I do quite a bit of work with Imfor's Syteline ERP product, and with Defran's evolv product, and have developed quite a library of custom stored procedures, views, etc. for extracting necessary data from their databases for inclusion in custom reports.
I'm contemplating adding pages to my web site where I would post these SQL snippets, however I am somewhat leery. A preliminary google search has not revealed other sites where this is done. I have two theories as to why this is so:
Theory #1: Folks are afraid that posting such SQL would somehow be a violation of copyright. It seems a bit of a stretch, but who knows...lawyers are known to be quite flexible in their interpretations of the law. Just ask those who have had visits from the RIAA merely for having P2P software installed on their PCs.
Theory #2: Folks who use ERP and case management software tend to be pretty specialized and so such posting/sharing takes place, but under the umbrella of users groups and forums, rather than web sites.
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Some notable events of the past few days:
1) Benazir Bhutto's assignation brings chaos on many fronts. The most foreboding possiblity is that Pervez Musharraf is toppled in some sort of coup precipitated by unrest resulting from the assignation and that the coup results in Al Queda having closer ties to the Pakistani government (and its nuclear weapons).
Tangentially related to this is a Nasa news release that a-bomb markers were not found in Tibetan ice cores. This might not seem to be very portentous news, however as the article points out this means that the Himalayan glaciers which provide potable water for something like 20% of the world's population are shrinking rapidly. This UNFA report predicts severe water shortages in as little as forty years.
So what happens when both India and Pakistan start running out of water? Well, a common enemy unites. I predict rising tensions as stressed national governments try to deflect internal criticism by ratcheting up tensions. Perhaps we'll also see some sort of Hindu ultra-nationalist version of Al Queda. Almost certainly life in southeast Asia will become more perilous.
Of course, we in America are not free from our own water concerns: Both the southwest and the southeast have experienced record droughts which in combination with rapid population growth is stressing already stretched local water resources.
In the long term, this lends merit to Dr. Jared Diamond's forecast of the fall of western civilization.
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In the short term, this probably means lots more apocalyptic movies such in the grain of I am Legend and Cloverfield.
I'm contemplating adding pages to my web site where I would post these SQL snippets, however I am somewhat leery. A preliminary google search has not revealed other sites where this is done. I have two theories as to why this is so:
Theory #1: Folks are afraid that posting such SQL would somehow be a violation of copyright. It seems a bit of a stretch, but who knows...lawyers are known to be quite flexible in their interpretations of the law. Just ask those who have had visits from the RIAA merely for having P2P software installed on their PCs.
Theory #2: Folks who use ERP and case management software tend to be pretty specialized and so such posting/sharing takes place, but under the umbrella of users groups and forums, rather than web sites.
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Some notable events of the past few days:
1) Benazir Bhutto's assignation brings chaos on many fronts. The most foreboding possiblity is that Pervez Musharraf is toppled in some sort of coup precipitated by unrest resulting from the assignation and that the coup results in Al Queda having closer ties to the Pakistani government (and its nuclear weapons).
Tangentially related to this is a Nasa news release that a-bomb markers were not found in Tibetan ice cores. This might not seem to be very portentous news, however as the article points out this means that the Himalayan glaciers which provide potable water for something like 20% of the world's population are shrinking rapidly. This UNFA report predicts severe water shortages in as little as forty years.
So what happens when both India and Pakistan start running out of water? Well, a common enemy unites. I predict rising tensions as stressed national governments try to deflect internal criticism by ratcheting up tensions. Perhaps we'll also see some sort of Hindu ultra-nationalist version of Al Queda. Almost certainly life in southeast Asia will become more perilous.
Of course, we in America are not free from our own water concerns: Both the southwest and the southeast have experienced record droughts which in combination with rapid population growth is stressing already stretched local water resources.
In the long term, this lends merit to Dr. Jared Diamond's forecast of the fall of western civilization.
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In the short term, this probably means lots more apocalyptic movies such in the grain of I am Legend and Cloverfield.
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