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The sql server tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft SQL Server administration, security, and deployment topics drawn from recent community threads. Discussions include patching critical vulnerabilities such as CVE-2026-54116, CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-55002, and CVE-2026-54118, which affect versions from SQL Server 2016 through 2025. Other threads address the end of extended support for SQL Server 2016, with Extended Security Updates available until 2029, and hybrid deployment scenarios involving Red Hat OpenShift and AWS FSx for ONTAP storage. The tag also highlights database ranking disputes and best practices for separating data, logs, and TempDB files to optimize performance and recovery.
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    SQL Server OpenShift AGs Need DH2i for Automatic Failover

    Microsoft, Red Hat, and DH2i will present a webinar on August 20 showing a SQL Server Availability Group stretched between a Windows Server VM and Red Hat OpenShift, but the important detail for IT teams is that the promised automatic failover depends on DH2i’s clustering layer—not on a native...
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    DB-Engines July 2026 Rankings Contradict NubiaPage Top 10

    NubiaPage’s “Top 10 Best Database Management Systems in the World 2026,” published August 10, does not match the DB-Engines ranking it says underpins the list. The official DB-Engines table available at publication was dated July 2026, not August, and it placed Microsoft SQL Server third and...
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    AWS FSx for ONTAP: Separate SQL Server Data, Logs and TempDB

    Amazon Web Services has published new deployment guidance for running mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, with a clear operational message for Windows database teams: separate SQL Server data, logs, and TempDB at the volume and LUN level if performance...
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    SQL Server 2016 Support Ends July 14—ESUs Run to 2029

    SQL Server 2016 is now out of extended support, closing its standard 10-year servicing window on July 14, 2026. For organizations still running the 13.x database engine, the immediate consequence is not an outage: existing instances and applications will continue to run. The change is that...
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    CVE-2026-54116: Patch SQL Server 2025 Memory Pointer Leak

    CVE-2026-54116 can expose internal memory pointers from Microsoft SQL Server 2025, giving an authenticated attacker addresses that may weaken memory-layout protections and help prepare a more damaging follow-on exploit. It does not, based on Microsoft’s published description, directly disclose...
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    CVE-2026-47295: Patch SQL Server 2016–2025 Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s July 14, 2026 security updates fix CVE-2026-47295 across supported releases from SQL Server 2016 SP3 through SQL Server 2025. Administrators should inventory every SQL Server instance, identify its exact build and servicing branch, then install the matching GDR or CU-based security...
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    CVE-2026-55002: Patch SQL Server Privilege Escalation Flaw

    Microsoft has patched CVE-2026-55002, an Important-rated SQL Server elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that can let an authenticated local attacker gain greater control over a database host. The flaw affects supported servicing branches from SQL Server 2016 through SQL Server 2025, making the...
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    CVE-2026-54118: Patch SQL Server RCE in July 2026 Updates

    CVE-2026-54118 exposes supported Microsoft SQL Server installations to remote code execution through unsafe deserialization, with Microsoft assigning the vulnerability a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8. The important operational detail is that the attack can cross a network and is considered...
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    CVE-2026-47296: SQL Server Privilege Flaw Has No Patch Details Yet

    Microsoft published CVE-2026-47296, titled “Microsoft SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability,” at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time on July 14, 2026, but the disclosed record leaves administrators without the details normally needed to turn a CVE into a precise remediation plan. There is no...
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    Azure Arc Pay-As-You-Go: How Windows Server 2025 Licensing Changes

    ITWeb has highlighted a familiar enterprise headache: Microsoft licensing is becoming tightly bound to modernization plans, especially for organizations running older Windows Server and SQL Server estates alongside Azure services. The useful part of that argument is not that a new licensing...
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    Purview Scanner SQL Reporting Targets September 2026 GA

    Microsoft is planning a scanner-data export capability for the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, aimed at organizations that need their own reporting on scanned repositories rather than relying solely on the portal’s built-in views. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 494839, was updated on...
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    Windows 11 24H2 and Office 2021 Support End October 13, 2026

    Microsoft’s 2026 support calendar spans Windows 11, Office, SQL Server, Windows Server, SharePoint, Exchange, developer tooling, and Azure services. As of this article’s July 12 publication date, the widest consumer deadline is October 13, when Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro and the Office 2021...
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    S&P Global Capital IQ Disaster Recovery: Read-Only in 15 Minutes on AWS

    S&P Global Market Intelligence has built a cross-region disaster recovery design for its Capital IQ platform on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, using SnapMirror snapshots and FlexClone volumes to make a read-only SQL Server environment available in AWS’s US-West-2 region within 15 minutes. The...
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    Is SQL Server Being Repositioned? Microsoft’s 2026 Cloud and AI Database Strategy

    Microsoft’s SQL Server remains a multibillion-dollar database business in 2026, but the company’s Build messaging, Azure data strategy, and new Postgres investments suggest Redmond increasingly sees its flagship DBMS as a durable franchise rather than the center of its future. That distinction...
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    CVE-2026-32167 SQL Server EoP: Patch Fast Using Microsoft Confidence Signal

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has not publicly exposed the full technical detail set for CVE-2026-32167 on the page we can reach without JavaScript, but the advisory’s own framing is already telling: this is an SQL Server elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, and Microsoft’s confidence...
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    Patch CVE-2026-21262: Map SQL Server Builds to the Right GDR or CU

    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...
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    Flexera One Automates Windows Server and SQL Server Licensing

    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...
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    ADS Retirement and SCOM Deprecation Push SQL Tooling Toward VS Code and Azure Monitor

    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...
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    AWS EC2 High Availability for SQL Server: Waive LI on Passive Nodes to Cut Costs

    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...
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    CVE-2025-59499: SQL Server Privilege Escalation via Injection and Mitigation

    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...