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Join the SQL 2000 SP4 beta!

To join the beta program for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), you must fill out and submit a survey before you can gain access to the beta files. To access the survey, follow these steps.

1.	Visit the following Microsoft Beta Web site: https://beta.microsoft.com Note You must have a Microsoft Passport account to access this Web site.
2.	Type s2ksp4 as the Guest ID. Note: The Guest ID is case-sensitive.
3.	Under You are Enrolled in the Following Beta Programs, click SQL Server 2000 SP4.
4.	Expand Survey in the left pane, click SQL Server 2000 SP4 Nomination, and then complete the survey.

After you have submitted the survey, you should receive an e-mail message within 48 hours with additional information about how to access the Beta files and the instructions for how to submit bugs. The SQL Server Development Team is looking forward to your feedback on this Beta.

Help the victims of the earthquake in Asia and Africa!

Help us help the victims of the earthquake
DMXzone wishes to express our deepest sympathy over the disaster caused by the earthquakes and tsunami in South Asia and Africa. To help the relief effort we are donating 20% of all revenues from extension sales this week to the victims in South Asia and Africa. So the more extensions you buy the more we can help Asia.

To which account is the money transferred?
The money will be donated to the SHO (via giro 555 in the Netherlands) a foundation formed by the cooperation of major relief efforts such as UNICEF, Novib, Tear Fund, Terres des Hommes.

So be generous and buy a DMXzone extension before the 14th and you'll donate 20% to the victims in Asia and Africa!

MySQL beta of enterprise open source database soon to be released?

According to InfoWorld MySQL is expected to to release a beta version of its MySQL 5.0 open source database, which  features enterprise-level functionality such as stored procedures and triggers.

As part of stored procedures capabilities, Version 5.0 also adds server-side cursor support to boost scaling by moving more program execution to the server.

Noel Yuhanna, senior industry analyst at Forrester Research who recently published a report on open source databases described version 5.0 as critical for MySQL.

Microsoft Readies 'A1' Security Subscription Service

According to Microsoft-Watch, Microsoft is planning to introduce a new subscription service code-named "A1". It is unknown yet if Microsoft will use the technology from anti-virus vendor GeCAD and anti-spyware maker Giant Company Software last month.

Microsoft officials have said the company is planning to make some form of its anti-spyware product available as a free tool. But that isn't the ultimate plan, partner sources said.

Microsoft is currently expecting to field its A1 anti-spyware/anti-virus bundle in the form of a renewable subscription service, the same way a number of other security vendors do, sources said. The service will allow users to keep current on the code needed to combat ever-changing viruses, worms, spybots and the like.

SQLite Database which one is the fastest?

The race is on at sqlite.org where they conduct a series of speed tests for Linux databses using SQLite 2.7.6, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, and MySQL 3.23.41.

SQLite finish first, MySQL is the runner up, with PostgreSQL trailing the pack.

Note to Access users: MySQL can do 25,000 inserts in two seconds. SQLite can do it in less than one second. While Access is great for desktop work, I shudder to think how it would stack up in this test.

The new Macromedia Flash Player for Linux has been released

The new Macromedia Flash Player for Linux has been released, download it here.

Evil Google worm searches for phpBB-scripts

You'd better watch out ..... almost 40,000 sites may have already been recently infected with a web worm that identifies potential victims by searching Google for compromised systems!

The Santy worm uses a flaw in the widely used community forum software PHP Bulletin Board (phpBB) to propagate.

Hope this Santy worm is squashed soon!

Microsoft wishes Firefox a secure Xmas

Microsoft Internet Explorer has it's fans. One claims that Firefox isn't as safe as people tend to think. Although the writer states that IE might have its own security issues, he reckons that Firefox has some pretty significant problems of its own.

He doesn't like downloading it from the mirror site, and warns about security issues such as backdoors during the installation process.

Is it a myth, substance or huge flame war?

Even more discount, and not only for Xmas?

Extra discount when you have a couple of extensions that happen to form an extra bundle you get extra bundle discount that can add up to 35% when buying another bundle! Note that the extra discount will be displayed when you purchase button.

E-book Competition Winners Announced

Thanks to everyone who has already taken part in the DMXzone User Survey.

As we announced last week, we'd be giving away 5 copies of our new e-book PHP Web Applications for Dreamweaver: Juicy Solutions for the Busy Developer to five lucky participants, and we're pleased to announce that congratulations (and a copy of the e-book) go out to:

 Sabuko Sabuko, Lorie Miller, Phil Cady, Tiffany Licorish and Seaghan Moriarty.

Well done!

Our survey is still running though, so if you want to help shape the DMXzone site we'd love you to take part.

Take part in the DMXzone User Survey here >