Archive for January, 2010
Oracle Completes Acquisition of Sun
...read moreRedwood Shores, CA – January 27, 2010Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Combination of the local entities worldwide will proceed in accordance with local laws.
SQL Server: JOIN vs IN vs EXISTS – the logical difference
...read moreThere is a common misconception that IN behaves equaliy to EXISTS or JOIN in terms of returned results.
This is simply not true. To see why not, let’s review what each statement does.
IN:
Returns true if a specified value matches any value in a subquery or a list.
Exists:
Returns true if a subquery contains any rows.
Join:
Joins 2 resultsets on the joining column.
India Celebrates her 60th Republic Day
Republic Day is India’s great national festival. It is celebrated every year on January 26, in New Delhi with great pomp and pageant and in capitals of the States, as well as at other headquarters and important places with patriotic fervour.
A little background
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...read moreSupport for Windows 2000 ends on July 13th 2010
Microsoft Announced that Support for Windows 2000 ends on July 13th 2010.
The Windows 2000 End-of-Support Solution Center is a starting point for planning your migration strategy from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Planning and Assessing a Migration or Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
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