By Eric Chabrow – It’s hard to find a better example of the connection between IT and business than at Ingram Micro Inc., where CIO Guy Abramo also serves as chief of strategy and oversees worldwide marketing at the $24 billion computer-products distributor.

By Margie Semilof – Microsoft said recently that it is making available the second trial version of a notification application that gives companies using SQL Server databases a way to provide custom updates to subscribers or customers without having to create a permanent connection between those cus

Creating and modifying table scripts can quickly turn into a tedious chore. The article illustrates a method to automate this task by using SQL-DMO and Windows Script to generate customized scripts for SQL server table objects.

(M. Vadivel) In most of the sites you would have seen the user downloading a type of font and installing it in their Windows à fonts folder. The users will be able to see the characters of that particular language only after this downloading is done.

By Tom Smith – MySQL Inc. said that its open-source MySQL open-source database has been enhanced with transactional functions that will better position the platform to support e-commerce and other critical applications.

by Brad M. McGehee – This fifth part of the SQL Server Performance Audit series covers SQL Server database options and configuration settings.

By Margie Semilof – Malicious crackers love to crash corporate networks via Web servers, but Windows administrators should spend more time locking down the place where they keep the company crown jewels — the database servers.From an installation and configuration standpoint, Microsoft SQL

By Jo Ticehurst – Users should hold off deploying Microsoft’s next version of SQL Server until the first service pack because of major security concerns, analysts have warned. Yukon, the company’s next SQL release, is due next year, but analyst Gartner has said that it expects it to contain a

By Barbara Darrow – Microsoft is putting the final touches on Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2000 and hopes to ship it next month, the company confirmed Monday.This, the first service pack in nearly a year, will roll together fixes in the first two service packs and focus on security and “ser

By Peter Williams – DataDirect Technologies has launched software designed to cut time and complexity in transforming data between relational databases and XML for Java applications.jXTransformer is written entirely in Java and is aimed at web application architects and developers who conver