Microsoft is working to help customers secure their networks against the Slammer worm. Software tools and other resources designed to help secure installations of SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) will be added to this page as they become available.
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Microsoft Targets J2EE Users with JLCA 2.0
By Thor Olavsrud – Continuing its efforts to migrate organizations from the J2EE platform into the .NET camp, Microsoft Tuesday launched Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA) 2.0, the latest version of a tool geared to smoothing the path for Java language developers to work with Web services and
How to move SQL Server from one computer/server/machine to another?
Moving SQL Server from one computer to another is not a very difficult thing to do, but it often stumps newbie DBAs. Of course, it needs careful planning to ensure that the SQL Server is moved completely and properly to the new machine, and with a minimal downtime and no data loss. This article intr
Vulnerabilities that won’t go away
By Gregg Keizer – Security flaws have a half-life, just like radioactive materials, according to new research unveiled this week at the Black Hat security meetings being held in Las Vegas. Critical vulnerabilities, such as SQL Slammer, Code Red, and the in-the-news Microsoft Windows DCOM Remo
IBM Opteron server gets down to work
By John G. Spooner – IBM’s newest eServer, an Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron machine, will debut as part of a new computing cluster that will rank among the top ten high-performing computers in the world.
IBM Advances New Linux Database Clusters To Help Businesses Keep Pace With Growth
IBM announced new Linux database clusters to help businesses of any size implement a low cost, high performance data center based on IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and the IBM eServer 325 systems that IBM is also introducing this week.
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Oracle Announces Application Server Sales Milestone
In a recent press release, Oracle Corp. announced a new sales record for Oracle9i Application Server. Oracle has signed more than 3,000 new Oracle9i Application Server customers during its past three quarters. The Oracle9i Application Server customer base now totals 16,000.
Oracle Seeks to Postpone PeopleSoft Suit
By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to postpone, indefinitely, a hearing for its case against PeopleSoft Inc. The case is an attempt by Oracle to prevent PeopleSoft from exercising its so-called poison pill—which is a stock-related maneuver that would torpedo Ora
Heavy-Duty Database Showdown: The Microsoft Challenge
By Robyn Weisman – Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM’s DB2 and Oracle’s 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle, with their combined 70 percent market share, are not the only RDBMS vendors in the database race.