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I just completed my first blog about technology. Actually when I started my blog I was hoping to blog technology too. However I soon realized the vanity of technology. By the time I decide to write on some topic and finish writing it the topic is outdated. So almost always (except today) I never get to blog technology.
Those who know the happenings in IT would know that Microsoft is getting ready to release MOSS 2010. (For those of you who do not understand this acronym, it stands for the latest Microsoft SharePoint release)
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I was asked to do a migration of a wss site database from Windows Internal Database to SQL Server 2008. Well this is not my area of work but since I had some free time my assistance was requested.
There were many articles on the internet describing how to move the content databases but all of them advised not to move the SharePoint Config and Admin Content databases. The proposed solution was to delete the farm and rebuild the farm (so that new Config and Admin Content databases would be created) and attaché the old content databases. But this is a difficult, time consuming exercise which would also involve losing all the configuration data. After a lot of research and scanning the registry and the SharePoint databases, I was able to achieve my goal with minimal effort and all data secure.
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We left Melbourne on the 19th August and flew to Colombo via Malaysia. We had a day's transit in Malaysia where we opted to stay at the Concorde Inn hotel. The variety and the taste of food served was fantastic the best I have had in a hotel in my life and worth mentioning. More...