The distinctions among Windows user permissions and any set of SQL Server GRANTs seem like unrelated concepts. As often as not, it seems to actually be implemented with pseu
yes of course, If you have your application level data access layer running as a service, you can use integrated security to talk to the databasem using an Application "Service Account" to log in to the server... Then you don;t have to store user passwords in the applications config file, and you are not passing passwords over the network fir each new connection made to the database