My boss just had me spin up a new server instance for a dev system. This machine has MS SQL on it and he wants me to open port 1433 to the Internet. I don't think it is a good idea to have sql ports ...

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company's DeepSight Threat network, a global collection of sensors that tracks developing attacks, reported an increase in the number of scanned sensors and the number of ...

Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...

I've been unable to connect to the SQL Server at my web host recently (started about a week ago), and I am beginning to suspect that Comcast is blocking traffic on some ports. <BR><BR>I am using MS ...

A recent project at my current employer called for creating a new web frontend to an existing MSSQL database. My boss, having created a sophisticated MySQL and PHP-driven black diamond web site in PHP ...