When all queries against a SQL Server instance or a particular database application are slow, the cause is often outside any single query. This article helps database administrators and application ...

ODBC is a native data access application programming interface (API) for applications written in C and C++. The Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server connects to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

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 ...

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

At the inception of relational database systems and into the 1980s, the only portable interface for applications was embedded SQL. At that time, there was no common function API such as a ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

One of the big challenges for SQL Server admins has always been scaling databases to accommodate heavier data processing workloads. Complicating matters, Microsoft provides many different SQL Server ...

After all of these years, SQL injection vulnerabilities still stand as an old reliable for attackers seeking to break into corporate databases. "SQL injection is still out there for one simple reason: ...