Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

One moment, a tech company had a functioning production database and intact backups. Fewer than ten seconds later, it had neither. A coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, assigned to ...

A rogue AI agent has caused mayhem after wiping a software company’s entire database and all recent backups in a matter of mere seconds. A number of crucial safeguards are baked into the most commonly ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

Azure database savings plans cut cloud costs across SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Cosmos DB. Unlike reservations, Azure savings plans offer cross-region, cross-service flexibility with simpler pricing.

While DevOps drives innovation and simplifies collaboration, it also comes with its own set of risks and vulnerabilities. Developers rely on Git-based platforms like GitHub, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, ...

What’s happened? Whatsapp is introducing biometric-based encryption for chat backups, replacing manual passwords and long recovery keys that feels like it came from NASA. This follows WhatsApp’s ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

A threat actor has destroyed data and backups following exfiltration in a victim’s Microsoft Azure environment in a novel cloud-based ransomware attack. Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently provided ...

Microsoft has launched Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server on Windows in the US Government, Virginia region. The Redmond giant called this a "major first step". Microsoft has recently announced that Azure ...