With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

SQL Server 2012/2014 delivers compelling new capabilities that make an upgrade worthwhile. Many IT professionals agree that the AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) feature offers the most value with its ...

At the official launch event in San Francisco Monday, Ballmer said the database, development tools and EAI platform -- combined with a common .NET programming model -- will enable customers and ...

I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

Microsoft is less than two weeks away from launching SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database software, and channel partners are already deep into proof-of-concept development work and ...

Values for SQL access should always be contained and managed only on the server side of the application, as client manipulation of any client side values is likely and dangerous. Next, appropriate ...

The Honeynet Project, a non-profit organization that develops open-source security research tools, has created a component for the Glastopf Web application honeypot software that can emulate ...

The uses of Blockchain technology continue to proliferate. A new application for Blockchain named Catena is being implemented for SQL developers and users. Italian for “chain,” Catena is a database ...