The worm operated by infecting servers or desktops computers that ran Internet-connected SQL Server or Desktop Engine servers, choosing a random IP, and attempting to infect a new host.

After 14 years, its days are finally numbered. The first attempt to replace Jet is the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE). As a scaled-down version of SQL Server 2000, it was quite effective.

SQL Server Express succeeds Microsoft’s MSDE, which has been around since the release of SQL Server 7.0 in 1999. The Microsoft “desktop database” competes with open-source products including ...

“Ingres is not one of our mainstream competitors,” Rizzo said, adding that Microsoft sees Ingres competing with MSDE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine), which will become the forthcoming ...

The three new tools are these: • SQL Server 2000 SQL Scan Tool, which scans a network to identify instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 that may be vulnerable to ...

It can also use Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine and the full Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to store data in the image of the operating systems to be deployed. On the downside, it can only deploy ...

– SQL Scan, which can scan a computer, network domain or range of IP addresses and identify instances of SQL Server 2000 or the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) 2000 that are ...