By Barbara Darrow – When Microsoft delivers 64-bit SQL Server to manufacturing next week, it’s not just enterprises that will reap the benefits. Many partners said they see interest from the midmarket as well.

Explore the drillthrough capabilities that debut in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. Join Author Bill Pearson in a hands-on tutorial that examines the exciting new drillthrough capabilities, from both user and design perspectives, and discover how to make it possible for information cons

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If so I must have traveled some distance down that path since I have been meaning to add this tutorial for some time! This quick tutorial will show you how to use Remote Data Access (RDA) to pull a table from a SQL Server database, how to conn

To help you design Microsoft database servers that must achieve the best possible performance, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 has the details you need. For one thing, author Kalen Delaney (who used Ron Soukup’s fantastic first edition as a starting point) explains how SQL Server 2000 works at a le

By Lisa Vaas – With the goal of getting crashed databases up and running more quickly and more reliably, BMC Software Inc. announced Tuesday that it has integrated its database backup and recovery product, SQL-BackTrack, to Veritas Software Corp.’s NetBackup backup tool.

(Vic Werner and Craig Abramson) The data collection and marketing techniques in today’s information economy have changed from the old days, but the basics remain very much the same. CRM initiatives are designed to strengthen and expand ties with customers by tapping the full potential of a company’s

A brief look into linking SQL Server to such systems as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, etc., through Open Database connectivity.

By Peter Galli – Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released the licensing and pricing options for its upcoming Windows Server 2003 family, which is slated for shipment in late April.The licensing model consists of a server operating system license and incremental Client Access Licenses (CALs

By Vyas Kondreddi – This article shows you how to identify SQL Server performance problems and explains how the SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level effected the performance of an OLTP application.

By Lisa Kelly – Bonuses rise to eight per cent of base salary – if you have those letters after your name. Workers are more likely to receive bigger bonuses if they have technology certifications than if they rely on skills based on knowledge or experience, according to a new survey.