Positive Blogging
Blogging is increasingly becoming a part of more and more people's lives. But to what extent should it be part of your corporate image? Steve Jones has a few comments about a very interesting blog he found.
2008-09-03
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Editorial - MP3
Lost in Space
It seems a tremendous amount of data is lost every year on laptops in airports. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with physical security and your portable computers.
2008-09-02
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2008-09-01
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One Milly-yon IOPS - Database Weekly (Sept 1, 2008)
IBM is testing a new hardware disk array that vastly outperforms any current arrays. What does this mean for the database world?
2008-08-30
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Un-Wired
This Friday's poll looks at vacation and how you prepare to be unwired. Steve Jones talks about some of the things you can do.
2008-08-28
52 reads
The August 2008 Energy Update
This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-27
779 reads
The Million Message System
Sun Microsystems built a database application that processes a million messages a second. Steve Jones talks about the achievement.
2008-08-26
64 reads
Working Under Pressure
A time of crisis means a lot of things to people in technology, but Steve Jones talks about something that's often forgotten.
2008-08-25
72 reads
If You Ain't Cheatin'
Gaining recognition or an award without earning it is something Steve Jones thinks is a problem in society in general, and it's filtered into the IT industry.
2008-08-23
72 reads
Believe in Your Data - Database Weekly (Aug 25, 2008)
As DBAs we must secure and protect data, but what can we do when there are fundamental issues with the way the systems are designed. Steve Jones comments on problems with voting machines.
2008-08-22
231 reads
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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