Database

Microsoft has released new patches to address critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Azure PostgreSQL product. Discovered by security researchers from Wiz Research, the “chain” of flaws dubbed “ExtraReplica” could be exploited to gain unauthorized cross-account database access. According to the security advisory published by the Wiz Research team, the vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass tenant…

Google recently introduced the Firestore Security Rules Simulator – a new tool that developers and administrators can use to write and test security rules for Google’s Cloud Firestore database in a quick and efficient manner.

Google recently announced that the beta of its Cloud Memorystore service is now available to the general public.

Google recently announced several improvements to the managed cloud database offerings that are available as a part of the Google Cloud Platform.

There is a new SQL Server option that recently launched a preview in Azure called SQL Managed Instance, enabling you to run a private, managed version of SQL that is almost 100 percent compatible with on-premises SQL Server.

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

Aidan Finn explains how Azure automatically protects any databases you create with the Azure SQL service.

Aidan Finn discusses things you should consider when designing an Azure App Service deployment.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at Microsoft SQL Server 2017 being available for the first time on Windows, Linux, and Docker and what this means for DevOps and database admins.