Penton Media announced that Winternals Software LP’s ERD Commander 2002 won Best Overall Product in the Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine Best of Show Awards at Microsoft TechEd 2002.

by Kiran Pai – I have found that many articles found on the net are good and detailed but they are not really friendly to novice programmers.In my article the topic is presented as a Q&A session. Most of the questions are the ones that most novices would like to ask. And the Answers are pres

by Dean Thompson – Find out more about the author of the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Administrator’s Guidebook, and what he thinks about SQL Server.

DBCC SHOWCONTIG is a wonderful tool which helps you to understand quite a bit more about your system than is obvious at first glance. And, frankly, the documentation doesn’t use terminology that makes it very obvious either. So, this article will focus on a few of the big ideas behind the tool usi

SQL Server 2000 Notification Services makes it easy to develop and deploy applications that generate and send personalized notifications to wired and wireless devices. Notification Services scans input events from a wide variety of sources, matches these events against a user’s subscriptions, genera

By Tim DiChiara – Learn how to combine VB.NET & SQL Server 2000 to create slick database solutions & XML web services. Join us for a free webcast on Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 01:00 PM EDT (17:00 GMT), with author Rick Dobson!

By Brian Moran – Microsoft announced SQL Server 2000 Notification Services and the product’s upcoming beta program at TechEd in New Orleans. Notification Services is a set of technologies that lets you easily develop and deploy applications that generate and send personalized notifications to wired

Microsoft released a security bulletin about unchecked buffers in Extended Stored Procedures.

By Margie Semilof – Microsoft customers and analysts alike are expecting the vendor to shed some light on its little-discussed and fragmented management product line later this month at the Microsoft Management Summit.At the summit, analysts said Microsoft will likely explain how its three m

By Sam Costello – MICROSOFT released a patch for a security hole in its SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases that could allow an attacker to execute code of their choice on an affected system by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability.