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This week, Microsoft and Unisys announced that SQL Server 2000 running on a Unisys ES7000 server set a new world record for the Transaction Processing Performance Council's (TPC's) nonclustered, single-server (scale-up) TPC-C benchmark. The test...
Are you preparing to start a new project that requires massive database horsepower? Do you suspect that SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 will get the job done at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions? Are you getting push-back from the...
Congratulations to Brian Andrews, systems consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Washington, D.C., and Pete Spencer, technical consultant for business intelligence at London, U.K.-based Conchango. Brian won first prize of $100 for the best...
A. This error indicates that you've tried to use IEAK 6 without first installing Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6, which the IEAK requires to access the updated wininet.dll file. To fix the problem, simply install IE 6. See Microsoft's Web site...
The October T-SQL Tutor Project contained nine practice questions that use my example TSQLTutorJoins database and SQL Server's sample pubs database.
You can find the answers to those questions in Listing A.
The old axiom "a picture is worth a thousand words" certainly holds true in the world of business intelligence (BI) and data analysis. Imagine a cross-tab grid of numbers on several pages of a printed document. Now imagine a visual presentation of...
I'm a VB guy who's never written a Windows service until recently. In the past, only C++ programmers had the pleasure of creating Windows NT services. But by using Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), I now have the power and ability to create a Windows...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to SQL Server Magazine’s monthly, Web-only series of SQL Server tips brought to you by the Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). Microsoft introduced the MVP program in the 1990s to recognize...