Every so often, I have to do database administration activities, like restore a database (typically a DotNetNuke database downloaded from a hosted site).

I know the details are in the SQL BOL, but I usually have to hunt for them. Pinal Dave's site comes to the rescue with a good abbreviated rundown of the RESTORE commands.

Pinal Dave's site is packed with lots of useful database information and I would highly recommend it to up and coming DBAs. He is a regular columnist for SQL Server Magazine.

Interested in the latest happenings in implementing blogging in DotNetNuke?

My friend, Antonio Chagoury (picture below), is the Team lead on the DotNetNuke Blog module. The team has a blog here. I am very excited to see Antonio more actively involved with the DNN project! He is working very hard to get the DotNetNuke user group in the Washington, D.C. area up and running, and I know he is planning a very exciting lineup of events. 

Not to give him a swelled head, but when we worked together Antonio was doing some very, very creative things in both the DNN space and in Web Services. Fortunately, he is now out where his creativity, development skills, and leadership can be better appreciated (much better). The more actual development work I do (including on DNN) the more I appreciate what he accomplished when we worked together, and I am embarrassed to say that I did take him for granted and was none-to-kind to him many times (hopefully, mentioning it publicly will allow me to redeem myself a little bit).

In many ways, Antonio and I are very much alike (and that should scare a lot of people that we both know).

You can check out his personal blog at the link below.

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Enjoy!

I just finished reading Joshua Trupin's editorial (Editor's Note) in the latest MSDN magazine, entitled "Bring On the Swag". It is not yet available on line - I just got it in my March 2007 edition.

Joshua's article is a humurous discussion centering corporate give-aways, blogs, and the issue of credibility. I enjoyed his discussion immensely, and highly recommend it. For those of you, like me, that have attention deficit syndrome, the article is a good, quick read!

In the article, he laments that his reviewers don't get anything good to review. But I am sure he gets to see more of the new (coming soon) Microsoft technology, and earlier, than I do.

Well Joshua - I hope you get all the Zunes and Wide-Screen TVs you all can handle. Just remember there are people, like me, that are a little farther down the Microsoft food chain that envy your access to Redmond.