Buffer Overrun In RPCSS Service Could Allow Code Execution (824146)

By George V. Hulme – Companies are prepping to re-patch Windows systems to prevent a Microsoft vulnerability and the high likelihood of a second Blaster-like worm that could target the new security flaw.

By Russ Whitney – OLAP cubes are notorious for having lots of empty (or null) cells. Including these empty cells in your result sets can bog down your analysis applications. But you can use these tricks to eliminate empties.

In the wake of the most recent wave of Internet viruses, Microsoft sent a reminder to SQL Server 7.0 users about an available security patch.

Baya Pavliashvili and Kevin Kline explore a set of SQL Server user-defined functions from Microsoft that are related to traces.

I created a server alias that uses the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network library. The client-side server alias is configured to dynamically determine which port to use. How can I find out which port the client is using so that I can lock down our firewall?

By John Foley – The most serious of the flaws could let an attacker execute code from an open Office application.Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for five new software vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic for Applications that the company rated as critical. The c

by Scott Bekker – Microsoft released an updated version of a tool to help system integrators and other Microsoft partners build business intelligence applications atop SQL Server. The 1.2 release of the SQL Server Business Intelligence Accelerator extends support down to the Standard Edition

By Brian Moran – In SP3, Microsoft made changes to the way SQL Server allocates metadata for ODBC statements, causing memory leaks in some cases. SP3 users should at least consider upgrading to SP3a.

Muthusamy Anantha Kumar steps through updating the connection properties from the DTS package INI file during run time.