Thursday, February 26, 2004

Came across some useful undocumented sproc
1)sp_MSforeachtable - it iterates through all the tables of the current DB

Eg.
sp_MSForEachTable 'exec sp_spaceused "?"' -- To get the spaces used by individual sprocs
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="print '?' DBCC DBREINDEX ('?')" -- To reindex all the tables in the DB

2) And use sp_MSforeachdb to iterated through all the DBs

3) sp_MSdrop_object to drop any object by providing its id/ name etc


Fortune names Accenture “most admired” computer & data services company

Also check out fortune listing and articles here
Active Directory turns 4, just a couple of days back
Though it hasnt raised to Bill Gates promise of adoption, its done a good job

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

All about MS clustering services
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/tips/w2kclust.asp
Whidbey Wows !!
Check out the concept of ObjectSpaces tehnology in Widbey here
what does your career and calculus have in common ?
C = G + LT ?
fine out here
Or on the fact that why learining should be a process and not an event

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Avanade
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=14776
The top 10 rules of performance here
:)
Two atoms are sitting in a bar.
atom 1(in a whisper): "I think I've lost an electron"
atom 2: "Are you sure"
atom 1: "I'm positive"
MS
In response to the predatory behavior of MS, MS states that its just "constitutes permissible competitive activity" ;)

Monday, February 23, 2004

MS dos 6.0 was the first OS whose source code was stolen and distributed online way back in 2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004

SQL server xml features tutorials
http://www.topxml.com/sql/default.asp

Good SQL resource site portal
http://vyaskn.tripod.com
Interesting lines :

There are the faint of heart .. and then there are the relentless !

If you were dirt upon a road, in sultry summer weather,
I'd be a cloud and rain on you, and we'd make mud together.

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.

If the enemy is in range--- so are you

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot

The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are
so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

Spectators never win

There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.


creativity
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Sidewalk_Flats/
also http://www.csl.sri.com/users/mwfong/Humor/Meanings/

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
SQL server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/timeline.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/tenfirsts.asp

SQL server fun facts
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/anniversary/funfacts.asp

Flash on SQL server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/2000/demo/autorun/window.htm
Microsoft Museum
http://www.microsoft.com/museum
http://www.microsoft.com/museum/musStudent.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/museum/publictrivia.doc

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Good (short) turorials on SQL xml capabilities
like XSLT and XML HTTP here

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

SQL server
About SQL XML
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/sqlsolutions/sqlreldata/default.aspx#xml
SQL server
automatically generating sprocs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/msdnmag/issues/03/04/StoredProcedures/toc.asp
Microsoft
Ending days of speculation, entertainment giant The Walt Disney
Company announced a multiyear agreement with Microsoft to license
Microsoft Windows Media technologies, including the Digital Rights
Management (DRM) component that can be used to protect the delivery of
digital content. Windows Media technologies are increasingly gaining
favor with Hollywood, as content creators seek to find secure ways to
expand into new digital markets and Internet content delivery. Disney
is the second major Hollywood player to embrace the technology in
recent days; Time Warner licensed it last fall. But the combination of
Disney and Microsoft represents a melding of two of the most respected
brands in America and reestablishes Windows Media as the de facto
standard for digital-media delivery.

Monday, February 02, 2004

Ctrl+Alt+Del Inventor Retires on 30/jan/2004
The engineer who invented the Ctrl+Alt+Del keystroke combination is
retiring today from IBM, leaving behind his legacy as an inexorable
part of the PC experience. David Bradley developed the key combination
while working on prototypes of IBM's first PC. He needed a way to
quickly reboot the buggy machine because a hard reset--which involved
flicking off the power switch and waiting a few moments before
retoggling it--took too much time. "The intention was to be cryptic,"
he said. "It was a key combination that was the moral equivalent of
turning the power off and back on again, so it was not an action to be
taken lightly. It wasn't something you wanted to happen accidentally."
Today, many people use the keystroke combination on a regular basis
and not always because the machine has become unresponsive. Microsoft
adopted the keystroke combination for use in Windows; today's Windows
versions use the combination to let people log on to the system and to
bring up a diagnostic screen. "I might have invented Ctrl+Alt+Del but,
as I like to say, Bill Gates made it famous," Bradley joked.