Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

Microsoft has confirmed that a hacker who successfully exploits a zero-day SQL vulnerability could gain system administrator privileges. Here’s how to fix it.
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From Minutes to Seconds: Uber Boosts MySQL Cluster Uptime with Consensus Architecture

Uber redesigned its MySQL fleet using a consensus-driven architecture based on MySQL Group Replication, reducing cluster failover time from minutes to seconds. By moving leader election and failure ...

For March, Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 83 vulnerabilities

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...
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I stopped using SMB and switched to NFS for my Windows backups, and it was shockingly easy

I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.
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Running Ray at Scale on AKS

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team at Microsoft has shared guidance for running Anyscale's managed Ray service at scale. They focus on three key issues: GPU capacity limits, scattered ML storage, ...