{"id":2793,"date":"2013-10-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/10\/30\/distinguishing-between-asking-for-help-with-a-product-and-asking-for-help-with-a-products-installation\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T07:00:00","slug":"distinguishing-between-asking-for-help-with-a-product-and-asking-for-help-with-a-products-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20131030-00\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Distinguishing between asking for help with a product and asking for help with a product's installation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internally at Microsoft, we have a programmer’s tool which I will call Program Q<\/a>. On the peer-to-peer mailing list for Program Q, somebody asked the following question:<\/p>\n

What’s the best way to look at all tables created in the past week? I want to repeat this command across multiple table repositories. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somebody chimed in with the answer.<\/p>\n

You are looking for something like q find table -age lt 7d<\/code>. If you want to repeat across multiple table repositories, you would say q -server xxx find table -age lt 7d<\/code>, replacing xxx<\/code> with the table repository server name. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This seemed to work, but there was a follow-up question:<\/p>\n

What’s the best way to get the repository server name for any given repository? For example, what are all the repository servers used by my test team? Is there a central database I can query? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To get the repository servers used by your test team, you um ask your test team?\n The people on the Program Q peer-to-peer help<\/i> mailing list do not know the names of your test team’s repository servers. There is no central database of all Program Q servers.<\/p>\n

It’s like asking, “What’s the best way to get the name of somebody’s SharePoint site?” Answer: You ask them, “Hey, what’s the name of your SharePoint site?” SharePoint itself does not maintain a central database of all SharePoint sites, but your test team might have a policy that all new SharePoint sites should be registered in some central database. You’ll need to ask them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internally at Microsoft, we have a programmer’s tool which I will call Program Q. On the peer-to-peer mailing list for Program Q, somebody asked the following question: What’s the best way to look at all tables created in the past week? I want to repeat this command across multiple table repositories. Somebody chimed in with the answer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Internally at Microsoft, we have a programmer’s tool which I will call Program Q. On the peer-to-peer mailing list for Program Q, somebody asked the following question: What’s the best way to look at all tables created in the past week? I want to repeat this command across multiple table repositories. Somebody chimed in with the answer. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}