How do you make a Wiki work?
Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...
2007-12-09
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Contributing to Wikipedia
Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...
2007-12-06
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Powerpoint from a Blackberry
Ran across the Impactica Showmate, a $249 item (gadget?) that allows you to present Powerpoint presentations wirelessly via Bluetooth directly...
2007-12-04
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How Will Processor Licensing Evolve?
Information week had an interesting article that talks about the different methods of licensing used, ranging from the what we're...
2007-12-04
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Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando
SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...
2007-12-02
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The DBA Routine Posted on SSC
This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...
2007-11-30
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MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
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Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
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Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
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Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers