In the good old days, SQL Server 4.2 manuals were small enough to ship in the box. Back then, you could read all the manuals cover to cover and be reasonably well versed in SQL Server's functionality...
When you develop .NET applications, you use the XmlTextReader class to parse XML documents. Although the .NET Framework provides full XML Document Object Model (DOM) support and Simple API for XML (SAX) classes, XML readers and writers present an...
The Microsoft SQL Server product team is accepting applications for the SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) beta program. Only registered members of this private program will receive the beta version of SP2 for testing and evaluation purposes...
Publicly, Microsoft loves and supports Java. But let's face it, Java is a four-letter word to most people in Redmond. Microsoft architects (especially the .NET folks) probably wouldn't mind if Java and its related platforms simply faded away so...
Congratulations to Marek Skotnica, PC programmer analyst at Nova Hut Ostrava in the Czech Republic, and Nikola Milic, manager of the statistical department at Cyprus-based Tradal. Marek won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the October...
SQL Server 2000's integrated Analysis Services functionality came out on top in several categories in the recent 2001 OLAP Survey, conducted by Survey.com and published by The OLAP Report. The survey asked more than 644 OLAP users from 46...
A few weeks ago, I explained how you could get involved with the SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) beta program. I described how this program could put you on the fast track for the beta program for Yukon, the next release of SQL Server, and...
I often encounter the complaint that accessing production databases is too easy, especially from Enterprise Manager. To make a system both secure and highly available, you need to have administrative change and maintenance processes in place to...