Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Many IT professionals live by the maxim that if something isn’t ...

Tim Kridel is an independent analyst and freelance writer with years of experience in covering technology, telecommunications and more. As the program manager for the Naval Enterprise Networks Program ...

Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its SQL Server ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. SQL Server 2005 reaches its end-of-life milestone on April 12, the ...

Tracing of basic set of events (Batch/RPC/SP:Stmt Starting/Completed, Audit login/logout, User error messages, Blocked Process report) and columns (Event Class, Text ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Microsoft has fixed several known issues that caused Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and installation issues on Windows Server 2025 systems with a high core count. As Redmond said when it acknowledged ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...