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From Denis blog I came to know recently that we are able to use sp_executesql without declaring the variables! It really sounded strange to me. I thought it to be one another bug :) So thought would dig deep into this and see what best I can conclude. --Dummy table schema Create table tblQuestion1 ( sno int identity, fname varchar(50) ) Go --Lets add some dummy records into the table Insert into tblQuestion1 values ('Alpha') Insert into tblQuestion1 values ('Beta') Insert into tblQuestion1 values ('Gamma') --So-called strange script Declare @strFetchData nvarchar(100) Select @strFetchData = 'Select * from tblQuestion1' Exec sp_executesql @alpha = @strFetchData If you have noticed we haven't declared @alpha in the script but SQL hasn't complained about it! I thought the easiest way to understand would be to go through sp_executesql procedure. Sp_helptext sp_executesql go Result - "(server internal)" … so its not a stored proc. I tried a...

From the day I saw Google Finance i was thinking what tool they would be using to display those cool, user friendly charts! After hours of searching on the web I learned that they were using some sort of custom in-house build tool/logic. Fair enough, but that doesn’t solve my problem. I wanted to create some graphs similar to that for few of my projects. On further ‘googling’, just recently I stumbled upon amCharts which has the similar charts like Google finance. You can download and use all amCharts products for FREE . The only limitation of the free version is that a small link to this web site will be displayed in the top left corner of your charts. Btw, if you don’t want the link go ahead and purchase the product. del.icio.us Tags: amCharts , Google    Technorati Tags: amCharts , Google

1. Browser – IE 8.0 and/or Google Chrome 2. Anti-Virus – One of the lightweight software is AVG. Check it out @ http://free.grisoft.com/ 3. Offline thesaurus and dictionary - http://wordweb.info/free/ This is a cool app which sits on your task bar. For finding meaning of a word just block the word and press CTRL + Right click on it. 4. Photo Organizer – I love Picasa and am using it for quite sometime now without any issues. http://picasa.google.com/download/ 5. Creating / Editing blogposts - http://writer.live.com/ 6. Zip Compression utility – I was using Winzip then WinRar but offlate I have started using 7-zip an open source project . Download it here http://www.7-zip.org/download.html 7. Instant Messaging – I was using MSN and Yahoo. But offlate I am using only Gtalk or the Chat feature which comes embedded within Gmail. May be you might want to try out Skype if you love talking more than typing :) 8. Download Manager – I use Free download Manager for quite s...