Suppose you have a shopping cart with several categories of products, and your ASP pages use SQL statements that access database queries for the different categories. Instead of creating an ASP page for each category (for example, shirts.asp, caps.asp, and so on), you can have one page (products.asp

SQL Server is the preferred database of many Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other line-of-business application vendors and customers due to SQL Server scalability on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware and low database

For at least the past week, members of the computer underground have been discussing ways to take advantage of a serious, unreported flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Web server software. The flaw allows malicious users to read and execute files on Web sites simply by requesting a specific Web address.

E-commerce solutions put heavy demands on software, and the database is no exception. High transactional loads are the norm as users from all over the world access sites around the clock. Programmatic flexibility is critical to ensure both interoperability with existing systems and the ability to re

Australian company Integrated Research Pty Ltd (IR) today announced the release of a significant upgrade to its systems and application management software suite PROGNOSIS®. For 12 years, PROGNOSIS has dominated the global Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) NonStop Himalaya environment – the predominant platform fo

The Compaq ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is an automated tool for determining a recommended configuration for a transaction processing application. Based on testing and characterization studies performed by Compaq, the Compaq ProLiant Sizer provides a quick and consistent method for id