Kirtan Desai

I have been busy with the new job and lot of other things. I need to start posting again.

Oracle just announced the release of Oracle Virtualization software, Oracle VM. It sounds all great and fun but it needs two machines, one for installing the server and another for managing it. I don’t have two machines for this. I have two machines but this approach seems like a little too much effort for “virtualization”. [...]

I just moved from Charlotte, NC to Houston, TX for a new job. I am giving consulting/contracting a (indefinite) rest. I don’t know if I will ever be a consultant again but for now I will be a Full-Time employee working on ’our’ in-house projects. Consulting was fun. I can’t complain at all. Let’s see how houston treats us!!!

http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/ An excellent website. A collaborative effort in its true sense. A complete delight to read in my opinion.

The following is a list of books. There are three sections. First is the name of the book that I am currently reading. Second is the list of books that I am going to read in near future. And third is a list of books that I have read. Currently reading…   The Inheritance of [...]

I was reading tom kyte’s blog and found the following link there. I am not trying to copy/steal what he had there but I thought this was extremely important to publish. Not just for others but to keep reminding myself. I think, for anyone who wants to learn anything, asking right questions is the only [...]

There is an excellent article by Doug Burns here regarding the role of an individual who acts as either Developmentt DBA, Developer/DBA, DBA/Developer etc. The bottom line, as pointed out in the article, is that in a development environment where a DBMS is at the center of the project/application/system, individual(s) with strong knowledge of the [...]

Fun times or “geek times” I should say started last weekend. So I finally gave vista a chance. Since I was involved with beta testing of Vista, they sent a licensed Vista Ultimate Edition to me. So now I have Windows Vista Ultimate on my new laptop. The first thing that I do when get [...]

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