common criteria compliance enabled

Type: Advanced; requires a reboot of SQL Server to take effect

Default value: 0

The common criteria compliance enabled option enables three areas (or elements) of what is termed common criteria. The first is Residual Information Protection (RIP), which overwrites memory with a known pattern of bits before memory is reallocated to a new resource. This meets the RIP standard and contributes to improved security. The downside of this improvement is a slowing in performance. The second enables login auditing to occur. Each time a user successfully logs in to SQL Server, information about the last successful login time, the last unsuccessful login time, and the number of attempts between the last successful and ...

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