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The connection string is essential for connecting your ADO database applications to SQL Server. (See also, "Mastering ADO" and "Using a .UDL File from ADO").
These connection-string examples illustrate the seven most common connection scenarios...
Microsoft recently announced a cumulative patch that addresses three new security vulnerabilities in SQL Server: named pipe hijacking, named pipe Denial of Service (DoS), and a new SQL Server buffer-overrun problem. These security holes can lead...
Microsoft has released four Analysis Services-related hotfixes. The supported fixes are intended to correct only the problems described in the following articles. Microsoft recommends applying the fixes only to systems that are experiencing these...
More than a month ago, Microsoft issued a critical security update exhorting users to install a patch that fixed a security vulnerability that the company said, at the time, had yet to be exploited. Microsoft made the patch available thr...
Congratulations to Narasimhan Jayachandran, a database management consultant for HTC Global Services in Troy, Michigan, and Shannon L. Edie, senior database analyst for Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon. Narasimhan...
Don't think that you're responsible for security at your site? Maybe it's not your primary focus, but security, or the lack thereof, is too important for you to ignore just because "it's not my job." In this day and age, we all need to take some...