Re: Allowing Vendor to Place SQL Server Instance w/o giving customer a

Ed, I don't believe in generalized discomfort as a rationale for doing or
not doing anything, nor as license to be annoyed; what I would do is ask
them to explain THEIR rationale for what they want to do,

Interesting position MJ and at face value, I agree. The problem isn't so
much the OP's discomfort as it's his vague way of communicating that
discomfort.

Have you read the rest of the thread? Do you find yourself disagreeing with
Uri, Tibor, or myself? There is nothing generalized in our replies.

I will say that getting management on your side against a requirement like
this would (and should) be almost impossible without solid reasons and
logic. But then, getting those specific reasons seems like the OP's purpose
in posting.

There is one thing I really do like in your response. I like it much more
than anything I, or the others said.

"ask them to explain THEIR rationale for what they want to do"

or, more precisely, engage them in the dialog from an early stage. It could
be that their reason is as simple as their package usually gets installed
where there aren't on site DBA's.

Jay

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"Ed S" <EdS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have a vertical market vendor who we bought a program requesting to
place
a separate SQL Server instance on our server without giving us admin
rights.
I understand that they want to protect their schema and want to keep us
from
writing to the DB, but I feel very uncomfortable with this. What would
you
do? Thanks.

Ed, I don't believe in generalized discomfort as a rationale for doing or
not doing anything, nor as license to be annoyed; what I would do is ask
them to explain THEIR rationale for what they want to do, although I think
you already know the answer on that. I would also ask myself and my team
if we actually need admin rights, and for what purpose. If we needed X, Y
and Z permissions to satisfy internal policy, audit requirements or
something else then I would make that known to the vendor. If they were
unwilling or unable to satisfy a legitimate concern or business need, I
would dismiss them. Otherwise, I would move forward.

MJ






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