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Data warehousing in a nutshell
 RALPH Kimball in The Data Warehouse Toolkit states: “A dataware warehouse is a copy of transaction data specifically structured for querying and reporting.” This definition of the data warehouse can be extended to include the following... 
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Buying a digital camera?
 IT is the wedding ceremony of your brother. You have been waiting for the occasion since last many months. You want to capture all the beautiful moments of this memorable day....
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Doing homework in SMS!
AN English essay written by a British teenager in text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among teachers that literacy standards are under threat. The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that the 13-year-old’s teacher could not decipher what the youngster had written.....
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Webwatch
 This is an excellent site presented by NASA provides a chance to explore our celestial neighbourhood. It offers breaking news and the latest images from space on upcoming events. The targetted goals of current and future missions...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Bluetooth: A wireless personal area network (PAN) technology from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (www.bluetooth.com) founded in 1998 by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba.....
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Effective vector control strategy required
 IN any region, it is a newly introduced exotic pest or disease that prove mmore dangerous than the indigenous ones, because in the new invironment it can flourish unfettered by its...
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Those incredible roving gadgets
 THE hottest smart mobile devices are meant to threaten computers with extermination. Computer is technology’s Mark Twain and most recently, reports of its demise have been greatly overstated....
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Oracle9i: a complete data warehouse
 ORACLE8I is the leading relational database for data warehousing because of its core features, such as performance, scalability and manageability. Oracle’s latter version 9i builds on these features to...
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Locust control using biological pesticides
 WHILE discussing biodiversity in Pakistan, one is amazed to observe that this country possesses immense wealth of the fauna and flora, those specific to this region and the ones that visit...
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McAfee readies enhanced antivirus offering
ANTIVIRUS software maker McAfee is expected to make a major enhancement to its VirusScan software in the first week of March. The new version, Enterprise 7.0, will include a worm-killing feature, the company says the worm killer will scan memory on demand for worms and Trojans as well as for viruses, and will kill malicious activity....
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US and China join fusion project
 CHINA and the US are officially joining the largest international science project of the next decade — excepting the International Space Station....
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Fossil sheds light on human origins
 THE remains of the 1.8-million-year-old hominid are said to rank among the best specimens yet discovered of the earliest members of our genus, Homo....
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Singapore to introduce new wireless technology
SINGAPORE plans to introduce a new leading-edge technology that allows users to detect buried items or objects behind walls and to track people, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) announced....
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Time Saver to be included in Visual Studio
MICROSOFT plans to include a programming time-saver borrowed from academic languages such as ML in the mid-decade version of its Visual Studio development tools, a senior researcher at the company says....
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What data mining does for you
WE know the built-in benefit of successful data warehousing: the ability to collect, store, analyze and act on massive amounts of critical customer data. That’s the good news. Today’s challenge? To...
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Byteback
 1. WHENEVER I want to insert an object into a Word document, I get an error message, “Failed to create the object. Make sure the application is entered in the system registry”. How do I get rid of this...
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Oracle workshop held
A STRATEGIC Partner Day seminar/workshop was held by Oracle to discuss future strategies for the new financial year and highlight the new features and benefits of the Oracle Partner Portal....
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Cool gadgets
 ASUSTEK Computer’s SCB-1608-D is a 4-in-1 external slim combo drive that provides fast data storage at 16X CD-Write and 10X CD-ReWrite and fast data access at 24X CD-ROM and 8X DVD-ROM. The device also has a support for...
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