This Week I Learned - Week #13 2019
This Week I Learned -
* There are a bunch of Microsoft and third-party services and tools available to assist you with various database and data migration scenarios and specialty tasks.
* The Contoso migration series includes information and scenarios that illustrate how to set up a migration of infrastructure, and run different types of migrations.
* SSRS can be deployed using SQL Server on an Azure VM - Choosing Your Database Migration Path to Azure [PDF]
* Microsoft uses Azure Compute Unit (ACU) to compare the performance across their virtual machine SKUs. The ACU/Core gives you an idea of what you can expect between different series of Azure virtual machines.
* Azure SQL Databases are locally highly-available as standard, with three copies of your database used to keep the data online and accessible during patching and transient hard failures. SQL Server on Azure VMs would require HA technologies such as Always On Failover Clustering, Always On availability groups, database mirroring or log shipping.
* The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization and responsible for defining interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices. Digital Media Server (DMS) is one of the specification/class of DLNA. DMS stores content and make it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). DMS is available in Asus ZenFone
* Photos from social media can also be used to unlock stolen smartphones where face unlocking mechanism was poorly implemented.
* The EPF Act is applicable to every organization which employs 20 or more employees and follows a contributory scheme where the employer and employee are required to make matching contribution at a specified percentage of the salary. The accumulated balance in the EPF account can be withdrawn in three situations: (i) at the time of retirement, i.e. on or after 58 years of age, (ii) if unemployed for two months or more and (iii) in case of death before specified retirement age.
* The total number of companies registered with the Registrar of Companies (RoC) at the end of January was 1.85 million. Of this, 670,318 companies were closed. Over 61% of the 1,850,860 registered companies were active at the end of January. Active companies are those that do not engage in fraudulent or illegal business, and carry on daily business operations or economic activity, while keeping a record of their financial statements. Shell companies—entities that do not contribute to any economic activity—are often set up for money laundering or tax evasion. - Mint
* Trainspotting is the activity of watching trains and writing down the numbers that each railway engine has. In a wider sense, trainspotter might refer (derogatorily) to someone who is obsessed with something that appears to be completely meaningless to an outsider. In this case the hobby might be exercised to an extreme extent, completely overshadowing the person’s life and thus making the obsession more important than anything else in life (like education, family, career, friends, health and well being and so on). Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction.
* Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer. His mother Kamna Chandra has written for several Hindi films including the films Prem Rog (1982), 1942: A Love Story (1994), Chandni, and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017). His sister Tanuja Chandra is a filmmaker and screenwriter while his other sister Anupama Chopra is a film critic and consulting editor for India's NDTV. In 2000, Chandra served as co-writer, with Suketu Mehta, for Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie. It was directed by his brother-in-law, the award-winning director Vidhu Vinod Chopra. His third novel, Sacred Games (2006, over 900 pages) has been adapted as a web television series by Netflix.
* Sacred Games is the first Netflix original series from India released across 191 countries; it had subtitles in more than 20 languages. Sacred Games was watched by twice as many people outside of India.
* Vikas Swarup whose debut novel Q & A was adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire is currently the the High Commissioner of India to Canada
* Not only is my seventh grader using this phrase, "I know, Right?", but her teachers are as well.
* ...people are simply not great at assessing competence — a crucial trait for succeeding at work — and perceptions of competence are just as important for success as actual competence - HBR
* There are a bunch of Microsoft and third-party services and tools available to assist you with various database and data migration scenarios and specialty tasks.
* SSRS can be deployed using SQL Server on an Azure VM - Choosing Your Database Migration Path to Azure [PDF]
* Microsoft uses Azure Compute Unit (ACU) to compare the performance across their virtual machine SKUs. The ACU/Core gives you an idea of what you can expect between different series of Azure virtual machines.
* Azure SQL Databases are locally highly-available as standard, with three copies of your database used to keep the data online and accessible during patching and transient hard failures. SQL Server on Azure VMs would require HA technologies such as Always On Failover Clustering, Always On availability groups, database mirroring or log shipping.
* The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization and responsible for defining interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices. Digital Media Server (DMS) is one of the specification/class of DLNA. DMS stores content and make it available to networked digital media players (DMP) and digital media renderers (DMR). DMS is available in Asus ZenFone
* Photos from social media can also be used to unlock stolen smartphones where face unlocking mechanism was poorly implemented.
* The EPF Act is applicable to every organization which employs 20 or more employees and follows a contributory scheme where the employer and employee are required to make matching contribution at a specified percentage of the salary. The accumulated balance in the EPF account can be withdrawn in three situations: (i) at the time of retirement, i.e. on or after 58 years of age, (ii) if unemployed for two months or more and (iii) in case of death before specified retirement age.
* The total number of companies registered with the Registrar of Companies (RoC) at the end of January was 1.85 million. Of this, 670,318 companies were closed. Over 61% of the 1,850,860 registered companies were active at the end of January. Active companies are those that do not engage in fraudulent or illegal business, and carry on daily business operations or economic activity, while keeping a record of their financial statements. Shell companies—entities that do not contribute to any economic activity—are often set up for money laundering or tax evasion. - Mint
* Trainspotting is the activity of watching trains and writing down the numbers that each railway engine has. In a wider sense, trainspotter might refer (derogatorily) to someone who is obsessed with something that appears to be completely meaningless to an outsider. In this case the hobby might be exercised to an extreme extent, completely overshadowing the person’s life and thus making the obsession more important than anything else in life (like education, family, career, friends, health and well being and so on). Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction.
* Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer. His mother Kamna Chandra has written for several Hindi films including the films Prem Rog (1982), 1942: A Love Story (1994), Chandni, and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017). His sister Tanuja Chandra is a filmmaker and screenwriter while his other sister Anupama Chopra is a film critic and consulting editor for India's NDTV. In 2000, Chandra served as co-writer, with Suketu Mehta, for Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie. It was directed by his brother-in-law, the award-winning director Vidhu Vinod Chopra. His third novel, Sacred Games (2006, over 900 pages) has been adapted as a web television series by Netflix.
* Sacred Games is the first Netflix original series from India released across 191 countries; it had subtitles in more than 20 languages. Sacred Games was watched by twice as many people outside of India.
* Not only is my seventh grader using this phrase, "I know, Right?", but her teachers are as well.
* ...people are simply not great at assessing competence — a crucial trait for succeeding at work — and perceptions of competence are just as important for success as actual competence - HBR
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