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Friday 25 July 2008

Astoria Data Services – IIS + SQL Server ?

A few months ago I had the opportunity to preview Astoria Data Services in a NextGen User Group meeting and I was thinking I have seen this before, but i failed to recollect where at that time, read the following you will see why i am pointing this out. At the time of preview MS promised to add security to Astoria, Basically all I could see was SQL queries on the browser URL / request URL

When you install IIS on a machine , in management console of windows you have an option to configure SQL XML support for IIS. Do this and then configure a Virtual directory in IIS, which offers quite a list of decent security settings. Configure these and browse to the URL with a SQL query in the URL and see what happens, there ain’t much difference?

I am not cynical but i want to point out this is not new, we will however have to wait and see what additional features are offered by Astoria before we can comment

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