Virtual log file growth In previous versions of SQL Server, if the next growth is more than 1/8 of the current log size, and the growth is less than 64 MB, four VLFs were created. In SQL Server 2022 (16.x), this behavior is slightly different. Only one VLF is created if the grow...
Don't trust user input.Any user input provided in a SQL query increases the likelihood for a successful SQL injection. The best way to mitigate this type of risk is to put security measures around user input. Use an allowlist instead of a blocklist.Validating and filtering user input via ...
Adopting API security is important because it can prevent attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injections, as well as shield sensitive data frombreaches. Overall, API security is vital to the successful and secure performance of APIs and the programs they support. Exposed APIs ar...
Azure SQL Managed Instance support You can now host a database catalog used for SSRS in an Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) either on a virtual machine (VM) or in your data center. Support is limited to database credentials for the connection to SQL MI. ...
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that's always running on the latest stable version of theMicrosoft SQL Server database engineand a patched OS with99.99% built-in high availability, offering close to 100% feature compatibility with SQL Server. PaaS capabilities built...
This means that NDB tables created in NDB Cluster 8.0 are not compatible with previous NDB Cluster releases. Tables created in previous releases can be used with NDB 8.0, but cannot be opened afterwards by an earlier version. This metadata is accessible using the NDB API methods getExtra...
Beginning with MySQL 8.4.0, the deprecated mysql_native_password authentication plugin is no longer enabled by default. To enable it, start the server with --mysql-native-password=ON (added in MySQL 8.4.0), or by including mysql_native_password=ON in the [mysqld] section of your MySQL co...
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SQL, which stands forStructured Query Language, is a programming language that’s used to retrieve, update, delete, and otherwise manipulate data in relational databases. MySQL is officially pronounced “My ess-cue-el,” but “my sequel” is a common variation. As the name suggests, MySQL is...
Before we start building SQL statements in SQL Server, we need to understand what the basic parts of a statement are. Overall, a “statement” is something you write in SQL to get an answer from a database or to make a change to it. ...