Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000, its flagship database product, to manufacturing and announced that more than 100 enterprise customers will be going live with the system over the next three months.
But that technology still must rely ultimately on an IT administrator, who maintains it after receiving notification from the affected system by email, pager or personal digital assistant. Fundamentally we have to invent and architect systems that...
SQL uses a keep-alive mechanism to distinguish between active and passive instances but the flaw means that if a particular data packet is sent to the SQL Server 2000 keep-alive function, it will reply to the sender with an identical packet.
We are currently experiencing problems that may cause online banking to operate more slowly than normal," the message stated. More than 120,000 computers became infected by a worm over the weekend which brought the internet to a standstill for many...
You can then use the most appropriate communication tool instead of, for example, being unprepared to leave a voicemail message. In a more complex application, you can receive a text message from a mobile phone, send more instant messages to...
Use the ‘out of office’ function to mange people’s expectation about your availability and switch off the ‘new mail notification’. Your goal should be to send the right message, right first time. Ask yourself ‘is email the best medium for my...