I am currently in Salamanca, Spain and besides how beautiful this city is, I had a talk about current status of Cloud interoperability. The presentation file is available here. Cloud Interoperability Cloud Interoperability from Amir Mohtasebi

Googling for using Linked Server functionality in SQL server to link a MySQL database returns lots of results. However, reaching a final answer may take 5 or 6 hours of cursing. Below, I am describing my adventure hope saving you some curse: 1) Install “MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver” Connector for ODBC [here] 2) Go to ODBC Data Source Administrator (Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Data Sources (ODBC)) 3) Add a new System DSN:...

Today 6th December 2011, dates my first year anniversary in this company. Since I was a teen, my dream was to work in a big enterprise as a tech lead and now I have it (at that time we praised BillG not SteveJ). Working in these big companies is a little different from working for a small local company (my previous job) or working on your own start-up. I experienced:...

My first experience with Internet coincided with Yahoo! web site. At that time there were two portal giants for the non-US users. Aside from AOL, that was a darling for the the US customers, we knew only Yahoo! and MSN. I remember my father and his colleagues thought Yahoo! as a door to the internet. Even if they want to go to MSN, they first typed yahoo.com in the browser, of course with http://www....