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Deepak Vasa — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:24:18 +0000

Apple iPad..

Deepak Vasa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:51 +0000

No matter what…iPad is still an Apple product and people will buy it.
So far there is no other product (e-readers/tablets) that can beat Apple in design
iPad will now be very useful to Systems engineers and desktop support personnel. They can now run some custom web applications at a decent resolution. Highly useful when on the move.

Starting at a $500 price point, it remains to be seen whether the iPad will shake up the PC industry. Its clearest competitor is the netbook category. But it’s worth noting the iPhone didn’t start out as much — an iPod, a phone and a fancy web browser — and about a year later it gave birth to a new digital frontier with the App Store. We’ll follow up with more stories analyzing the iPad’s potential.

Guest Lecture @ RMIT School of Business

Deepak Vasa — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:28:24 +0000

I did a Guest Lecture on how we use RDBMS (SQL Server) at my work. It was aimed at first year undergrads who are doing an introduction to Relational Databases (RBDMS). I had some great time in preparing the presentation slides and delivering the content. The students were quite good and were keen to understand how databases are used in Industry. My whole lecture was focused on how we do a new database project at work right from inception phase, design phase to finally incorporating it into the whole project.

The best part is they loved the fact that we use a White-board to do all our design and planning work, which we later capture by taking photos. With the new TeamBoard system that we got recently it’s got even more fun.

I concluded at the end of the lecture that all the social networks that they interact with all have massive databases behind the scenes. So in future when they are involved in designing databases, depending on the project, they can use their extensive end user experience and think of the various information that they will need to store in the database.

Short Course in C#

Deepak Vasa — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:52 +0000

Recently I ran a Short Course in C# for about 8 weeks at Swinburne University. I was asked at the last moment If could step in to deliver the course due to the regular instructor not been available. Well…I thought why not and so gave it a go. It was great experience and the students were great. Since it’s a hands on way of teaching, I had great time delivering the material with some cool on the fly examples. I guess that best outcome for me was discovering a new talent in me

I should have posted…about this stuff when I was doing them, well…here’s something I will make it a point to blog atleast once a week or more.

Richard Feynman – Lecutures Video @ Microsoft Research

Deepak Vasa — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:59:08 +0000

I would recommend any one interested in Physics to go through the Richard Feynman’s Lecture series from 1967 which are now made available for free by Bill Gates @ Microsoft Research – Project Tuva.

Here’s a snap shot of how the videos are presented:

Richard Feynman lecturing on Gravitational Law

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry — Richard Feynman

What Wordle thinks about my site

Deepak Vasa — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:26:58 +0000

What Wordle thinks of CubicThoughts

Click on the image to see the Wordle aka Tag Cloud.

Fixing WMI issues when upgrading SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008

Deepak Vasa — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:30:49 +0000

I found the post by Sydney on rebuilding the required SQL Server 2005 mof file highly useful, it worked for me…here’s the post: http://thirdshelf.com/2008/08/13/rebuilding-wmi-repository/

Using the field name alias in SQL Where clause

Deepak Vasa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:39:29 +0000

Often I encounter SQL queries where I would love to use the alias names of my columns in the WHERE clause, today while trawling around the web I found a cool and easy way to do it. Here’s an example:

WITH Customer_Info AS
(
SELECT (Surname + ‘, ‘ + Firstname) AS FullName,
(Address_Line_1 + ‘,’ + Address_Line_2) AS Customer_Address
FROM Customers
)
SELECT FullName, Customer_Address
FROM Customer_Info
WHERE FullName LIKE ‘Smith%’

MND

Deepak Vasa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:24:02 +0000

Last week my Uncle’s older Brother has passed away after an inspiring battle with cancer. I have met him only once in my life, but have heard a lot about him and his achievements. Today while googling about Divakar garu I found this blog post about him written by his friend & colleague “Knocking on Heaven’s door“

Query to get the column names/types for all tables in SQL 2005

Deepak Vasa — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:57:10 +0000

SELECT schemas.name AS [Schema],
tables.name AS [Table],
columns.name AS [Column],
CASE
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 34 THEN ‘byte[]‘
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 35 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 36 THEN ‘System.Guid’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 48 THEN ‘byte’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 52 THEN ’short’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 56 THEN ‘int’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 58 THEN ‘System.DateTime’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 59 THEN ‘float’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 60 THEN ‘decimal’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 61 THEN ‘System.DateTime’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 62 THEN ‘double’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 98 THEN ‘object’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 99 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 104 THEN ‘bool’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 106 THEN ‘decimal’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 108 THEN ‘decimal’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 122 THEN ‘decimal’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 127 THEN ‘long’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 165 THEN ‘byte[]‘
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 167 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 173 THEN ‘byte[]‘
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 175 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 189 THEN ‘long’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 231 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 239 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 241 THEN ’string’
WHEN columns.system_type_id = 241 THEN ’string’
END AS [Type],
columns.is_nullable AS [Nullable]

FROM sys.tables tables
INNER JOIN sys.schemas schemas ON (tables.schema_id = schemas.schema_id )
INNER JOIN sys.columns columns ON (columns.object_id = tables.object_id)

WHERE tables.name <> ’sysdiagrams’
AND tables.name <> ‘dtproperties’

ORDER BY [Schema], [Table], [Column], [Type]