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Well it looks like Google is back up to it with the pre-pre-release of Google Spreadsheets . Given the fact that I haven't gotten into the preview yet I can't say from personal experience but this looks like a killer app (literally and figuratively).

Particularly intriguing about this offering is the heavy focus on collaboration, something that feels oddly missing from the recent Google Notebook. So far I really like what I see in the works and I hope Google brings this approach to all their applications.

Many have said but none have been able to prove that Google is writing a web-based office suite that would compete with Microsoft, the first move was their …

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Hi ALL

H r u?

Just I'll write how you can connect ORACLE database with ORACLE Developer?

When u use SQL Plus and don't have any problem, and u wanna install developer(Forms & Reports), u cannot connect to the same Database.

The first:

You must have the same NLS_LANGUAGE in two home (DB, Dev).

How?

Go to Registry Editor: Start -> Run -> regedit ->

Search about "NLS_LANG" and change its value to "AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256" to you can write and retrieve Arabic, and search another time else "not found".

The second:

Search about file "tnsnames.ora", we will found more than one file.

You'll find it in

\NET80\ADMIN …

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There are these everlasting misconceptions about MyISAM's capabilities, many documents and articles "out there" just state that it's merely suitable for reads. Well, I'm afraid that's an over-simplification. Quite unfortunate, since users could explicitly benefit from MyISAM strong points for quite a few other situations too. Just remember that MyISAM does not have transactions/rollback, so if you need that, you'll want to use another MySQL storage engine like InnoDB, NDB Cluster, PBXT, Solid, or soon Falcon. That's fine. Whatever suits best.

So what's the deal with MyISAM? There's multiple aspects to the story. First of all, it's important to realise that the table-level locking comes in different flavours. There's not just one single type of lock, instead we see READ (shared) locks for selects, and WRITE (exclusive) locks for write operations. And there's a special READ LOCAL lock to allow inserts during selects. By the way, MySQL …

ExitCertified Corporation of Ottawa, Canada, is pleased to announce that they have been selected by MySQL AB to be the first Authorized MySQL Education Center (AMEC) partner for Canada, offering certified MySQL education across the country. Courses will be offered on MySQL 5.0, the latest version of the world?s most popular open source database.

By tim

Paul Graham recently wrote a couple of thought-provoking essays on the social and economic conditions that are most conducive to the formation of startup companies, How to Be Silicon Valley and Why Startups Condense in America.

Paul had sent one version of these essays to me for comment before publication, but unfortunately, I wasn't able to send in a response in time to be useful. However, Paul also sent me a followup question in email, for which our research group just happens to have some good answers. Paul wrote: "In your opinion, which US cities are the biggest startup centers after Silicon Valley and Boston? Fred Wilson is trying to convince me NYC is no 3, and I just can't believe it. Surely Austin and Seattle have more …

While traveling this last week I read up on converting a Linksys WRT54G to better firmwares. I just so happen to have one of these and while it works, it has several limitations that I would like to do away with :)

Getting home on Saturday means that when I get up on Sunday this is one of the first things on the list to do!

Take option one and risk my working router? No, I go to Best Buy to pick up a second WRT54G. While I may already have one, I did not want to chance turning my current one into a brick.

The one I picked up at Best Buy of course turns out to be a version 5, which is a nightmare to upgrade and will soon be returned. Linksys decided to change the hardware they use in their routers recently. The version 5 box has less memory and Cisco has …

A popular application server benchmark, featuring a complete open source software stack with MySQL 5.0 database, the Solaris 10 Operating System, and Sun Java Systems Application Server 9.0 Platform Edition (Project GlassFish) has shattered the competition by offering up to 8.6 times lower cost of acquisition than the comparable solution, according to the SPEC benchmark test results published at http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/jAppServer2004.html.

This article compares the relative speed of extracting the date part of a value in MySQL with LEFT() and with the DATE() function. LEFT() is faster than DATE(). To prove this, I inserted two million un-indexed sequential values into a table and selected the minimum and maximum values. Both queries are table scans, so it does read through all the records. The table below lists the time in seconds for MAX() on my computer.