You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups ...

Microsoft strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database market, ...

Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS ...

If you were in IT in 2003, you remember what you were doing when Slammer went off like all civilians do when a president is shot. It was a Saturday…early Saturday. The SQL Slammer worm had been ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...