A year after releasing Windows 2000, Microsoft finally released its Win2K-based Small Business Server (SBS) 2000 suite, which includes heavy hitters SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA)...
As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Microsoft must be blushing a lot these days. No sooner did Oracle and Sun Microsystems finish lambasting Microsoft's new .NET Framework than each company launched its own Internet...
The first two lines of the format file contain the version number of the bulk copy program (bcp) that the format file was created to use (8.0 for SQL Server 2000's bcp) and the number of data columns in the data file, respectively. Each remaining...
Upgrading your Web site? Time for change
My two previous columns introduced the Simple API for XML (SAX), a programming interface for applications that need to parse XML documents. Recall that SAX is a lightweight alternative to XML Document Object Model (XMLDOM) parsers. SAX is...
Microsoft's new Office 2000 Developer Tools Service Patch 2 (SP2) updates the Workflow Designer for SQL Server to support SQL Server 2000 and includes the latest updates for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) tools. Office 2000 Developer SP2...
Consider the following scenario. Your customer has a Web-based reporting system that uses client-side Internet Explorer (IE) data islands. The current version pulls all the records to the client at once and uses Extensible Style Language...
A 6-way server and management-tool package...
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