I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server). If this was easy ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

S QL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here's why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well.

xSQL Software, a provider of SQL Server auxiliary tools and utilities, announced today the availability of xSQL Object 1.5, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that ...

One-Stop Shop for SQL Server Scripts. Microsoft recently updated its All-In-One Script Framework, which features SQL Server (and other) scripts designed to address common problems reported by users in ...

The situation is different for SQL Server 2005, which is still running on around 2.5 percent of scanned instances. Here, updates were already discontinued in 2016 and an extension was not possible.

If the compromised application has elevated permissions, the attackers may activate the 'xp_cmdshell' command to run operating system (OS) commands via SQL, giving them a shell in the host.

So the new script doesn’t just look at individual words; it also lets you split your queries into n-grams. An n-gram is a phrase made of n words: a 1-gram is a single word, a 2-gram is a phrase ...