{"id":32,"date":"2011-07-05T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.azurewebsites.net\/2011\/07\/05\/what-is-proxy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:55:11","slug":"what-is-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/2011\/07\/05\/what-is-proxy\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS PROXY &#8211; SQL SERVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SQL SERVER PROXY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SQL Server Proxy is a named holder of SQL Server Credentials.<br \/>\nSQL Server Proxies are basically used to definte the security context of a job step.<br \/>\nThese proxies provide the job with the security credentials that were defined by the proxy.<br \/>\nThe  sql server agent first imporsinates the security credentials of the proxy and then runs the job step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example<\/strong> if there are two sql servers, server A and the other server B.<br \/>\nThere is a requirement where in one step in the agent job on server A has to access the data from one of the tables in server B.<br \/>\nLet us suppose X has read permissions on server B.<br \/>\nNow in order to give the Job step permission on server B the following steps are performed on server A:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Credential for X is created (i.e Identity and password are saved)<\/li>\n<li>New Proxy is created using the credential created above.<\/li>\n<li>The proxy is mapped with the subsystem as required.(this depends on what the job step does)<\/li>\n<li>The job step is modified to use this proxy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQL SERVER PROXY SQL Server Proxy is a named holder of SQL Server Credentials. SQL Server Proxies are basically used to definte the security context of a job step. These proxies provide the job with the security credentials that were defined by the proxy. The sql server agent first imporsinates the security credentials of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}