This white paper provides a practical guide to exploring the new features of the “Yukon” DTS platform.

With the Yukon release of SQL Server now in private beta, SQL Server Magazine talked with Microsoft’s Eric Brown about the release’s long-awaited development and administration enhancements and how you can start preparing for the changes ahead.

By Margie Semilof – Microsoft plans to offer developers and others an early look at its vision for Web services, database management and the next version of Windows at this week’s Professional Developers Conference.

By Robert Westervelt – Database administrators who are increasingly being asked to monitor the company mainframe may have their headaches reduced with help from Houston-based BMC Software Inc. The company’s latest update of its SmartDBA performance monitoring software integrates the mainframe

A new worm is making the rounds that poses as a virus fix to tempt users to open the attached file. The worm, dubbed Sober by security firms, spreads via e-mail, contains a host of different subject lines in both German and English, and delivers its payload via an attached file that claims to

From SQLTeam.com – Over the years that I’ve worked with databases I’ve worked with many packaged applications. Some were commercial applications and some were open source applications. Typically I’m trying to put data in, get data out or just figure out where the data went. So I’ve compiled a small

You invest a great deal of time and effort developing intellectual property in the form of SQL scripts for your Microsoft® SQL Server© and Microsoft® SQL Server© MSDE© Databases. Whether you need to ship your databases to customers as part of a product or deploy your databases into a production envi

SQL Server Magazine columnist Itzik Ben-Gan shows you how to solve a tricky T-SQL calculation problem: calculating costs for time-indexed services (such as phone calls) that span multiple billing rates.

by Divya Kalra & Narayana Vyas Kondreddi – This article covers the database administration best practices in detail, with a special focus on backup/restore and disaster recovery. Also provides you with daily, weekly, monthly checklists to help you organize your work as a DBA.

WinBeta.org has posted a notice to Yukon SQL Server testers, re: the PDC build of its next-gen database that Microsoft is planning to distribute in Los Angeles next week at its Professional Developers Conference.