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Use WinMerge for compare / merge in StarTeam

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We use StarTeam for source control at my work. I'm not a huge StarTeam fan, and I think the compare / merge portion is pretty much unusable. Fortunately, you can pick your own alternative merge and compare utilities. I like  WinMerge  . Here's how to set it up: 1. Tools / Options / File tab. 2. Check "Merge utility" and "Comparison utility" checkboxes. 3. Browse to WinMergeU.exe 4. Enter the following for merge utility options:  /dl "StarTeam Version" /dr "Your Changes" $branchtip $usertip $resultfile 5. Enter the following for comparison utility options:  /dl "StarTeam or Older Version" /dr "Your Changes or Newer Version" $file1 $file2 References: WinMerge command line info:  http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/2.2/manual/commandline.html Araxis Merge integration info for various source control systems:  http://www.araxis.com/merge/scm_integration.html

Windows C Drive space constraint solution

Hi Guys, I was facing a lot of issues with c drive space constraints. First i had my c Drive with 60 GB Space. But as i am a developer. installing software itsef consumed 50 GB of that. and only 10 GB left.  Somehow I managed to handle this space constraint for sometime. and then got my hard disk formatted and repartitioned for 110 GB. So, Now my c Drive is 110 GB. After sometime i saw that whole of c drive is now used with only 300 MB left.  When i analysed bit further the Sql server database itself was over 60 GB with only data files over 51GB. I used software named Symmover to move the data files to D Drive which had enough space. Symmover provide very nice GUI  to do this task. and incase you wants to revert back sometime later you can just do it again. only thing you have to take care when using this software is you have to stop the services related to the software you are moving. In my case i went to local services and stopped all the sql server services. and once the data