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.
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