I found this very interesting.
When you install Oracle, a user by the name of Scott is always created for you. This users’ password is Tiger. The user is actually named after Bruce Scott who was one of the first employees at Oracle and Tiger was his cat’s name.
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Database Mail configuration settings can be retrieved using sysmail_help_configure_sp stored procedure. Like other database mail object, this stored procedure also resides in msdb database. Running the stored procedure on my machine gives the following results.

sysmail_help_configure_sp

You can easily get information on how much space a table is using by executing sp_spaceused stored procedure. Executing the following query on AdventureWorks database shows me how much space Person.Contact table is using. Information presented is detailed which includes the number of rows, reserved space, index size, space used by data and any unused [...]

This famous picture of the main crew at Microsoft Corporation in 1978 is perhaps one of the most famous photos of Microsoft employees of that time. The picture is mostly seen with the slogan “Would you have invested?” This photo also made it to Museum Of Hoaxes website which lists facts about people in [...]

Today I am starting a series of posts in which I will post some interesting tit-bits about Microsoft. Mostly past stuff. I will prefix these posts with “Microsoft Museum” and tag them the same for easy search ability. The idea is to have light hearted and interesting posts about Microsoft. The ones that you read [...]

Participants of this contest will create a game in Silverlight and the winner will get $5000 as the first prize. The contest is open to residents of US and you must be 16 years or older to enter. You can find the official rules here.  You  are allowed to submit 3 entries which will be [...]

Microsoft is offering free website hosting and domain of your choice when you sign up for Office Live Small Business. Included in the package are hosting, your own domain if it is available, and online applications like Contact Manager, Document Manager, Project Manager and Workspaces. And this is all for free for first year. [...]

In this article we will look at how to write a Windows Forms Client to access Microsoft Live Search API. Via this API you can use the power of a giant search engine within your application. While developing our application we will see that the overall design of the API is simple and easy [...]

Microsoft has released January 2009 CTP of Oslo SDK and Tools.
You can download the CTP here.
The SDK includes Intellipad tool and "M" code samples to get you started. This release also support Visual Studio 2008. You can find more details about January 2009 CTP at SellsBrothers.com.
Here are few links to get you started [...]

Update On Windows 7 Beta Download Dates. Thanks Jeff
“Final days: We’re just about at the limit for Beta downloads, so act now if you want to try Windows 7.” It is my understanding that it is possible that the download link is capped before the 10th, depending on what [...]

Fortune magazine released their Top 100 companies to work for list. At number one is NetApp who are having a Slashdot effect after achieving number 1 spot on the list. Interesting findings are Google at number 4 and beloved Microsoft slipping to number 38. While I take these lists with a pinch of salt, they [...]

I have a confession to make. When I saw var keyword for the first time I did not like it at all. My first opinion was that var was so variant like. Call me a control freak but I like to clearly see what I am declaring. And var was something I thought made the [...]