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You've probably heard by now about the Spida worm, also known as digispid.b.worm and SQLSnake. Spida, first identified in May, is a worm that attacks SQL Server instances that have a null sa password. Worms and viruses are always dangerous, but...
Congratulations to Andrei Popovici, software engineer at Softure in Bucharest, Romania, and Mingshou Tang, DBA at Toronto-based DS-MAX International. Andrei won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the June Reader Challenge, "Passing the...
By now, you should have heard about the Spida (aka Digispid.B) worm, which attacks Microsoft SQL Server. The main difference between this worm and some others (e.g., the Klez virus/worm) is that it's easily avoidable—simple common sense and a...
Microsoft is relaunching a controversial licensing model called Licensing 6.0 that will change the way you buy and license SQL Server. The company is offering deeply discounted promotional prices during the transition period, which ends July 31...
When you design the database's data model, you specify which tables are related to each other. However, when you implement the data model in SQL Server, some technical details you might not have thought about can make your implementation eas...