Category: Tech

Google is taking on the Facebooks Like button with a button of its own, the +1 button. Rod Spiro, a Google Product Manager, wrote in a blog spot that Our goal at Google is to get you the most relevant results as quickly as possible, But relevance about relationships as well as words on webpages. Thats why we started to include more information from people you may know - stuff they have shared on Twitter, Flickr and Other sites in Google search results. Today we are taking a step further, enabling you to share recommendations with the world right in Google Search results.

Last month I have received one question.In the explain plan the COST & CARDS is based on what? In this article we will see what it means and its usage.

The Microsoft search engine Bing has got its mobile offering, location, apps, a new look. Now it goes HTML5. Bing, Microsofts search corner, although missing from Microsofts own Windows 7 platform owing to its incompatibility with HTML 5, is available on a iPhone handset. The Bing here includes swap-navigation of images, zoom effects, among others. Users can find a demonstrative video on the Bing blog giving an insight into all the features, albeit in an understated style.

After nearly 5 years of approvals and rejections, the ,xxx domain, excusively for porn has been approved by ICANN (Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers). Shortly after the approval, Indian government expressed its intention to seek a ban of the pornographic domain. This move by Indian government will place it in the league of Indonesia and Middle East governments in protecting the moral integrity of its citizen.

Now Yahoo got Search Direct, something like Google Instant for Google. It contains one search box that quickly and automatically suggests results as you type. Not like Google Instant, it will not update the entire results of the page to reflect the outcome of your search, but rather than an enlarged search box like the one on the image above, providing up the ten suggested queries and three suggested results. It makes it a bit speeder, but also a fairly limited comparison. It is also a bit self-serving, as any search that happens to include the same letters as one of Yahoos own services will promote tem above all other results.

With a growing sense of disquiet, how China was busying itself with locking out VPN access within its borders and seemingly preventing people from using their Gmail accounts. Google has now given a public voice to those concerns, nothing that there is no issue on our side. We have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with the Gmail. Other Google tools, like the Person Finder for Japanese tsunami survivors, have also exhibited intermittent issues. Chinas goal is those attacks reportedly to stifle online revolutionary chatter inspired Egypts successful democratic revolt, though the nations said to be talking a more clandestine approach than previously by making it alleged sabotage appear like a software problem instead.

In this article I will go through how to move Oracle DB control files to new location in the production environment.

Google is likely to launch its own social networking site in May this year. According to the technology blog, the search engine giant will unveil Google Circles as its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, reports the Daily mail.

In the official statement issued by Twitter, it asked third-party developers to stop developing clients for Twitter. This was posted on Twitter's official developer mailing list by Ryan Sarver.

As a DBA you may face issues like "Large number of sessions are opened while accessing the database through front end and these sessions are not closed properly (Database sessions are hanging). In this article we will see how to resolve such issues.

If one of the session is having a slow performance while compared to other sessions, then this is because, this session is waiting for some event. First of all we go to tune the Query using EXPLAIN PLAN / EXECUTION PLAN.If we face the same problem even after that, then we approach it with the stepsmentionedin this article.

In Oracle most DBA will encounter database fragmentation and uses schema refresh frequently. In this article we will see how to do a schema refresh during database downtime.