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Batch Insert/Update for Mysql in Java
Large inserts/Updates are a costly operation. One foolish way that I used to do is to run each update or insert query one at a time. Its incredibly slow. With most of the systems currently the latency is what is killing the performance not the CPU. Hence l …
More than 100% CPU in top in Linux/Mac
If you are power linux/mac user you should have noticed at least once that top shows more than 100% CPU for a process. I also have seen this multiple times but always wondered how it can be. Here is an example of how my top looked when I started my java an …
User Level Threads
User level threads is created for light weight threads. It needs to be controlled, context switched and swapped by the process. To the Operating System it is only one process without any threads. Here is one implementation of it: q.h [c] #includ …
Service Engineer/System Administrator Interview Questions
This is not my code alone. It was the group effort of Vivek Ram, Cijo George, Sandeep Unni and mine during our epic preparation for Yahoo!. I am just putting it open for others who would be looking for this information. Convert all lower case to up …
Operator Preference Grouping Order in C
Here is a compilation of how the preference of operators are Left to Right grouping or Right to Left grouping in C. Level Operator Description Grouping 1 :: scope Left-to-right 2 () [] . -> ++ — dynamic_cast static_cast reinte …
Ontology Linked Data
The following is a Assignment on Ontology and Linked Data and the evolution of data which lead to the use of ontology in web. Thanks to my teammates Bharath Gowda and Sravani Thota for working on the same. Ontology And Linked Data An ontology for …
Automatic Command Archive
The default command storing size of ubuntu is 500 commands. It stores the commands in home folder in the file “.bash_history” . The problem is 500 commands is too short of a size. One method is to increase the command size to a large value by changing th …
Auto Away Notifier for Pidgin in Perl
Whenever I am away from laptop my chat buddies leave me lots message and finally lots of “You there???”. So I thought of making a script that would inform my buddies that I am away when someone sends me a message. This method works with Pigin API. I hav …
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