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.

SQL injection is a type of attack that can give an adversary complete control over your web application database by inserting arbitrary SQL code into a database query.

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?

Read SQL Server 101 and learn more about SQL Server’s architecture and management basics. This useful guide also covers working with the SQL Server optimizer and execution plans. Learn more.

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

To those uninitiated in how databases work, setting up MySQL for the first time can be daunting. Nevertheless, with a few pointers and concepts, you can quickly get a new MySQL instance up and ...

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.