By Paula Rooney – Microsoft is taking another stab at the application hosting market by releasing bundled solutions that are designed to reduce costs for service providers and their customers.The software giant released Solution for High Volume Exchange (HVE), an Internet messaging and colla

by Derek Mitchell – Configuring SQL Server for CE (SS CE) and IIS is critical – and somewhat tedious. Here are some shortcuts and hopefully concise enough of a explanation to get it done in 10 minutes…

By Dennis Fisher – As hackers continue to find ways around edge-of-network security walls, several companies are readying software and appliances that drive protection deeper—to database files.

By Peter Judge – When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company’s bid to oust Oracle and IBM’s DB/2 on high-end systems.

Learn how to effectively use various Microsoft Office applications and technologies; Microsoft Excel PivotTable and PivotChart reports, Microsoft Office Web Components, Microsoft Data Analyzer, Microsoft MapPoint, and Microsoft Smart Tags; as business intelligence (BI) client solutions.

As your business grows and demands more high-level performance from your database system, you may have to move from the file-server environment of the Microsoft® Access 2000 Jet engine to the client/server environment of Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000.

SQL Server 2000 was designed to operate as an integral part of the Windows 2000 domain environment. Unfortunately, the new features that best exemplify this integration are rarely taken advantage of. Marcin Policht presents an overview of these features.

By Russ Whitney – MDX is powerful, but it can be more complex than SQL. You can make MDX’s complex queries easier to handle if you break them into smaller parts. Here’s a two-part method for making complex MDX manageable.

In this article, Alexander Chigrik shows you the data row structure in SQL Server 6.5.

by Bill Wagner – Use the System.Data.DataSet class to ease database code creation and deliver more features.