SQL Server Magazine May 1998

[Focus]
Optimize SMS components, including SP3, SQL Server, software distribution function, history files, inventory function, RAS clients, and SMS Administrator machines.
By Stephen Garwood
Proper use of variables and ActiveX components in your Web applications and IIS 4.0's built-in performance tuning tools can help you get the most from your Web presence.
By Ken Spencer
Tips for preventing MTS from overburdening your network.
By Charles Caison
Configure the RAS/DUN service and tweak TCP/IP settings to increase the speed and reliability of RAS sessions.
By Sean Daily
Do you want your SQL Server to run faster? Use these tips for profiling the peformance of your data-access applications.
By Brian Moran
[Feature]
Microsoft's ILS helps users with dynamic IP addresses track down one another.
By Douglas Toombs
The database structure in Exchange is unique, and the databases can't function optimally unless they receive regular attention. Here's how to give the Information Store's databases the care that will keep them in top form.
By Tony Redmond
In mixed NT and NetWare networks, this traffic cop brings network traffic to a screeching halt. Here are three methods to keep traffic flowing.
By Craig Zacker
SMS SP2 greatly improves the PCM service. Now you can distribute applications to user desktops without user interaction or intervention.
By Tom Amrhein
Share your NT discoveries, comments, problems, solutions, and experiences with products and reach out to other Windows NT Magazine readers (including Microsoft).
By Readers
Learn how to alter your Windows NT system configuration to make tasks easier.
By John Savill
In this final installment, you'll use LoadSim to run tests and interpret the results.
By Greg Todd
[Reader Challenge]
By Kathy Ivens
[Editorial]
By Mark Smith
[Internals]
Gain basic knowledge of NT security policies and procedures and make the right choices to protect your system.
By Mark Russinovich
[Product Reviews]
By Michael P. Deignan
By Brian Gallagher
By Mark Joseph Edwards
By Mark Joseph Edwards
By John Green
[Lab Notes]
One Lab guy explores reader observations and suggested alternatives in his continued plight with an ISDN line.
By John Enck
[Inside Out]
Successful transmission of a message across the Internet requires cooperation among different protocols on several machines. Here's how POP3 makes email work.
By Mark Minasi
[Getting Started with NT]
User Performance Monitor to analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize your network.
By Michael D. Reilly
[Scripting Solutions]
Perl's powerful text processing capabilities can put you back in control of NT's command line.
By Bob Wells
[SQL Server Savvy]
Find out about email routing agents, triggers, FOREIGN KEY references, @@microsoftversion, hidden objects in EM, ODBC 3.5 connection pooling, suspect databases, transaction batching, tempdb, and SMP optimization.
By Brian Moran , et al.
[This Old Resource Kit]
Here's a tool for quick and easy management of many users.
By Mark Minasi
[Tricks & Traps]
Here's information about using clone versus standard servers, assigning users without user Manager, and using the error checking tools in Disk Administrator.
By Bob Chronister
[News Analysis]
This department focuses on what's new in operating systems, hardware, software, support, scalability, the enterprise and Windows NT's take on the trends in the marketplace.
By Craig Barth
[NT Europe]
By Jonathan Cragle
[Lab Feature]
The 533MHx NT Alpha workstation reviews continue with an examination of three systems.
By Brian Gallagher
This ODBMS product provides an application development environment for building dynamic client/server and Internet applications.
By Karen Watterson
The Lab tests SQL Server on four-and eight-processor systems.
By Carlos Bernal
The Lab's ongoing testing of corporate desktop systems concludes with a look at three products and some thoughts on what the future holds for thin-client technology.
By John Enck
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