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 a few tries without much luck I hit google and found ...

Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallenBuilding 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 business reason they need to use something outside of the project's session object ...

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 College Micro-Economics internet course I'm taking. The amount of home work is crazy. We've ...

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 on Monster.com.Even after I explained to him that my resume had been on there for a long time ...

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 some hidden features that nobody has really discussed, SQL Server 2005 is already behind ...

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 how the banking industry is going to be adding all these new features -- check the ...

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! :) I have to say that I probably enjoyed this exam the most so far! Being a developer/coder at ...

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 and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures.From what I've heard this one is harder than the ...

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 I more liberally marked questions for review at the end. When you get to the end and realize ...

This is very similiar to my previous post regarding MP3 players. Instead of hardware this is software related though! I just read in Visual Studio magazine a couple days ago an interesting tidbit that I hadn't noticed regarding SQL Server 2005. Currently, it does not have support for Degisn Diagrams as previous versions did, though, I quote ...