We have been waiting for that November's cold weather, but so far we are blessed with unusually warm weather.
Today is Last day of November and we are still in 64's when we were suppose to be 46s.
The extra warm days are always welcome with open heart.
The Vacations ended with not so good incidents few of them are:
*Forgetting the Car Seat Base at the Airport
*Delays in getting Baby strollers back from Cabin check-ins.
*Confusion with Airport Parking Pick-up service.
And last but not least Finding out the car with dead battery.
But Finally It feels good to be back Home.
After enjoying the Hot tub at Resort's swimming pool in the morning; our next stop was IHOP restaurant, where we had relaxing breakfast resulting into delays for water park.
The planned Typhoon Lagoon theme park was disappointment due to the cold weather and late arrival and early closing. So for our next destination we started the drive on Florida Turnpike and I-95 from Orlando to Miami. The average speed on this freeway is 80 mph. If you are in the left lane then you need to maintain 90-95 mph to go along with traffic and don’t get surprised if you see the road sign with “Next Exit 41 Miles”
As they say it’s must see theme park and the one of the major attraction of Florida and Disney world. We entered the Park with presumed expectations but left the park with sweet memories. Our favorite and the best ones are ‘Wishes Nighttime Spectacular’, ‘Splash Mountain’ & ‘Winnie the Pooh’ thou we did cover following ones in one full day.
Swiss Family Treehouse
Splash Mountain
The Haunted Mansion
Liberty Square Riverboat
Mickey's Country House
Minnie's Country House
Fantasyland Play Area
Mad Tea Party
Tomorrowland Indy Speedway
Walt Disney World Railroad
Tomorrowland Transit Authority
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
Wishes Nighttime Spectacular
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Snow White's Scary Adventures
SpectroMagic Parade
Only regrettable missed ones are
Pirates of the Caribbean
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
The unfortunate thing was, It was too late to discover how FastPass Service works, which could have saved huge waiting time for each rides.
After watching Travel channels ‘Walt Disney World Resort: Behind the Scenes’ TV program, I was more interested in 'Kilimanjaro Safaris', 'The Tree of Life' & experience the ‘It's Tough to be a Bug’ show.
Even thou we entered the park at afternoon, we did cover most of them.
The Tree of Life
Kilimanjaro Safaris
Expedition Everest
It's Tough to be a Bug!
Wildlife Express Train
TriceraTop Spin
The Oasis Exhibits
Only regrettable missed ones are 'Kali River Rapids' & 'Maharajah Jungle Trek'.
The flight from EWR to Orlando,FL(MCO) hardly took 2 hrs but the wait time in Budget car rental queue was almost 1 hr and then wasted few rounds to airport terminal to find the passenger pickup spot. Getting directions and driving to the resorts resulted into additional 2 hrs. Finally at 01:00 pm we reached at the Bahama Bay Resort just to find out that their standard check-in time is 04:00 pm. After requesting we finally got the keys.
Everything was forgotten as soon as we entered into the condo unit. It was Caribbean style 3 bedrooms, Full Kitchen, Living room unit with balcony facing towards the lake including all amenities. It was beyond our expectations.
Evening was spent by visiting not so attractive Disney Downtown & Walmart.
“Have a great vacation - you deserve it!”
Those were the words of my manager,
I am not sure I deserve It or Not ? but It feels good.
Its been happening quite sometime now, That whenever I transfer money to India, I see the rise in India's forex reserves. So coincidental ! Here is The News.
India's forex reserves went up by $1.168 billion to stand at $168.284 billion during the week ended November 10 as against $167.116 billion during the week ended November 3.
While helping out one of my colleague with his MERGE Command, We were misguided by wrong oracle error message for almost 1 hr.
The error was ORA-00904:invalid identifier.
Ultimately, I found that it was undocumented restriction that you cannot UPDATE any column that you are MERGING on or Joining on.
For Ex.
MERGE INTO emp e
USING emp_stage d
ON (e.empno = d.empno
e.deptid = d.deptid
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE
SET e.deptid = d.deptid,
e.ename = d.ename,
e.sal = d.sal,
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT ( empno, deptid, ename, sal )
values ( d.empno,
d.deptid,
d.ename,
d.sal);
ERROR at line 4:
ORA-00904: "d"."deptid": invalid identifier
But if you remove deptid Join, It works.
MERGE INTO emp e
USING emp_stage d
ON (e.empno = d.empno
--e.deptid = d.deptid
)
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE
SET e.deptid = d.deptid,
e.ename = d.ename,
e.sal = d.sal,
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT ( empno, deptid, ename, sal )
values ( d.empno,
d.deptid,
d.ename,
d.sal )
It was common sense, How would you update column on which you are making selection ? It is same as mutating table error, only it hasn't been documented yet. May be It should say:
ORA-99999:cannot UPDATE column that are MERGING on.
This will save lot of developers debugging time.
Every morning I look at this window while brushing my teethes and this is how the view has changed from color and B&W. Its almost mid November and all the tree leaves have fallen down. Now wonder they call this season Fall. Surprisingly, since last two weeks we were blessed with unusually warm weathers in mid 60s.
I've been waiting for this news, and here comes the news "Fly non-stop from Mumbai to NY". Delta Air Lines has launched a non-stop flight connecting New York and Mumbai. Its been quite sometime that Continental is flying non-stop to Delhi, but it wasn’t much helpful.
Certainly non-stop makes a big difference by cutting down travel time at least 4 hrs, Less take-offs and landings, No security check and No need of transit visa, uninterrupted sleep. I just hope that Lavatories will be sanitized and cleaned properly.
This just makes the World and Home a little bit closer.
