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		<title>Easier SQL Server Database Restores</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been asked to restore a database and wondered which backup files were available? And if many were available, which ones you should use, and in which order? Getting familiar with the msdb schema, especially the backupset and backupmediafamily tables, helps to answer that question since all the backup history is stored in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging: Automated System Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usenix 2008 &#8211; Automated System Management, by Ã†leen Frisch of Exponential Consulting (and numerous books) What is automation? generic scripts with cron,at Problem: overlap of effort So folks developed automation systems. General automation tools are around: cfengine, puppet, cfg2 These are general &#8212; files, directories, etc. Don&#8217;t need to use chmod and chown and underlying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automating To Save Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/859/automating-to-save-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first place I am announcing this: The Pythian Group has made me a Team Lead. I am extremely honored and somewhat humbled by this, and I am determined to do a good job. I started officially on Monday, March 3rd, and my first week went pretty well. On Saturday, I spent a [...]]]></description>
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