At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively ...

Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

But at-rest encryption protects against only so much: if a server is physically accessed, the data is safe, but at-rest protection offers little defense against access by SQL injection ...

"For NLtoSQL prompts, Copilot queries the database metadata to provide context ... as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled "Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server ...

The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, announced as SQL Server 2017, is available for download in CTP2 at http://tinyurl.com/SQLvNextLinux and offers many cool new ...

Searchable symmetric encryption ... the server is honest but curious, while the server may be trustless in the real world. Considering a malicious server not honestly performing the queries ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...