Wednesday 7 March 2012

INTERACTION WITH THE IPS PROBATIONERS


Postal Staff College, Ghaziabad (Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy) invited Secretary General NFPE, Com. M. Krishnan for an interactive session with the Indian Postal Services Probationers Induction Training Batch on 07.03.2012 on the subject – “Role of Service Associations in India Post”. The following points were discussed.
1. Stand of NFPE on various issues faced by India Post.
2. Need for interaction with unions on all policy related issues and new schemes before implementation.
3. Need of better understanding and cooperation between the unions and the officers to face the challenges before India Post.
4. Our opposition to liaberalisations corporatization, privatization and outsourcing.
5. Our stand on induction of technology, modernization and computerization.
6. Challenges due to (a) Decline in mail traffic (b) Increasing competition (C) Recurring operative loss (d) Universal service obligation and lack of full reimbursement (e) Pressure to reduce cost, increase revenue and operate on a far more commercial basis.
7. Reforms in the mails sector – collection, processing, sorting, conveyance and delivery – our stand.
8. Saving Bank – in adequate handling charges, core banking and Post Bank.
9. Insurance PLI/RPLI – Restriction for introduction of new products.
10. Human Resource development, Estate Management etc.
The session lasted for two hours and Secretary General answered many questions and clarified the view points of NFPE. The Principal of Staff College, Addl. Director, Joint Director etc. were also present.

Creating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2008 R2



One of the repetitive task that DBA need to perform is create maintenance plan for database. Maintenance plans enables you to automate maintenance activities for a database, backups, db integrity checks and index maintenance tasks. We can easily create a maintenance plan using a wizard in sql server 2008 R2.



You can use the following steps to create a maintenance plan
1. Select the Maintenance Plan Wizard from the context menu as shown below
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2. You can specify a name and description for the plan and select the desired scheduling options
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3. Select next to see the maintenance tasks that you want to perform 
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4. Select the Maintenance tasks order 
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5. Select the database for the backup task. 
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5. Select the reporting option for the plan like write log to a specific location or send an email or both.
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6. Click finish to create your plan , while the plan is being created you will get the following status dialogue
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7. You can see the created maintenance plan in object explorer
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when you double click the Backup Plan from above window, you can get the designer
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Courtesy : http://sysadmindop.blogspot.in/

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Order issues to step up pay of promotee Inspector of Customs and Central Excise

Central Board Of Excise & Customs
New Delhi, Mar 6, 2012: The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has considered various proposals for  stepping up of pay of senior promote Inspectors/Similarly placed Officers in the field formations under CBEC with reference to such of their directly recruited juniors appointed on or after 1.1.2006.  Now the CBEC has issued clarification that stepping up of pay of promottee Inspectors vide F.NO. 26017/159/2009-Ad.II(A)  dated 5th March, 2012
Copy of the clarification order is placed below for ready reference.