Little Things To Make You Smile
We have a Rant thread (which is a very good idea, and I shall be visiting it very soon!) so I thought we could have a Smile thread. A little thing that has made me smile today is hearing my little boy Joe, who is 7, singing along to 'Forget Myself' eve

SQL or PL/SQL for Hand coding ETL
Hi Wanted to get a general idea, as to what others have used when hand coding ETL for loading data into data marts. My thoughts : Straight inserts , updates, merges are faster, however can't capture errors. Pl/SQL is more flexible allowing to log error

Playing a Great "Social" Game
I am increasingly amused at how Lane and Enzo have brainwashed themselves into believing that they played a great social game. Did you play a great social game or were you simply likable and not considered an immediate threat? It's so easy to revise

Role playing Dimensions: When is it appropriate?
This issue has come up and I was curious what you would say. This stems out of differing interpretations of role playing a dimension in the Data Warehouse Toolkit. There are basically two faction where I work concerning when it is appropriate to role

What can i expect to see at Arkham Gaming Centre?
Our gaming space includes eight tournament sized (8'x4') terrained tabletop wargames tables (wastes, desert or forest), two 4'x'4 tables for board/card games, four multi-purpose gaming tables which can be used for board, card or wargames (option of blue

What game(s) are you playing at the moment?
I'm currently playing Tales of Vesperia, Eternal Sonata, and Beautiful Katamari.

Hand-Coded ETL revisited
Hi I read Gary Nissen's article, 'Is Hand-Coded ETL the Way to Go?', with interest. Given that this was written nearly six years ago, I wonder whether the position has changed i.e. whather ETL tools are now more strongly recommended ober

I'm Going To Have To Send My Next3 Back. :-(
Tonight I re-installed the Skyfire browser on my Next3. I didn't re-boot the tablet after I installed it. While I was using it for a regular page, the browser hung up. I got out of the page. Figured I should reboot the tablet so the installation would run

Ha game on!!
Tipster your taking us in to ..... THE TIME TUNNEL ............

Start and Finish dates and role-playing dimensions
I have a bunch of date dimensions, such as BaselineDate, TargetDate, etc... I created role-playing views over my Date dimension for each of the different types of dates. But each fact row will have a StartDateID and a FinishDateID for each (like

incorrect things people say about games that annoy you.
Does anyone else sometimes get bothered when people are wrong about some game related stuff. 2 things on my mind right now are that all my friends say "Ryu" like Righ-you. its REE-U dagnabbit.. Another thing that grinds my gears is whenever

ITT: Decide my BlazBlue main
Bang Pros: Has safe and damaging combo's HE EXUDES MANLINESS! FU! RIN! KA! ZAN! Cons: He's considered one of the best characters in Continuum Shift, and I'm afraid people would think I'm a tier whore Hazama Pros: He's really fast Has lon

Medical things
I randomly came across some pictures of French surgeon Baron Larrey's flying ambulance, which was the inspiration for all other ambulances that followed (including the one that Maggie and Cotton rode in after his flogging. It's lucky he was flogged so

current events: things that affect us and in our society
for starters let's discuss about the biggest and hottest issue; spiraling oil prices....

Increase ibibo TeenPatti Cash [ Facebook Game tricks, Ibibo Games tricks]
Ibibo Teen patti is a widely played online card game. It is flash game available as Facebook application. It can also be played directly from ibibo.com. In this post, I will describe how to steal ibibo cash from Facebook users only. Stealing from