Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...

SQL Server 2005 has under a year until it reaches end-of-life status, where there will be no further updates for security purposes and no official support available from Microsoft. Meanwhile, IT is ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

The Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) service now works with SQL Server data, and can be applied using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), according to a Monday Microsoft announcement.

-- Security Update for SQL Server 2008 SP4 (KB4057114) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56418 10.0.6556 SP4 + HF 1/5/2018 -- SQL Server 2008 ...

-- 14.0.3006.16 CU1 10/24/2017 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4038634 -- 14.0.3008.27 CU2 11/28/2017 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4052574 -- 14 ...

Despite the growth of “NoSQL” databases over the past few years, SQL is going nowhere isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it seems Structured Query Language is in ascendance in a realm that once seemed ...

Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...