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Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

DATEDIFF is a common function in the SQL Server to find the number of days between two dates. Oracle offers its own solution, although does not have the DATEDIFF function. You have the right to access ...

On Jan. 25, 2003, a new worm took the Internet by storm, infecting thousands of servers running Microsoft’s SQL Server software every minute. The worm, which became known as SQL Slammer, eventually ...

As described in our previous article, the packer configuration contains the decryption key of the packed binary as well as its original filename, its size and the execution type (EXE or DLL). The ...