"Not a lot of people touch the code. They just want the good warm feeling that there are no back doors, no security violations," Rizzo said. He added that with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has ...

SQL Server, code named Katmai, is – as its name suggests — due out later this year. ... The first major Microsoft-only release was Microsoft SQL Server 6.0.

John Carroll thinks that anyone with a valid license should have access to Microsoft's SQL Server source code. Rather than a polemic against proprietary software, John makes a practical argument ...

Microsoft this month pushed out 133 patches for a broad swatch of software and apps and plugged a zero-day flaw in SQL Server ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default ...

Microsoft says the new SQL Server zero-day may not be as easy to exploit as the IE7 glitch. "This vulnerability is not exposed anonymously," the advisory states.

Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft's turf? Perhaps. The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database available to ...