Security analysts last week warned of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server software. The worm, called SQLSnake, scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts ...

I have the option to set the SQL services to run with different user accounts, basically Domain User Account or a Local System account.<BR><BR>Now as I understand it a Domain User Account is often ...

SQL Server 2008 continues to do so. The SQL Server polices that can be enforced include password complexity, password expiration, and account lockouts. This functionality was not available in SQL ...

Despite the plentiful information in Books Online and on the official “SQL Server 2000 Security” document Microsoft offers online, setting up a truly secure SQL Server remains a difficult task. In ...

They created accounts in SQL Server, and Windows was ignorant of these accounts. SQL Server has continued with this concept, largely for maintaining backward compatibility. In addition to what you're ...

Guys I'm migrating a sql server 2000 database server to a knew sql2000 database server. I have already detached the databases from<BR>the old server and reattached them to the new server. The problem ...

Security analysts are warning of a self-propagating worm targeting Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server software. The worm scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts that aren’t protected by ...

Microsoft’s first major release of SQL Server in many years includes such sweeping improvements that it’s sometimes hard to see the old SQL Server underneath. Not a single area of the database remains ...

MS SQL Server is by far the most common DBMS that attackers target, probably due to its tight integration with Windows. Brute-force credential guessing attacks against database servers are ramping up ...