The Job Outlook for 2008
What will happen in the job market for DBAs this year? Steve Jones gives a few opinions based on what is happening in the industry.
2008-01-02
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Editorial
Building a Better Career
It's important that you manage your career and not just leave it to chance. Steve Jones talks about what you might do to ensure that you'll be successful in the IT world.
2007-12-31
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2007-12-28
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Not So Anonymous
How anonymous are your ratings and other opinions on the Internet? Not as much as you might think.
2007-12-27
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The December Energy Update
Steve Jones takes a look at what's happening in the world of alternative energy, including cleaner nuclear power and energy from motion.
2007-12-26
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Compliance
Complying with software licensing is something you should do, but how far should companies take this?
2007-12-24
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When You're Out of the Office
What would you recommend for the holidays next week when the office is closed.
2007-12-21
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2007-12-20
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Obfuscation
Test data is critical to being sure your application works, but is production data ok to use in test environments?
2007-12-19
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Data Ownership
Who owns the data that we generate ourselves? It's not as easy to answer that as you think.
2007-12-18
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Blogs
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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