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Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server
Microsoft wants SQL Server to scale new heights, and it is hoping an add-on code-named Kilimanjaro will help. Read more »
BusinessWeek site hacked
Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US. Read more »
Microsoft fixes eight critical flaws with four patches
Microsoft on Tuesday released its September 2008 security bulletin summary.The four bulletins concern Windows GDI+, Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Office OneNote. All are rated critical by Microsoft. There is no cumulative patch for Internet Explorer this month. Read more »
Microsoft relaxes virtualisation rules
Microsoft has eased up its server licensing rules so that organisations can make more efficient use of servers in virtualised environments. Read more »
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008
Microsoft said on Wednesday in the US that it had finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software. Read more »
IBM chides security researchers
Technology giant IBM has taken independent security researchers to task for their role in making information about unpublished computer attacks available in an undisciplined manner. Read more »
When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache
Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software's biggest supporters. Read more »
Google's Blogger number one for malware
Search giant Google has catapulted itself to the top in the ranks of web hosts with the most malware, courtesy of its blogging website Blogger, according to security vendor Sophos. Read more »
Drizzle: MySQL slims down on Aker's diet
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Read more »
Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate
The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year. Read more »
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Using Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
A neat new feature in SQL Server 2008 is the GROUPING SETS clause, which allows you to easily specify combinations of field groupings in your queries to see different levels of aggregated data. This article looks at how you can use the new SQL Server 2008 GROUPING SETS clause to aggregate your data. Read more »
Build an AIR application for your website
Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »
More New SQL Server 2008 Features
Microsoft updates SQL Server on a pretty regular basis. Its newest version, SQL Server 2008, includes some new features not found in older versions. Here's a list of some of them. Read more »
Taking on Twitter with open source software
One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »
Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!
Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. This article discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth properly, and what can be done to correct the problems. Read more »
Enabling the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 replaces NTBackup with a new tool called Windows Server Backup. Be prepared for a learning curve. Read more »
Move SQL Tuning Sets between Oracle instances
SQL Tuning Sets (STS) capture the workload of an Oracle instance. Starting in Oracle 10g Release 2, these tuning sets can be transported from one instance to another to facilitate testing. Read more »
Audit data using SQL Server 2005's COLUMNS_UPDATED function
This article looks at how the SQL Server 2005 COLUMNS_UPDATED function works and then discusses how to parse out the field names. Read more »
New Date Datatypes in SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 provides new data-types for storing wider ranges of dates with more precision. Heres how you can use these new data types to your advantage in SQL Server 2008. 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 »
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Eliminating boilerplate code with LINQ
Jason Zander, general manager of Visual Studio, Microsoft, explains the advantages of using LINQ. Read more »
Working with LINQ in Visual Studio 2008
One of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 is LINQ -- a query language that allows access to SQL databases, XML and local data stores with one interface. Read more »
The missing LINQ
Coming out with the next version of Visual Studio and .NET, LINQ is a new feature that allows developers to iterate through data sources using an SQL-like syntax. Read more »
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Hack attack week
-- It wasn't a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project -- as all were compromised by hackers this week. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5
-- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
The future remains yesterday
-- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
Install Web stacks in an instant with BitNami
-- Need to set up a server environment to run Web applications such as WordPress, MediaWiki, Joomla, Trac, DocuWiki, or Drupal? Here's how to do it in less than two minutes with free software. Read more »
Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation
-- Sun has become its own free software foundation, open sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open source MySQL database for $1 billion in January of this year, as a way to grow its revenue. Read more »
Google App Engine meets Amazon EC2
-- What do you get when you cross Amazon's EC2 on-demand cloud computing infrastructure with Google's new App Exchange foundation for Web applications? Read more »
Feeling fines with Microsoft
-- This week had Microsoft-related news coming at us from left, right and centre -- fines, launches and more Steve Ballmer than you can handle. Read more »
Microsoft says "open sesame"
-- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »
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Mini-Confs Day 2
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007. Read more »
Mini-Confs Day 1
Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics Read more »
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