By Robert Westervelt – Carelessness with the most basic IT security procedures leaves vital information vulnerable to attack every day, according to information security expert Stephen Mencik. “Many times, companies hire people that are good at IT, but they don’t have the training to understa

Microsoft has laid plans for a server version of Longhorn, the next release of Windows. But it remains unclear what the software will include and when it will debut. The software giant has said relatively little about Longhorn – the next desktop version of the Windows operating system – and e

It pays, then, for a company to shop around for one that best suits its needs. For instance:

By Edward Hurley – A critical vulnerability in Windows RPC-DCOM, discovered July 16, ranks first among the most prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities, according to a new list released Wednesday.

By Alexander Chigrik – Permissions are the rights to access the database objects. Permissions can be granted to a user or role to allow that user or role to perform operations such as selection, insertion, or modification of data rows. Each database object has an owner. By default, the owner

Security audit in SQL server captures only successful and failed logins. It does not capture the application that uses the login. Login used by an application may have full read and write access on all of the tables and procedures but the application restricts the users by providing a front-end whic

Effective August 1st, 2003, Microsoft reduced the price of the Developer Edition of SQL Server 2000 to US$49.00.

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.

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

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