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In response to this, the application security SaaS company Indusface has detailed the potential financial impact of SQL Injection attacks on businesses. Additionally, they offer best practices to help ...

I'm rebuilding our SQL 2000 box and trying to figure out the best way to configure the permissions settings. The first question is whether to use a local or domain account for the SQL service account.

Microsoft issued some reminders this week that July 9, 2019, is the last day of patch support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. The servers will no longer get security patches after that ...

UPDATE: The story that originally got my attention has been updated in all of the places I could still find it yesterday, so I’m pulling my references to the story and just focusing on the positive ...

UPDATE 6/25: Microsoft has decided to be helpful on the issue of SQL injection attacks. It released a tool today that it says will analyze code to help Web programmers identify problems that leave ...

I have worked with SQL Server for many years now, back to Sybase SQL Server days and there has always been confusion over Logins and Users. Even though they typically use the same name they are ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. An article appeared in Phrack magazine 11 years ago that ...

Many web-facing enterprise applications have databases sitting behind them. For many of those, the application itself is little more than a snazzy user interface sitting on top of a database. And in ...

In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you can see the SQL Server database state. Alternatively, you can use T-SQL commands to verify your database status. You can use the DATABASEPROPERTYEX function ...