When working with my customers on SQL Server security, I constantly get the same question, “What are some best practices for hardening my SQL Server implementation?” Over the years, I have come up ...

SQL injection has been a major security risk since the early days of the internet. Find out what’s at risk, and how cybersecurity pros can defend their organizations. Few things terrify IT security ...

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 ...

Capacity planning, especially when done for SQL Server, is not for the faint of heart. Storage and disk capacity are apparent, but when you want to right-size your database(s) for a new SQL ...

Structured Query Language is used to allow database developers to interrogate the data held in a database. SELECT, FROM, WHERE, AND and OR are key areas of SQL.