Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and higher education IT leaders must prepare to upgrade. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

The Microsoft SQL Server team has made incremental updates to SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), updating the Schema Compare utility, improving Microsoft Azure SQL Database security and supporting Parallel ...

Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he’ll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

A group of financially motivated Turkish hackers targets Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) servers worldwide to encrypt the victims' files with Mimic (N3ww4v3) ransomware. These ongoing attacks are tracked as ...

This new version of Windows Server offers several significant security upgrades over Server 2016, including tools to track ransomware and other malware, and to track lateral movement attacks. Windows ...