A comprehensive strategy for monitoring your database estate should go beyond performance metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, and IO performance.

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...

The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...

Digital warfare and worldwide cyberattack rates are on the rise, and protection on corporate networks is even more crucial. Databases are a key target for cybercriminals due to the often valuable ...

Microsoft is giving database administrators working with Azure SQL Database a new suite of security tools to check out. A new Always Encrypted feature will be available as a public beta by the end of ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, announced today the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.5 with major enhancements to multi-region ...

Cybercriminals use SQL injection to target both external websites and internal databases when seeking data for identity theft and other black market activities, GreenSQL said. Public websites are ...

A while back I wrote a review of Vormetric CoreGuard, an appliance which provides system-level encryption for files. In the review I stated that the solution increased database security, but I didn't ...

2000 allows administrators to configure database security flexibly, and supports the U.S. government certification for C2-level installations in sensitive environments. Of the current version ...