On multiple occasions as a SharePoint administrator I have needed to move a Site Collection from one Content Database to another one. In the past this process was very painful and very manual. In this blog post I will show you how to move Site Collections between Content Databases with a single STSADM command using the “mergedbs” operation that was introduced in KB934525.

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These application templates are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size.

The applications are the first out-of-box custom scenarios for the Windows SharePoint Services platform, though they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper Windows SharePoint Services solutions.

They are a little hard to find (people are being encouraged to move to 3.0):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/v2templates/default.mspx