But mainstream database APIs offer a better way of working with SQL—better both because it isn't prone to SQL injection attacks, and better because it can have slightly superior performance, too.

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 ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.

First of all, Azure SQL Database does not have the SQL Server Agent as a service. ... This hybrid model can also work for on-premises VMs, as long as they have network access to Azure.

Making Your T-SQL Work Smarter: sp_MSforeachdb Last time, we showed how to take advantage of a built-in stored to run a command against multiple tables. This time, we look at another for working ...

SQL, the Structured Query Language, remains one of the most widely used programming languages, coming in fourth in Stack Overflow’s research for 2023. Just over half (51.52%) of professional ...

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name and endpoint (such as a DNS name or IP address). For this article, we're only ...

The SQL Server team will be publishing more details about the huge new release of SQL Server 2016 as the days count down to the first public preview, expected this summer. If you can't wait, those ...

Think of transaction isolation levels as a knob you can twist to tune your database to the ideal balance between these opposing forces. How does the serializable isolation level work? If consistent ...

A limitation of the profiling tool is that source data must be stored within a SQL Server database. If you wish to profile data stored in flat files, for example, then you must first load that ...