A collection of tech notes, personal reflections, and evolving thoughts about whatever’s caught my curiosity.

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ഓർമ്മകൾ

15 November 2024

എല്ലാ യാത്രകൾക്ക് ശേഷവും
അവസാനിക്കുന്നത് മനോഹരമായ
ഓർമ്മകളാണ്.
നിങ്ങൾ, നിറങ്ങൾ, ചിറകുകൾ
എല്ലാമൊരു മധുരസ്വപ്നം പോലെ
ഭംഗിയുള്ളത്.

നുകരട്ടെ ഞാൻ ആവോളം,
ഇതെല്ലാം ആസ്വദിക്കാൻ
കാലമിനിയും അവസരം തരട്ടെ.

essay

View posts grouped by month in Hugo

14 November 2024
A few months ago, I wrote a post on creating a feed page to list all posts on my Hugo website in a card format with pagination. Even though I am able to view the full posts...
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Winder rides

14 November 2024

Today is throwback thursday and here is beautiful view of Bahrain in the winter.

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Moment

13 November 2024

I want to live in this moment because it’s all I truly own. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.

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PL/SQL commands to view the table details

13 November 2024

In Oracle PL/SQL, you can use the following commands to view table details:

  1. DESCRIBE or DESC

    DESC table_name;
    

    Displays columns, data types, and constraints.

  2. USER_TAB_COLUMNS

    SELECT COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, DATA_LENGTH
    FROM USER_TAB_COLUMNS
    WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TABLE_NAME';
    

    Shows details about columns for tables owned by the user.

  3. ALL_TAB_COLUMNS

    SELECT COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, DATA_LENGTH
    FROM ALL_TAB_COLUMNS
    WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TABLE_NAME';
    

    Provides column information for tables accessible to the user.

  4. DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL

    SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE', 'TABLE_NAME') FROM DUAL;
    

    Displays the CREATE TABLE statement for table structure details.

To view constraints on the table, you can check here.

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Use Flashback Query

11 November 2024

If your Oracle database has Flashback enabled, you can query past versions of data within a specified retention period. Here’s how to use Flashback to retrieve a prior state of data:

SELECT * 
FROM your_table AS OF TIMESTAMP (SYSTIMESTAMP - INTERVAL '5' MINUTE) 
WHERE your_condition;

Replace SYSTIMESTAMP - INTERVAL '5' MINUTE with the timestamp or interval that reflects when the data was last known to be in its old state.

Note: Flashback must be enabled, and it’s only available within the Flashback retention window, which depends on your database configuration.

References

Killians Bytes

essay

Favourite movie quotes

9 November 2024
I’m a huge fan of good movies, and I’ve always loved great dialogues. So, I thought I’d compile some of my favorite movie lines into one post and share them here...
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How to break columns in Bootstrap

3 November 2024

Breaking columns to a new line in flexbox requires a small hack: add an element with width: 100% wherever you want to wrap your columns to a new line.

<div class="container text-center">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-3">.col-6 .col-sm-3</div>
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-3">.col-6 .col-sm-3</div>

    <!-- Force next columns to break to new line -->
    <div class="w-100"></div>

    <div class="col-6 col-sm-3">.col-6 .col-sm-3</div>
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-3">.col-6 .col-sm-3</div>
  </div>
</div>

You can also apply this break at specific breakpoints with our responsive display utilities.

<div class="container text-center">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-4">.col-6 .col-sm-4</div>
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-4">.col-6 .col-sm-4</div>

    <!-- Force next columns to break to new line at md breakpoint and up -->
    <div class="w-100 d-none d-md-block"></div>

    <div class="col-6 col-sm-4">.col-6 .col-sm-4</div>
    <div class="col-6 col-sm-4">.col-6 .col-sm-4</div>
  </div>
</div>
References

Bootstrap Doc

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സ്നേഹം?

2 November 2024

എന്താണ് സ്നേഹം?

നിനക്ക് വേദനിക്കുമ്പോളെല്ലാം
എനിക്കും വേദനിക്കുന്നത്.