Microsoft Doubles Down on Cloud Databases to Fend Off Amazon and Google

Databases are the life blood of big businesses. Companies use this key software to store and parse sales and product information. Databases underlie inventory and manufacturing systems. And that is probably why Microsoft executives spent a big chunk of time at its annual Build tech conference in Seattle talking up…

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Risk of major database attack, warns Rapid7

There will be a major database attack in the next year, unless businesses act to put in appropriate protection measures, a security firm has warned. Businesses are being urged to review what they are exposing to the internet to reduce their vulnerability to attack, after a study revealed many were…

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Built-in machine learning in Microsoft SQL Server 2017 with Python

Machine learning services in SQL Server 2017 provides Python support for in-database machine learning, now. In this session they show the basics of how to run Python code in SQL Server. They then discuss how any app that can talk to SQL Server can get intelligence from machine learning models…

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Try new SQL Server command line tools to generate T-SQL scripts and monitor Dynamic Management Views

We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server. The mssql-scripter tool enables developers, DBAs, and sysadmins to generate CREATE and INSERT T-SQL scripts for database objects in SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure SQL DW from the command line.…

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SQL Server Command Line Tools for macOS released

We are delighted to share the production-ready release of the SQL Server Command Line Tools (sqlcmd and bcp) on macOS El Capitan and Sierra. The sqlcmd utility is a command-line tool that lets you submit T-SQL statements or batches to local and remote instances of SQL Server. The utility is…

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