This article covers the deployment of various Duwamish Online components on a multi-computer server farm. The configuration of the server farm should be set up according to the needs and requirements of the Web site.

A new Microsoft article, "FIX: Query Performance Slower When Client Locale Differs from Server Locale," explains a fix for a known SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services problem. When you query an By Kathy Blomstrom – Analysis Services server from a client that uses a different locale than that o

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows® CE Edition (SQL Server CE) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications that extend enterprise data management capabilities to Windows CE devices. Because SQL Server CE applications run on Windows CE devices, they naturally inherit the li

By Michael Otey – XML, the hottest Web technology going these days, is a key part of SQL Server 2000. Although most of SQL Server's new XML-integration capabilities are part of the base SQL Server 2000 product, others are add-ons that are part of the XML for SQL Server 2000 Web Release (which yo

Microsoft SQL Server has been using bitmaps internally to speed up query execution since version 7.0. With the introduction of new operators in SQL Server 2000, further bitmap filtering techniques can now be applied for even faster query results from large data sets.

Here are a few questions answered by Brian Moran from Sql Magazine.

Building and deploying successful large-scale database applications requires many skills such as business analysis and modeling, project management, application design and development, testing, deployment and ongoing operations. Planning in advance is one of the best ways to guarantee success, and

By Mark Catanese While working with Windows 2000 Professional, I discovered an incredible time-saver—the Run As command. If you don't give users local administrative rights, you'll benefit enormously from this command.

Microsoft's new Office 2000 Developer Tools Service Patch 2 (SP2) updates the Workflow Designer for SQL Server to support SQL Server 2000 and includes the latest updates for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) tools. Office 2000 Developer SP2 offers several installation options; simply downl

Windows NT has the Network client creation utility (ncadmin.exe) that lets you create floppy disks that have network support. Microsoft dropped this utility in Win2K and replaced it with Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS). However, ncadmin.exe still works under Win2K. You can copy the foll