Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

Following a nearly six-month delay from its original target release date, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of its SQL Server 2008 Wednesday. The software maker had initially ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

All the information in SQL Server database is stored in 8 KB-sized pages. If any page gets corrupted, server fails to read the data in the database and displays different errors. Some common errors ...

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If you followed Microsoft in the 1990s, you knew it as a company that deftly moved from strength to strength, leveraging its dominance in one area of software to command ...

This November Patch Tuesday update offers a much reduced set of updates, with only 63 Microsoft patches and (only) one zero-day (CVE-2025-62215) affecting the Windows desktop platform. Microsoft SQL ...