Useful Articles on Oracle

Useful Articles on Oracle Cast function -
http://www.psoug.org/reference/cast.html

Performing DML with Collections
1. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28371/adobjcol.htm#sthref483
2. http://www.psoug.org/reference/collections.html

Answers to my question on whether or not its possible to perform DML on Oracle collections (in combination with Cast)
1. http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/137485/133715/
2. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=3176984

Some Notes on Joins & their syntaxes in Oracle
1. http://oreilly.com/catalog/orsqlpluspr2/chapter/ch01.html

Some articles on Oracle Explain Plan and how to generate/read/understand it
1. http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/explainplan.html
2. http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/join/join_methods.html
3. http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/server.101/b10752/ex_plan.htm

Some articles on Oracle Global Temp Tables (GTT)
1. http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora8/page2.shtml
2. http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_temporary_tables_sql.htm

On Oracle Memory Usage
http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/memory_usage.shtml

Useful mysql stuff...

Here's a compilation of my day to day use of mysql related stuff...

1. Resetting root password in mysql
   - Goto this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset
   
   
2. To give privileges to a certain user in mysql
   - grant all on *.* to username
   
   
3. 
   

Finally... IE on Linux / Ubuntu...

Great..... It works... :)

Initially, when I needed to run a few IE specific sites on my Ubuntu installation, I spent quite some time searching around google, and some more prominent linux sites... But I did not hit success...

Today however, my search bore fruit... I found IEs4Linux project, and its so damned simple.

I am still running Hardy (not Interpid) on my desktop, and wine (the default). I picked up the instructions, kind of updated them myself to work in my hardy, and bingo.. it installed and works...absolutely.

Here's what I did -

1. Found this page for installation instructions on Ubuntu :
   http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation:Ubuntu
   
   
2. Run the following commands -

3. sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install wine cabextract

4. And then run this -
   

5. wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
   tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
   cd ies4linux-*
   ./ies4linux
   

6. The last one would open a dialog box and would ask you basic questions about what version do you want, choose what u like and bingo.. it would start installation...
   
   
7. Within minutes, it automatically downloads some files from here and there, and is done.
   
   
8. It just works...

Agile : What is, Comparison, Transition...

Generally on Agile Methodology -
1. Agile methodology home page - http://www.agilemethodology.org/
2. Manifesto of Agile methodology - http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
3. Working with Agile methods - http://www.agileadvice.com/

Some links on Comparison of waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
1. http://agileintro.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/waterfall-vs-agile-methodology/
2. Youtube -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XokJLWp7icI
3. on Agile Advice - http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/05/waterfall_vs_ag.html


Some links on the transition from Waterfall model to Agile methodology...
1. Agile Blog: Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile - Some tips
2. From Udayan
3. Scrum Alliance
4. A Presentation

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