Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

Abstract: Azure SQL DB offers disaggregated storage architecture called Hyperscale. While this architecture provides storage scale out, it comes at the cost of performance of I/O from remote storage.

Azure HorizonDB introduces cloud-native PostgreSQL with disaggregated compute and storage for faster scaling and failover. HorizonDB’s Rust-based storage engine improves security, reliability, and ...

On January 25 th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system.

Microsoft Azure operates two UK regions—UK South (located in London) and UK West (located in Cardiff and Durham)—providing UK enterprises with data residency options that align with ICO guidance and ...

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...

Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action. For decades, the database has been the silent partner ...

Microsoft Corp. is still suffering from a computing capacity crunch despite massive spending on data centers, a scenario that weighed on the company’s closely watched Azure cloud unit. During the ...