A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY ...

Ernst & Young (EY), one of the world’s biggest accounting companies, kept a complete database backup on the public internet, ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, has announced the latest version of its SQL Server backup and recovery solutions: SQL safe 6.4, SQL safe lite 6.4 and SQL ...

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Microsoft today announced the availability of its SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) version for testing. The product, first announced in June, continues much of the technologies of ...

Elaborate backups might seem like a good idea at first, but they add unnecessary complexity to your recovery process. Here are some things to keep in mind to make ...

Embarcadero Technologies on Monday is unveiling its DBArtisan Workbench 8.0 database administration tool, featuring enhanced backup capabilities for Microsoft SQL Server databases and support for ...

I have a SQL server that is freezing IO on all DBs 6 times per day at about 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. These only freeze IO for approximately 2 seconds each time, but it is long enough that ...

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 ...