If you use Linked servers in SQL Server 2005 to connect to oracle servers, and have been frustrated by the slowness of the Microsoft OLEDB provider for Oracle, then we have something in common.
Lucky for you and me, there is a fix.
Step 1: Install the Oracle Client freely downloadable from their website on your SQL [...]

A good friend of mine went to India recently. I’ll let his commentary and the picture he brought back with him speak for itself.
“While in India recently I visited a temple in a town called Kalahasthi in Andhra Pradesh. This photo was taken around 7:00pm under heavy street lights (see the lights in [...]