SQL Server Magazine October 2000

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Microsoft introduced changes in security implemention in SQL Server 7.0. Confusion about the changes led many administrators to leave their security implementation plans unchanged or to leave holes through which unauthorized users can get to the data. In this issue, Morris Lewis demonstrates how you can build a security plan for SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 that's manageable, flexible, and verifiably secure.
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[Focus]

Creating a Manageable Security Plan

Build a security plan for SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7.0 that is manageable, flexible, and verifiably secure.




[Features]

Building a Cube from a Dimensional Database

In a follow-up to his June 2000 article "Relational to Dimensional," the author shows you how to extend a dimensional data mart with preaggregated dimensions and a user-friendly interface.

Modifying Views with INSTEAD OF Triggers

Do you need to create partitioned views that don't meet the requirements for updates? This article, the last in a three-part series about distributed partitioned views, shows you how to create INSTEAD OF triggers to modify the views.

Using the Data Link API

Use the DataLink utility to create an OLE DB management tool that rivals the ODBC Administrator.




[Lab Reports]

SQL Compare 1.14

You can use SQL Compare to find differences in databases rather than scanning code line by line.




[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips

Learn how to implement hierarchical relationships in SQL Server, how to optimize cursor performance, how and when to use the DBCC CONCURRENCYVIOLATION command, and more.




[Editorial]

Diving for Benchmarks

All's fair in love, war, and benchmarks--including challenging TPC-C results. But we all benefit when players concentrate more on database technology and less on corporate intrigue.




[Reader to Reader]

Readers' Tips and Tricks

Readers share their tips for ordering by SQL views, storing SQL Server 7.0 server registrations on a centralized system, and logging third-party applications' transactions.




[SQL Server Q&A]

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Richard Waymire answers questions about running SQL Server on a Win98 machine, setting dateformat, changing compatibility levels, and more.




[SQL Seven]

Know Your RAID Levels

Here's a quick overview of the seven different types of hardware RAID implementations.




[SQL Server/Office Integration]

Dynamic Datasheets

Learn how to publish your SQL Server datasheets with FrontPage 2000.




[Inside SQL Server]

Inside Datetime Data

Learn the ins and outs of the datatime data type.




[Web Dev]

Processing Large XML Files

Check out this Visual Basic COM component for breaking large XML files and streams into manageable chunks for processing.




[Mastering Analysis]

Ready--Get Sets--Go!

SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services has powerful named sets that can help you get more out of your OLAP reports.




[Solutions by Design]

Responsible Denormalization

Learn how to safely and successfully break the design rules of database normalization.




[T-SQL Black Belt]

Finding the Lost Identity

Itzik Ben-Gan presents two solutions--one that readers contributed--for situations in which the @@identity function doesn't reflect the correct identity value.




[News Analysis]

Microsoft Offers SBS 2000 Technology Guarantee

Microsoft will include SQL Server 2000 in the release of Small Business Server (SBS).

Microsoft Releases New SQL Server 2000 Benchmark Scores

SQL Server 2000's new scores comply with the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) requirements that disqualified the company's previous record-setting score.