Enigma

Is what we do called work ???

The answer according to Scoble is “NO”.

“By the way, what we do isn't work. I can think of lots of jobs that are really work. Putting roofs on buildings in Dallas during the summer, for instance.”

I would have taken the comment in the stride had I not put in 130 Hrs of non-work since last Sunday ...

Some times I wonder that why I even bother reading Scoble's weblog ...I think its probably because of the links he provides which are mostly good ... but when it comes to his opinions ... they are sometimes like that of a fifth grade student ... an example of which is the one above. Putting roofs on buildings in Dallas is physical work (no thinking required .. just follow the instructions) ... what we do mostly is mental work (deciding where , when and how to put the roof for one case)  and there is a hell lot of difference between the two ...

Scoble ... have you ever heard about skilled and unskilled labor ... and do you understand the difference between the two ???

Is this a coincidence ???

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/enigma/archive/2004/06/17/3189.aspx

http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar/archive/2004/06/18/709.aspx

I am confused .

Space war continues

Breaking News : Rediff mail  goes to 1 GB space too ...

So here's a summary of my mail space now

Hotmail : 2MB

Mailcity : 5 MB

Indiatimes : 6 MB

Yahoo : 100 MB

Gmail :  1 GB

SpyMac : 1 GB

Rediff Mail : 1 GB

AventureMail : 2 GB

What's up next ???

Windows Vs Oracle

 Just recieved this from a colleague of mine

There is something similar I found out in Oracle. 
In Oracle, to uninstall, your have to click the install button first. 

Thanks to Suresh for this laugh.

A request to OSS Dudes

A sincere request to all the OSS dudes around ... dont waste your time fighting over whether MS is evil or Bill G. is the devil. Your energy and time will be better utilized if you work on these...

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/reports.cgi?product=-All-&output=most_doomed&datasets=NEW%3A&datasets=ASSIGNED%3A&links=1&banner=1&quip=0

All I want to say is I agree MS Software has bugs ... but please work on correcting yours too ...

Welcoming Harshal to the weblogging community

Another One Bites the Dust

After much persuasion from me, another friend of mine, Harshal Mistry, a SQL server dba has started blogging. Harshal is quite an active member at www.dbforums.com and www.sqlteam.com . He also has a small site here.

Here's a link to the RSS feed. Subscribed !!!!

Article Published

Date & Time Manipulation on SQL Server 2000

My article on Date & Time Manipulation on SQL Server 2000 has been published on SQLJunkies. Please feel free to discuss and comment about it here.

Microsoft offers free licenses for Backup servers

According to Reuters, Microsoft is offering free licenses for backup servers to its customers (Via Tejas's weblog).

This I percieve as a smart move by Microsoft to satisfy its customers and will be a great help to small businesses. I welcome it too.

Tejas says :

But I wonder that what triggered this offer? Is this the result of the competition that Microsoft might be facing in the market today? 

Huh ... Linux competing with MS ... no way !!!

I have been a follower of linux in college times but now am a total convert to MS. Given the various flavours of Linux flying around, I dont think Linux user community would be able to give any competition. True, Linux will be used where ever the people think of getting anything for free (but think of the scenario where something goes down real bad and you have to rely on a web based community to bail you out ... I wouldnt like to be in that situation for sure ...).

This move is a part of the  Software Assurance program which according to the Microsoft website was started in September 2003. Read more here.  This is a welcome move by Microsoft and hope MS adds more goodies along the way as time passes.

New Personal Weblog

This is to let you all know that I have started my personal weblog here . I will try to keep my posts over here as much related to Sql Server and .NET as possible.

The Atom feed to my personal weblog is availible here.

I would be very busy over next few days meeting project deadlines, so blogging will be at a minimum.