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  1. How to Become a .NET Developer: Roadmap, Skills, and Salary Insights

    If you want to build a career as a .NET developer, the path is clear but competitive: master the .NET platform and C# ecosystem, learn modern web and cloud tooling, prove your skills with real projects and certifications, and understand how market forces affect salary and demand today. The...
  2. September 2025 Patch Tuesday: Emergency RCE fixes, DES removal, HPC Pack alert

    Microsoft pushed its September 2025 monthly security updates on Patch Tuesday, delivering a broad set of fixes that address dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows client, server, and Microsoft server products — including multiple emergency severity fixes for remote code execution and a...
  3. SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Fix (CVE-2025-53727) Amid CVE-2025-55227 Confusion

    Microsoft’s advisory URL for CVE-2025-55227 does not resolve to a public advisory, and the identifier CVE-2025-55227 cannot be located in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide or the major vulnerability databases; the evidence available instead points to a closely related Microsoft SQL Server...
  4. CVE-2025-47997: SQL Server Race Condition Info-Disclosure — Patch Now

    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) advisory describes CVE-2025-47997 as a concurrency (race‑condition) information‑disclosure flaw in Microsoft SQL Server that can be triggered by an authorized user and may allow sensitive memory or data to be leaked over the network; administrators...
  5. Dataverse vs SQL Server: A Context-Driven Backend Platform Framework

    Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...
  6. BeyondTrust 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report: Windows Server Security Trends

    BeyondTrust’s release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report — framed as the 10th‑anniversary edition — is both a retrospective and a warning: the last decade of Microsoft vulnerability disclosures has delivered recurring patterns that disproportionately affect Windows Server environments...
  7. Tanzania Airport IT Supervisor Hiring Signals Growth in On-Site Biometric Systems

    CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...
  8. SQL Server 2025 RC0: Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 by default

    Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default...
  9. CVPeople Tanzania Hiring 23 Junior IT Support Technicians for Airport Biometric Enrollment

    CVPeople Tanzania has posted a large intake for frontline IT staff: 23 Junior IT Support Technicians to be based at Dar es Salaam airports, with the roles reporting to an Airport IT Supervisor and explicitly tasked with supporting immigration and passenger-enrolment systems. The listing —...
  10. Azure Arc-Enabled SQL Server in US Gov Virginia GA: Limits & ESU

    Microsoft has opened the door for U.S. government customers to manage on‑premises and third‑party SQL Server instances from the Azure Government portal by making Azure Arc‑enabled SQL Server on Windows available in the US Government Virginia region — but the release is deliberately limited in...
  11. SQL Server CVE-2025-24999: Elevation of Privilege via Improper Access Control

    Microsoft has posted an advisory for CVE-2025-24999, an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability affecting Microsoft SQL Server that Microsoft characterizes as an improper access control issue which can allow an authorized but lower-privilege user to elevate their privileges across the...
  12. CVE-2025-53727: SQL Server Privilege Escalation via SQL Injection

    CVE-2025-53727 is a SQL Server vulnerability that stems from improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command (SQL injection) and — according to Microsoft’s advisory — can allow an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a network. (msrc.microsoft.com) What happened...
  13. Revolutionizing SQL Server Migration to Azure with Azure Arc and Intelligent Automation

    In the constantly shifting terrain of enterprise IT, organizations face mounting pressure to modernize legacy workloads and embrace cloud-native architectures, all while minimizing business disruption. Among the most mission-critical assets in this transition are SQL Server databases—backbones...
  14. SQL Server 2016 End of Support 2026: Migration, Modernization, and Security Strategies

    As SQL Server 2016 approaches its end of support on July 14, 2026, organizations running mission-critical workloads on this version find themselves at a pivotal crossroads. The decade-long lifecycle has been marked by reliable performance, rich features, and high adoption, but the looming...
  15. Critical Windows Security Alert: Patch Now to Protect Against 2025 Vulnerabilities in India

    If you rely on a Windows device—be it for productivity, education, or daily living in India—the latest guidance from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) delivers an urgent reminder: patch, update, and secure your Microsoft environment now. In July 2025, CERT-In, operating under...
  16. Azure Arc’s Real-Time SQL Server Migration Assessments: The Future of Hybrid Cloud Management

    As the cloud migration landscape continues to accelerate, organizations worldwide are seeking powerful, flexible solutions to manage hybrid workloads and maximize their existing data investments. Microsoft has taken a significant stride in this direction with its latest enhancements to Azure...
  17. Critical SQL Server Vulnerability CVE-2025-49718: Protect Your Data Now

    Microsoft has recently disclosed a critical information disclosure vulnerability in SQL Server, identified as CVE-2025-49718. This flaw arises from the use of uninitialized resources within SQL Server, potentially allowing unauthorized attackers to access sensitive information over a network...
  18. Critical CVE-2025-49717 Vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server: Protect Your Systems

    A critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49717, has been discovered in Microsoft SQL Server, posing a significant risk to organizations worldwide. This heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code over a network, potentially...
  19. SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: Community-Driven Innovation, AI Integration, and Cloud Future

    SQL Server 2025’s unveiling at Build 2025 marked a pivotal chapter not merely for Microsoft but for the greater global data management community. Its entrance into public preview has set off a cascade of anticipation, debate, and technical analysis throughout the data platform world. As one of...
  20. Automating SQL Server Point-in-Time Recovery with VSS-Integrated AWS EBS Snapshots

    Automating point-in-time recovery for SQL Server using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots represents a major leap forward in cloud-based database management, combining the reliability and performance of AWS with the sophisticated needs of enterprise SQL Server environments. As...