A bug was recently discovered on almost every processor made on the last 10 years, and it seems that almost every OS could be affected with this.
You can read more about this bug in this post made by Allan Hirt here
These exploits can affect your SQL instances so Microsoft has released an official post to help you patch these vulnerabilities, if you have SQL Server 2016 or 2017 I recommend to patch them ASAP!
you can read official Microsoft post here and the patches (more patches will be added as they become available for older versions):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073225/guidance-for-sql-server
Friday, January 5, 2018
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Killing Explicit Sort Steps in Redshift with the Right SORTKEY
You paste a slow Redshift query plan into PlanTrace and one of the tuning insights reads "SORTKEY optimization candidate", po...
-
I recently started full time learning of Amazon Web Services (AWS). I found that AWS's Relational Database Service (RDS) is really us... -
R Services (SQL Server 2016) or Machine Learning Services (2017 and 2019 CTP) provide you with the ability to perform data analysis from the... -
If you have to manage or work with an Azure SQL database and want to know what service tier the database is currently operating, but you don...