We live in an irrational world

I have come to this conclusion after many years of thinking.

We have water shortage we grow lawns.
We have food shortage and we convert it into bio-fuels.
There is stravation and we waste.

Questions:

How many thousands of acres are being used for growing lawns? I do like lawns but there are other greater concerns.

How many millions of gallons of water are being used for the lawns?

How many tons of pesticides (nasty stuff) are dumped into the ground?

How much energy is used for all these activities?

Do the benefits outweigh the negatives?

Solution:
Grow something that is in short supply or more beneficial , be it Jatropa (both medicinal and biofuel source) or vegetables. Instead of maintainng your lawns turn it into food.

Well I am not the first to say this.

Integration Services 2008 bug_Bug002

The picture shows it all. This is an erratic bug. At first it shows up when you want to manipulate the 'Mappings'. The upper pane seems to be malformed- the connecting lines are absent while the bottom pane shows correctly columns going to destination.

If you try a drag-drop operation in the upper pane, you do see the dragging correctly but when dropped it does not connect the columns.

Some times when you move your mouse out of this screen and comeback the lines are connected. This never happenned with the VS 2005's SSIS designer.

Is my computer a slow computer, or what?

Integration Services 2008 bug_Bug001

The picture shows it all. The number of rows selected by the Conditional Split looks good [14601+4511=19112]. But the progress tab shows it has started and one of the component is still yellow. The program hangs. This appears to be a real bug and it is repeatable. I use an evaluaion copy of VS Studio 2008 Professional Edition [trial software], the Feb 2008 CTP of SQL Server 2008 and using the Adventure Works database and a ADO.NET source for this example.

At first I thought that there were too many rows to fetch and reduced the number of rows fetched to be small to weed this bug out for observation.

My presentation at NJ SQL Server Group on April 15, 2008

I will be introducing my book to the group at 6:30 PM at their location in Parsipanny, NJ. I will be mostly talking about some of the wizards of SSIS and will show how beginners can get their feet wet on this very important product from Microsoft.

I will be demonstrating some easy to follow examples using the BETA version of SQL Server 2008 and VS 2008. If you live around Parsipanny you are welcome, but make sure you send an email to the organizer (http://njsql.org/default.aspx).

New Data Flow Destinations in VS 2008's SSIS Designer

You will find the new destinations shown inside blue rectangles in the SSIS designer Toolbox when you work with VS 2008.

ADO.NET and SQL Server Compact Edition are new. SQL Server Mobile destination is out.