Migration

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.

MTS in the Middle

By Ken Spencer

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 Q & A: Answers from Microsoft

By Richard Waymire

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

Reader to Reader: The Business Intelligence Boom

By James Drover

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

Rumors and Facts

By Michael Otey

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

Inside SQL Server: Indexing and Locking

By Kalen Delaney

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

SQL Server Statistics: A Useful Query Optimizer Tool

By Kalen Delaney

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

Database Replication Components

By Michael Otey

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.

SQL Insider: Data Mining Goes Mobile

By Hugh Willoughby-Davis

Is there a market for SQL Server lite?

T-SQL For Starters: Data Type Details

By Michael D. Reilly

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

By Karen Watterson

Microsoft has identified healthcare as a vertical market.

What's in SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 1

By Andrey Kruchkov

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.

VB Toolkit: ADO or the Data Environment?

By Ken Spencer

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.

SQL By Design: The Foreign Key

By Michelle A. Poolet

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.

The Power of Two: Office 2000 and SQL Server 7.0

By Rick Dobson

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

Migrating from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0

By Brian Lawton

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

Mastering OLAP: Member Properties

By Russ Whitney

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

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