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.
InfoQ

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 ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Previews Cross-Region SQL Queries for Distributed Data

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run ...
IEEE

Blockchain-Based File Replication for Data Availability of IPFS Consumers

Abstract: In the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), consumers can help each other protect data against hardware failures and improve data availability through replication. While previous replication ...
Nature

Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts

Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical ...