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Comment Back in the distant past of 2003 the threats were different - viruses, spam, hackers, SQL Slammer and so on. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware.
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment In Unicenter [CA's systems management service], there are technologies that measure in great detail database performance, down to the level of identifying poorly-written SQL statements that are slowing down performance," says Simon Perry, CA's...
[10 Dec 2007]
Comment Its suite of business intelligence products not only includes Excel 2007 and Excel services (offering collaborative, security and versioning features) but also SQL Integration, analysis and reporting services and PerformancePoint Server 2007...
[18 Jul 2007]
Comment Microsoft is also fundamentally positioning SQL Server 2005's latest data integration, OLAP, reporting capabilities and data integration tools on an equal footing with other best-of-breed BI tools. However, whilst sales of Office 2007 to a vast...
[01 Dec 2006]
Comment It is a good deal easier if only ANSI SQL has been used but few organisations actually constrain themselves in that way. The EU should stand firm on advocating independent, open standards for software - despite the new offence Microsoft appears to...
[15 Nov 2005]
Leader Microsoft is upping its enterprise credentials with the launch today of its latest database, SQL Server 2005. Today we heard CIOs using the new SQL Server praise its reliability and scalability. The database is so critical to every enterprise and...
[07 Nov 2005]
Comment They've had business-intelligence tools in SQL Server for a while, though with limited results. But now they're upgrading SQL Server 2005, and going after the small and medium-sized markets. Microsoft being a company that drives one database - SQL...
[24 Aug 2005]
Comment What we are doing right now is focused on the application side, so SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio System 2005 are the big ones. Nowadays, he's in the midst of testing out new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio.
[15 Dec 2004]
Comment The technology skills most in demand for IT projects have remained fairly static over the past couple of years and include the usual suspects such as SQL, Unix, C++, C#, .Net and J2EE, internet and web, security, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Cisco...
[01 Dec 2004]
Comment My SQL makes money by selling commercial licences to businesses that want full-service treatment, want to use MySQL in a commercial product, and by charging for support. My SQL is particularly well suited for websites, its most popular use...
[22 Nov 2004]
Leader Since it set up seven years ago, it has settled on Dell hardware, including the latest blades, a Microsoft platform (made up of Windows, SQL Server database and the .Net web services architecture) and Vodafone for wireless connectivity to fleets...
[16 Nov 2004]
Comment Anyway, we decided that we could integrate that and get a lot of the navigational benefits, and that the really deep benefits have to do with database style system unification - bringing the SQL language and all of the XML access stuff together.
[31 Aug 2004]
Comment The difference between SQL and XML is the same as explaining to an executive how invoices can be filed better as compared to ensuring that the recipient of an invoice can easily understand and act on it.
[18 Aug 2003]
Comment Maybe an open source database or maybe extend NonStop SQL from HP to support other platforms. BEA WebLogic 8.1 has just gone GA. This gave BEA the opportunity to have a customer rah-rah session. The main messages were:
[11 Aug 2003]
Comment Then along came Microsoft and, if you listened to most press comment (or the lack of it), you would think that there were only two of the first list left, plus Microsoft's SQL Server. If you saw the film Back To The Future Part 2 you may remember...
[23 Jun 2003]
Comment Bye-bye SQL? There are some signs that suppliers are moving away from SQL. Although it may seem a no-brainer today, SQL took some time to get established with by no means all vendors subscribing to the notion of a common database query language.
[19 May 2003]
Comment If this server OS - in all its seven incarnations - and the simultaneously released Visual Studio .Net 2003 and SQL Server 2000 64-bit version are better for a bit more attention, let's not knock it. Microsoft has come out with a major product...
[24 Apr 2003]
Comment At the conference this week, MVPs discussed the SQL Server Slammer worm that slowed internet traffic in the last week of January, as well as the overall problem of applying security patches. One of the primary concerns: customers used software that...
[14 Feb 2003]
Comment The small but malicious Sapphire worm rapidly exploited a six-month-old flaw in Microsoft SQL Server database software. For a variety of reasons, however, companies with Microsoft SQL Server software didn't apply the patches.
[27 Jan 2003]
Comment Naturally, it's more intrinsically tied to the likes of Outlook, with its email and calendar options, and SQL Server, Microsoft's database. Microsoft last week unveiled further details about its CRM product that should hit the shelves towards the...
[22 Jul 2002]
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