Outside of SQL Slammer, a poorly secured SQL Server implementation can make it easy for malicious attackers to crack applications and databases and access sensitive information.

If you're looking for a popular database management system (DBMS) platform, Microsoft SQL Server is a solid choice. Research from Gartner shows it's among the most widely deployed platforms in the ...

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

What to do to avoid these problems? To protect your database and avoid the Recovery Pending error, you can take the following actions: First, save your backups in a different location. Make sure that ...

How an old Drawbridge helped Microsoft bring SQL Server to Linux There are certainly risks involved, but a clever research project makes it all possible.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups.

I'm doing some development on a dev server of ours for a site that's currently live on another server. They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site. So ...

There are ways to give SQL Server mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery protections on Amazon Web Services. But it is also possible - and all too common - to choose configurations ...

Joey on SQL Server Top Tips To Make SQL Server Run Faster on Azure VMs Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud.

Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.