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 ...

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses 137 Vulnerabilities, Including High-Severity SQL Server RCE Your email has been sent Two SQL Server vulnerabilities raise concerns for data exposure and remote code ...

Have you ever started SQL Server only to discover your database labeled “In Recovery,” you know how upsetting it can be—especially when the process appears to ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2019 quietly slipped out of mainstream support last week, accompanied by fellow retiree SQL Server Big Data Clusters. The move of Microsoft's 2019 version of its database into ...

Microsoft has decided to pull back support for Transport Layer Security versions 1.0 and 1.1 in upcoming Windows rollouts. Microsoft has decided to disallow Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 ...

Security researchers have found a new piece of malware targeting Microsoft SQL servers. Named Maggie, the backdoor has already infected hundreds of machines all over the world. Maggie is controlled ...

In our current migration effort to spark-connector new version, we noticed there are some type conversion issues after using spark-mssql-connector ver 1.0.2 for BulkCopy. I have created two simple ...

Microsoft has "suspended" its SQL Server on Windows Containers project, as announced in a short blog post on July 5. Microsoft is advising those interested in running SQL Server in containers to go ...

What’s your average success rate of getting a SQL statement right on the first try? In best case, you botched a simple statement without side effects and just have to try again with correct syntax or ...