QA-Testing Definitions-Interview Questions: I (A – I) Acceptance Testing: Testing conducted to enable a user/customer to determine whether to accept a software product. Normally performed to validate the software meets a set of agreed acceptance criteria. Accessibility Testing: Verifying a product is accessible to the people having disabilities (deaf, blind, mentally disabled etc.). Ad Hoc […]
I’m using Redhat Linux (RHEL 5). Yesterday I saw a bit suspicious activities and data movements under my “home” (/home/username directory). I thought of investigate / audit through my Redhat linux machine and catch the “Right Person” / “Who did it”. Following are the steps I followed: [which if you follow, you may follow.] 1. Retrieve […]
Google announced acquisition of Aardvark – The new kind of social search. Through the “social search” term I thought it has to do something with what Google’s has said earlier in google’s official blog “social search getting more social” ! But that was actually in your google search, you get a saperate result from your […]
This morn one more way of e-socializing introduced by google – Google Buzz. It’s a one of the trending topic on twitter… How to get Google buzz: Well it’s being rolled out in phased manner directly to your Gmail, so if not now, your Gmail inbox should have this feature very soon. To get Google […]
Yesterday a friend came across an oracle query problem: Consider below table: cid cname…. cdata 1 x xxxx 1 x xxxx .. 2 xzzz fjnd 3 a evddd Now the problem was cid is repeated and cdata column is having some extra characters but data is considered same (eg. xxxx & xxxx..). so when he […]
I have done it for so many times, setting a cronjob. Today I was tring to set a simple cronjob which will output the log file with timestamp attached filename. Hourly running cron entry was: 0 * * * * perl demo.pl > demo-out_`date “+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M”`.log Running the same command on shell prompt was working fine. […]
And I looked back and thought of updating this post… Recently Monty has posted again and I completely convinced with whatever Monty has conveyed now or earlier. The explainations he has provided under self-interview, I find sensible enough. I did participated the help-saving-mysql campaign and I’m happy knowing the statistics. I did got convinced about the possible threat about […]
I’m having RHEL 5 (32-bit) and MySQL-5. I was trying to check how much is the Memory Utilization limits for MySQL 5 on 32bit OS. We can easily calculate the maximum capacity of the address space is 2^32 bytes and that is where these limits come from. * For MYSQL 5.0: Following are memory (storage) […]
Recently MySQL has offered MySQL Certification Free Retake on both DBA or Developer Certifications for a limited time. For MySQL Certifications: 1. MySQL 5.0 Data Base Administrator Certification (SCMDBA) – MySQL 5.0 DBA Part I Certification (CX-310-810) – MySQL 5.0 DBA Part II Certification (CX-310-811) 2. MySQL 5.0 Developer Certification (SCMDEV) – MySQL 5.0 Developer […]
And I looked back and thought of updating this post… We all are aware about the acquisition happened to MySQL; Sun and now Oracle. A common understanding tells me that a business will always seek profit; so will Oracle. And thats where worries and fear for existance of MySQL as an open-source and future growth […]
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