It's show time! Two major conferences will take place this fall. The new Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) hosts its first conference, COMPASS '99 (http://www.sqlpass.org) in Chicago, September 29 through...
The Microsoft Access Upsizing Tools 97, originally available in January 1997, was updated in late February to work with SQL Server 7.0. The update saves you the trouble of having to do a two-step upsizing procedure...
The February-March issue of Gartner-Group's ExecutivEdge (www.ee-online.com) newsletter predicts that "By Y2K, 80 percent of Type A enterprises will implement an intranet portal (0.8 probability)." In Gartner parlance...
SQL Server 7.0's SP1 will reportedly support Windows Terminal Server (WTS). In the meantime, IBM's DB2 Universal Database (UDB) client will work with Microsoft WTS. However, all users must share the same DB2 instance ...
A management hot button that you're probably familiar with is enterprise resource planning (ERP). Previously associated only with manufacturing firms, ERP has become an all-encompassing term that describes the...
