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Did you know, India has 120 million Internet users & the Indian e-commerce market is worth $7 billion ?  Travel accounts for over 80 percent of the e-commerce market. Forbes believes " the rise of e-commerce is significant because it shows the limitations of physical retailing and the rise of aspirations of small town India. Between the large unorganised retail (kiranas and unbranded supermarkets) that serves the masses and modern retail that serves the aspirational class in large cities, there lies a thin wedge of aspirational classes who live in dusty towns. The economics of physical retailing have always left them short changed. " ( Update: 25-Apr-2012, Economist ) "Nowadays more than 100m surf the web. Close to 30m scour for bargains online, and the number which grows by 1.5m every month. The industry is worth around $10 billion, though travel-ticket sales alone accounted for $8.4 billion last year....There is certainly room for growth. E-commerce accounts f...

Did you know, SQL Server 2008 Management Studio has an in-built option to generate a script that can help you restore an entire database alongwith the data? Compared to a .BAK file that can also be used to restore a database, a script lets you peek into the schema AND data (INSERT statements for rows within tables are automatically generated) before you restore it. Unfortunately, this cool feature is hidden under layers of options and isn't easily discoverable unless a really discerning user points it out . Steps to generate script: 1. Right click on a database name, choose Generate Scripts.. option under Tasks.. in the context menu 2. In the Generate and Publish Scripts wizard which appears choose the database object for which you want to generate a script 3. Under the Set Scripting Options, make sure to click on the Advanced button which reveals a bunch of more options. 4. In the new dialog box that opens up, scroll down to the last option in the General category and f...

As per the most voted answer on Web Applications StackExchange forum , thefreedictionary.com with the print layout is the fastest and their content is pretty comprehensive too. WordWeb is my favorite desktop dictionary tool & now I also have thefreedictionary.com configured as my search engine for words within Chrome. The URL looks simple - http://thefreedictionary.com/p/Word & this makes it super easy to add the site as a search provider in Chrome & Opera . This generic article how you can add thefreedictionary.com as a search engine option. I assigned the letter "d" to represent thefreedictionary.com as a shorcut for dictionary. So now, whenever I need to search for the meaning of a word I type "d" in the Chrome address bar, hit space followed by word & bingo...a detailed page pertaining to that word appears in a flash. Related: HOW TO Google specifically for discussions/answers on only online forums instead of articles Free Programmab...