News. New MAP Toolkit Checks SQL Server 2012 Readiness. By Kurt Mackie; 03/21/2012; Microsoft this week released its latest no-cost network administrator toolkit for Windows environments that's ...

SQL Data Discovery & Classification, a tool within Microsoft's SQL Server 2019, could inform attackers which data within a database is labeled sensitive, and which isn't, researchers report.

Other profiling tools have richer features (which you’ll pay for); but a SQL Server licence allows you to use this modest profiling tool at no extra cost.. Let’s explore the tool by profiling ...

The SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment tool (VA) is a feature within SQL Server Management Server (SSMS) 17.4 that scans your SQL Server instances of version 2012 and later, identifies security ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Also new in the mssql VS Code tool are what Yu described as the No. 1 and No 2 most-requested features as identified in developer feedback over the past two years: SQL Server Management Studio Object ...

The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled "Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...