By Kalen Delaney – Any event that causes data loss or system downtime can be a disaster for your company. But with careful planning, you can minimize a disaster’s effects. Help your system survive by using these disaster-prevention best practices.<Br><Br>(R, $)

By Mary Jo Foley – Blaster is teaching Microsoft how to better communicate. But there are other lessons Redmond could stand to learn.

With striping, you can back up a database to different disks either to increase backup throughput or to distribute space usage across different disks. However, the files may or may not be evenly distributed.

SQL4X Manager J is the first class database management solution for Mac OS X with graphical interfaces and assistants to make handling your database easy. Built for web and database developers, administrators and power users.<br><br>Product Release

By David Berlind – Back in the late 1980’s, when users of PC-class systems (desktops and servers) were faced with changing from Intel’s16-bit 80286-based systems to the company’s 32-bit 80386 class of processors, most were eager to make the switch. At the very least, users were anticipating a boost

By Thiru Thangarathinam – Back when Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 was still a hot product, the bulk copy program was the only way to backup or export databases from SQL Server to other data sources, such as other database servers or text files. However, in subsequent versions, such as SQL Server 7.0 and

By Brian Moran – Microsoft doesn’t have an evaluation version of the 64-bit SQL Server 2000 available for free download, but they do suggest two options for acquiring 64-bit SQL Server.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are circulating a proposed bill that would prevent wholesale copying of school guides, news archives and other databases that do not enjoy copyright protection.

Marcin Policht continues his XML and SQL series with a look at client-side XML processing with SQLXML 2.0 (and later).

by Brad M. McGehee – Sometimes, it is the simplest of things that take the most time. For example, let’s say that you want to move data from a table in one database to an identical table in another database. There are lots of reasons to do this, such as: