The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Below is a cheat sheet that can be used for configuring SQL Server audit policies to log and detect potentially malicious behavior. It also includes some TSQL cheats for viewing the current audit ...

Are you aware of the growing threat of SQL injection attacks and how they can jeopardize your website’s security? As technology continues to evolve, so do cyber threats that target vulnerabilities in ...

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Memory grant feedback (MGF) is an existing feature in SQL Server, with two critical improvements available in SQL Server 2022: feedback persistence, and ...

Evil SQL Client (ESC) is an interactive .NET SQL console client with enhanced SQL Server discovery, access, and data exfiltration features. While ESC can be a handy SQL Client for daily tasks, it was ...