The Bereznikers

If you have installed Eclipse 3.3 from an official bundle or you have installed the Mylyn plug-in then there's a good chance that you might have started seeing duplicate entries when using content assist.

If you ever find yourself needing to convert from UNIX time in Excel, here's the solution.

These are my impressions after using Tapestry for a couple of weeks. I review the flaws and joys that I found in using Tapestry.

SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) does not use any kind of wizardry as one might think. It creates a new table, moves the data, drops the original table and renames the new table to the original name.

The design tool in SSMS can generate a script for any changes you have made.
This option is available via "Generate Change Script" in the "Table Designer" menu or via right-clicking the table editor.

I have been programming in C for quite some time, but until recently I was not aware that you could specify column widths and string limits using variables. I have neither seen this functionality used in any projects until I started working with OpenSER.

Specify a variable column width:

printf("%*d", width, number);

Specify a variable number of characters from a string:

printf("%.*s", width, string);

SQL Server 2005 introduces a number of Dynamic Management objects. One of these is dm_os_performance_counters which gives you access to SQL Server Performance Counters that were only available through Performance Monitor. Several of the counters are related to the log so we can see the log usage for databases from within SQL Server.