<p>eWeek has an article up discussing the possibility of Microsoft including automatic patching in the next version of SQL Server. The article is unclear about what exactly this would entail, but it ...

Why: "The fundamentals of all implementations are the same: trust is based on tokens that are cryptographically signed (or encrypted) by a trusted party. " Find out more about Live!360, taking place ...

patchVantage, an Oracle management software supplier, has added patching functionality for MySQL, and Microsoft’s SQL Server on Linux. According patchVantage, since Oracle’s RDBMS, MySQL, Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft issued some reminders this week that July 9, 2019, is the last day of patch support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. The servers will no longer get security patches after that ...

July 9 marked the end of "extended support" for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2, the last five-year phase of Microsoft's overall 10-year product lifecycle for these products. The two servers ...

Microsoft Wednesday confirmed that it has been working on a critical vulnerability in SQL Server for more than eight months, but declined to say whether it has had a patch ready since September, as an ...

A problem in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is prompting a hot fix to post later today or tomorrow. There is also a refresh of SP2 code available now from this page. SP 2 has been available for a week ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2005--Blue Lane(TM) Technologies Inc. today announced the PatchPoint(TM) System, a breakthrough product, that delivers the industry's first inline patch ...

Years ago I started with just one Win 2000 server. I felt that the "right thing" to do before patching a server was to:<BR><BR>1) Backup the C: partition with Ghost or NTBackup [involves a ...