Microsoft Announces a New Security Program

Microsoft has announced a new security program to help system administrators secure their sites. Worth a read.

New Certification - MS System Administrator

Microsoft has announced a new certification for system administrators. This is below an MCSE, but includes an elective which may be SQL Server.

Improve System Performance in Your Indexing Scheme Using Asynchronous

The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL data, wherever you are.

Transactional Replication Performance Tuning and Optimization

This paper examines performance in transactional replication and demonstrates ways in which you can improve the performance of your applications. (30 printed pages)

COM+ Application Guidelines for Visual Basic Development

This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.

Pre-Sliced Peanut Butter

Pre-sliced peanut butter is on its way to U.S. store shelves in test markets - fact or fiction??

SQL Spy Releases as OpenSource

Download the source code today for a great method for SQL Server live monitoring.

Using AWE Memory in SQL Server 2000

Learn how to take advantage of AWE memory to boost the performance of SQL Server 2000.

SQL Server Gets Java Support

Microsoft has liscensed JDBC drivers to be included with SQL Server.

Managing Spatial Information with SQL Server

You already know how to use SQL Server to manage your core business data, now learn how to leverage this knowledge to manage your "spatial" data.

DATE: September 25, 2001
TIME: 2:00pm ET, 6:00pm GMT
DURATION: 40 minutes, including questions & answers at the end

With SpatialWare for SQLServer, you now have the ability to manipulate spatial objects and store them inside of SQL Server allowing you to share information across the enterprise.