In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you install SQL Server 2000. He also tells you how you can resolve these problems.
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Windows calls on the enterprise
By Joe Wilcox – Microsoft on Thursday will launch the most ambitious version yet of its Windows server operating system, as the company looks to push aside Unix servers and mainframes in the enterprise.
ADO.NET Dos
By Michael Otey – ADO.NET isn’t just a fancy new wrapper for the COM-based version of ADO. Here are seven tips to help you write better ADO.NET applications.
Database Vendors Embrace 64-Bit
By Lisa Vaas – Database vendors are all over 64-bit. Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday embraced Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s release of its new 64-bit Opteron chip, with each company separately announcing support for the 64-bit architecture in their flagship databas
Microsoft Releases Hotfixes and Problem Notices
Microsoft has released a hotfix for SQL Server 7.0 and for Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5 (SP5) and Visual Sourcesafe 6.0c.
How to Retrieve Data Using a Template File in ATL OLE DB
OLEDBTemplate.exe demonstrates how to extract an XML stream from a SQL Server 2000 database using an XML template file.
Ready for Prime Time
Three and a half years of development work by some 5,000 Microsoft Corp. staff will culminate this Thursday in the launch of the Windows Server 2003 family of products at an event in San Francisco. Amid the flurry of final engineering work, Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Window
The Soul of the Data Warehouse, Part One: Drilling Down
by Ralph Kimball – Drilling down, drilling across, and handling time are so important that I’ll devote a separate column in this Fundamentals series to each. In this column, I drill down into drilling down, starting with a precise operational definition. Then, as a good engineer should, I lay out pr
MDX Essentials: Member Functions: More “Family” Functions
By William Pearson – Author Bill Pearson continues his MDX Essentials Series with an introduction to more Member “Family” Functions. In this lesson, we will continue our exploration of the “Family” functions with the .FirstChild, .LastChild, .FirstSibling and .LastSibling functions.
Grouping Time Intervals
SQL Server Magazine columnist Itzik Ben-Gan shows you an elegant solution for selecting groups of data based on overlapping time intervals.