular' is new to me.
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>>With other apps such as this we have used one account to authenticate to the db if auditing is not granular
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>>Could anybody explain what you think it means? TIA.
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