by Joe Celko – In my last column, I promised to discuss commodity identifiers: codes used to identify items that are handled in the aggregate, as a commodity.

By Clint Boulton – EMC VisualSRM and EMC VisualSAN Easy improve capacity utilization in addition to making management hands-free by automating tasks, a function that many software makers have been writing into their code to free systems administrators from the chores of manual operation.Spec

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In this session, Geoff Snowman, a developer community champion with Microsoft Corporation, will present an overview of Reporting Services, including basics of report authoring, management, and delivery. After this session, you should have a basic understanding of how to:

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This white paper provides an orientation to XML and clarifies the role of XML documents in the future of SQL Server programmability

By Dennis Fisher – A new mass-mailing virus is on the loose on the Internet, this one masquerading as a message from Microsoft Corp. about a cumulative security patch. Known as either Swen or Gibe, the virus is mainly found in Europe right now, but anti-virus experts say it has the potential to spre

If your products include Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000), find out what next steps Microsoft recommends.

This document analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL