With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

SQL Azure is Microsoft's cloud-based relational database service hosted in their data centers, and it's got some DBAs worrying about the future. The more I look at the technology, however, the more I ...

Traditional SQL databases are being reimagined to incorporate this distributed mindset, giving rise to an emerging category known as Distributed SQL. Download this free O'Reilly Ebook on Distributed ...

Even many years after gaining prominence as one of the most popular and convenient ways for criminals to break into corporate databases through vulnerable web applications, SQL injection still remains ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

March 7, 2018 — Microsoft has announced investments that dramatically expand the choice and ROI of moving your SQL Server and open source applications to Azure. SQL Server customers can now try the ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...