<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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Theres been a lot of speculation this week on when, ...

IT needs to patch everything, but the Spectre/Meltdown patches come with their own problems, too. Here's how to limit the fallout. During my career in enterprise IT, the first couple of weeks of the ...

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 ...

I'm a sysadmin but nothing to do with DB's, we have DBA's for that. I want to automate windows security patches for our servers and when I get to this pair or mirrored SQL db servers, my DBA doesn't ...

Organizations that applied Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" Windows patches may have experienced SQL Server failures after rebooting their servers, according to a Thursday announcement by ...

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 ...

An announcement last week by Microsoft's Customer Service and Support team indicated that Windows patches from Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" release may have caused SQL Server failures after ...

I am new to the company where I work and responsible for the patch management process, before I started here there was none. Now I have implemented a patch management process, but we have a server ...

Greedy patching: Hot patching is a way to quickly install security updates without requiring an OS reboot. Microsoft has offered the feature for years through its ...