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Image Source - Google Image by - Wikipedia  March Madness , AKA the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament , is a thrilling and widely watched sports event in the US. A single-elimination tournament with 68 college basketball teams decides the Division I level's national champion every year. The tournament features thrilling games, stunning upsets, and unforgettable moments that captivate millions of fans. The History  The history of the tournament dates back to 1939 when it was created by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) with only eight teams. Since then, the tournament has expanded to include more teams, regions, rounds, and venues. The current format of the tournament was established in 2011 when four teams were added to the field and the First Four round was introduced to determine the last four spots in the main bracket. The selection process  The selection process for the tournament is based on a combination of automatic bids and at-l...

Passover: The Festival of Freedom Meaning Passover , or Pesach in Hebrew, is a significant and profound Jewish festival. It celebrates the freedom of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt and their journey to the land that God promised them. Passover also honors the principles of freedom, justice, and human dignity that are essential to Judaism. Passover 2023 Passover starts on the evening of April 5th, 2023, and lasts for eight days (seven in Israel). During this period, Jews around the world follow various rituals and traditions that link them to their past and culture. One of the most significant aspects of Passover is the abstention from chametz, or leavened bread and products. This reminds them of the urgency with which the Israelites left Egypt without having time to let their dough rise. Instead, they consumed matzah, or unleavened bread, which is also known as the bread of affliction. Passover Meal Another element of Passover is the seder or festive meal that takes place...

Today we'll see how to unpivot data using Power Query in MS Excel .  How can we  transpose data  that are in  multiple columns , but also has multiple headers, which is more like a reporting type of layout into a  tabular data  set so that it's easy for us to create a  pivot table , or do further analysis using formulas? We want to do it dynamically, though so that if we end up adding more columns to this, all we need to do is refresh the end report and everything will pull automatically through. So we have our customer names, we have an article description, and we have a nice report about sales values by month, which are recorded as dates and by scenario. What we want to do is to transform the report into a proper  tabular data  set. In the end, we should just have a single column for a customer, for the article. There shouldn't be any gaps, then we have a separate column for a scenario, followed by a separate ...

This is  Google Drive 2020 Tutorial , where I’ll tell you how to use  Google Drive  and highlight some of the best  Google Drive features . Today, I want to give you guys a more in-depth #GoogleTips on how to use  Google Drive .  And, since we’re about in the last part of 2020, I figure now is a good time to go over some aesthetic and functionality changes and features that have happened in the last year in  Google Drive . So without further ado, let’s dive into Drive. If you’re new to Google Drive, let’s start with  what is Google Drive ? Google Drive  is a  free cloud storage solution , that features  file storing ,  file syncing , and sharing files  across devices. So if you’ve ever created or read a Google Doc, for example, that’s all part of  Google Drive ecosystem . So there are multiple ways to access Google Drive. Now for me, I always access my drive from my  Gmail ...

We’ll discuss the configuration of kdump on an Oracle Linux server .All steps and procedures explained and performed are based on Oracle Linux release 7 . What is kdump? Kdump is the crash dump mechanism of the Linux kernel which allows us to save the system memory contents for analysis . Oracle recommends that you enable the kdump feature as it helps Oracle Linux support to find the root cause whenever a server panics or crashes. To help identify the cause of the crash in case of a system failure, a memory image called the vmcore is created by kdump. An exclusive system memory portion will be requisite for kdump to be enabled. Being exclusive, this memory is not available for other purposes. Kdump utilizes kexec to boot to a second kernel whenever the system crashes. What is kexec? Kexec is a quick boot mechanism that allows the Linux kernel to boot from within a kernel context that is already running without going through the bootloader stage. ...