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Pivot
OK now I sorted out my problem with pivoting tables.
Thanks Access, no thanks to SQL Server :-((
It's a pity that you can do a so nice SQL Transform and Pivot function with Access and not be able to do it natively in T-SQL !
Other problem, and I reckon it was my first time on the matter, if you have to deal with stats, and I mean huge stats, it would be nicer to have a bigger number of columns, whatever the tool, Access, SQL or Excel.
By the way, if somebody know a spreadsheet application able to accept 3000 columns and 10000 rows, please let me know. -
24h of US air traffic
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Coool man ;-)
Some joker from New Zealand got busted at an Australian tech trade show for selling scented faceplates for Nokia phones that smell like pot smoke and have an image of marijuana leaf emblazoned on the front. He didn't do anything illegal, just offended the sensibilities of the Premier of New South Wales, and so the faceplates got the boot:
[Robert] Punch quickly switched to pushing the more politically correct chocolate and strawberry scented phone covers, but said the marijuana cover was "a stayer". He also said he had brought his phone covers through customs without attracting any interest from the drug-sniffing dogs on patrol.
What we can't understand is why anyone would want their cellphone to smell like anything.
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Office has its limits
A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers will not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for web services and an opportunity to unlock their data from proprietary Microsoft file formats. -
Enum
Enum is a new internet address numbering protocol. -
Sham'e'rock Valley
Ireland tops the list of countries which are perceived by European technology executives to have the most potential to be the Silicon Valley capital of Europe, according to a survey.
Well to achieve this believe me, we are at the start of a very long road. -
What kind of thinker are you?
good Quiz on BBC site
I like this question:
Writing a journal or personal log - Does this include weblogs ?
I am a musical thinker !
Musical thinkers: -
Minute of glory
Cool cool cool!
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Software Architecture and Bill Gates
As I pointed out in yesterday's post, I'm very curious about Bill's role contribution to the software development process at Microsoft. While reading some blogs last night, I ran across Rob Howard's recap of an ASP.NET design review meeting with Bill.
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Ride the platform wave: .NET 1.1
Robert, your article is good, but what are you doing to people that everywhere you write something you trigger so much passion ;-))
Read one of the comments below your article:
Why are you so angry?
Side by side execution is very nice when we are talking about assemblies running under one platform.
But when it comes to the platform itself being subject to this SxS, then it's a nightmare:
How do I know that the platform I'm writing my code under has been installed in the target machin(s)?
This means I have to include with every program I package an installation of the framework my program runs under.
Microsoft wants ultimately to base the operating system itself on the .NET platform.
As such, it MUST be upgradeable, i.e. backward-compatible. Otherwise, side-by-side hell is more serious a problem than dll hell, imagine the multiplicity of "frameworks" splintering everywhere.
This is what I understood from what has been said so far about the matter.
If I'm wrong, that does not make me stupid or ignorant, as your angry, and unacceptably rude, language implies.
I think of other people on the TechRepublic or Builder.com sites as peers.
Peers help each other reach a better understanding, not (ab)use them to vent their anger.
I want to hear from you an anlysis why it's a good thing to have SxS EVEN for platforms,
and I want you to relinquish any use of irrelevant remarks about any member's understanding or the lack thereof.