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Microsoft Demos New SQL Server Features at PASS
Microsoft today previewed the ability to centrally manage applications and resources in the planned upgrade of SQL Server, code-named "Kilimanjaro."
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The company introduced the centralized app and system management capability at the annual Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Conference, being held this week in Seattle. Though PASS is an independent user association, Microsoft typically has [...] -
Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL On Debian Etch
GreenSQL (or greensql-fw) is a firewall for MySQL databases that filters SQL injection attacks. It works as a reverse proxy, i.e., it takes the SQL queries, checks them, passes them on to the MySQL database and delivers back the result from the MySQL database. It comes with a web interface (called greensql-console) so that you [...]
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I will also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix. The resulting [...]
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I will also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database used by Postfix. The resulting [...]
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Successor to SQL 2008 is codenamed "Kilimanjaro"
Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Services division at Microsoft, announced the successor to SQL 2008; codenamed SQL Server "Kilimanjaro" and SQL Self Service Analysis codenamed "Gemini" today at the Teched EMEA 2008 IT Pro keynote.
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Christian Petculescu, principal architect for the SQL team, was invited to stage. He demo’d SQL "gemini", loading million [...] -
Load-Balanced High-Availability Web Cluster With 2 Xen Servers On Ubuntu 8.04
In this howto we will build a load-balanced and high-availability web cluster on 2 real servers with Xen, hearbeat and ldirectord. The cluster will do http, mail, DNS, MySQL database and will be completely monitored. This is currently used on a production server with a couple of websites. The goal of this tutorial is to [...]
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Load-Balanced High-Availability Web Cluster With 2 Xen Servers On Ubuntu 8.04
In this howto we will build a load-balanced and high-availability web cluster on 2 real servers with Xen, hearbeat and ldirectord. The cluster will do http, mail, DNS, MySQL database and will be completely monitored. This is currently used on a production server with a couple of websites. The goal of this tutorial is to [...]
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Microsoft taps Dell to build Azure cloud
One of the companies that cares about cloud computing, of course, is Dell, which is thrilled to have been picked to be the sole provider of the hardware infrastructure and related data center design services for Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform, an alternative to the EC2 cloud computing effort created by Amazon that Microsoft announced this [...]