For people who want to advance in life, I would recommend you thoroughly read this one:

"Skate where the puck is going to be, not where it was" - Wayne Gretzky

An interesting Quote:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt - Bertrand Russell  

Quotes Worth Spreading

From time to time I run into nice quotes, and I thought to myself I should post them and share them with the world, so Here is the first one, which will go well with the Olympic spirit :

Tears will get you sympathy, Sweat will get you results 

And more will come later

Face Your Fear

I liked this saying which I heard and liked to share with you:
"There is only time enough to iron your cape, and back to the skies for you" - By Jason Harely

For those who don't understand "iron your cape", imagine yourself a superman, the cape would be: A sleeveless outer garment fastened at the throat and worn hanging over the shoulders, so Iron yours quickly and fly back to the skies.

Matlab database drivers

1- I found out the following link which is very important to get the drivers:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-CL94AW/index.html?product=DB&solution=1-CL94AW

another good link is:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/database/ug/database.html

2- open matlab as an administrator and on the command window type:
edit classpath.txt
3- add the path of the driver to the end of the text file
4- save
5- restart
and you are ready to rock the matlab database world.
good luck
I am placing a small example below to how to connect to a MS SQL database:

s.DataReturnFormat = 'cellarray';
s.ErrorHandling = 'store';
s.NullNumberRead = 'NaN';
s.NullNumberWrite = 'NaN';
s.NullStringRead = 'null';
s.NullStringWrite = 'null';
s.JDBCDataSourceFile = '';
s.UseRegistryForSources = 'yes';
s.TempDirForRegistryOutput = 'C:\Users\XOXO\AppData\Local\Temp';
s.DefaultRowPreFetch = '1000000';
setdbprefs(s)

url = 'jdbc:sqlserver://PORT_NAME.local;database=DATABASENAME';
conn = database(' DATABASENAME ', ' DATABASE  USER NAME', 'DATABASE PASSWORD', 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver', url);

Matlab Java space heap memory size problem solution

The solution is very simple
1- check what you have

2- To check the version of your Java, type the following in the Matlab prompt window:
version -java
3- to check the current size you have type:
java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime.maxMemory
java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime.totalMemory
java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime.freeMemory

To Solve it:
4-open a text file
5- write the following in it
For JVM of 1.2.2 and later, place the following in your java.opts file:

-Xmx256m

For JVM 1.1.8 'java.opts', place the following in your java.opts file:

-mx256m

6- Save the file with the following name:

java.opts

7- you can simply put a number more than 256 if your machine allow it for example (Xms512m)
8- Save the file in the matlab path directory
Simply will work :)

some people increase it from the cmd for dos like this,

java -Xms64m -Xmx256m

I am not sure if this works, but the method I just described works for sure :)

Modifications to Run Matlab exe files for Windows 7

1- Open the system properties
2- go to "Advanced"
3- click on "Environment Variables"
4- go to "User variables for ...."
5- Click on "New"
6- for variable name:
PATH
7- for Variable value:
set PATH=C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v713\runtime\win32;

which is the location of the matlab runtime compiler, which you need to change according to your files location