A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus ...

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed GhostRedirector that has managed to compromise at least 65 Windows servers primarily located in Brazil, ...

Whether you build applications for SQL Server on-premises or in Azure, there are several options for you to develop or test for free, or with substantial cost savings. Some of these options you may be ...

The notorious FIN7 hacking group uses an automated attack system that exploits Microsoft Exchange and SQL injection vulnerabilities to breach corporate networks, steal data, and select targets for ...

Security researchers have noticed a spike in devices infected with the TrueBot malware downloader created by a Russian-speaking hacking group known as Silence. The Silence group is known for its big ...

For more details, see Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for SQL Server overview. The new authentication mode using Azure AD is based on the central authentication repository provided ...

Enterprise databases present several unique challenges for security and audit professionals. They are paradoxical, as they must securely store vast amounts of sensitive data while being broadly ...

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 ...