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Microsoft fixes DNS flaw but warns of Word attacks

Microsoft is warning that a Word flaw is being used for targeted attacks, and has also issued four 'important' patches, including one for a potentially serious DNS flaw in the latest Patch Tuesday bulletin. Read more »

Zend Web tools adapted for Windows

Zend has signed a partnership with Microsoft to improve its open-source PHP software for creating dynamic Web pages, the companies announced Tuesday. Read more »

Microsoft: No more five-year waits for SQL Server

Microsoft's SQL Server development team learned a hard lesson from its work on SQL Server 2005: Customers do not want to wait five years for an upgrade. Read more »

Microsoft XML guru sees power for the people

For some insight into how Microsoft plans to drive upgrades of its nearly ubiquitous Office desktop application suite, talk to Jean Paoli. Read more »

Microsoft may offer peek at SQL Server code

Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft's turf? Read more »

Microsoft announces free multi-core support

Microsoft has announced that it will not charge more for software licences for machines with multi-core processors than it will for those with one core. Read more »

IBM to make Java database open source

Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialised Java database, CNET News.com has learned. Read more »

Firm offers new tools for database security

Security software developer Guardium is expected to formally announce Monday a new suite of integrated security applications for databases, a market that's gaining traction in the current regulatory environment. Read more »

IBM fires up new Stinger

IBM today quietly released an update for the beta program of their upcoming DB2 release, code-named "Stinger". Read more »

MySQL database coming to Itanium 2

MySQL this week have released a version of its popular open-source database which will run on high-end servers from Hewlett Packard. Read more »

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Script Table definitions using TSQL

Generating scripts in SQL Server using TSQL has never been easy. This article will show you how you can use TSQL in SQL Server 2005 code to script a table's definition. Read more »

Implementing the Soundex function in C#

For years Microsoft SQL Server has provided developers with a method called Soundex that is used to retrieve an encoded string. Words that sound alike have similar encodings, so you can use this functionality to provide some flexibility in searches. This article shows how to implement Soundex completely in C# without having to use the SQL function. Read more »

Capturing SQL Server 2005 database file size information

It's very important to capture trends of the sizes of your SQL Server 2005 database because it allows you to plan for future space needs, notice types of problems, and plan for time periods of heavy volume. I'll show you the simple method that I use to capture this information. Read more »

Generate synchronisation scripts in SQL Server with TableDiff

DBAs often have to find the differences between lookup tables in different database environments. SQL Server comes with a tool called TableDiff that allows you to easily compare the data in tables. Read more »

Working with LINQ in Visual Studio 2008

We cover how the O/R Designer feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows you to use LINQ to access SQL Server. Read more »

Four cool new features slated for SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 (code named Katmai) is scheduled to launch in February of next year, and the code isn't slated to be released to manufacturing until Q2 2008. But database gurus don't have to wait to get a sense of what's to come because Microsoft recently released SQL Server 2008 to the community for preview. Read more »

Case Study: Powerlan and Application Lifecycle Management

For a company that makes software for a living, having suitable application lifecycle management tools is essential to ensuring a quality outcome for clients. Read more »

Management Bootcamp

The first appointment to a supervisory position is a big step in anyone's career as it marks the beginning of a shift from "doing things" to "getting things done". Read more »

Avoiding Microsoft SQL Server 2005 deployment pitfalls

This tutorial shows you how to properly install Microsoft's SQL Server 2005, avoiding the pitfalls of an unsuccessful deployment. Read more »

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 uncovered

SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions. We'll explain the various editions of SQL Server 2005 take a look at the new management console. Read more »

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