Blogs posted on 2006 Sep
A durga puja story
2 yrs agoPrologue:Our gang was a large one, 4 girls, 7 boys, the eldest just finishing school, while the youngest had just stepped into class one. I was in the fifth standard then, and so were most of us, around 10-11 years old. Being kids, obviously, we did
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May”NoLogging” Option for Enterprise and Express Edition Behave Diffrently?
2 yrs agoBelow you will find my scripts to test the redo generation for a simple create table as select statement. force_logging option of databases are not enabled, but there is less difference redo generation. How can I go into details, can I use an eve...
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PROCESSES, SESSIONS AND CONNECTIONS
2 yrs agoHi Tom What's the difference between connections, sessions and processes? I read a note from Metalink about the difference but I simply dont get it! May you give a brief explanation? Thank you
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Mud soup in Guantanamo: on the Cuban side of the wire
2 yrs agoDespite my criticism of the practices allegedly condoned by the authorities supervising the US "facility" at Guantanamo Bay I'm not entirely blind to the shortcomings of the Cuban regime on the other side of the wire. Spiegel Online (English version
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Some Remixes / covers / Stolen songs that are better than the originals
2 yrs ago16)Song : Pyar aayaMovie : PlanOringial : Salma Ya Salama by Alabina15) Song : Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast Movie : MohraOriginal : dam mast qalandar by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan14) Song : Pehli Pehli baar Jab Pyar Kisi se hota haiMovie : Jab Pyar kisi se
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Sugar and spice and everything nice? Not so much...
2 yrs agoI have been looking at the fairy tales and nursery rhymes that we grew up with and some of them have pretty Grim(m) themes running through them that vary from the weird to the downright morbid. Here are some that I can remember (with some able help f
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Report On ICC Umpires Seminar For East Africa 29-30 July 2006
2 yrs agoBelow is the report on the recent umpires seminar in Nairobi. It speaks for itself, so I have left it pretty much as sent to me with just one or two ammendments for brevity's sake. It sounds like a great success:55 views -
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Kenya Team For Bangladesh ODIs To Be Selected Today
2 yrs agoIt has been very rare in recent times to see cricket take the leading story in any of the countries dailies. That Kenya's team would be selected today has done so in today's Nation is a big step forward and hopefully a sign of things to come. Accordi
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Waqar and the curious incident of the scuffed up ball
2 yrs agoWaqar Younis is one of my favourite cricketers, a practitioner of a rare skill, and yet unbridled in his aggression with the ball in his hands. Unlike the archetypal demon fast bowler, Waqar didn't get bagfuls with wicked bouncers. It was all about s
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The Fearful Sajid Mahmood! (Abdul Razzaq, duck for cover!)
2 yrs agoNeed I say more?
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