SQL Server Magazine August 1999

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This issue alerts you to compatibility conflicts you'll encounter in migrating from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0. This month also features SQL Server 7.0's query optimizer tool and what's in SQL Server 7.0's Service Pack 1.
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[Focus]

Migrating from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0

The SQL Server Magazine migration alerts you to compatibility conflicts you'll encounter in migrating from SQL Sever 6.5 to 7.0




[Features]

MTS in the Middle

Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) is a powerful middleware system for NT that manages objects and transaction processing. Here's how you can use MTS as an interface between COM objects and applications that use them.

SQL Server Statistics: A Useful Query Optimizer Tool

SQL Server 7.0's improved query optimizer generates statistics from index and column.

The Power of Two: Office 2000 and SQL Server 7.0

Office 2000 brings in new capabilities, including a new file type, to take SQL Server data across the office.

What's in SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 1

If you have waited to implement a new version of your corporate database until Microsoft released its first service pack, now is the time to start using SQL Server 7.0.




[Columns]

Inside SQL Server: Indexing and Locking

One of the most touted new features of SQL Server 7.0 is its ability to do true row-level locking.

Mastering OLAP: Member Properties

Member Properties let you increase the amount and type of information available for analysis in a data cube.

SQL By Design: The Foreign Key

A foreign key is an integral part of relational database design. It establishes relationships between tables, and it makes possible the procedures that cross-reference data stored in separate tables in the database.

T-SQL For Starters: Data Type Details

Every column in a table must have a defined data type that controls the values you can enter into that column. Learn how user-defined data types can add a level of consistency and control to your projects.

Trends & Insights: Healthcare, BI, and Data Mining

Microsoft has identified healthcare as a vertical market.

VB Toolkit: ADO or the Data Environment?

The Data Environment's graphical nature and tools makes it easy to create data applications without having to remember a lot of technical details about the underlying ADO code.




[Departments]

Reader to Reader: The Business Intelligence Boom

Companies are focusing significant development resources toward business intelligence, which is becoming a core component of many IS departments.

SQL Insider: Data Mining Goes Mobile

Is there a market for SQL Server lite?

SQL Server Q & A: Answers from Microsoft

This month's topics include aliases in SQL Server 7.0, DTC service errors, restoring database users, foreign-key levels, and network packet size.




[Editorial]

Rumors and Facts

What does Microsoft have up its sleeve? Senior technical editor Michael Otey speculates on the company's product development plans.




[SQL Seven]

Database Replication Components

Here's a look at SQL Server's seven core database replication components, which let database changes propagate across a LAN or WAN connection to target systems.