Barack Obama

US Presidential election 2008 is scheduled on Nov 4. Barack Obama from Illinois is competing with John Mcclain. Obama has been chosen as nominee for Democratic Party. As usual today morning, I was surfing my TV channels for some interesting program. I came across Obama talk in BBC. It was a live telecast from Denver. His talk was attracting and inspiring one. There were 84,000 spectators. Here are some points of talk.

1. US should stop its dependencies on foreign countries for oil within 10 years.

2. Avail good education to children and raise the salaries for teachers.

3. Cut down the 95% of taxes of working families.

4. If we are together, our dream is one

5. Keep American promises

6. US should stop war on Iraq.

If you get a chance to see his talk, then don’t miss it.

Interesting Tale

I got this from my friend. Have a look.

The Pursuit of Happyness

I think most of us have heard this film. This film starred by Will Smith as Chris Gardner and his own son Jaden Smith as Christopher and his wife Linda. I don’t know who was acted as Linda. Last weekend, I watched in HBO. The story baseline is how a salesman became a share broker. He faces lot of problems with his son including homeless nights, debts, etc.

The title is intentionally misspelled. I think Chris is trying to pursue happy in my life but the happiness in his life is not reaching 100%. Don’t miss this film, if you get any chance to watch. Father and the son acted well.

I could remember the joke that the small boy said his father. The joke is about a person who fell into the water. At that time,

1st Boat: Do you need any help?
Person: No. God will save me.

2nd Boat: Do you need any help?
Person: No. God will save me.

He died and went to heaven and asked God, “Why you didn’t save me?” God replied, “I send you two boats dammit (damn it)”.

WR Breakers

Usain Bolt

- Jamica

- Fastest man in the World 2008

- World Record

o 100 meters – 9.69

o 200 meters – 19.30

I missed out his 100m race. But I watched his 200m race. “I am No. 1”, he says to the camera when he won the 200m race.

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Michael Fred Phelps

- USA

- Swimmer

- Seven World Record

I didn’t see his race in any event.

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Best Practices – SSIS II

I wrote the best practices based on my experience in my first project. Now, I’ve worked a little more than that in my second project. Here, I give you some best practices in Bulk export, and FTP.

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1. Bulk Export – In order to export the records from one or more tables or views, we can use bcp command. The syntax goes like 

bcp 

<query along with the database name> queryout <file name> -c –S <DBserver name> –U <username of the db server> -P <password of the db server

> 

 
Include the options that you need.

Write this bcp command in a bat file and with the help command argument variables %1, %2, %3, etc. So that you can execute this bat file using Execute Process Task (EPT) and make use of expression tab to pass arguments to this bat file.

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2. FTP – If you like to capture the error occurred in FTP server explicitly then you can go for EPT. I’ll give you some examples. Errors like login failed, invalid remote directory cannot be distinguishable in FTP task.

Pre-requisites to understand: Should know dos commands such as “echo”, “>”, “>>” and how to pass arguments to a bat file, standard output file and standard output error file.

Pass arguments to the bat file with the ftp credentials and “echo” those credentials to a file and execute the file having ftp command using “ftp –s:<file_name> <server_name>”

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