Caffeinated Wisdom

I would like to first set the scope of this article; this is about abortions in cases where the couple had consensual sex and there is no life-or-death health risk to the pregnant mother. In regards to cases of rape or life-or-death risks to the mother, I think it is best for a panel of women (both pro-choice and pro-life) to discuss it. The panel should include people who have gone through those situations and who have taken either direction. No man (pro-choice or pro-life) should be included in that panel and meetings. I also want to clarify before we being that I am pro life in that I believe life begins as soon as the baby starts forming in the womb. Having set the scope of this article, it is important to address the fact that it is very important to point out that when a baby is conceived, the couple is pregnant  not just the mother. The responsibility falls to both the man and the woman. Paying child support is not even near the share of responsibility that the father should t

I was looking for an ETL software similar to SSIS that would allow me to easily move data from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. I tried using SSIS, but I was never able to make BIDS generated the schema of the destination table automatically like it would do with a SQL server destination table. I downloaded Pentaho’s Spoon data integrator and it surpised how easy it was to do it there. The designer is somewhat similar to BIDS. You drop your input tables (from SQL Server) and then you drop your destination tables (PostgreSQL tables). The good thing is that you do not need to create the tables in PostgreSQL beforehand. You just need to create the destination database. When you open the properties of the Table Output, you can enter the name of the new table and then do the following to create the table based on the data input: Click “Database Fields” Click “SQL” Click “Execute” That’s it. Your table will be created in PostgreSQL using the correct data types. Pentaho’s Spoo