SQL Server Magazine August 2001

[Focus]
Safeguard your Web applications by using COM+ components to provide vital authentication and authorization services.
By Ken Spencer
Keep your SQL Server--based applications secure by being aware of what code is getting back to the server at every tier.
By Chip Andrews
[Features]
DTS 2000’s new Dynamic Properties and Execute SQL tasks help programmers zip through package development and testing.
By Larry Barnes
Use SQL Mail to simplify SQL Server 2000 administration and troubleshooting.
By Christopher R. Shaw
Ever find yourself stuck with an assignment to code against poorly designed tables? Learn some tricks that will help you get the data you need from these abnormal tables.
By Jeffrey Bane
[SQL Server Savvy]
Brian Moran answers readers’ questions about tracing events on a selected SQL Server machine, retrieving specified rows within a result set, and more.
By Brian Moran
[Editorial]
Is SQL Server 2000 a true .NET Server? Michael Otey says the relational database management system falls short of meeting all the .NET Server requirements. But the next SQL Server version will fill in the holes.
By Michael Otey
[SQL Server Q&A]
Richard Waymire answers readers’ questions about estimating replication time, changing database names during a restore, and more.
By Richard Waymire
[SQL Seven]
Here are seven cool tools in the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit.
By Michael Otey
[Inside SQL Server]
Try these tips and tricks to keep your indexes working their best.
By Kalen Delaney
[Mastering Analysis]
This column, which continues last month’s discussion of analysis applications, shows you how to build an application that monitors disk usage.
By Russ Whitney
[Solutions by Design]
The rarely used cross join is an option when you need to create a large number of tables.
By Michelle A. Poolet
[T-SQL Black Belt]
Sometimes, the use of an auxiliary table can help you provide shorter, more efficient code than a solution that doesn’t use an auxiliary table.
By Itzik Ben-Gan
[Exploring XML]
In this column, Rich looks at follow-up questions about some of the subjects covered in previous columns such as transforming a recordset into an XML document, querying a column that contains an XML document, and more.
By Rich Rollman
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