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  • RE: The Shortage of Programmers

    Joel's rant, aside from the last paragraph ranting on salary, seems to be focusing on "clouds" and synchronization. A friend of mine, a citizen of Mexico, bought an AirMac...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Is XML the Answer?

    Stephen Hirsch (5/2/2008)


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    "I've never heard of the grave character. I'm going to look into it. I'm sure my peers in the other agency would appreciate an alternative to reading my...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: And You Thought You Had a Big Database

    The only real purpose that I've seen for hubs these days is one that you can put in to promiscuous mode and use as a traffic sniffer. Everything these...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Should I Buy a Kindle?

    Matthew Joughin (4/30/2008)


    ...I also use it when commuting, with my iPod connected to my car stereo, it really helps keep road rage at bay, and makes use of the that...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Should I Buy a Kindle?

    Kristina Rumpff (4/30/2008)


    ...My one question.. If you drop a book while reading in the bath, you can eventually dry it out. If you drop an E-Reader?????

    Gallon-sized Ziploc bags....

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Should I Buy a Kindle?

    Two things turn me off about both the Kindle and Sony: price and DRM. I suppose they are still technically first generation devices, though the Newton and Palm Pilots...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360

    David, that is insanely cool! I'm forwarding it to our network admins right now! If you re-wrote it for SQL Server, I wonder how you'd do blocked processes?...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Backups

    WILLIAM MITCHELL (4/11/2008)


    Thanks Wayne. You mention 2000, but does this work the same way in 2005? I know that some things have changed...

    I use scripts to backup from production &...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Backups

    WILLIAM MITCHELL (4/11/2008)


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    That being said, is it a good idea to run a full backup off the schedule? What happens to transactions that occur in-between the currently-running scheduled backup, the...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Need some VBA code help

    I ended up, in the interest of time expediency, just putting a Save button on the form. One of these days I may spend some more time studying Access,...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360

    David Jackson (4/7/2008)


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    http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

    Definitely want one for SQL. Each room is a different db? CPU Hogs = bigger monsters?

    Yup, that's the one that I was thinking about! Sleeping process...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360

    Matt Miller (4/1/2008)


    Think "beyond the thunderdome":

    Two Geeks enter, one Geek leaves.......:smooooth:

    "Two processes deadlocked, one process completes!"

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/1/2008)


    It's April Fool's, but it's a good idea. Who wouldn't like a HALO or Gears of War game tarketing Oracle DBAs or databases!!!

    Sort of like the...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: April Bloopers

    Ralph Hightower (4/1/2008)


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    The press release was done in the style of PR Newswire and had the legalese required for companies regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    Absolutely brilliant, Ralph! ...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: SQL Sleep

    srienstr (4/1/2008)


    If only the fact that my hands weren't on the keyboard wouldn't give me away...

    Just tell them that you shelled out personal bucks for the Visual Studio Telepathy Interface....

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

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