Plaxico Burress

Plaxico Burress of the New York Giants has to turn himself into New York police after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh. This comes exactly one year after Sean Taylor, strong safety for the Washington Redskins, was murdered after a botched robbery attempt. Sean Taylor was shot in the thigh as well. Taylor died as his femoral artery was struck and he suffered massive bleeding. Fortunately Burress did not suffer life threatening wounds. However, I don't understand why he would put himself in such a position. He obviously did not have a permit for the gun he was carrying. That is the reason why he must turn himself in. New York supposedly has tough gun laws. It would only be right that Burress be subject to these laws as anyone else. He has a responsibility to family, fans, the New York Giants organization, and himself. Instead he is spending his time armed in nightclubs. I just don't understand. He will lose large amounts of money as this is a major breach in his 35 million dollar contract. He was shot in the leg and now he may face time on this felony gun charge. Thats a triple whammy.

Database Administrator Skills

I found some required skills and experience for a Database Administrator

VB Script
AJAX
ADO.Net
COM/COM+/DCOM
JavaScript
ASP.Net
Web Service / SOAP / XML development
HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
SQL Server 2000 – 2005
Internet Information Services
Working experience with BI tools such as MicroStrategy, COGNOS. Actuate a plus.

Someone that has experience implementing such a tool on top of a SDL database would be a real plus.

Other Qualifications
Creative thinking with an ability to develop innovative solutions
Strong communication and presentation skills
Strong interactive skills and team player
Result oriented and highly focused with eye on detail, data accuracy and communication
Proven project management experiences a plus.

Wow! thats alot

Database Improves Healthcare

IBM's new data server, Viper, has the ability to help clients manage all types of information such as documents, audio, video, images, web pages, and digitally signed XML transactions. This is achieved through the ability to store data relationally in tables. Viper will reduce the time that's required for for programming by either vendors or customers. XML data will be stored in the relational databases, therefore the hierarchical qualities can be shown via XML tags. This new tool will better management and utilization of clinical information. The improved XML handling will make it easier for organizations to exchange information. This is a very common practice between health care organizations. No longer will you have to wait while someone walks up and down the filing room searching for you health records.

Database Joins

Simple Definitions for Joins
Inner Join - returns only those rows from the left table where they have a matching row in the right table based upon the join criteria.

Left Join- returns all rows from the left table even if there are no matching rows where found in the right table. Any values selected out of the right table will be null for those rows where no matching row is found on the right table. Left Joins tend to be more portable and easier to read

Right Join- Same as a left join, but from opposite direction. This will return all rows in the right table regardless of matching rows in the left table.