A small social media poll from Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen split respondents over whether the IDE should add more database tooling, while the discussion quickly turned to existing SQL project ...

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SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

03. How to perform a network port scan to locate an MSSQL Database 04. How to perform a brute-force attack to identify valid database credentials (logins & passwords) 05. How to check if a database is ...