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  • What Are the Top 4 Search Engine Optimization Techniques of Today?

    Today, with the over-whelming competitions among the web masters in competing for customers to increase their sales and profit, finding ways to increase to optimize their websites is not really very difficult. There are whole lots of SEO (Search engine optimization) techniques which can be found over the internet today, which majority of them are really very user friendly which even a novice web-master with limited HTML knowledge find it not that difficult to get the most out of it as long as they have the will to learn and improve in their search ranking.

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  • Which one of the Google Analytics stats should be my top priority to improve SEO: visits, pageviews, bounce rate, new visitors, or visit duration

    - by HOY
    My site is getting a lot of traffic from an image (a company logo image) because this image is ranked 1st in Google search results for a company's title. (I have no idea how that happened.) This image is must for my website, but it is not relevant to the site content, so irrelevant people search for the image and find out about my site. I get interesting statistics: Pros: Total Visits & Avg. New Visits Cons: Avg. Page/Visit, Avg. Visit Duration, Bounce Rate I am confused if this image is helpful to my website. I don't know what the balance between those 5 statistics should be. My website is 2 months old, and we are working on SEO at the moment. Edit: here are the details about the image: Search Keyword: arcelik logo Search Site: google.com.tr Search URL

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  • How to select the top n from a union of two queries where the resulting order needs to be ranked by individual query?

    - by Jedidja
    Let's say I have a table with usernames: Id | Name ----------- 1 | Bobby 20 | Bob 90 | Bob 100 | Joe-Bob 630 | Bobberino 820 | Bob Junior I want to return a list of n matches on name for 'Bob' where the resulting set first contains exact matches followed by similar matches. I thought something like this might work SELECT TOP 4 a.* FROM ( SELECT * from Usernames WHERE Name = 'Bob' UNION SELECT * from Usernames WHERE Name LIKE '%Bob%' ) AS a but there are two problems: It's an inefficient query since the sub-select could return many rows (looking at the execution plan shows a join happening before top) (Almost) more importantly, the exact match(es) will not appear first in the results since the resulting set appears to be ordered by primary key. I am looking for a query that will return (for TOP 4) Id | Name --------- 20 | Bob 90 | Bob (and then 2 results from the LIKE query, e.g. 1 Bobby and 100 Joe-Bob) Is this possible in a single query?

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  • Set Height of Div Equal to Parent Tag

    - by Phong Dang
    Hello, I have a snip code HTML as below : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" lang="en-us" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft SharePoint" /> <meta name="progid" content="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" /> <title>Demo </title> <style type="text/css"> A { font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; } </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/wiki.css?rev=AWRyZDbGxZSekWBubaxPXw%3D%3D" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/corev4.css?rev=w9FW7ASZnUjiWWCtJEcnTw%3D%3D" /> </head> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="height:100%;"> <form method="" name="frm"> <table style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" id="ctl00_m_g_510fd150_a968_41ee_a28d_d47ff4a7198e_BambooCalendarControl" height="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>8:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; background-color: #ccffcc; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="100%" valign="top" rowspan="8" width="50%"> <div style="border-bottom: gray 1px solid; border-left: gray 1px solid; background-color: #ffa500; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; border-top: gray 1px solid; border-right: gray 1px solid" nowrap width="100%" valign="top"> <a style="height: 100%; color: black" href="#"><font color="white">Item </font></a> </div> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>9:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; background-color: #ccffcc; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="100%" valign="top" rowspan="4" width="50%"> <div style="border-bottom: gray 1px solid; border-left: gray 1px solid; background-color: #bdb76b; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; border-top: gray 1px solid; border-right: gray 1px solid" nowrap width="100%" valign="top"> <a style="height: 100%; color: black" title="" href="#"><font color="white">Item 2 </font> </a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> </tr> <tr style="border-left: medium none; border-right: #696969 1px solid"> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>10:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>11:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="2"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </form> </body> </html> I set the height of the div 100% so that it full of TD but it did not effect. Please help me ! Thanks / PD

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  • How do I place a DIV tag image on the very top of the page in HTML5?

    - by Jacob
    Hello there. I'm trying to put an x-repeat "grid" of images by using background-image in CSS, then using the id in a DIV tag. My intention is to put a sort of "panel", then always extends to the very top of the page, and loops with repeat-x. It works just fine without a DOCTYPE, but when I put the clean in the code, it pushes the image in the tag downwards, as if there's a margin on the top of the page of about 15 px or so. I tried top-margin, z-index, with no success. Excuse me if I'm asking a silly question, but I'm sort of new. Thanks, -Jacob

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  • System.Drawing - bad text rendering using DrawString on top of transparent pixels.

    - by mackenir
    When rendering text into a bitmap, I find that text looks very bad when rendered on top of an area with non-opaque alpha. The problem is progressively worse as the underlying pixels become more transparent. If I had to guess I'd say that when underlying pixels are transparent, the text renderer draws any anti-aliased 'gray' pixels as solid black. Here are some screenshots: Text drawn on top of transparent pixels: Text drawn on top of semi-transparent pixels: Text drawn on opaque pixels: Here is the code used to render the text: g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality; g.DrawString("Press the spacebar", Font, Brushes.Black, textLeft, textTop);

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  • How do I find the top N batters per year?

    - by Drew Stephens
    I'm playing around with the Lahman Baseball Database in a MySQL instance. I want to find the players who topped home runs (HR) for each year. The Batting table has the following (relevant parts) of its schema: +-----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | playerID | varchar(9) | NO | PRI | | | | yearID | smallint(4) unsigned | NO | PRI | 0 | | | HR | smallint(3) unsigned | YES | | NULL | | +-----------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ For each year, every player has an entry (between hundreds and 12k per year, going back to 1871). Getting the top N hitters for a single year is easy: SELECT playerID,yearID,HR FROM Batting WHERE yearID=2009 ORDER BY HR DESC LIMIT 3; +-----------+--------+------+ | playerID | yearID | HR | +-----------+--------+------+ | pujolal01 | 2009 | 47 | | fieldpr01 | 2009 | 46 | | howarry01 | 2009 | 45 | +-----------+--------+------+ But I'm interested in finding the top 3 from every year. I've found solutions like this, describing how to select the top from a category and I've tried to apply it to my problem, only to end up with a query that never returns: SELECT b.yearID, b.playerID, b.HR FROM Batting AS b LEFT JOIN Batting b2 ON (b.yearID=b2.yearID AND b.HR <= b2.HR) GROUP BY b.yearID HAVING COUNT(*) <= 3; Where have I gone wrong?

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  • Anyway to get a value similar to @@ROWCOUNT when TOP is used?

    - by cfeduke
    If I have a SQL statement such as: SELECT TOP 5 * FROM Person WHERE Name LIKE 'Sm%' ORDER BY ID DESC PRINT @@ROWCOUNT -- shows '5' Is there anyway to get a value like @@ROWCOUNT that is the actual count of all of the rows that match the query without re-issuing the query again sans the TOP 5? The actual problem is a much more complex and intensive query that performs beautifully since we can use TOP n or SET ROWCOUNT n but then we cannot get a total count which is required to display paging information in the UI correctly. Presently we have to re-issue the query with a @Count = COUNT(ID) instead of *.

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  • How do I make a DIV stay at the top of the screen no matter ow far down the page my visitor scrolls?

    - by user1289863
    What I'm saying is, I have some extremely long pages on my website, which can make it annoying I've my visitors need to scroll to the top of the page to be able to navigate to another page. I'm not quite sure what I would call this but any Google search that contains the words 'DIV' and 'float' come up with completely unrelated results... What I'm looking to do is create a DIV that stays at the top of the Screen (not to be confused with the page) so that if the user is at the bottom of the page, they can still see the navigation bar just floating at the top of the screen. What I can think of is to position the DIV relative to the position of the screen but I don't know how to code this. I'm happy to use JavaScript (preferably in the form of jQuery), but if you know how to do this using CSS, I would favour your response. This might help: I know a little bit of jQuery and JavaScript and I know a good deal of CSS and HTML. Thanks in advance.

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  • How to add "Back to top" link at bottom at <div> is browser window is shorter than page, using jquer

    - by metal-gear-solid
    How to add "Back to top" link at bottom at is browser window is shorter than page, using jquery? <div id="mainContent"> <p>Some content</p> </div> If some content is bigger than browser window ( I mean if vertical bar comes on the page) then i want to add Back to top just before closing the div. <div id="mainContent"> <p>Some content</p> <p>Some content</p> <p>Some content</p> <a href="#"> Back to top </a> </div>

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  • SharePoint 2010 Center and Fixed Width of all content on page including the ribbon

    - by Bill Daugherty
    All, I am trying to make the width of the sharepoint 2010 web site to be within a fixed width and centered across the screen. I would like for it to be 800px and centered. When i do this, it seems like it starts to work until the ribbion bar renters. Here is my attempt so far: body.v4/* _lcid="1033" _version="14.0.4536" _LocalBinding */ body,form{ margin:0px; width:800px; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; } .ms-toolbar{ font-family:verdana; font-size:8pt; text-decoration:none; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Hyperlink")] */ color:#0072BC; } a.ms-toolbar:hover{ text-decoration:underline; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent1",themeShade:"0.8")] */ color:#005e9a; } .ms-toolbar-togglebutton-on{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Darker")] */ border:1px solid #2353b2; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent4-Lightest")] */ background-color:#fffacc; } table.ms-toolbar{ height:45px; border:none; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Light2",includeRectangle:{x:0,y:610,width:1,height:42})] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x -0px -610px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#fff; } table.ms-toolbar{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light2-Lightest")] */ border:1px solid #f1f1f2; } .ms-menutoolbar{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light2-Lightest")] */ border-bottom:1px solid #f1f1f2; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#fff; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Light2",includeRectangle:{x:0,y:610,width:1,height:42})] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x -0px -610px; height:45px; } .ms-menutoolbar td{ padding:0px 0px 0px 4px; margin:0px; border:none; } .ms-menutoolbar td a{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Hyperlink")] */ color:#0072bc; font-size:8pt; font-family:verdana; text-decoration:none; } .ms-menutoolbar td a:hover{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Hyperlink",themeShade:"0.82")] */ color:#005e9a; text-decoration:none; } .ms-menubuttoninactivehover,.ms-buttoninactivehover{ margin:3px; padding:3px 4px 4px 4px; border:1px solid transparent; background-color:transparent; white-space:nowrap; } .ms-menubuttonactivehover,.ms-buttonactivehover{ margin:3px; padding:3px 4px 4px 4px; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Light1-Darkest",includeRectangle:{x:0,y:431,width:1,height:21})] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x -0px -431px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#fff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1-Lighter")] */ border:solid 1px #cccccc; cursor:pointer; } .ms-buttoninactivehover{ white-space:nowrap; } .ms-buttoninactivehover img,.ms-buttonactivehover img{ margin:0px 1px 0px 0px; } td.ms-menutoolbarheader{ font-size:10pt; font-family:verdana; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Medium")] */ color:#204d89; font-weight:bold; line-height:16px; padding-left:7px; padding-right:7px; } .ms-listheaderlabel{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark2")] */ color:#204d89; } .ms-listheaderlabel,.ms-viewselector,.ms-viewselectortext,.ms-viewselectorhover{ font-size:8pt; font-family:tahoma; } .ms-menutoolbar td td.ms-viewselector,.ms-menutoolbar td td.ms-viewselectorhover,.ms-toolbar td td.ms-viewselector,.ms-toolbar td td.ms-viewselectorhover,td.ms-viewselector{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#ffffff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark2-Medium")] */ border:1px solid #D3D6DA; font-weight:bold; padding:0px; } .ms-menutoolbar td td{ border:none; } div.ms-viewselector,div.ms-viewselectorhover{ padding:2px 4px 2px 4px; cursor:pointer; } div.ms-viewselector a,div.ms-viewselectorhover a.ms-menu-a span{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; } .ms-viewselector-arrow{ vertical-align:middle; } .ms-menutoolbar td td.ms-viewselectorhover,.ms-toolbar td td.ms-viewselectorhover{ /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Accent1",method:"Tinting",includeRectangle:{x:0,y:654,width:1,height:18})] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x -0px -654px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent1-Lighter")] */ border-color:#91cdf2; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent1",themeTint:"0.35")] */ background-color:#ccebff; } .ms-bottompaging{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lightest")] */ background:#ebf3ff; } .ms-bottompagingline1{ height:3px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#ffffff; } .ms-bottompagingline2,.ms-bottompagingline3{ height:1px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#ffffff; } .ms-bottompaging .ms-vb{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background-color:#ffffff; } .ms-bottompagingline2 img,.ms-bottompagingline3 img,.ms-partline img{ display:none; } .ms-paging{ padding-left:11px; padding-right:11px; padding-bottom:4px; font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Darker")] */ color:#204d89; } .ms-bottompaging .ms-paging{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1-Medium")] */ color:#4c4c4c; } .ms-menutoolbar .ms-splitbuttondropdown{ padding:3px 2px 0px 2px; } .ms-menutoolbar .ms-splitbuttontext{ padding:0px 7px 1px 7px; } .ms-splitbutton{ margin:0px 2px; } .ms-splitbuttonhover{ margin:0px 2px; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Accent6-Darker",method:"Tinting",includeRectangle:{x:0,y:431,width:1,height:21})] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/bgximg.png") repeat-x -0px -431px; border-collapse:collapse; height:22px; background-color:#fff; } .ms-splitbuttonhover .ms-splitbuttondropdown{ padding:3px 1px 0px 2px; } .ms-splitbuttonhover .ms-splitbuttontext{ padding:0px 6px 0px 6px; } .ms-splitbuttonhover .ms-splitbuttondropdown,.ms-splitbuttonhover .ms-splitbuttontext{ border:solid 1px #cccccc; cursor:pointer; } .ms-propertysheet { font-size:1em; } .ms-propertysheet th.ms-gridT1 { text-align:left; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; width:190px; } .ms-viewselect a:link{ font-size:8pt; font-family:Verdana,sans-serif; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3")] */ color:#003399; } select{ font-size:8pt; font-family:Verdana,sans-serif; } hr{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3")] */ color:#003399; height:2px; } .ms-input{ font-size:8pt; font-family:Verdana,sans-serif; } .ms-treeviewouter{ margin-top:5px; } .ms-quicklaunch table td{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lighter")] */ border-top:1px solid #add1ff; } .ms-quicklaunch .ms-treeviewouter table td{ border-top:none; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-navheader td,.ms-quicklaunch span.ms-navheader{ padding:1px 4px 4px 4px; } div.ms-treeviewouter > div > div{ border:none; } .ms-quicklaunch span.ms-navheader{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lightest")] */ background-color:#d6e8ff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lighter")] */ border-top:1px solid #add1ff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lightest")] */ border-left:solid 1px #f2f8ff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3-Lighter")] */ border-bottom:1px solid #add1ff; padding:1px 6px 3px 6px; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-navsubmenu2 td{ border:none; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-selectednavheader td{ width:100%; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent6-Lightest")] */ background-color:#fff699; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-selectednavheader{ border:none; } .ms-quicklaunch span{ display:block; } .ms-quicklaunch div.ms-navsubmenu1 br{ display:none; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-selectednav{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent6-Darker")] */ border:solid 1px #d2b47a; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Accent1",method:"Tinting")] */ background-image:url("/_layouts/images/selectednav.gif"); background-repeat:repeat-x; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent6-Lightest")] */ background-color:#ffe6a0; margin:2px; margin-bottom:0; width:97%; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-selectednav td{ background:transparent url("/_layouts/images/selectednavbullet.gif"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ border:solid 1px #ffffff; padding:0px 4px 1px 12px; margin:0px; } table.ms-selectednav td a.ms-selectednav{ background:none; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; } .ms-quicklaunch table.ms-selectednavheader td{ width:100%; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent6-Lighter")] */ background-color:#ffe6a0; /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Accent1",method:"Tinting")] */ background-image:url("/_layouts/images/selectednav.gif"); background-repeat:repeat-x; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:2px; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ border-top:solid 1px #ffffff; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1")] */ border-left:solid 1px #ffffff; padding:1px 6px 3px 6px; } .ms-selectednavheader a{ font-weight:bold; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } .ms-selectednavheader a:hover{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; text-decoration:underline; } table.ms-navitem td,span.ms-navitem{ background-image:url("/_layouts/images/navBullet.gif"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; padding:3px 6px 4px 16px; font-family:tahoma; } .ms-navsubmenu1{ width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1-Lightest")] */ background-color:#f2f8ff; } .ms-navsubmenu2{ width:100%; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Light1-Lightest")] */ background-color:#f2f8ff; margin-bottom:6px; } table.ms-navselected{ padding:2px; } table.ms-navselected,span.ms-navselected{ /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Accent6",method:"Tinting")] */ background-image:url("/_layouts/images/SELECTEDNAV.GIF"); /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent6-Lighter")] */ background-color:#ffe6a0; background-repeat:repeat-x; } table.ms-navselected td{ background-image:url("/_layouts/images/navBullet.gif"); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left; padding:3px 6px 4px 17px; } table.ms-navheader td{ background-image:none; } .ms-navheader a{ font-weight:bold; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent3")] */ color:#003399; text-decoration:none; } .ms-navheader a:hover{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark1")] */ color:#000000; text-decoration:underline; } .ms-navitem a{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Dark2")] */ color:#3b4f65 !important; text-decoration:none; display:inline-block; } .ms-navitem a:hover{ /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent1")] */ color:#44aff6 !important; text-decoration:underline !important; } .ms-quicklaunchouter{ border:none; margin-bottom:5px; } .ms-quicklaunchouter{ margin:0px 1px 2px 1px; } .ms-treeviewouter a.ms-navitem{ padding:4px 4px 5px; margin-left:4px; border-color:transparent; border-width:1px; border-style:solid !important; } .ms-tvselected a.ms-navitem{ /* [RecolorImage(themeColor:"Light1")] */ background:url("/_layouts/images/selbg.png") repeat-x left top; /* [ReplaceColor(themeColor:"Accent1",themeTint:"0.15")] */ background-color:#ccebff; 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  • The Internet of Things Is Really the Internet of People

    - by HCM-Oracle
    By Mark Hurd - Originally Posted on LinkedIn As I speak with CEOs around the world, our conversations invariably come down to this central question: Can we change our corporate cultures and the ways we train and reward our people as rapidly as new technology is changing the work we do, the products we make and how we engage with customers? It’s a critical consideration given today’s pace of disruption, which already is straining traditional management models and HR strategies. Winning companies will bring innovation and vision to their employees and partners by attracting people who will thrive in this emerging world of relentless data, predictive analytics and unlimited what-if scenarios. So, where are we going to find employees who are as familiar with complex data as I am with orderly financial statements and business plans? I’m not just talking about high-end data scientists who most certainly will sit at or near the top of the new decision-making pyramid. Global organizations will need creative and motivated people who will devote their time to manipulating, reviewing, analyzing, sorting and reshaping data to drive business and delight customers. This might seem evident, but my conversations with business people across the globe indicate that only a small number of companies get it. In the past few years, executives have been busy keeping pace with seismic upheavals, including the rise of social customer engagement, the rapid acceleration of product-development cycles and the relentless move to mobile-first. But all of that, I think, is the start of an uphill climb to the top of a roller-coaster. Today, about 10 billion devices across the globe are connected to the Internet. In a couple of years, that number will probably double, and not because we will have bought 10 billion more computers, smart phones and tablets. This unprecedented explosion of Big Data is being triggered by the Internet of Things, which is another way of saying that the numerous intelligent devices touching our everyday lives are all becoming interconnected. Home appliances, food, industrial equipment, pets, pharmaceutical products, pallets, cars, luggage, packaged goods, athletic equipment, even clothing will be streaming data. Some data will provide important information about how to run our businesses and lead healthier lives. Much of it will be extraneous. How does a CEO cope with this unimaginable volume and velocity of data, much less harness it to excite and delight customers? Here are three things CEOs must do to tackle this challenge: 1) Take care of your employees, take care of your customers. Larry Ellison recently noted that the two most important priorities for any CEO today revolve around people: Taking care of your employees and taking care of your customers. Companies in today’s hypercompetitive business environment simply won’t be able to survive unless they’ve got world-class people at all levels of the organization. CEOs must demonstrate a commitment to employees by becoming champions for HR systems that empower every employee to fully understand his or her job, how it ties into the corporate framework, what’s expected of them, what training is available, and how they can use an embedded social network to communicate, collaborate and excel. Over the next several years, many of the world’s top industrialized economies will see a turnover in the workforce on an unprecedented scale. Across the United States, Europe, China and Japan, the “baby boomer” generation will be retiring and, by 2020, we’ll see turnovers in those regions ranging from 10 to 30 percent. How will companies replace all that brainpower, experience and know-how? How will CEOs perpetuate the best elements of their corporate cultures in the midst of this profound turnover? The challenge will be daunting, but it can be met with world-class HR technology. As companies begin replacing up to 30 percent of their workforce, they will need thousands of new types of data-native workers to exploit the Internet of Things in the service of the Internet of People. The shift in corporate mindset here can’t be overstated. The CEO has to be at the forefront of this new way of recruiting, training, motivating, aligning and developing truly 21-century talent. 2) Start thinking today about the Internet of People. Some forward-looking companies have begun pursuing the “democratization of data.” This allows more people within a company greater access to data that can help them make better decisions, move more quickly and keep pace with the changing interests and demands of their customers. As a result, we’ve seen organizations flatten out, growing numbers of well-informed people authorized to make decisions without corporate approval and a movement of engagement away from headquarters to the point of contact with the customer. These are profound changes, and I’m a huge proponent. As I think about what the next few years will bring as companies become deluged with unprecedented streams of data, I’m convinced that we’ll need dramatically different organizational structures, decision-making models, risk-management profiles and reward systems. For example, if a car company’s marketing department mines incoming data to determine that customers are shifting rapidly toward neon-green models, how many layers of approval, review, analysis and sign-off will be needed before the factory starts cranking out more neon-green cars? Will we continue to have organizations where too many people are empowered to say “No” and too few are allowed to say “Yes”? If so, how will those companies be able to compete in a world in which customers have more choices, instant access to more information and less loyalty than ever before? That’s why I think CEOs need to begin thinking about this problem right now, not in a year or two when competitors are already reshaping their organizations to match the marketplace’s new realities. 3) Partner with universities to help create a new type of highly skilled workers. Several years ago, universities introduced new undergraduate as well as graduate-level programs in analytics and informatics as the business need for deeper insights into the booming world of data began to explode. Today, as the growth rate of data continues to soar, we know that the Internet of Things will only intensify that growth. Moreover, as Big Data fuels insights that can be shaped into products and services that generate revenue, the demand for data scientists and data specialists will go on unabated. Beyond that top-level expertise, companies are going to need data-native thinkers at all levels of the organization. Where will this new type of worker come from? I think it’s incumbent on the business community to collaborate with universities to develop new curricula designed to turn out graduates who can capitalize on the data-driven world that the Internet of Things is surely going to create. These new workers will create opportunities to help their companies in fields as diverse as product design, customer service, marketing, manufacturing and distribution. They will become innovative leaders in fashioning an entirely new type of workforce and organizational structure optimized to fully exploit the Internet of Things so that it becomes a high-value enabler of the Internet of People. Mark Hurd is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. As President, Mr. Hurd oversees the corporate direction and strategy for Oracle's global field operations, including marketing, sales, consulting, alliances and channels, and support. He focuses on strategy, leadership, innovation, and customers.

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  • General Policies and Procedures for Maintaining the Value of Data Assets

    Here is a general list for policies and procedures regarding maintaining the value of data assets. Data Backup Policies and Procedures Backups are very important when dealing with data because there is always the chance of losing data due to faulty hardware or a user activity. So the need for a strategic backup system should be mandatory for all companies. This being said, in the real world some companies that I have worked for do not really have a good data backup plan. Typically when companies tend to take this kind of approach in data backups usually the data is not really recoverable.  Unfortunately when companies do not regularly test their backup plans they get a false sense of security because they think that they are covered. However, I can tell you from personal and professional experience that a backup plan/system is never fully implemented until it is regularly tested prior to the time when it actually needs to be used. Disaster Recovery Plan Expanding on Backup Policies and Procedures, a company needs to also have a disaster recovery plan in order to protect its data in case of a catastrophic disaster.  Disaster recovery plans typically encompass how to restore all of a company’s data and infrastructure back to a restored operational status.  Most Disaster recovery plans also include time estimates on how long each step of the disaster recovery plan should take to be executed.  It is important to note that disaster recovery plans are never fully implemented until they have been tested just like backup plans. Disaster recovery plans should be tested regularly so that the business can be confident in not losing any or minimal data due to a catastrophic disaster. Firewall Policies and Content Filters One way companies can protect their data is by using a firewall to separate their internal network from the outside. Firewalls allow for enabling or disabling network access as data passes through it by applying various defined restrictions. Furthermore firewalls can also be used to prevent access from the internal network to the outside by these same factors. Common Firewall Restrictions Destination/Sender IP Address Destination/Sender Host Names Domain Names Network Ports Companies can also desire to restrict what their network user’s view on the internet through things like content filters. Content filters allow a company to track what webpages a person has accessed and can also restrict user’s access based on established rules set up in the content filter. This device and/or software can block access to domains or specific URLs based on a few factors. Common Content Filter Criteria Known malicious sites Specific Page Content Page Content Theme  Anti-Virus/Mal-ware Polices Fortunately, most companies utilize antivirus programs on all computers and servers for good reason, virus have been known to do the following: Corrupt/Invalidate Data, Destroy Data, and Steal Data. Anti-Virus applications are a great way to prevent any malicious application from being able to gain access to a company’s data.  However, anti-virus programs must be constantly updated because new viruses are always being created, and the anti-virus vendors need to distribute updates to their applications so that they can catch and remove them. Data Validation Policies and Procedures Data validation is very important to ensure that only accurate information is stored. The existence of invalid data can cause major problems when businesses attempt to use data for knowledge based decisions and for performance reporting. Data Scrubbing Policies and Procedures Data scrubbing is valuable to companies in one of two ways. The first can be used to clean data prior to being analyzed for report generation. The second is that it allows companies to remove things like personally Identifiable information from its data prior to transmit it between multiple environments or if the information is sent to an external location. An example of this can be seen with medical records in regards to HIPPA laws that prohibit the storage of specific personal and medical information. Additionally, I have professionally run in to a scenario where the Canadian government does not allow any Canadian’s personal information to be stored on a server not located in Canada. Encryption Practices The use of encryption is very valuable when a company needs to any personal information. This allows users with the appropriated access levels to view or confirm the existence or accuracy of data within a system by either decrypting the information or encrypting a piece of data and comparing it to the stored version.  Additionally, if for some unforeseen reason the data got in to the wrong hands then they would have to first decrypt the data before they could even be able to read it. Encryption just adds and additional layer of protection around data itself. Standard Normalization Practices The use of standard data normalization practices is very important when dealing with data because it can prevent allot of potential issues by eliminating the potential for unnecessary data duplication. Issues caused by data duplication include excess use of data storage, increased chance for invalidated data, and over use of data processing. Network and Database Security/Access Policies Every company has some form of network/data access policy even if they have none. These policies help secure data from being seen by inappropriate users along with preventing the data from being updated or deleted by users. In addition, without a good security policy there is a large potential for data to be corrupted by unassuming users or even stolen. Data Storage Policies Data storage polices are very important depending on how they are implemented especially when a company is trying to utilize them in conjunction with other policies like Data Backups. I have worked at companies where all network user folders are constantly backed up, and if a user wanted to ensure the existence of a piece of data in the form of a file then they had to store that file in their network folder. Conversely, I have also worked in places where when a user logs on or off of the network there entire user profile is backed up. Training Policies One of the biggest ways to prevent data loss and ensure that data will remain a company asset is through training. The practice of properly train employees on how to work with in systems that access data is crucial when trying to ensure a company’s data will remain an asset. Users need to be trained on how to manipulate a company’s data in order to perform their tasks to reduce the chances of invalidating data.

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  • How to configure router to give XBox top priority / most bandwidth?

    - by MrSparky
    Hi all - Newbie here so go easy... and apologies in advance if I blow the community etiquette / rules! Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a "D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N" wireless router and an XBox 360 w/ the old-style wireless connection thing (usb attachment)... I want to configure my router / network to give my XBox as much bandwidth as it wants, whenever it wants. I have tried giving the XBox a unique IP (within my network) and then tweaking the router to treat that IP as a top priority application (using the router's QOS stuff). Problem is whenever I turn off the xbox, I can't connect to the network the next time I start it up. It seems the only reliable setting in the XBox is to use "Automatic" for the IP settings within the Network Configuration area. Supposedly the D-Link ships with default settings that attempt to recognize a game console and give it top priority... but i've not seen good results (lots of stuttering / lag when someone else jumps online, etc). Any suggestions? thanks again!

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  • Can I get ethernet out of my Verizon FIOS set-top box?

    - by Tom Hughes
    Setup: my home network is long & skinny, and the FIOS-connected router is all the way at one of the apartment. At the other end, far away (and a floor higher) is my HD TV, which gets a cable-TV signal from a Verizon set-top box that is coax-connected back to the FIOS on-premises equipment. Wi-Fi won't work, the apartment is too stretched out, with old, thick walls and floors. Goal: I think there are three ways to get ethernet back to where the HD TV is: 1) run a cable! this isn't crazy but isn't cheap either (my building won't let me do it, it involves hiring an electrician because the cable would run partly through the public hallway ceiling) 2) split the coax near the TV and put in... a MoCA device? 3) somehow tease the set-top box, which has an RJ-11 (ethernet) port on the back, to give me network access. Question: any other choices? and, is one choice better than the others? #3 is by far the most desirable because it would involve the least wiring -- but I can't find any resources to help make it happen. #2 is a bit scary, I don't want to degrade service to the TV or anywhere else for that matter.

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  • Complex SQL query help on aggregating values for nested subquery

    - by François Beausoleil
    Hi! I have people, companies, employees, events and event kinds. I'm making a report/followup sheet where people, companies and employees are the rows, and the columns are event kinds. Event kinds are simple values describing: "Promised Donation", "Received Donation", "Phoned", "Followed up" and such. Event kinds are ordered: CREATE TABLE event_kinds ( id, name, position); Events hold the actual reference to the event: CREATE TABLE events ( id, person_id, company_id, referrer_id, event_kind_id, created_at); referrer_id is another reference to people. It is the person which sent the information/tip along, and is an optional field, although I sometimes want to filter on an event_kind that has a specific referrer, while I don't for other event kinds. Notice I don't have an employee ID reference. The reference exists, but is implied. I have application code to validate that person_id and company_id really reference an employee record. The other tables are pretty basic: CREATE TABLE people ( id, name); CREATE TABLE companies ( id, name); CREATE TABLE employees ( id, person_id, company_id); I'm trying to achieve the following report: Referrer Phoned Promised Donated Francois Feb 16th Feb 20th Mar 1st Apple (Steve Jobs) Steve Ballmer Mar 3rd IBM Bill Gates Mar 7th The first row is a people record, the 2nd is an employee, and the 3rd is a company. If I asked for referrer Bill Gates for Phoned event kinds, I'd only see the 3rd row, while asking for Steve and Phoned would return no rows. Right now, I do 3 queries, one for companies, one for people and a last one for employees. I want the event kind columns to be ordered, but I do that in application code and show it properly there. Here's where I'm at so far: SELECT companies.id, companies.name, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id = companies.id AND events.person_id IS NULL AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.company_id = companies.id AND events.person_id IS NULL AND events.event_kind_id = 10 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_10, (SELECT events.created_at FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id = companies.id AND events.person_id IS NULL AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9_order FROM "companies" SELECT people.id, people.name, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id IS NULL AND events.person_id = people.id AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.company_id IS NULL AND events.person_id = people.id AND events.event_kind_id = 10 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_10, (SELECT events.created_at FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id IS NULL AND events.person_id = people.id AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9_order FROM "people" SELECT employees.id, employees.company_id, employees.person_id, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id = employees.company_id AND events.person_id = employees.person_id AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9, (SELECT events.id FROM events WHERE events.company_id = employees.company_id AND events.person_id = employees.person_id AND events.event_kind_id = 10 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_10, (SELECT events.created_at FROM events WHERE events.referrer_id = 1470 AND events.company_id = employees.company_id AND events.person_id = employees.person_id AND events.event_kind_id = 9 ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) event_kind_9_order FROM "employees" I rather suspect I'm doing this wrong. There should be an "easier" way to do it. One other filter criteria would be to filter on people/company names: WHERE LOWER(companies.name) LIKE '%apple%'. Note that I'm ordering by the dates of event_kind_9 here, and a secondary sort is by person/company name. To summarize: I want to paginate the result set, find the latest event for each cell, order the result set by the date of the latest event, and by company/person name, filter by referrer in some event kinds, but not others. For reference, I'm using PostgreSQL, from Ruby, ActiveRecord/Rails. The solution is pure SQL though.

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