September 2009 - Posts

• SQL Server Rootkits: Security Scare or Nightmare?

  Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:12 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  How many DBAs, I wonder, really know how to go about detecting potential rootkits in their SQL Servers? To install a simple database rootkit is an easier task than you might imagine, and once it's there it can be very difficult to uncover, as it goes Read More by Tony Davis | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• The ORM Brouhaha

  Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:21 PM | 19 Comments
  
  

  What is wrong with benchmarking software? Not much, you’d have thought. A while back, Laila Lotfi wrote an editorial on the need for a standard benchmark for Object-Relational mappers, such as Entity Framework and nHibernate. By how much do they Read More by Tony Davis | 19 Comments | Comment on this post