Friday, April 1, 2011

Gmail Motion - A new era to communicate with your others

The mouse and keyboard were desiged before the evolution of Internet. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do we continue to use outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server(MOSS) 2007 Training for free from Microsoft


Now you can explore Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) with training from Microsoft experts by living at your desktop.
You can download a simple file which have grand tour of the latest features and changes in SharePoint, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook.
Training topics included
  • Collaboration
Finding your way around a team site Understanding permissions Customizing a team site Linking calendars to Outlook Adding Web Parts Collaborating in libraries, lists, and workspaces Using blogs and wikis to share information
  • Enterprise Content Management
Document management Protecting files Using workflows Records management Creating and publishing Web pages Improving compliance and support litigation discovery
  • Search
Finding files, Web sites, information, and people
  • Portals and personalization
My Sites Targeting content to specific audiences Managing access to your My Site
  • Business processes and forms
Streamlining business processes with forms and workflow Gathering information with browser-compatible forms Designing custom workflows using SharePoint Designer
  • Business intelligence
Sharing Excel workbooks as interactive reports Working with a Report Center site Using dashboards to drive decisions
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Friday, January 28, 2011

SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT, and @@IDENTITY


SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT, and @@IDENTITY are similar functions because they return values that are inserted into identity columns.

IDENT_CURRENT is not limited by scope and session; it is limited to a specified table. IDENT_CURRENT returns the value generated for a specific table in any session and any scope. For more information, see IDENT_CURRENT (Transact-SQL).

SCOPE_IDENTITY and @@IDENTITY return the last identity values that are generated in any table in the current session. However, SCOPE_IDENTITY returns values inserted only within the current scope; @@IDENTITY is not limited to a specific scope.

For example, there are two tables, T1 and T2, and an INSERT trigger is defined on T1. When a row is inserted to T1, the trigger fires and inserts a row in T2. This scenario illustrates two scopes: the insert on T1, and the insert on T2 by the trigger.

Assuming that both T1 and T2 have identity columns, @@IDENTITY and SCOPE_IDENTITY will return different values at the end of an INSERT statement on T1. @@IDENTITY will return the last identity column value inserted across any scope in the current session. This is the value inserted in T2. SCOPE_IDENTITY() will return the IDENTITY value inserted in T1. This was the last insert that occurred in the same scope. The SCOPE_IDENTITY() function will return the null value if the function is invoked before any INSERT statements into an identity column occur in the scope.