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Challenge of writing a Restaurant Review

In big cities and even in many smaller ones, eating out is becoming quite common. Many people even do so every weekend. The Trend of standalone Restaurants has caught in cities like Newyork City, London, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Shanghai, Paris and many more. So, what are the challenges for a person who is a regular there and is also keen on writing Reviews. Author ptrikha talks about it in detail:

The "case" does matter in MongoDb too!

Sometimes, when working on a particular Technology, we pay a very close attention to some of the features or ways to work on in that technology. However, we tend to ignore other ways. We take a few things for granted, till the day we come across something to the contrary. This is what happened while working with collections and documents in MongoDb. I have this Electronics collection : > db.Electronics.find() { "_id" : ObjectId("55685b94fd45377c7f18bccc"), "category" : "TV", "Sales_Date" : "17-11-2014", "amount" : "32000", "currency" : "INR", "Brand" : "Son y" } { "_id" : "00005", "category" : "Laptop", "Sales_Date" : "05-10-2014", "amount" : "28000", "currency" : "INR", "Brand" : "Acer" } Now I wanted to add a TV of Samsung brand whic...

Parallel execution forced to Serial execution

Sometimes, we think that simply using parallel execution of Sql, especially using Sql parallel hint will make our Sql query- standalone or embedded in PL/SQL become very fast and efficient. However, there are some cases where Oracle in recent releases detected during the optimization phase that it can't use Parallel Execution, but has already started to generate a Parallel Execution plan. So, it will convert the parallel execution to a Serial execution. Please read here to know more.

Virendra Sehwag: A legend of Indian cricket

" In a way, the advent and the ascent of Virendra Sehwag was quite similar in Indian cricket. Initially, he looked like another slam-bang One Day International specialist, with not so "traditionally" good footwork. He started off in a not so spectacular manner. However, his innings against New Zealand in a One Day tournament where he scored a swift century in 69 balls, and paved the way for an Indian win, proved that he would not be a pushover. Then, he was pushed to open the Innings in England in 2002 in test matches, where he proved that this move won't backfire. He scored a century at Trent Bridge in his second Test match. There was no looking back from there on for Virendra Sehwag who established himself as one of the all time great Indian openers and a great player, paving the way for many Indian Test and ODI victories................. For the records, Sehwag made 8586 runs from 104 Test matches, and is fifth in India's all-time list. In ODIs, he scored 8...