Microsoft recruits white hat hackers

Microsoft employs some of the best hackers in the world and actively recruits them and develops them.

They work on all kinds of projects, whether it be in development, research, testing, management and of course security

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/hackers/

SQL Server free tools by Idera

Personally I have not tried this. Hope it would be an useful reference.

 

http://www.idera.com/products/SQLcheck/

 

SQL Server 2008 Katmai,

Today I had attended first webinar on SQL Server 2008.  Eventhough the net was slow and voice was breaking somehow I managed to follow that.

 

Some of the key concepts are:

 

1. Enterprise Data Platform

2. Beyond Rational

3. Dynamic Development

4. Pervasive Insight

 

 

Links:

1. To download the SQL server katmai CTP:

    http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx

 

2. SQL server best practices:

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/default.mspx

 

Some of the Features that are very interesting:

1.FileStream data type : We can save word, excel, audio, video files etc. into sql server itself. In SQL Server 2005 to achive the same functionality we need to sql varbinary(MAX) data type which stores everything in binary format.

With the help of filestream format we can handle File System objects in sql server itself & sql server supports ACID properties on this.

 

2. Separate date & time datatypes along with the existing datetime data type, and also a new datatype called datetime2 to store maximum dates.

 

 

 

 

 

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Properties of WebMethod() Attribute

The 6 properties of WebMethod Attribute are

Description
MessageName
EnableSession 
CacheDuration
TransactionOption
BufferResponse

<WebMethod(Description:="This Method add two integer")>
Public Function Add(ByVal Num1 As Integer, ByVal Num2 As Integer) As Integer
Return Num1 + Num2
End Function