The ‘Suspect’ mode of the SQL database indicates that the recovery process has started but failed to complete. The database goes into suspect mode if the primary data file is damaged or the database ...

Microsoft releases SSMS 22 Preview 5 with GitHub Copilot fixes and clarifies its support and update policy for developers.

The Trigona ransomware threat actors are waging a campaign against Microsoft SQL database servers because many of them have external connections and weak passwords, leaving them open targets for brute ...

All the information in SQL Server database is stored in 8 KB-sized pages. If any page gets corrupted, server fails to read the data in the database and displays different errors. Some common errors ...

An SQL connection requires system resources for various processes and functions. When you need to terminate a connection due to system resource issues, security threats or connectivity problems, ...

More than 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin were compromised by Chinese hackers and used to surreptitiously mine for TurtleCoin as part of a large-scale cryptojacking campaign dubbed Nansh0u. The campaign ...

Threat actors are generating revenue by using adware bundles, malware, or even hacking into Microsoft SQL servers, to convert devices into proxies that are rented through online proxy services. 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 ...

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups ...

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 ...