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Microsoft has once again pushed back the date for implementing License 6.0, its new set of licensing options for customers who qualify for volume purchases. The new deadline is July 31, 2002—but after examining the history of this subject, I feel...
This Microsoft SQL Server XML technology Preview demonstrates XML capabilities using SQL Server and IIS. It is an IIS ISAPI extension that provides http access to SQL Server and XML data formatting and updating capabilities. Please take special...
Congratulations to Ronel Fernandez, software engineer at R Systems in El Dorado Hills, California, and Brian J. Parker, systems coordinator at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Health System. Ronel won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the February...
I talked with Gordon Mangione, Microsoft vice president for SQL Server,after his keynote address at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Denver. An upcoming issue of SQL Server Magazine UPDATE will feature some of the...
When using a sqlclient conection where you have to supply the datasource name, uid and password. what would be the best way to obtain this information without hard coding it into your connect string. I am assuming that if you use NT authentication...
Here's a comforting thought if you're mired in the hell of constant Windows upgrades: Microsoft will likely significantly delay the next two OS generations (Windows .NET Server—formerly code-named "Whistler"—and Windows "Longhorn"). The company...
"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry proclaimed those words 227 years ago. And now this rallying cry comes from SuperDBA, who manages a monster SQL Server database that gobbles memory the way the Doomsday Machine from "Star Trek"...
To access the demonstration scripts from Kalen Delaney’s SQL Server Magazine LIVE! Webinar "SQL Server Internals for Troubleshooting and Tuning: Part 2—Tracing Your SQL Server Applications," January 25, 2002, just click...