Hierarchy ID data types, used only by SQL Server trainers and writers, are an example. I frequently ask myself whether a feature that's not quite useful today is actually a down payment on something ...

[Excerpted from "SQL Injection: A Major Threat to Data Security", a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Every time you turn around these days, it seems there's ...

SQL transaction logs probably aren't going to include the statements, just the changes to the data. It won't be useful to you to know that SQL deleted that row from that table--you already know it's ...