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.

How SQL Works SQL, the structured query language, is a programming language for communicating with databases.

SQL injection is widely known and, because so much data in databases is sensitive, can be extraordinarily high-impact. Why do developers keep writing such bugs?

Joey on SQL Server How To Automate Tasks in Azure SQL Database Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

This means that, when you understand how it works, it can be used in elegant and clever ways. As part of this, we do have to look at the link between SQL and relational databases.

How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure.

Hand-authored SQL queries can be clumsy to use, since databases and software applications tend to live in separate conceptual worlds. It’s hard to model how your app and your data work together.

The database is not immediately accessed directly, but threat actors learn enough about a system to work out what they want to know. Blind SQL injections are also known as inferential SQL injections, ...