As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

This mini web server is slightly smaller than a business card. There are a lot of tiny one-board servers out there, but this is probably the smallest you can etch and solder at home. Unlike many ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...