Getting seminal first-person shooter Doom running on minimal or bizarre hardware is a sport among hackers, but the fact that Doom runs in fast, portable C makes it possible. What if Doom were instead ...

A computer scientist used only “pure SQL” to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, ...

Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise ...

Microsoft has long offered a compact alternative to the mainstream editions of SQL Server, but the SQL Server Compact Edition appears to be losing steam. It's not particularly compact and has lost ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

In a previous article, I talked about getting started with managing SQL server using PowerShell and the Server Management Objects (SMO). While that was mostly spent making the connection and doing ...

Use SQL to quickly create a new table from existing records in Access Your email has been sent SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger ...

The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...