Tamta’s blog

This is part of an effort to pay a debt I’m owing to my relatives and friends. Many often ask me how to improve their English, and no matter how hard I try I know for sure that my answers are not different from what they can find from Google.

Well this time it’s something different, I hope.
Continue reading ‘How to improve my English?’ »

I know it’s a sin to flood 3 entries in a single day (and after so long). But see this before you swear

I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD Boom-De-Yada

I love you!

Well I suppose after several months doing yoga I can begin preaching it.  If you’re not interested in health and stuffs, don’t bother reading on.

I’m not going to repeat all the good things that people have said about yoga. Frankly I have not experienced them by myself, and I’m a bit overstating these ’several months’ as I spent only half of my time at home and so can practice yoga no more than 2 weeks in a month!

The only true experience is the conversations between the good and the ugly in myself. The bad, you already know, he just keeps silent.

Technically each of these conversation takes less than a second as they’re in their own language, not English or Vietnamese or Bahasa whatever-it-is.

Continue reading ‘The good (the bad) and the ugly’ »

I’ve heard about it quite long ago from my VNOSS friends, but have just tried to do it by myself recently. Please pardon my ignorance, as usual..

If you own a domain (e.g. johndoe.com or vnfreelance.net the thingy you’re reading)  and you want to have a good email solution for it, this may be the answer.

Simply go to Google Apps, choose ‘Organizations and members’ if you want to try the free version and follow the steps to register your domains

Continue reading ‘Let Google host your email :)’ »

If you’re not using SQL Server for your daily job, please ignore this post.

If you come to this post after hours of Googling and cursing, this is the place for you to share.

If you wonder why I have a beginning like this, read this post which I found from Google myself.

It took me 2 man-days to finally set up a master-target server configuration on 2 instances of SQL Server 2005. Various problems along the way but I think you won’t miss it if you follow each and every of the steps below:

Continue reading ‘MS SQL 2005: creating a multi-server environment’ »

If you don’t know what it is, read this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_e-mail
For more information about how it works, read this: http://www.techatplay.com/2006/10/18/how-does-direct-push-really-work/

In short, it keeps you connected with your corporate mailbox when and where you want, provided you have a DirectPush-enabled device and (you) can access the Internet with it.

Continue reading ‘My Push Mail’ »

There are good dreams and there are bad dreams.

One night I dreamt that I lost my heart somewhere, and was frantically running around searching for it with the empty chest. You can imagine I was more than happy the next morning to see that it was a dream and my heart is beating inside

No one, in fact, can search for his own heart.

Last night I dreamt that I could do a Union query within Cognos Framework Manager. There was a GUI interface and I just dragged Query 1 and Query 2 into the unioned Query3 . Zoom!

As you have expected, it is a dream. And as a dream it is not (yet) true. As of yesterday I could only publish Query 1 and Query 2 separately then do the union in Report Studio. Otherwise I must write the Union join in FWM and see whether it can work in ‘Database only’ processing mode.

Will get back later if reality comes any closer to the dream!

It is always right, damn right!

Until 5 minutes ago I’ve been blaming DB2 on not allowing to limit the number of rows for each SQL, which I can do in SQL Server simply by using ’select TOP nnn ‘ + blah blah blah. Or in MySQL it’s something like ’select blah blah blah’ + limit nnn

Actually in DB2 I can do it by ’select blah blah blah’ then FETCH FIRST NNN ROWS ONLY

Then who’s stupid?

And this is mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_(SQL) which I must have read at least once!

Yeah, RTFM!

It’s a good day if:

• You have a good breakfast
• You find some new tricks in Cognos Report Studio and Cognos Framework Manager. They really help.
• You skip lunch with no difficulty, and are compensated with good appetite at dinner
• You leave office reluctantly. If you don’t really have to go you’ll stay another few hours
• Reading vnexpress.net, you find yourself ignoring the junk news and reading a successful man’s autobiography
• You call dad
• You think you are loved

It’d be even better if:

• You didn’t skip your 5-min yoga in the morning
• You could reply to all emails before leaving office
• You jotted down your thoughts before you forget ‘em
• You talked to mom too
• You read a book instead of carrying your laptop and blogging. Sh!t