SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part ...

How to protect your database from SQL injection, data theft, rogue users, and well-meaning meddlers without tying your environment in knots ...

Additionally, Microsoft will subject SQL Server 2005 to the federal government’s Common Criteria certification from the National Security Agency. Common Criteria certification carries a more ...

The highlights of the newest version of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 take security and visibility upgrades of earlier versions and move toward availability, simplicity, and consistency. With only ...

The company says it's tightening up security in "Yukon," the next version of its SQL Server database management software, to make it easier to plug holes--and to keep hackers out.

SQL Server has come a long way in the past 5 years, though the history seems to linger. Let's look at the recent history and see what the story is with database vulnerabilities.

“Security is the most important thing in our business,” said Gordon Mangione, vice president in charge of SQL Server. Microsoft had already started to focus more resources on SQL Server ...

Prior to SQL Server 2016, currently in CTP, your main method for encrypting a SQL Server application was to use a feature called Transparent Data Encryption. TDE provides strong encryption, but with ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 allows administrators to configure database security flexibly, and supports the U.S. government certification for C2-level installations in sensitive environments.

Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and higher education IT leaders must prepare to upgrade.