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Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21262 — an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that affects supported releases of Microsoft SQL Server — and the immediate, practical action for every SQL Server administrator is simple and non-negotiable: identify your SQL Server build...

Flexera One is now being shown as a single-pane solution that takes raw discovery data, applies Microsoft product-use-rights logic, and produces actionable entitlements and optimization recommendations for Windows Server and SQL Server—reducing both audit risk and cloud spend while exposing the...

Microsoft’s latest lifecycle moves have quietly — and in some cases not so quietly — tightened the noose on on‑premises SQL tooling and monitoring, forcing many organizations to rethink long‑standing architectures and operational contracts. Two separate but complementary actions define the...

AWS has introduced a practical, low-friction way to cut the licensing bill for Microsoft SQL Server Always On deployments on EC2 by automatically waiving the SQL Server License Included (LI) charge for passive standby nodes, potentially reducing HA costs by up to the range AWS advertises when...

An attacker who successfully exploits CVE-2025-59499 can inherit the privileges of the process that runs the vulnerable query — in other words, exploitation can grant whatever SQL Server-level or OS-level rights the targeted process holds; if the vulnerable query executes under a principal that...

Microsoft quietly shipped SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 5 on November 4, 2025 — a focused quality update that does not add headline features but plugs several reliability holes in the fledgling GitHub Copilot integration and smooths the path for administrators and developers who...

The convergence of Microsoft SQL Server, Dell™ PowerEdge™ hardware, and Windows Server 2022 promises a practical, ship‑ready path to tighter end‑to‑end data protection — but the benefits come with important caveats. A recent industry write‑up and vendor‑commissioned testing argue that pairing...

A 4‑terabyte SQL Server backup file belonging to Ernst & Young (EY) was discovered publicly accessible on Microsoft Azure, exposing an unencrypted .BAK backup that researchers say could have contained database schemas, stored procedures, authentication tokens, API keys, service‑account...

This article walks through a practical, production‑grade design and implementation for running a three‑node SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) across three AWS Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) built on locally attached Amazon EBS volumes — a pattern that brings true...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59250 — a high-severity spoofing vulnerability in the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server that, if left unpatched, can allow attackers to impersonate trusted SQL Server endpoints or inject attacker-controlled metadata into JDBC client sessions...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivered a broad, operationally important set of security updates on September 9, 2025, covering Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and related platform components — with industry trackers reporting roughly 80–86 CVEs patched and several high‑priority...

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Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy dose of security fixes for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 — including two publicly disclosed zero-days — but reserves the most visible user-facing improvements for Windows 11, reinforcing that Windows 10 is now in its final maintenance phase...

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...

Newtonsoft.Json versions prior to 13.0.1 contain a well-documented flaw—tracked as CVE-2024-21907—where deeply nested or crafted JSON can force the library into a StackOverflow or resource‑exhaustion condition when parsing or serializing, producing a remote-denial‑of‑service (DoS) vector for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...