By Paul Roberts – A scheduled denial of service attack against Microsoft Corp.’s main software update Web site did not materialize Saturday, as computers infected with the W32.Blaster worm failed to find their target.
Author: SSWUG Research
How to Avoid Blaster Infection
By Lance Ulanoff – What’s more important than figuring out how to get uninfected? Avoiding infection in the first place. Here are some simple steps you can take to safeguard your systems.
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Book Excerpt: Murach’s SQL for SQL Server
To be an effective database programmer, you need to master SQL for the database you’re going to be using. This book will teach you the concepts, terms, and skills you need for designing and working with any database.
Working with XML in Managed C++
By Kate Gregory – In my last column, I showed you how to use MSXML4, the COM component that parses, searches, and generates XML, to work with XML in a "classic Visual C++" application. This time around I’m going to tackle the same tasks, but use the .NET Framework to process XML.
Trends in modular XML specifications at the W3C
The recent publication of three W3C documents, XForms Proposed Recommendation, XML Events Proposed Recommendation, and xml:id Requirements may mark a new trend toward fewer standalone XML vocabularies and more "building block" specifications.
Lightweight XML libraries
by David Mertz – In this tip, David tells you when not to use heavyweight XML APIs. Standard XML APIs like SAX, DOM, and XSLT provide sophisticated ways of transforming and manipulating XML documents. But each of them is also complex enough to warrant several-hundred page specification documents, an
mssqlXpress
Product Announcement – mssqlXpress is the latest full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) for MS SQL.
Member-Properties Boot Camp
By Russ Whitney – Member properties let you store additional information about dimension members, but they can do much more. Are you getting all you can from your member properties? Here are 10 ways to pump up member-property effectiveness. (R, $)
Battling the blaster worm?? Help is out there at www.Shavlik.com
From SQLSecurity.com – For any of you that have spent the better part of today patching machines that STILL haven’t got the MS03-026 patch installed, I recommend you take a look at HFNetChkLT at www.shavlik.com. It’s been a lifesaver for me (I actually use the Pro version for sending out SQL Server