Where did you find that quote ?

There is a link to MDAC Security Bulletin on http://www.microsoft.com/data

Thats an interesting article, KB307255. Thanks for pointing it out.

I also liked the section "Special Considerations for Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Later Versions of Windows" as we just...

These are standard roles. I'm not sure what and how to use application roles. I'm looking for information, guidance, best practices. The more the better.

Currently,...

If you wanted to see if a database is still be used, you could create a Agent job, that records the @@Total_Write and @@Total_Read for a database along with the...

Add this to the very end of your script and run it.

print right('00' + @tmonth,2)

The beauty of the getPrivateProfileString is that you can either read all section names, all items in a section (which is what you want), or the value of a specific...

Basically you need to call the system API's the api will return to you all the items in a section or a specific item in a section.

I looked on msdn...

FWIW,

I have also used BrenBart suggestion of using comcheck to do an uninstall of MDAC. This only works on the 2.6 and 2.7 releases as 2.5 can not...

I've not personally experience any 2.6 "Bugs".

According to the author of "ADO.Net and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers" ISBN: 1-893115-68-2 the new objects in Mdac...

In order to debug sp's the sqlserver service must be started with a user account vs the local system.