Ars Technica

Automatic patching and SQL Server

<p>eWeek has an article up discussing the possibility of Microsoft including automatic patching in the next version of SQL Server. The article is unclear about what exactly this would entail, but it ...
Network World

Patching an entire server farm

I am new to the company where I work and responsible for the patch management process, before I started here there was none. Now I have implemented a patch management process, but we have a server ...
Business Wire

Blue Lane Announces the Industry's First Inline Patch Proxy That Instantly Fixes Enterprise Server Vulnerabilities; Mitigates Operational Risks of Patching Now and Security ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2005--Blue Lane(TM) Technologies Inc. today announced the PatchPoint(TM) System, a breakthrough product, that delivers the industry's first inline patch ...
Computerworld

Microsoft patches hole in SQL Server

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday released a patch for a security hole in its SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 databases that could allow an attacker to execute code of their choice on an affected system by exploiting ...
Ars Technica

Server patching "best practices"?

Years ago I started with just one Win 2000 server. I felt that the "right thing" to do before patching a server was to:<BR><BR>1) Backup the C: partition with Ghost or NTBackup [involves a ...