By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft’s next-generation database, code-named Yukon, will include integral reporting services, a move that would continue the vendor’s headlong push into the business intelligence arena, sources said.

By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft has promised the first real beta of its next-generation database for the first half of the year. Depending on how first half is defined, that gives the company just over a month. Company sources said the push is on internally to deliver a beta drop by June 1, just in ti

Andy Novick discusses the reasons that SQL Server 2000 decides to recompile a stored procedure and demonstrates the tools and techniques that you can use to monitor recompilation. Read the article, watch the movie!

By Michael Otey – One aspect of database performance that’s rarely considered is the OS itself, which ultimately handles all I/O requests.

This presentation was delivered at the Black Hat Windows Security Conference, and illustrates many new Microsoft SQL Server vulnerabilities and how they were found. Improvements that were made to Microsoft SQL Server in the new SP3 release to fix these vulnerabilities are also discussed. Also, a new

Reuse database schemas with Meta Data Services

Have you scaled out a system with SQL Server 2000’s federated database support or implemented OLAP or data mining to give decision makers the power to analyze data? Have you used SQL Server’s XML functionality to develop Web services and platform-independent applications. SQL Server DBAs and develop

On Monday, EMC released two new products that mark the software vendor’s entry into the subscription software business.The two subscription services, SAN Architect, and Auto Advice, are designed to help users of its ControlCenter storage management software more easily design and analyze the

By Barbara Darrow – The clock is ticking on Yukon. Microsoft has promised the first real beta of its next-generation database for the first half of the year. Depending on how first half is defined, that gives the company just over a month. Company sources said the push is on internally to del

This application collects data in a SQL Server 2000 CE database on the PocketPC. When connectivity becomes available, the eVB application pushes new records from the local SQL database to the server.