I just started reading some papers (Computer Science, specifically Computer Vision) and thought "now let's look at the source code" and was quite astonished that most of the papers don't have any source code implementing the described methods to look at, while claiming some performance or being better than other papers.

How do these papers get accepted in journals / conferences? Do people have to submit their source code privately to the reviewers at least, so that they can reproduce the experiment if possible.

Do most journals / conferences just "trust" that people who submit the paper really implemented the theory and got those exact results?

I always had this idea that any experiment should be reproducible by others else it's not scientific justified. Been wondering about this the last few days.


Question: How to stop SQL server restore from overwriting database?
Answer: You need to (a) give the restored database a new logical name, and (b) you need to define new physical file names, so the existing ones won't be overwritten. Try something like this:

RESTORE DATABASE [Elmah_Restored]       &lt;== new (and unique) logical database name
FROM DISK = N'E:\Elmah_backup_2012_11_02_030003_1700702.bak' 
WITH FILE = 1,  
MOVE N'Elmah' TO 
     N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Elmah_restored.mdf',   &lt;== new (and unique) physical file name
MOVE N'Elmah_log' TO 
     N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Elmah_restored_log.ldf',   &lt;== new (and unique) physical file name
NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO