Ernst & Young (EY), one of the world’s biggest accounting companies, kept a complete database backup on the public internet, ...

An SMTP server allows you to send, receive, and forward email messages between users. Learn how to configure SMTP server in ...

Your site got hacked overnight. And guess what? You didn’t even see it coming. According to Forbes, over 30,000 websites are hacked every single day. Most site owners are unaware of it until the ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs. I ...

With most Excel spreadsheets, you enter data manually into cells and then use formulas or other functions to analyze it or perform calculations. If you have a large data source, such as an Access ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Microsoft's relational database engine has had the same licensing model since 2012. The new version released this week brings significant changes that brings SQL Server closer to Azure SQL's licensing ...

When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...