The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's DeepSight Threat network, a global collection of sensors that tracks developing attacks, reported an increase in the number of scanned sensors and the number of ...

Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...

The company is rolling out in early 2017 Windows Server Premium Assurance and SQL Server Premium Assurance , which add six more years of support beyond the current 10. During the six years of Premium ...

Port Query (PortQry.exe) is a command-line utility in the Windows operating system that you can use to help troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity issues. The tool reports the port status of TCP and UDP ...

The SQL Slammer worm (w2.SQLSlammer.worm), also known as Sapphire (F-Secure), w32.SQLexp.worm (Symantec), and Helkern (Kaspersky), exploits known vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 servers. It has ...

See what process is using a TCP port in Windows Server 2008 Your email has been sent Windows administrators sometimes have to track down network traffic or errant processes and then match that to ...

If you were in IT in 2003, you remember what you were doing when Slammer went off like all civilians do when a president is shot. It was a Saturday…early Saturday. The SQL Slammer worm had been ...