Garbage collection, in a very real sense
My rather cheesy write-up of OGN6 is now available on the Google Open Source blog. I’d like to say it was cut to ribbons and all the worst bits are editorial additions, but I think they put it up verbatim.
Cheers, all: see you at OGN7, June 25th.
When digging through a stack of old papers, K. chanced upon a framed letter. She’d been given it some fifteen or twenty years ago by her art teacher, and while she’d kept it lying around presumed it was probably a fake and didn’t think much of it. After a similar amount of digging round online, [...]
The next OGN next Tuesday has developed broad themes without us really trying. Generally it’s best to have a mixture of talks, because of the eclectic mix of interests represented by our audience, but two clear topics have arisen, with some overlap in between.
Gobion Rowlands leads our e-learning procession, with a keynote on “turning hard [...]
While I’m not particularly a net-neutrality zealot (it’s hard to care about it when most of the world’s poor are without any net connection at all), I’m nonetheless surprised by the bullishness of the recent remarks by Neil Berkett, Virgin Media’s CEO. I’m more taken aback, however, by his choice of phrase: he says that [...]
“Never attribute to malware that which can be adequately explained by stupidware.”
To rename columns in a SQL Server database, you can use sp_rename. The syntax of the command, in Transact-SQL-ese, is:
sp_rename
[ @objname = ] ‘object_name’ ,
[ @newname = ] ‘new_name’
[ , [ @objtype = ] ‘object_type’ ]
So say you have a table called t_est, with a column in it called est_client. You want to rename these [...]