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The recent flurry of projects based around Internet Relay Chat (IRC) should be a fair indication that the beloved protocol is not going anywhere. Now, thanks to [Mike Chambers], you can add to the IRC ...

When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company's bid to oust Oracle and ...

A recently-revealed security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Information Server may have been over-hyped, according to testing figures from a UK-based Internet research firm. Netcraft's figures also ...

I may be up for a job that runs SQL Server, so I tried to install it on my machine so I could get familiar with it. Looks like it won't install on XP. Well, the server part at least, which is all I ...

Server is a dual 3.4ghz Xeon w/ 4GB of RAM running Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2000 Standard. Nothing runs on the box other than SQL Server. DB-wise, just the db I'm having problems with [we'll call ...