Log Buffer #105, a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This week, database blogs seemed to talk about conforming to stereotypes as well as breaking them.

Fulfilling the stereotype of Microsoft software being unsecure, Microsoft released a very important SQL Server update that Aaron Bertrand notes patches "four elevation of privilege vulnerabilities." That's right, not one, not two, but four!!! ...

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