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How to secure legacy ASP.NET MVC against Cross-Site (CSRF) Attacks
CSRF is when an attacker submits unauthorized commands to a website user already logged in. In layman’s terms, When you click on a malicious hyperlink, it triggers scripts that perform actions on your behalf to your logged-in bank website. Viola, the attackers, have your money.
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A Real World Clash with AIs
Protesters disable AI vehicles, setting up a clash between digital AIs and the real world.
Provisioning Microsoft Fabric: A Step-by-Step Guide for Your Organization
See how to get started with Microsoft Fabric.
Database Monitoring for Developers
Database monitoring is an essential part of database development and testing because it will reveal problems early and allow you to drill down to the root cause, as well as look for any worrying trends in behavior of the database, when under load. If you are delaying doing this until a database is in production, you're doing it wrong.
Working with SQL Server Stored Procedures and .NET
There is more than one way to work with SQL Server stored procedures from within a .NET Application. However, when using parameters, in order to avoid exposing your code to "SQL Injection" vulnerabilities, there is a certain way based on which you should write your code.
Using AI with Data Tasks
Steve isn't sure that AI is that helpful with data tasks. It can be, but likely in specific areas rather than helping us with everything and taking our jobs.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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