SQL Server Magazine

Evaluating Remote Storage and Backup Options

Check out data-replication and data-caching options for configuring storage at remote offices.

Reducing Traffic on Your T1 Connection

Limiting email attachment size and using data compression are two methods for reducing traffic over your T1 connection.

Ask Dr. Bob: Increasing Storage: To Snap or Not to Snap

A reader wonders whether a Snap Server is the best solution to increase storage for a project that involves SQL Server.

Troubleshooting the AT Command

Why can’t this reader use the NT AT command any more? Dr. Bob offers a possible solution.

As I understand it, Windows NT 4.0 replication lets you automatically duplicate changes that you make to a file on one computer to identical files on another computer or on multiple computers. But how do you set up replication, and how does it work?

Figuring Out Replication

Learn how replication works in Windows NT 4.0.

My company uses two Microsoft Access 97 databases to log bugs and customer complaints. We can't locate the consultant who built these databases. We need to upgrade the databases to Access 2000, but we don't have the administrator password. What can we do?

Database Upgrades

Learn a workaround for upgrading a Microsoft Access 97 database to an Access 2000 database when you don't have an administrative password.

Ask Dr. Bob

Find out about the Net Computer utility, open-port prevention, TrackPoint madness, Oracle memory limitations, video-card resolution tips, source-control tools, hard disk upgrade kits, and a SQL Server workaround.