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No one likes it. No one talks about it. We live in denial of the heap building in the corner, but eventually we must deal with the garbage. I'm writing about component memory management—not the stack of pizza boxes that collected in the dark...
If you don't know about Microsoft's Software Assurance (SA) program, now's the time to start learning. This fall, SA is coming to a SQL Server near you...
A US Senate committee is currently debating the ability of individual companies to self-regulate Internet privacy. The question is whether more legislation will better control what companies collect and disseminate of an online user's private...
In my June 21 commentary, I discussed SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and shared some thoughts about service packs in general. I heard from many readers who disagreed with my advice. Crafty consultants never admit they were wrong. Let's just...
I'm a devoted reader of Itzik Ben-Gan's T-SQL Black Belt column, but the following passage from "Sorting Techniques" (April 2001) confused me: "Note that the Publishers table is very small. If the table were bigger, the optimizer might choose not...
Congratulations to Emmanuel Nanchen, analyst/programmer at Manpower Switzerland, and Vishal Gupta, a data architect and DBA at Nexgenix in Irvine, California. Emmanuel won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the July Reader Challenge...
It's here! In November 2000, we released Beta 1 of .NET Framework, and on June 20, we made Beta 2 publicly available. If you attended TechEd in Atlanta, you received both Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework. Those who weren't able to attend...
With Microsoft's .NET technology platforms and XML Web services, you can create a seamless information environment that lets users stay connected to their information wirelessly from any mobile device. Whether the data users need is on the...
In my last column, I discussed Microsoft's newest SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark score, in which a 32-CPU Unisys ES7000 running SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 outperformed a 64-CPU Sun ES10000 running Oracle. I...
Dump the UNIX tax? That's what Unisys recommended when the company announced its newest SQL Server benchmark results on June 12. SQL Server crossed an important threshold on the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark when...