Interesting Fact

Former U.S President Carter , the Peace Maker said a very interesting fact in his lecture in the AUC at Cairo last Thursday "I wish I were there". He spoke about the American aid to Egypt as it started in his time. He said that President Sadat did not request any sum of money at all , he did not request any weapons at all , all what he had requested was the Wheat for the Egyptian people as they were exhausted from War and the population was increasing year after year and that's what he took from the Americans : Wheat. So from this I understand that Mubarak changed the rule and requested financial and military aid starting from Reagan's cabinet !!?? Egypt is the second country after Israel in the size of the annual American aid . The sum of money we took from the Americans ca

While playing with Indexes I have found following interesting fact. I did some necessary tests to verify that it is true. When a clustered index is disabled, all the nonclustered indexes on the same tables are auto disabled as well. User do not need to disable non-clustered index separately. However, when clustered index is enabled, it does not automatically enable nonclustered index. All the nonclustered indexes needs to be enabled individually. I wondered if there is any short cut to enable all the indexes together. Index rebuilding came to my mind instantly. I ran T-SQL command of rebuilding all the indexes and it enabled all the indexes on table. This was very intriguing to me, as I never faced this kind of situation before. Everyday there is something new in SQL Server and that what makes life of DBA refreshing. T-SQL to rebuild all the indexes on table. USE AdventureWorks; GO ALTER INDEX ALL ON Production.Product REBUILD GO Rebuild All Indexes using SQL Server Management Studio.

I'm not a big fan of offering free advertising to multinational organisations that suck the life out of new born babies in third world countries just for fun, or use small labrador puppies flung into the air for target practice, but I have to give a big mention to the Nestle Drifter bar! It really is the unsung hero of the chocolate bar world. It's never had the popular appeal of the Twix or

"Deus ex Machina" is a latin term which basically means "God from the machine". Have you ever watched a film or play that takes you down a complicated route and then suddenly when you think that your hero is doomed, some unexplicable and highly unlikely event happens that neatly ties all of the plot together? A bit like it was the author or playwright's afterthough to get them out of a jam, "

Atlantis means "Island of Atlas", the first known reference to Atlantis was by Plato around 400BC. He claimed that Atlantis had sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune" around 9000 years previous (around 9400BC). Generally, Atlantis is seen as a myth created by Plato to illustrate some of his political theories. Many believe that he based his Atlantis myth on a collection

Well, you've most likely seen skydiver Michael Holmes' brush with death. If not, have a gander at the movie below... VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE DUE TO COPYRIGHT CLAIM BY ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD!! Although Michael fell 12,000ft with a half open parachute, the all time free fall survival record is held by a Serbian woman called Vesna Vuloviç. In 1972 she was an air stewardess on board a JAT

Happy Valentines Day! Here are a few Valentines facts for your day... 15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.Since AD 496 the feast of St Valentines has been celebrated, some believe to suppress an older pagan fertility festival held on the 15th of February. But the feast was more of a Christian celebration rather than the romantic day we now it as now. The association

Here are some facts about being left-handed.... 1. Being left handed seems to be a bit of a dodgy thing in Japan. Researchers have found that less than 2% of people in Japan admit to being left handed, when the world average is 10%. Traditionally a man could reject his prospective wife on the grounds of her being left handed. It was said that left handers wouldn't be able to master japanese

Well, it's Burn's Night the nicht. So here's a fact or two about the bard... He penned his first verse at 15. There's a statue of Robert Burns in Central Park. Auld Lang Syne' was originally set to a different tune but the publisher rejected it so Burns set it to the one commonly sung today, which the Japanese claim as their tune. If you need some tips for your Burn's supper, here's a few

Here are some unemployment figures from around the world... Faroe Islands 1% Bermuda 2.1% Vietnam 2.4% United Kingdom 4.7% United States 5.1% Australia 5.1% India 8.9% Germany 11.7% Argentina 11.6% China 20% (Estimated overall unemployment) Monaco 22% Zimbabwe 80% Liberia 85% The World Average sits at around 30% Quite mad when you try and imagine what it would be life to live

Here are the top 5 nations for military expenditure per annum... 1. United States $518,100,000,000 2. China $81,470,000,000 3. France $45,000,000,000 4. Japan $44,310,000,000 5. United Kingdom $42,836,500,000 It's a lot of doh innit! Some more stats include, Sweden's military budget ($5,501,000,000) is bigger than Iran's ($4,300,000,000). Kuwait's is $3,007,000,000 and despite it's neutral