by Brett Olges and Doug Safford – Turbocharge paging through large datasets in your Web apps’ list screens with ASP.NET’s DataGrid control.

A sentence in SQL Server Magazine’s June 2001 “Answers from Microsoft” column caught my eye: “Recompilations might be the source of the slower stored procedure speed.” The column recommended coding the owner prefix on all reference tables, views, and procedures. Should I incorporate this step into m

One way to help educate your current developers (or become a SQL Server savvy developer on your own) is to loan or give them a copy of the new book, Murach’s SQL for SQL Server. If you have been in the computer field for a little while, you have probably heard of Murach, which is a publishing compan

Microsoft has recently revised five security bulletins.

By Iain Thomson – ‘Straight cut-and-paste job’, says original author.Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend.

Learn about performance experiments conducted on a business intelligence (BI) system built with Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI Accelerator). Based on the results of these experiments, recommendations are made for the operation of similar systems.

David Morgenstern looks at the SQL Slammer worm and sees a threat to the storage industry. Will the latest Internet disruption snap consumer patience with remote-storage schemes?

While the chaos caused by the Slammer worm on Saturday, Jan. 25 has subsided, the tiny program that gummed up the Internet leaves some painful insights into the immense damage a voracious invader can inflict — not only on its direct targets but to secondary ones as well.

By William Vaughn – Developers need to know how to test for and set NULL values in their applications. Here are some tried-and-true techniques you can use in Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET.

Review Microsoft’s latest security bulletin about the SQL Slammer worm and download the fix to update your systems.