A Journey...called LIFE....

I face number of problems everyday, I may not solve all of them at times,  I try to stretch myself to the extremes,  but no matter what, I follow my dreams..  I feel lack of knowledge sometimes,  I need to reread at times,  it gives me ample strength to fight,  and bounce back again to new heights,  I feel exhausted & I scream,  but no matter what, I follow my dream..  I get laughed at by the closest,  I get ignored by the nearest,  I often feel trapped & offended,  I try to forgive them,  as they might not see what I can in their routine,  hence no matter what, I follow my dreams...   -Inspired by the poem which I recently read!!

It was last Saturday morning, my mobile rang at around 5:30am. I took the phone with the most inattentive gesture, suddenly the lively sound of my friend got bumped on my ears..I woke up completely..and got ready within 15 mins.. We all had planned to go to the fort for trekking, and this was that VERY DAY!!... As per the schedule, all trekkers boarded the bus and we started our journey to "Korigad" - The FORT Near Lonavla. As this was unseen, unheard fort for most of us, I like many others, was also wondering about the history and geography of this fort while enjoying the bus ride and "Antakshari" - the most common entertainment type for such journeys. After taking stop for the breakfast in middle of the journey & making Maharashtra Police "Happy" we finally reached the fort 'paytha'..Entire team was not only happy but also was excited about trekking.. The fort was looking like a big straight mountain.. after seeing the elevation of that h...

That day afternoon, I was working in the office like any other ordinary day. In the tea time everybody including me was reluctant to go out. Sun was at its full and the air seems to be coming from hundreds of hot blowers. We had a discussion before leaving for afternoon tea and with the majority, the bill got passed to take "that day" tea in a canteen and do some compromise to avoid hot weather for "Tapri Tea". As we started the tea, with our mood the weather also started changing its won.. all of a sudden the wetness came in the air and to our surprise its started raining.. We could smell the beautiful fragrance of soil.. The entire aura has changed & the hot day became pleasant..   People who have voted not to go out then asked to take another cup of tea outside. With the apology & promise to go with them again in the evening I came back to my desk wondering how sudden the weather has changed... Time is really can not be bound & it is indeed a solut...

1st May is called a "Labor Day" or "May Day" which is celebrated throughout INDIA. In some countries the entire week is celebrated as Labor week. This week also coincides with 'Maharashtra Divas' and 'Gujarat Divas' respectively, Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day because the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat were created on the same week in 1960. I don't know about rest of the world but my family used to get holiday on this day - being a labor & working in Maharashtra we never cared about the day but were happy to get a holiday. But from last couple years I have been celebrating this day truly as a Labor day here in America (without a holiday) after all we are labor here right if this term hurts you then in more polite way lets call it as knowledge workers :) Coincidentally, this year 1st May was a holiday, not because the government of US started giving it and passed the amendment for a holiday but because it was a Saturday on that day. After...

The recent Twitter data for one London Weekend has been re-rendered as a clip by DigitalUrban . It is the same data with 60,000 geo referenced Tweets in London over a weekend from Friday evening to Monday morning. This visual is now also using the new navigation tool, the 3D Connextion 'Space Navigator' , a pretty awesome tool for navigation in Google Earth for example.

OK!! Finally I have convinced myself to write some technical stuff in my personal blog.. anyhow we work in that industry right and spend most of our time and eventually life coding and reading about technology, so here you go guys my first ever blog on technology - Below are some of the tips to optimize Stored Procedure with making simple changes in the code. -Include SET NOCOUNT ON statement: With every SELECT and DML statement, the SQL server returns a message that indicates the number of affected rows by that statement. This information is mostly helpful in debugging the code, but it is useless after that. By setting SET NOCOUNT ON, we can disable the feature of returning this extra information. For stored procedures that contain several statements or contain Transact-SQL loops, setting SET NOCOUNT to ON can provide a significant performance boost because network traffic is greatly reduced. CREATE PROC dbo.ProcName AS SET NOCOUNT ON; --Procedure code here SELECT column1 FROM dbo.Tbl...

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