Aman's Blog....

And on the internet,  cards, movies, gifts and for sure everywhere where one can see today. Its Valentines Day  today. A day which lovers wait whole year to come and when it comes, they celebrate like Diwali or Christmas. And that is also good to know, after all we are talking about love, the most precious gift one can ever get in his/ her life. Well so how did I celebrate my day? To tell you the truth, I forgot that its the day today. Weird right but yes its true. I was thinking that its yet to come. So how did I pass my day? Well I was sitting and replying to Oracle Forums to the people about their database issues :-). Cool way to celebrate right? Wanted to go and have a cup of coffee at Cafe Coffee day than left the idea. May be I shall go tomorrow but again that depends how will be my mood tomorrow which certainly was not good today. People have made this day to exchange gifts, cards, roses and just bump upon anyone and say to him/her that I love you. But this is not love. Love

I got back. It was a stressful and tiring program. To make things spicy, this program already got bounced for some unwanted reasons and than only it had been thrown in my lap to sort out. And that's the toughest thing to do if you ask me truly. Its always tough to get married in the first time only and to get again married, one has to do a lot and that's the same happens in these kind of programs. Its already that some one has done some thing really good or bad, both the cases are tough in their own way as if it is good you have to be more better than the last , not in just technology but in everything else too, if its bad, you have to clean the slate completely and also make sure that you wont do the same mistakes that the last person either did or they happened for whatever reasons. Sounds tough right ? Well yeah it is :). So I started from my home as like always in bus to Delhi.Only thing was that I started late in the afternoon because I was not flying anywhere so I thoug

No its not that scary as it sounds. But yes the online version of the documentation from tahit.oracle.com or from otn.oracle.com, both are not working and I am getting the classic 404 error. No idea what's the issue or even if its an issue at all too or not but since last night that is happening for me! Bad bad bad !

Yes I am back. This time , my tours have been long and really tiring. But out of all this, this only time, I have met some of the most amazing and really deep guys in my program. People who are really "internal" people and do "internal" stuff. I am not sure how much I was able to tell them about the program but it was a very good discussion that happened between us all the time. It was a sort of privilege for me to go and have an interaction with these guys and I really appreciate the concern and respect they showed towards me. Overall, a satisfying program. I shall be leaving again tomorrow afternoon. This time near by but yeah but not in my city as usual. A very close friend of mine pointed that on my blog, all I write about is my travel details and my traveling. There is nothing else that I mention, nothing that is me, nothing that is about me. Its some what true but its not that I am intending to do so. All I did in this past one and half month was travel and

Don't know why this feeling is there that some one is lost some where so deep? A friend of mine met me after a very long time and mentioned that a guy is lost. Actualy he is not lost but keeping himself away from the rest of the world and because of this, the whole world is not able to find him. No one else except him pointed this thing, not even some very close people too. But in any case, this is not a good thing. Don't know when he will be able to find a way back to this world? Will it ever happen? Yes it will!

I got back yesterday. There was a lot that I wanted to write about but some how things at the personal side are not so good. I am so much tense at the moment. All I wish and hope that everything goes fine. I am closing at the moment. Catch you later!

Yeah I am still traveling. Its been a real long travel. I have been just traveling since 6th January. At the moment I just landed up in Hyderabad, back to the same place where I came first in this tour. Alot of things have happened. I shall talk about them when I shall get some time to sit back. Now I am too much tired and I need to get up early too so see you soon. Adios!

Its been a tiring one at the moment and to make things a little more worst, I am not really in a very good moment or mental state of mind. I am going to make a move from here to another place directly where the stay will be a tad longer. Lets see how things will shape up?

Yes it has indeed come. I shall be leaving tomorrow. It will be a long and tiring one. And on the top of this, its really very cold at the moment. But above all of this, the biggest concern is make the program go well. I hope everything goes fine. Wish me luck guys!

Suppose you loved some one from the deepest of your heart, more than you ever loved or would ever love some one in your life and that person leaves you breaking your heart into millions of pieces. After this happened, later after some time, some one asks you that do you still remember that person and miss him/her despite what ever he/she did to you, does remembering her/him stll brings tears in your eyes despite that he/she is the one who hurt you the most even when you loved her beyond words or limits , what would be your answer? Will you say yes or will you say no? Durga Rangila is one of oldest and among those few Punjabi singers whose name may be not known to many coz there are not much videos that he has made and there is no fleet of albums that he has cut like most of the singers doing at the moment. But he is among those very few who has sung some really heart touching songs.  Songs which are so close to describe the pains of broken hearts, missing love that they have the pow

Last night we went out for new year celebration as we couldn't go on 31st December. It was planned but still we couldn't go on the scheduled date. So I was asked yesterday by the main arrangers for the entire trip to get ready. It was me, my sister, her friend N, S along with his wife M, we all went to Haveli aka WadiHaveli  which is Ferozepur highway. It was a great planning which was involved in going over there as the place is quite far from city and the best part is that its really cold at the moment. Last night's temperature must be 1degree. So a great thought process was involved that how we would actually go there. Initially we were going by car but some how it got failed at the last moment so guess how we went? Yup we went on our bikes. That's why I mentioned 'cold dinner' :). The best thing happened that I forgot my gloves so my hands were like they will crack just by a touch. We were like frozen bunnies when we finally got at the place, especially me

2007 has passed and has left its memories. Some may be bad and some may be good. But 2008 has arrived promising new spirits, new smiles and much more happiness. So lets welcome 2008 with open arms. I wish you all a very great, smiling, successful and happy 2008! Hope you had great fun last night and also the celebrations will keep on going today too. Wish you a great 2008!

Words have so much power. Some times some things which are not otherwise expressible are so easily expressed by just few words. All the feelings, happiness, sadness, love,betrayal , everything is explained by them. Those who give shape to feelings through their words are the most amazing people. But words alone some times don't say it all.  They need a voice to be their companion and express that pain which is hidden in those words. Anyone can sing but not anyone can express that feeling of a broken heart, feelings of some one who have lost his/her everything for the sake of his/her love and still have got only tears in return. That melodious voice, that soulful voice comes to some chosen few. Sabar Koti is among those very few Punjabi singers who has made his mark with his soulful singing. If there is a soulful song, a song that has to represent pain, tears, Sabar Koti makes the lyrics come alive with his so intense and deep voice. I am listening to his songs from so long and eve

I am not in my senses I guess at the moment. I have not posted anything since past few days even though I am at home too. I don't know why it is there but I am not feeling good. A deep feeling of pain is there but I don't know for what? I am trying to read as much as I can my Oracle books to keep myself busy. But somehow I am not able to concentrate over them much too. May be I need a little fresh air and a little change. I shall try to get that as soon as possible.

Yes and if you ask me, it was some thing for which I was waiting from a long long time. I am so glad that finally now official All India Oracle User Group  has been established. And its also a part of  Asia Pacific Oracle User Group . I wish them all the very best with my best wishes and I hope they would benefit all the Oracle users in India a lot. Membership is on so if you are a dba, developer or even a student of Oracle , get yourself registered and make this a success. The membership at the moment is free but it will be having a membership fee later on but that's very reasonable. Did I register myself? I don't think you should ask that :-).

Well after the first date, things should become more smooth. At least all the misunderstandings should be clear right? I am afraid I am not able to say the same for this 11g database. I did install it quite without any pain and also worked over it for about 15 minutes. Said it bye in a nice manner with a hope in the heart that the next time, I shall be greeted by it with a smile. But I guess that's not happening. All of a sudden Enterprise Manager is now not working. Despite installing the database again, the problem is still there. I am at the moment buried under the log files of EM. Hope I shall get some thing out of it. At the moment, 11g is behaving very naughty. Well so am I  so lets see who wins :-).And one last note, I don't like losing ;-)!

Yup I just installed Oracle database 11g. I did install it once before too but that was some thing which was done with more haste so lets not count it. This time its done with little more patience so we will call this as the first encounter or meeting with 11g. Hmm so my thoughts about it right? Well I have done the installation on a window xp box with C2D processor and 2gig of RAM so it got installed without any ooh-aah-ouch. Yeah couple of things have changed in the installation for example, it needs a new listener which is a mandatory component of installation. The Enterprise Manager gets installed with secure, HTTPS port. The database installation with Database Configuration Assistant(DBCA) has also got couple of changes. Now DBCA just installs the database with a combined setting for both SGA, PGA. The option is still there for individual settings but I guess that wont be recommended. Also there are some typical security settings and automatic maintenance task settings which are

Sql statement tuning is the hardest tuning I guess. Its having so many things to look after, the query itself, question which is asked for which the query is written, missing indexes , bad execution plan and the list goes on and on and on. So how can you be some what good in solving this impossible looking puzzle of statement tuning? Greg Rahn  has posted a very good post for troubleshooting bad execution plans.  Its a must read in my opinion as execution plan is like the x-ray report of your statement's flow and by tuning how is your statement is going through, you can get the maximum performance! Have a read, its an excellent post!

Blog is some thing which is about your self and what you feel about anything. And it is so much good to have as much readership as one can get for his/her blog. And this means that more and more people/sites/blog must spread what one writes. But does this mean that people are allowed to give their names to your work and take away that credit which is meant for you? Your work may inspire some one to do some thing better for his/her own work but this doesn't mean that he/she should not give you the credit for the original thought process. At least an attribution to the original source of the content is must if not anything else. Now the issue is that if you are running your blog by yourself , means hosting it own on your own than you have full control as you are the owner of that domain under which your work is hosted. But how about free hostings like Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress? What about them? What kind of control one can have over these free blogging sites? Though they are free

I wish all of you marry Xmas! May god bless you with you his choicest blessings! Have great fun with your near and dear ones and enjoy the holidays. I also have got holidays this time till 2nd week of January 2008 as there are no assignments I am having at the moment. So it means no travel, no tension about the programs. Well actually its fun so there is no big deal in all this too but still I have some time in my hand which I am planning to spend productively. Hopefully I shall be able to do what I have planned for these 2 weeks. Lets see.