A new breed of Database

Paradigm shift in Database Technology Gone are the days when organizations heavily used to rely on the their traditional RDBMS for keeping a track of all their transactions and operations. Today is the age of more smarter RDBMS which are made from ground zero for a specific purpose.We will be talking about the OLAP databases in particular, which unconditionally are necessary for every organization playing with large data. OLAP...

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Know your tables in Oracle

DBA_TABLES View  Have you ever thought of knowing statistics about your tables in oracle. Statistics in terms of Owner,Tablespace, Number of Rows, Number of Blocks used, Number of Blocks empty,etc. I was just trying to see what system tables does oracle has with it. I tried select * from tab; BOOM BOOM what a surprise More then 2000 objects listed ................... some of these objects are tables and some of these...

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Installing JDK on Linux

Installing SUN-JDK on Linux While many of our applications are based on java framework. We definitely need the Java development kit for running the java based applications. So Lets start with What actually is a JDK A Java Development Kit (JDK) is a program development environment for writing Java applets and applications. It consists of a runtime environment that "sits on top" of the operating system layer as well...

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