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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...
Microsoft has released the new low-cost version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition, slashing the price from $499 to $49. Designed for developers, SQL Server Developer Edition has all the functionality of SQL Server 2000 Enterprise...
All SQL Server 2000 customers should have upgraded their production systems to Service Pack 3 (SP3) by now for protection against the Slammer worm and other security vulnerabilities. But Microsoft recently released SP3a without much fanfare. What...
Andreas Junstream of @Stake discovered that three new vulnerabilities exist in SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) and MSDE 1.0, the most serious of which can result in the execution of arbitrary code on the...