Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

Today is Microsoft's November 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 89 flaws, including four zero-days, two of which are actively exploited. This Patch Tuesday fixed four critical ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not ...

All functions require the sysadmin role. The OLE DB ADSI provider limitation: Multi-valued attributes cannot be retrieved ex. "description" or "memberof". Will cause "Could not convert the data value ...

ESET researchers have recently discovered a new undocumented modular backdoor, SideWalk, being used by an APT group we've named SparklingGoblin; this backdoor was used during one of SparklingGoblin's ...