In the wake of Blaster and SoBig, Microsoft on Friday said it has committed to automatic security patch updates for its SQL Server database.

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 ...

Here’s one big advantage to moving to Microsoft Azure SQL Database—you never have to patch. That’s right. The various SKUs available in Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering are automatically ...

SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

The implications of an automatic patching system on mission critical servers (which many SQL Server installations are) require some careful consideration.