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The many versions of SQL Server 7.0 can be confusing, so we thought a brief marketing-free summary might be helpful to readers. We begin at the high end with SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition, which works only if you've installed Windows NT Server...
ActiveX Data Object (ADO) is Microsoft's latest data access object model. ADO 2.0 and Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.0 are part of Microsoft's Universal Data Access (UDA) strategy...
Q: SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 4 (SP4) won't install on my system. I downloaded it three times, so I know the problem is not a corrupt file. Do you have a solution?
Here's what Neil Pike, a Microsoft Valua...
Connection pooling, which Microsoft introduced in Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 3.0, lets an ODBC application reuse a connection within the same shared environment (henv) without having to perform the complete connection process. In addition ...
Linked servers are a new feature in SQL Server 7.0 that lets you do distributed heterogeneous queries. (Distributed means on multiple machines and heterogeneous means different data sources. SQL Server 6.5 supported heterogeneous replication, but...
SQL Server Security Modes and SMS
You can set up SQL Server with one of three security modes: standard, integrated, or mixed. The method you use to enter the SQL Server login determines the security mode you use. But whichever security mode you u...