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Restoring a SQL Server 2000 backup to SQL 2005
20 June 06 02:56 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

I recently was trying to restore a SQL 2000 database to a SQL 2005 database and kept getting this error: "The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'xxxx' database. Backup or restore operation terminiating abnormally." After Read More...

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Report on the Wichita Code Camp
04 June 06 11:31 PM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen Building strongly-typed session objects, cache objects, and viewstate. If you aren't using a session management object you must. Do a search for session[] and make your developers give a justifiable Read More...

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New Tulsa .NET Users Group President!
19 October 05 12:50 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Man, there's been so much stuff going on, since my last blog! We went on vacation to Galveston Island, TX right and returned the weekend before Hurricane Rita - whew that was close! I've been trying to play catch up on home work for the Tulsa Community Read More...

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Messenger Web Services (MEWS) released?
29 September 05 08:47 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I'm at the office and saidly my employer is a IM-NAZI and blocks anything to do with IM. Over at http://www.diggs.com I saw this announcement: Messenger Web Services (MEWS) released and the link to http://www.msgweb.nl/en/MSN_Projects/MEWS/ I'm unable Read More...

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Lost Love - Not For Me!
29 July 05 08:27 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Jose Fuentes writes about Lost Love . I couldn't agree more with everything he had to say! At one point in my career I thought the grandiur and financial enticement of taking a traveling consulting position would be the best position for me. Luckily before Read More...

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Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking
29 July 05 08:26 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article: Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking . But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a "Manager" who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume Read More...

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Longhorn loves RSS! But HATES the FileSystem?
13 July 05 01:43 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I was reading on this blog about how Longhorn loves RSS . While I'm one who always likes new features. I just don't understand why Microsoft would waste their time integrating such a simple and open standard as RSS into the OS!! And yet remove a feature Read More...

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SQL Server 2005 already behind the competition?
08 July 05 09:51 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Oracle and IBM are building native XML indexing capabilities into their databases. But, how long will it take SQL Server 2005 to have these features? Maybe version 2010? As we all know XML has been adopted in a huge way across our industry! Unless there's Read More...

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PayPal to stop doing Bill Pay! We Want Global Transfers!
08 July 05 09:50 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

My wife just told me that PayPal has announced that starting Aug 1st they are going to stop offering the bill pay service. How retarded! Here's another area that I truely do not understand. I just read an article in Information Weekly that talked about Read More...

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Happy Anniversary Baby! You're now married to an MCSD!
02 July 05 05:27 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary and one of my presents to my wife was taking the 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures exam and passing! So now, she has certifiable proof that she's married to a geek! :) Read More...

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Printers - Technology for the worst, as usual!
30 June 05 09:22 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

We used to use an HP OfficeJet G85 (paid $500+) until it seemed as though it was jamming a lot. So we bought a cheap Lexmark X6170 (paid $200ish) and it does the same thing! Well, at least it's half the size, even if it suffers the same unbearable problem! Read More...

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The Secret of the Hybrid CDROM and 3 1/2 Floppy Drive!
29 June 05 01:24 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Back in the day, before there was CD-RW's, there was the first prototype device that Panasonic released known as the PD-CDROM drive, featuring 650mb of rewritable optical media. I bought one for approximately $500 back then, thinking I needed the space Read More...

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Just passed 70-316 - C# Windows Apps!
29 June 05 12:15 AM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

I did better than the rest so far on this one! Probably because at least 20-25% of the content is shared, considering ADO.NET is a big part of Web App, XML Services, and Windows App development! Now to study up for Exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements Read More...

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Mactel Newbie thoughts!
22 June 05 10:18 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I just recently purchased a Mac Mini and was barely able to score OS X on the cheap, since I purchased it just before OS X was released. My main interest was the fact that it's based on Unix and I've always loved to play with it and Linux and felt this Read More...

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Just passed MS 070-320 - C# XML Web Services and Server Components
21 June 05 01:11 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Woot! Going into this test I felt very confident, but after the first few questions I was thinking holy cow! Is this the right test?? Some of the questions I hadn't seen reviewed or discussed in either the Microsoft Prep Book or ExamCram2! With this test Read More...

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