Network encryption is a vital security step in hardening your application and guarding your data. Additionally, it is more often becoming a requirement by many organizations and laws (like HIPAA). In this article, we will discuss how to secure network communication between your application and the SQL Server database using an encrypted connection. We will demonstrate how encryption can be enabled and leveraged from SourcePro DB with no source code changes to your application.

For more than three decades, Microsoft SQL Server has helped countless organizations store and manage their enterprise data, and it’s still one of the most widely used software applications on the planet. According to the DB-Engines database ranking, SQL Server remains the third most popular database management system, just behind Oracle and MySQL. Change data capture (CDC) is essential functionality for many businesses, especially those with real-time ETL use cases.

This short tutorial shows how to run a k6 test for load testing a database. In performance testing, we often trigger load tests that simulate realistic user flows, particularly those that are most commonly seen in production. This type of acceptance testing usually interacts with various parts of our infrastructure: web servers, microservices, databases, etc. But what if you want to test the performance or scalability of an infrastructure resource in isolation?

Heroku's Postgres open-source database is the most effective service for developers who want to build engaging apps. With all of its features and Heroku's experience managing databases, it guarantees security and compliance with GDPR.