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 ...

I have an MS SQL 2005 database, and a FileMaker 10 client accessing it via ODBC (SQL Native Client) The data I am trying to import is (varchar(max), null). I have no problem importing (varchar(64), ...

[The following is excerpted from "Anatomy Of A SQL Injection Attack," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] It started with a vulnerability on a password ...

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 ...