No fooling: The next version of Microsoft's flagship database will be available on April 1. SQL Server 2014 hit its "release-to-manufacturing" milestone today, which typically falls several weeks ...

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 ...

Researchers have documented the emergence of a downloader that makes use of Microsoft SQL queries to pull and deliver malicious payloads. In August this year, Proofpoint researchers found the new, ...

Microsoft is integrating AI features directly into SQL Server for the first time. The new version also brings JSON support ...

The Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer is part of the client tools that come with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. It's designed to analyze the SQL queries that you or a program makes that ...

Microsoft has silently added a new Group Policy (GPO) to allow Office 365 admins to block Excel users from opening untrusted Microsoft Query files with IQY, OQY, DQY, and RQY extensions. Microsoft ...

I'm writing some code in C# where I need to (inner?) join two tables into a DataSet / DataTable.<BR><BR>Essentially, I have two tables. Both have columns called "TestId" and "OperationId". Both are ...

Yesterday, Ferruh Mavituna of Portcullis released a whitepaper entitled "DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards", with some insightful comments on how it's possible to multiply the attack tactics discussed ...

With most Excel spreadsheets, you enter data manually into cells and then use formulas or other functions to analyze it or perform calculations. If you have a large data source, such as an Access ...