>>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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>Further to what has already been said, the word "granular" means at a very detailed level -- as in grains of sand.
Yes, I understand the meaning of the word, in plain English. I just was not sure how it is applied it to the SQL Server security description. Thank you.
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