By Brian Fonseca and Ed Scannell – MICROSOFT MOVED TO put two smoldering business problems to rest with the demise of its My Services initiative for consumers and the signing of a Web services security pact with IBM and VeriSign.The elimination of Microsoft's MyServices offering for cons
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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
To defrag external fragmentation takes an operating system utility, not a SQL Server utility. One of the most popular tools for defragmenting SQL Server database files is a tool from Executive Software called Diskeeper. Diskeeper has been around for many years, and many of you may already be familia
Oracle shows its friendly face
Oracle may be learning an important lesson in the business-software market: make the customer happy.<br><br>At its annual AppsWorld customer conference, the software maker tried to convince customers that it could learn from past mistakes and cater to their needs with its business-applications softw
Microsoft: .Net starting to take hold
By Wylie Wong – Rudder announced two new SQL Server products to make the database software more Web-services friendly. The company released the test version of SQL Server 2000 Notification Services, add-on software that allows businesses to send targeted messages to their customers based on t
SQL Server 2000 I/O Configuration in a SAN/NAS Environment
by Edward Whalen – Some of the most common SQL Server performance problems involve the I/O subsystem. Since SQL Server’s main function is to manipulate data, and that data resides either in memory or on the I/O subsystem, any I/O performance problems will result in SQL Server performance problems. M
What will C# Look Like in SQL Server?
From SQLTeam – My assumption is that we’ll be able to write stored procedures, user-defined functions and possibly database level classes in languages such as C#, Visual Basic.NET, Perl, COBOL, Python, Ruby, J# (JScript?) and any other language that compiles to the Microsoft Intermediate Language (M
Network Appliance Debuts Oracle Support Software
Network Appliance, a provider of enterprise storage solutions, announced SnapDrive for Oracle, a data management product for managing Oracle8i deployments in Windows system-based environments.According to the company, SnapDrive provides support for high availability Oracle configurations suc
Adobe takes on Microsoft in desktop publishing
By Jon Fortt – Some people thought FrameMaker, a little-known layout program within a big software company, was headed for the dustbin. Customers accused Adobe Systems of neglecting the product. Rumor spread of its impending doom. But now, as part of its new network publishing strategy, Adobe is tou
Microsoft: .Net starting to take hold
By Wylie Wong – Microsoft announced new software tools Wednesday in hopes of persuading developers to build Web services using its .Net technology. At Microsoft's Tech-Ed developer conference in New Orleans, Microsoft Senior Vice President Eric Rudder said the company's .Net Web servi
GAO says XML not ready for extensive government use
By PATRICK THIBODEAU – XML, the data exchange standard that's being deployed by federal agencies to improve interoperability, isn't a mature standard. And without centralized leadership, XML implementations by various agencies could actually hurt the interoperability of government systems, t