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...
Microsoft released Notification Services 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a standalone release of Notification Services. If you have an existing installation of Notification Services 2.0, you install SP1 side-by-side, then upgrade existing instances...
SQLServer 2000 Reporting Services promises to fill the only real hole in the SQL Server product—the lack of a built-in reporting component. Once scheduled for release with the Yukon version of SQL Server, this new reporting functionality will now...