Microsoft to build great wall of Yukon
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is aiming to shore up the security of its SQL Server database management software. The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Yukon," will include a long list of new security-related features when it debuts in 2003, said James Hamilton, SQL Server's design architect. He said that Microsoft's database team spent more than a month auditing the software code for security holes. Yukon will include the ability to more easily add security fixes, Hamilton said. Previously, database administrators had to install patches one at a time, a several-step process in which mistakes could be made, he added.
Microsoft has touted its next-generation database as having new data storage architecture intended to make it easier to find and use corporate data. In fact, a forthcoming version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will use Yukon's data storage capability.