Category: PC & Tech

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.

AMD has not given up hope in the Phenom II series quad-core processors and is planning to release another high-end Black Edition processor in the Phenom II series. The new Phenom II X4 980 will be clocket at 3.70 GHz and will be based on the Deneb core with a Thermal Envelope of 125W.

For:Great design and build,Good speakers,Nice and easy to use layout,Decent performance,Excellent battery lifeAgainst:Slightly pricey, No discrete GPU Dell is known for making good performance laptops that suit different budgets. The Dell Inspiron 15R is such a laptop that fall under mid-range category. The Dell Inspiron 15R sports a new look by dumping the old plastic look and feel for new sleazy brushed faux-metal finish on the lid. The black matte keyboard and touch-pad are recessed which allows for flat and clean look. The entire keyboard is closer to the screen allowing more room to place your palm.

Microsoft’s latest update of Internet Explorer 9 hits 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours, it’s not a big milestone on browser downloads in first 24. But, Microsoft is keen to make it a big hit. A post in the Internet Explorer’s official blog make use of the word ‘wow’ to explain the download numbers of IE9 in a day. But, with 8 million downloads Firefox3 got a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a day on 2008. Given Firefox for both Mac and PC, but it still beat Microsoft Windows’ new browser 3 time over. Anyways we like IE9, but we still think lot of modesty goes a long way.

Google has released a WebM Plug in for Microsoft’s latest browser Internet Explorer 9. So, Internet Explorer 9 now got WebM Plug in support with ‘Preview’ from Google to make Internet videos more friendly. As a technology preview, the users are able to play all WebM videos just like the good Internet overloads intended them to, despite the fact that an additional download is needed. Microsoft said that it will allow for support and it appears to be following up on its word.

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.

The much touted Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 has been released and available for download and is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 with over 39 language support.Microsoft has unleashed Internet Explorer 9 at the South West Interactive (SXSWi) event in Austin, Texas. Corporate VP of Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch, has explained the hardware acceleration of IE 9 in Windows 7 and Windows Vista platforms.

Adobe has published a security advisory in reponse to a critical security issue in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability affects the flash player for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Android, it also imapcts authplay.dll componet included in the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X. So the entire population of the internet are affected by this, So the warning was the vulnerability discovered may cause crashes and potentially permit hijacking of systems. This issue also affects the company’s Reader and Acrobat Software Products. The better news now is Adobe has found it’s being actvely exploited ‘in the wild’ through .swf file embedded in a Excel spreadsheet, but a fix hasn’t been found until the beginning of the next week.

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.

The first update for Windows Phone 7 is expected to be released today. This update will improve the software update process and eases the update process of the much anticipated March 8 update. The March 8 update will bring several improvements to WP7, copy/paste functionality, performance improvements and improvements to Windows Marketplace Search feature.

In the DBA career the most prominent issue we will face is the issueYesterday this database Query is running fine. But today we have observed database query response time is very slow compare as yesterday” raised from Development Team / Client.Here are few things you can do, to find the root cause of this issue and solve it.Note: This article is for someone with basic to intermediateexperience and serves as a checklist for finding solution to SQL “Query Slowness” issue.

Every Friday we have taken the full export backup of one our database.This database is used for reporting purpose.Export dump size is around 25 GB. Backup mount point total space is 32 GB. Every weekend I have taken the backup and transfer the export dump (25 GB) to bridge server.In this article we will see how to quickly perform this action using “mknod”.

We have deployed new module in our database. In database side we have executed lot of scripts like create, alter, drop, update & delete scripts. Business functionality wise we have faced lot of issues in application side and also database side. So we planned to revert back & restored the Physical backup.We plan to deploy new module in our database. Pro actively we will ready to revert back in case of failure with help of flashback database.(10G feature)Now we see about flashback database.

As we all know that Microsoft has added new “Create a Hotmail alias” or disposable email address to Hotmail yesterday, we will see how to use the feature to cut down spam in our mailbox.