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  • What is the BRU Server Disaster Recovery Procedure?

    - by Jonskichov
    How do I go about performing a full, bare metal disaster recovery from BRU Server backups? I have backed up the entire C:\ (including Windows, Program Files etc) of a test machine (using Open File Manager) and want to restore this to a new server. What is the procedure I need to go through to restore to a clean server using my backup? How does this work with various services such as DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, SQL Server, Windows Registry etc? Thanks in advance.

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  • Querying the SSIS Catalog? Here’s a handy query!

    - by jamiet
    I’ve been working on a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) solution for about 6 months now and I’ve learnt many many things that I intend to share on this blog just as soon as I get the time. Here’s a very short starter-for-ten… I’ve found the following query to be utterly invaluable when interrogating the SSIS Catalog to discover what is going on in my executions: SELECT event_message_id,MESSAGE,package_name,event_name,message_source_name,package_path,execution_path,message_type,message_source_typeFROM   (       SELECT  em.*       FROM    SSISDB.catalog.event_messages em       WHERE   em.operation_id = (SELECT MAX(execution_id) FROM SSISDB.catalog.executions)           AND event_name NOT LIKE '%Validate%'       )q/* Put in whatever WHERE predicates you might like*/--WHERE event_name = 'OnError'--WHERE package_name = 'Package.dtsx'--WHERE execution_path LIKE '%<some executable>%'ORDER BY message_time DESC Know it. Learn it. Love it. @jamiet

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  • Investigation: Can different combinations of components effect Dataflow performance?

    - by jamiet
    Introduction The Dataflow task is one of the core components (if not the core component) of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and often the most misunderstood. This is not surprising, its an incredibly complicated beast and we’re abstracted away from that complexity via some boxes that go yellow red or green and that have some lines drawn between them. Example dataflow In this blog post I intend to look under that facade and get into some of the nuts and bolts of the Dataflow Task by investigating how the decisions we make when building our packages can affect performance. I will do this by comparing the performance of three dataflows that all have the same input, all produce the same output, but which all operate slightly differently by way of having different transformation components. I also want to use this blog post to challenge a common held opinion that I see perpetuated over and over again on the SSIS forum. That is, that people assume adding components to a dataflow will be detrimental to overall performance. Its not surprising that people think this –it is intuitive to think that more components means more work- however this is not a view that I share. I have always been of the opinion that there are many factors affecting dataflow duration and the number of components is actually one of the less important ones; having said that I have never proven that assertion and that is one reason for this investigation. I have actually seen evidence that some people think dataflow duration is simply a function of number of rows and number of components. I’ll happily call that one out as a myth even without any investigation!  The Setup I have a 2GB datafile which is a list of 4731904 (~4.7million) customer records with various attributes against them and it contains 2 columns that I am going to use for categorisation: [YearlyIncome] [BirthDate] The data file is a SSIS raw format file which I chose to use because it is the quickest way of getting data into a dataflow and given that I am testing the transformations, not the source or destination adapters, I want to minimise external influences as much as possible. In the test I will split the customers according to month of birth (12 of those) and whether or not their yearly income is above or below 50000 (2 of those); in other words I will be splitting them into 24 discrete categories and in order to do it I shall be using different combinations of SSIS’ Conditional Split and Derived Column transformation components. The 24 datapaths that occur will each input to a rowcount component, again because this is the least resource intensive means of terminating a datapath. The test is being carried out on a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a quad core (8 logical Procs) Intel Core i7 at 1.73GHz and Samsung SSD hard drive. Its running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7. The Variables Here are the three combinations of components that I am going to test:     One Conditional Split - A single Conditional Split component CSPL Split by Month of Birth and income category that will use expressions on [YearlyIncome] & [BirthDate] to send each row to one of 24 outputs. This next screenshot displays the expression logic in use: Derived Column & Conditional Split - A Derived Column component DER Income Category that adds a new column [IncomeCategory] which will contain one of two possible text values {“LessThan50000”,”GreaterThan50000”} and uses [YearlyIncome] to determine which value each row should get. A Conditional Split component CSPL Split by Month of Birth and Income Category then uses that new column in conjunction with [BirthDate] to determine which of the same 24 outputs to send each row to. Put more simply, I am separating the Conditional Split of #1 into a Derived Column and a Conditional Split. The next screenshots display the expression logic in use: DER Income Category         CSPL Split by Month of Birth and Income Category       Three Conditional Splits - A Conditional Split component that produces two outputs based on [YearlyIncome], one for each Income Category. Each of those outputs will go to a further Conditional Split that splits the input into 12 outputs, one for each month of birth (identical logic in each). In this case then I am separating the single Conditional Split of #1 into three Conditional Split components. The next screenshots display the expression logic in use: CSPL Split by Income Category         CSPL Split by Month of Birth 1& 2       Each of these combinations will provide an input to one of the 24 rowcount components, just the same as before. For illustration here is a screenshot of the dataflow containing three Conditional Split components: As you can these dataflows have a fair bit of work to do and remember that they’re doing that work for 4.7million rows. I will execute each dataflow 10 times and use the average for comparison. I foresee three possible outcomes: The dataflow containing just one Conditional Split (i.e. #1) will be quicker There is no significant difference between any of them One of the two dataflows containing multiple transformation components will be quicker Regardless of which of those outcomes come to pass we will have learnt something and that makes this an interesting test to carry out. Note that I will be executing the dataflows using dtexec.exe rather than hitting F5 within BIDS. The Results and Analysis The table below shows all of the executions, 10 for each dataflow. It also shows the average for each along with a standard deviation. All durations are in seconds. I’m pasting a screenshot because I frankly can’t be bothered with the faffing about needed to make a presentable HTML table. It is plain to see from the average that the dataflow containing three conditional splits is significantly faster, the other two taking 43% and 52% longer respectively. This seems strange though, right? Why does the dataflow containing the most components outperform the other two by such a big margin? The answer is actually quite logical when you put some thought into it and I’ll explain that below. Before progressing, a side note. The standard deviation for the “Three Conditional Splits” dataflow is orders of magnitude smaller – indicating that performance for this dataflow can be predicted with much greater confidence too. The Explanation I refer you to the screenshot above that shows how CSPL Split by Month of Birth and salary category in the first dataflow is setup. Observe that there is a case for each combination of Month Of Date and Income Category – 24 in total. These expressions get evaluated in the order that they appear and hence if we assume that Month of Date and Income Category are uniformly distributed in the dataset we can deduce that the expected number of expression evaluations for each row is 12.5 i.e. 1 (the minimum) + 24 (the maximum) divided by 2 = 12.5. Now take a look at the screenshots for the second dataflow. We are doing one expression evaluation in DER Income Category and we have the same 24 cases in CSPL Split by Month of Birth and Income Category as we had before, only the expression differs slightly. In this case then we have 1 + 12.5 = 13.5 expected evaluations for each row – that would account for the slightly longer average execution time for this dataflow. Now onto the third dataflow, the quick one. CSPL Split by Income Category does a maximum of 2 expression evaluations thus the expected number of evaluations per row is 1.5. CSPL Split by Month of Birth 1 & CSPL Split by Month of Birth 2 both have less work to do than the previous Conditional Split components because they only have 12 cases to test for thus the expected number of expression evaluations is 6.5 There are two of them so total expected number of expression evaluations for this dataflow is 6.5 + 6.5 + 1.5 = 14.5. 14.5 is still more than 12.5 & 13.5 though so why is the third dataflow so much quicker? Simple, the conditional expressions in the first two dataflows have two boolean predicates to evaluate – one for Income Category and one for Month of Birth; the expressions in the Conditional Split in the third dataflow however only have one predicate thus they are doing a lot less work. To sum up, the difference in execution times can be attributed to the difference between: MONTH(BirthDate) == 1 && YearlyIncome <= 50000 and MONTH(BirthDate) == 1 In the first two dataflows YearlyIncome <= 50000 gets evaluated an average of 12.5 times for every row whereas in the third dataflow it is evaluated once and once only. Multiply those 11.5 extra operations by 4.7million rows and you get a significant amount of extra CPU cycles – that’s where our duration difference comes from. The Wrap-up The obvious point here is that adding new components to a dataflow isn’t necessarily going to make it go any slower, moreover you may be able to achieve significant improvements by splitting logic over multiple components rather than one. Performance tuning is all about reducing the amount of work that needs to be done and that doesn’t necessarily mean use less components, indeed sometimes you may be able to reduce workload in ways that aren’t immediately obvious as I think I have proven here. Of course there are many variables in play here and your mileage will most definitely vary. I encourage you to download the package and see if you get similar results – let me know in the comments. The package contains all three dataflows plus a fourth dataflow that will create the 2GB raw file for you (you will also need the [AdventureWorksDW2008] sample database from which to source the data); simply disable all dataflows except the one you want to test before executing the package and remember, execute using dtexec, not within BIDS. If you want to explore dataflow performance tuning in more detail then here are some links you might want to check out: Inequality joins, Asynchronous transformations and Lookups Destination Adapter Comparison Don’t turn the dataflow into a cursor SSIS Dataflow – Designing for performance (webinar) Any comments? Let me know! @Jamiet

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  • Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor

    - by Akshay Deep Lamba
    Problem Like most organizations, we are planning to upgrade our database server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. I would like to know is there an easy way to know in advance what kind of issues one may encounter when upgrading to a newer version of SQL Server? One way of doing this is to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor to plan for upgrades from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. In this tip we will take a look at how one can use the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor to identify potential issues before the upgrade. Solution SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor is a free tool designed by Microsoft to identify potential issues before upgrading your environment to a newer version of SQL Server. Below are prerequisites which need to be installed before installing the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. Prerequisites for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor .Net Framework 2.0 or a higher version Windows Installer 4.5 or a higher version Windows Server 2003 SP 1 or a higher version, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP SP2 or a higher version, Windows Vista Download SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor You can download SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor from the following link. Once you have successfully installed Upgrade Advisor follow the below steps to see how you can use this tool to identify potential issues before upgrading your environment. 1. Click Start -> Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 -> SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. 2. Click Launch Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard as highlighted below to open the wizard. 2. On the wizard welcome screen click Next to continue. 3. In SQL Server Components screen, enter the Server Name and click the Detect button to identify components which need to be analyzed and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 4. In Connection Parameters screen choose Instance Name, Authentication and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 5. In SQL Server Parameters wizard screen select the Databases which you want to analysis, trace files if any and SQL batch files if any.  Then click Next to continue with the wizard. 6. In Reporting Services Parameters screen you can specify the Reporting Server Instance name and then click next to continue with the wizard. 7. In Analysis Services Parameters screen you can specify an Analysis Server Instance name and then click Next to continue with the wizard. 8. In Confirm Upgrade Advisor Settings screen you will be able to see a quick summary of the options which you have selected so far. Click Run to start the analysis. 9. In Upgrade Advisor Progress screen you will be able to see the progress of the analysis. Basically, the upgrade advisor runs predefined rules which will help to identify potential issues that can affect your environment once you upgrade your server from a lower version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. 10. In the below snippet you can see that Upgrade Advisor has completed the analysis of SQL Server, Analysis Services and Reporting Services. To see the output click the Launch Report button at the bottom of the wizard screen. 11. In View Report screen you can see a summary of issues which can affect you once you upgrade. To learn more about each issue you can expand the issue and read the detailed description as shown in the below snippet.

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  • Which Ubuntu version to use on a MAXDATA laptop Eco 3100X ? with this system info

    - by Erjet Malaj
    i am speaking as new ubuntu user, i just have installed ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, but is running very slow... So i am here to ask you a question: WHich ubuntu version can fit for my laptop MAXDATA Eco 3100x, . My Laptop System Information are: SYSTEM INFORMATION Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) release. GNOME: 2.30.2 (Ubuntu 2010-06-25) Kernel version: 2.6.32-40-generic (#87-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 5 20:26:31 UTC 2012) GCC: 4.4.3 (i486-linux-gnu) Xorg: unknown (25 February 2012 06:59:39AM) (25 February 2012 06:59:39AM) Hostname: lotus-laptop Uptime: 0 days 1 h 6 min CPU INFORMATION GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Number of CPUs: 1 CPU clock currently at 2390.561 MHz with 512 KB cache Numbering: family(15) model(2) stepping(7) Bogomips: 4781.12 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid MEMORY INFORMATION Total memory: 228 MB Total swap: 455 MB STORAGE INFORMATION SCSI device - scsi0 Vendor: ATA Model: IBM-DJSA-210 SCSI device - scsi1 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-C2502 HARDWARE INFORMATION MOTHERBOARD Host bridge Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 11) PCI bridge(s) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) USB controller(s) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f) (prog-if 10) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (prog-if 20) ISA bridge Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS962 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 04) IDE interface Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] GRAPHIC CARD VGA controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device 5103 SOUND CARD Multimedia controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device 5203 NETWORK Ethernet controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device 5002 Modem Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device 4003 Thanks you asap. :-) E

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  • Should we be able to deploy a single package to the SSIS Catalog?

    - by jamiet
    My buddy Sutha Thiru sent me an email recently asking about my opinion on a particular nuance of the project deployment model in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 and I’d like to share my response as I think it warrants a wider discussion. Sutha asked: Jamie What is your take on this? http://www.mattmasson.com/index.php/2012/07/can-i-deploy-a-single-ssis-package-from-my-project-to-the-ssis-catalog/ Overnight I was talking to Matt who confirmed that they got no plans to change the deployment model. For example if we have following scenrio how do we do deploy? Sprint 1 Pkg1, 2 & 3 has been developed and deployed to UAT. Once signed off its been deployed to Live. Sprint 2 Pkg 4 & 5 been developed. During this time users raised a bug on Pkg2. We want to make the change to Pkg2 and deploy that to UAT and eventually to LIVE without releasing Pkg 4 &5. How do we do it? Matt pointed me to his blog entry which I have seen before . http://www.mattmasson.com/index.php/2012/02/thoughts-on-branching-strategies-for-ssis-projects/ Thanks Sutha My response: Personally, even though I've experienced the exact problem you just outlined, I agree with the current approach. I steadfastly believe that there should not be a way for an unscrupulous developer to slide in a new version of a package under the covers. Deploying .ispac files brings a degree of rigour to your operational processes. Yes, that means that we as SSIS developers are going to have to get better at using source control and branching properly but that is no bad thing in my opinion. Claiming to be proper "developers" is a bit of a cheap claim if we don't even do the fundamentals correctly. I would be interested in the thoughts of others who have used the project deployment model. Do you agree with my point of view? @Jamiet

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  • httpd high cpu usage slowing down server response

    - by max
    my client has a image sharing website with about 100.000 visitor per day it has been slowed down considerably since this morning when i checked processes i've notice high cpu usage from http .... some has suggested ddos attack ... i'm not a webmaster and i've no idea whts going on top top - 20:13:30 up 5:04, 4 users, load average: 4.56, 4.69, 4.59 Tasks: 284 total, 3 running, 281 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.1%us, 0.9%sy, 1.7%ni, 69.0%id, 16.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16037152k total, 15875096k used, 162056k free, 360468k buffers Swap: 4194288k total, 888k used, 4193400k free, 14050008k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4151 apache 20 0 277m 84m 3784 R 50.2 0.5 0:01.98 httpd 4115 apache 20 0 210m 16m 4480 S 18.3 0.1 0:00.60 httpd 12885 root 39 19 4296 692 308 S 13.0 0.0 11:09.53 gzip 4177 apache 20 0 214m 20m 3700 R 12.3 0.1 0:00.37 httpd 2219 mysql 20 0 4257m 198m 5668 S 11.0 1.3 42:49.70 mysqld 3691 apache 20 0 206m 14m 6416 S 1.7 0.1 0:03.38 httpd 3934 apache 20 0 211m 17m 4836 S 1.0 0.1 0:03.61 httpd 4098 apache 20 0 209m 17m 3912 S 1.0 0.1 0:04.17 httpd 4116 apache 20 0 211m 17m 4476 S 1.0 0.1 0:00.43 httpd 3867 apache 20 0 217m 23m 4672 S 0.7 0.1 1:03.87 httpd 4146 apache 20 0 209m 15m 3628 S 0.7 0.1 0:00.02 httpd 4149 apache 20 0 209m 15m 3616 S 0.7 0.1 0:00.02 httpd 12884 root 39 19 22336 2356 944 D 0.7 0.0 0:19.21 tar 4054 apache 20 0 206m 12m 4576 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.32 httpd another top top - 15:46:45 up 5:08, 4 users, load average: 5.02, 4.81, 4.64 Tasks: 288 total, 6 running, 281 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 18.4%us, 0.9%sy, 2.3%ni, 56.5%id, 21.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16037152k total, 15792196k used, 244956k free, 360924k buffers Swap: 4194288k total, 888k used, 4193400k free, 13983368k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4622 apache 20 0 209m 16m 3868 S 54.2 0.1 0:03.99 httpd 4514 apache 20 0 213m 20m 3924 R 50.8 0.1 0:04.93 httpd 4627 apache 20 0 221m 27m 4560 R 18.9 0.2 0:01.20 httpd 12885 root 39 19 4296 692 308 S 18.9 0.0 11:51.79 gzip 2219 mysql 20 0 4257m 199m 5668 S 18.3 1.3 43:19.04 mysqld 4512 apache 20 0 227m 33m 4736 R 5.6 0.2 0:01.93 httpd 4520 apache 20 0 213m 19m 4640 S 1.3 0.1 0:01.48 httpd 4590 apache 20 0 212m 19m 3932 S 1.3 0.1 0:00.06 httpd 4573 apache 20 0 210m 16m 3556 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.03 httpd 4562 root 20 0 15164 1388 952 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.08 top 98 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:04.89 kswapd0 100 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.85 khugepaged 4579 apache 20 0 209m 16m 3900 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.83 httpd 4637 apache 20 0 209m 15m 3668 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.03 httpd ps aux [root@server ~]# ps aux | grep httpd root 2236 0.0 0.0 207524 10124 ? Ss 15:09 0:03 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3087 2.7 0.1 226968 28232 ? S 20:04 0:06 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3170 2.6 0.1 221296 22292 ? R 20:05 0:05 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3171 9.0 0.1 225044 26768 ? R 20:05 0:17 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3188 1.5 0.1 223644 24724 ? S 20:05 0:03 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3197 2.3 0.1 215908 17520 ? S 20:05 0:04 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3198 1.1 0.0 211700 13000 ? S 20:05 0:02 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3272 2.4 0.1 219960 21540 ? S 20:06 0:03 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3273 2.0 0.0 211600 12804 ? S 20:06 0:03 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3279 3.7 0.1 229024 29900 ? S 20:06 0:05 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3280 1.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:06 0:01 [httpd] <defun ct> apache 3285 2.9 0.1 218532 21604 ? S 20:06 0:04 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3287 30.5 0.4 265084 65948 ? R 20:06 0:43 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3297 1.9 0.1 216068 17332 ? S 20:06 0:02 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3342 2.7 0.1 216716 17828 ? S 20:06 0:03 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3356 1.6 0.1 217244 18296 ? S 20:07 0:01 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3365 6.4 0.1 226044 27428 ? S 20:07 0:06 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3396 0.0 0.1 213844 16120 ? S 20:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3399 5.8 0.1 215664 16772 ? S 20:07 0:05 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3422 0.7 0.1 214860 17380 ? S 20:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3435 3.3 0.1 216220 17460 ? S 20:07 0:02 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3463 0.1 0.0 212732 15076 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3492 0.0 0.0 207660 7552 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3493 1.4 0.1 218092 19188 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3500 1.9 0.1 224204 26100 ? R 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3501 1.7 0.1 216916 17916 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3502 0.0 0.0 207796 7732 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3505 0.0 0.0 207660 7548 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3529 0.0 0.0 207660 7524 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3531 4.0 0.1 216180 17280 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3532 0.0 0.0 207656 7464 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3543 1.4 0.1 217088 18648 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3544 0.0 0.0 207656 7548 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3545 0.0 0.0 207656 7560 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3546 0.0 0.0 207660 7540 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3547 0.0 0.0 207660 7544 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3548 2.3 0.1 216904 17888 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3550 0.0 0.0 207660 7540 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3551 0.0 0.0 207660 7536 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3552 0.2 0.0 214104 15972 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3553 6.5 0.1 216740 17712 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3554 6.3 0.1 216156 17260 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3555 0.0 0.0 207796 7716 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3556 1.8 0.0 211588 12580 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3557 0.0 0.0 207660 7544 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3565 0.0 0.0 207660 7520 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3570 0.0 0.0 207660 7516 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL apache 3571 0.0 0.0 207660 7504 ? S 20:08 0:00 /usr/sbin/http d -k start -DSSL root 3577 0.0 0.0 103316 860 pts/2 S+ 20:08 0:00 grep httpd httpd error log [Mon Jul 01 18:53:38 2013] [error] [client 2.178.12.67] request failed: error reading the headers, referer: http://akstube.com/image/show/27023/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%A7-%D8%B6%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-%D9%88-%D9%87%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%B4 [Mon Jul 01 18:55:33 2013] [error] [client 91.229.215.240] request failed: error reading the headers, referer: http://akstube.com/image/show/44924 [Mon Jul 01 18:57:02 2013] [error] [client 2.178.12.67] Invalid method in request [Mon Jul 01 18:57:02 2013] [error] [client 2.178.12.67] File does not exist: /var/www/html/501.shtml [Mon Jul 01 19:21:36 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/server-status [Mon Jul 01 19:21:36 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/403.shtml [Mon Jul 01 19:23:57 2013] [error] [client 151.242.14.31] request failed: error reading the headers [Mon Jul 01 19:37:16 2013] [error] [client 2.190.16.65] request failed: error reading the headers [Mon Jul 01 19:56:00 2013] [error] [client 151.242.14.31] request failed: error reading the headers Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50 also there is lots of these in the messages log Jul 1 20:15:47 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#11926: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 20:15:47 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#26255: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 20:15:48 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#20093: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 20:15:48 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#8672: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:07 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#39352: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:08 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#25382: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:08 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#9064: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:09 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#35375: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:09 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#61932: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:09 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#4423: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:09 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#40229: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#46128: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#62128: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#35240: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#36774: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#28361: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#14970: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#20216: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.10#31794: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#23042: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#11333: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.10#41807: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#20092: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:14 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#43526: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:15 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#17173: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:15 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#62412: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:15 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.10#63961: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:15 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.10#64345: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:15 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.10#31030: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:16 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#17098: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:16 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#17197: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:16 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#18114: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:16 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#59138: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:45:17 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.9#28715: query (cache) 'www.xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:33 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#26355: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:34 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#34473: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:34 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#62658: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:34 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#51631: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:35 server named[2426]: client 203.88.23.9#54701: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:36 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#63694: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:36 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#18203: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:37 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#9029: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:38 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#58981: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:48:38 server named[2426]: client 203.88.6.10#29321: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:47 server named[2426]: client 119.160.127.42#42355: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:49 server named[2426]: client 119.160.120.42#46285: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:53 server named[2426]: client 119.160.120.42#30696: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:54 server named[2426]: client 119.160.127.42#14038: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:55 server named[2426]: client 119.160.120.42#33586: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied Jul 1 15:49:56 server named[2426]: client 119.160.127.42#55114: query (cache) 'xxxmaza.com/A/IN' denied

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  • Advice needed: cold backup for SQL Server 2008 Express?

    - by Mikey Cee
    What are my options for achieving a cold backup server for SQL Server Express instance running a single database? I have an SQL Server 2008 Express instance in production that currently represents a single point of failure for my application. I have a second physical box sitting at the installation that is currently doing nothing. I want to somehow replicate my database in near real time (a little bit of data loss is acceptable) to the second box. The database is very small and resources are utilized very lightly. In the case that the production server dies, I would manually reconfigure my application to point to the backup server instead. Although Express doesn't support log shipping, I am thinking that I could manually script a poor man's version of it, where I use batch files to take the logs and copy them across the network and apply them to the second server at 5 minute intervals. Does anyone have any advice on whether this is technically achievable, or if there is a better way to do what I am trying to do? Note that I want to avoid having to pay for the full version of SQL Server and configure mirroring as I think it is an overkill for this application. I understand that other DB platforms may present suitable options (eg. a MySQL Cluster), but for the purposes of this discussion, let's assume we have to stick to SQL Server.

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  • Azure Blobs - ArgumentNullException when calling UploadFile()

    - by Ariel
    I’m getting the following exception when trying to upload a file with the following code: string encodedUrl = "videos/Sample.mp4" CloudBlockBlob encodedVideoBlob = blobClient.GetBlockBlobReference(encodedUrl); Log(string.Format("Got blob reference for {0}", encodedUrl), EventLogEntryType.Information); encodedVideoBlob.Properties.ContentType = contentType; encodedVideoBlob.Metadata[BlobProperty.Description] = description; encodedVideoBlob.UploadFile(localEncodedBlobPath); I see the "Got blob reference" message, so I assume the reference resolves correctly. Void Run() C:\Inter\Projects\PoC\WorkerRole\WorkerRole.cs (40) System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task`1.get_Result() at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task`1.ExecuteAndWait() at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.CloudBlob.UploadFromStream(Stream source, BlobRequestOptions options) at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.CloudBlob.UploadFile(String fileName, BlobRequestOptions options) at EncoderWorkerRole.WorkerRole.ProcessJobOutput(IJob job, String videoBlobToEncodeUrl) in C:\Inter\Projects\PoC\WorkerRole\WorkerRole.cs:line 144 at EncoderWorkerRole.WorkerRole.Run() in C:\Inter\Projects\PoC\WorkerRole\WorkerRole.cs:line 40 Interestingly, I'm running that same snippet from an on-premises server i.e., outside of Azure and it works correctly. Ideas welcome, thanks!

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  • SQL SERVER – World Shapefile Download and Upload to Database – Spatial Database

    - by pinaldave
    During my recent, training I was asked by a student if I know a place where he can download spatial files for all the countries around the world, as well as if there is a way to upload shape files to a database. Here is a quick tutorial for it. VDS Technologies has all the spatial files for every location for free. You can download the spatial file from here. If you cannot find the spatial file you are looking for, please leave a comment here, and I will send you the necessary details. Unzip the file to a folder and it will have the following content. Then, download Shape2SQL tool from SharpGIS. This is one of the best tools available to convert shapefiles to SQL tables. Afterwards, run the .exe file. When the file is run for the first time, it will ask for the database properties. Provide your database details. Select the appropriate shape files and the tool will fill up the essential details automatically. If you do not want to create the index on the column, uncheck the box beside it. The screenshot below is simply explains the procedure. You also have to be careful regarding your data, whether that is GEOMETRY or GEOGRAPHY. In this example,  it is GEOMETRY data. Click “Upload to Database”. It will show you the uploading process. Once the shape file is uploaded, close the application and open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Run the following code in SSMS Query Editor. USE Spatial GO SELECT * FROM dbo.world GO This will show the complete map of world after you click on Spatial Results in Spatial Tab. In Spatial Results Set, the Zoom feature is available. From the Select label column, choose the country name in order to show the country name overlaying the country borders. Let me know if this tutorial is helpful enough. I am planning to write a few more posts about this later. Note: Please note that the images displayed here do not reflect the original political boundaries. These data are pretty old and can probably draw incorrect maps as well. I have personally spotted several parts of the map where some countries are located a little bit inaccurately. Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Add-On, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Spatial, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Utility, T SQL, Technology

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  • SQLAuthority News – SafePeak’s SQL Server Performance Contest – Winners

    - by pinaldave
    SafePeak, the unique automated SQL performance acceleration and performance tuning software vendor, announced the winners of their SQL Performance Contest 2011. The contest quite unique: the writer of the best / most interesting and most community liked “performance story” would win an expensive gadget. The judges were the community DBAs that could participating and Like’ing stories and could also win expensive prizes. Robert Pearl SQL MVP, was the contest supervisor. I liked most of the stories and decided then to contact SafePeak and suggested to participate in the give-away and they have gladly accepted the same. The winner of best story is: Jason Brimhall (USA) with a story about a proc with a fair amount of business logic. Congratulations Jason! The 3 participants won the second prize of $100 gift card on amazon.com are: Michael Corey (USA), Hakim Ali (USA) and Alex Bernal (USA). And 5 participants won a printed copy of a book of mine (Book Reviews of SQL Wait Stats Joes 2 Pros: SQL Performance Tuning Techniques Using Wait Statistics, Types & Queues) are: Patrick Kansa (USA), Wagner Bianchi (USA), Riyas.V.K (India), Farzana Patwa (USA) and Wagner Crivelini (Brazil). The winners are welcome to send safepeak their mail address to receive the prizes (to “info ‘at’ safepeak.com”). Also SafePeak team asked me to welcome you all to continue sending stories, simply because they (and we all) like to read interesting stuff) as well as to send them ideas for future contests. You can do it from here: www.safepeak.com/SQL-Performance-Contest-2011/Submit-Story Congratulations to everybody! I found this very funny video about SafePeak: It looks like someone (maybe the vendor) played with video’s once and created this non-commercial like video: SafePeak dynamic caching is an immediate plug-n-play performance acceleration and scalability solution for cloud, hosted and business SQL server applications. By caching in memory result sets of queries and stored procedures, while keeping all those cache correct and up to date using unique patent pending technology, SafePeak can fix SQL performance problems and bottlenecks of most applications – most importantly: without actual code changes. By the way, I checked their website prior this contest announcement and noticed that they are running these days a special end year promotion giving between 30% to 45% discounts. Since the installation is quick and full testing can be done within couple of days – those have the need (performance problems) and have budget leftovers: I suggest you hurry. A free fully functional trial is here: www.safepeak.com/download, while those that want to start with a quote should ping here www.safepeak.com/quote. Good luck! Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Performance, SQL Puzzle, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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  • SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index

    - by pinaldave
    This blog is in response to the ongoing communication with the reader who had earlier asked the question of SQL SERVER – Disable Clustered Index and Data Insert. The same reader has asked me the difference between ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD and ALTER INDEX REBUILD along with disabled clustered index. Instead of writing a big theory, we will go over the demo right away. Here are the steps that we intend to follow. 1) Create Clustered and Nonclustered Index 2) Disable Clustered and Nonclustered Index 3) Enable – a) All Indexes, b) Clustered Index USE tempdb GO -- Drop Table if Exists IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[TableName]') AND type IN (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[TableName] GO -- Create Table CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TableName]( [ID] [int] NOT NULL, [FirstCol] [varchar](50) NULL ) GO -- Create Clustered Index ALTER TABLE [TableName] ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_TableName] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([ID] ASC) GO -- Create Nonclustered Index CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_NonClustered_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] ([FirstCol] ASC) GO -- Check that all the indexes are enabled SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), Name, type_desc, is_disabled FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'TableName' GO Now let us disable both the indexes. -- Disable Indexes -- Disable Nonclustered Index ALTER INDEX [IX_NonClustered_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] DISABLE GO -- Disable Clustered Index ALTER INDEX [PK_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] DISABLE GO -- Check that all the indexes are disabled SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), Name, type_desc, is_disabled FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'TableName' GO Next, let us rebuild all the indexes and see the output. -- Test 1: ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD -- Rebuliding should work fine ALTER INDEX ALL ON [dbo].[TableName] REBUILD GO -- Check that all the indexes are enabled SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), Name, type_desc, is_disabled FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'TableName' GO Now, once again disable indexes for the second test. -- Disable Indexes -- Disable Nonclustered Index ALTER INDEX [IX_NonClustered_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] DISABLE GO -- Disable Clustered Index ALTER INDEX [PK_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] DISABLE GO -- Check that all the indexes are disabled SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), Name, type_desc, is_disabled FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'TableName' GO Next, let us build only the clustered index and see the output of all the indexes. -- Test 2: ALTER INDEX REBUILD -- Rebuliding should work fine ALTER INDEX [PK_TableName] ON [dbo].[TableName] REBUILD GO -- Check that only clustered index is enabled SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), Name, type_desc, is_disabled FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'TableName' GO Let us do final clean up. -- Clean up DROP TABLE [TableName] GO From the example, it is very clear that if you have built only clustered index when the nonclustered index is disabled, it still remains disabled. Do let me know if the idea is clear. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Index, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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  • Microsoft Tech-Ed North America 2010 - SQL Server Upgrade, 2000 - 2005 - 2008: Notes and Best Practi

    - by ssqa.net
    It is just a week to go for Tech-Ed North America 2010 in New Orleans, this time also I'm speaking at this conference on the subject - SQL Server Upgrade, 2000 - 2005 - 2008: Notes and Best Practices from the Field... more from here .. It is a coincedence that this is the 2nd time the same talk has been selected in Tech-Ed North America for the topic I have presented in SQLBits before....(read more)

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  • SQL SERVER – Checklist for Analyzing Slow-Running Queries

    - by pinaldave
    I am recently working on upgrading my class Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization and & Performance Tuning with additional details and more interesting examples. While working on slide deck I realized that I need to have one solid slide which talks about checklist for analyzing slow running queries. A quick search on my saved [...]

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  • SQL SERVER – Introduction to Rollup Clause

    - by pinaldave
    In this article we will go over basic understanding of Rollup clause in SQL Server. ROLLUP clause is used to do aggregate operation on multiple levels in hierarchy. Let us understand how it works by using an example. Consider a table with the following structure and data: CREATE TABLE tblPopulation ( Country VARCHAR(100), [State] VARCHAR(100), City VARCHAR(100), [Population (in Millions)] INT ) GO INSERT INTO tblPopulation VALUES('India', 'Delhi','East Delhi',9 [...]

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  • This Week In Geek History: The Hitchhiker’s Guide, Compact Discs, and Whirlwind Foreshadows Operating Systems

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Every week we look at fascinating facts and trivia from the history of Geekdom. This week we’re taking a look at The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Compact Discs, and Whirlwind, the first computer to foreshadow modern operating systems. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How To Make Disposable Sleeves for Your In-Ear Monitors Macs Don’t Make You Creative! So Why Do Artists Really Love Apple? MacX DVD Ripper Pro is Free for How-To Geek Readers (Time Limited!) HTG Explains: What’s a Solid State Drive and What Do I Need to Know? How to Get Amazing Color from Photos in Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET Learn To Adjust Contrast Like a Pro in Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET Bring the Grid to Your Desktop with the TRON Legacy Theme for Windows 7 The Dark Knight and Team Fortress 2 Mashup Movie Trailer [Video] Dirt Cheap DSLR Viewfinder Improves Outdoor DSLR LCD Visibility Lakeside Sunset in the Mountains [Wallpaper] Taskbar Meters Turn Your Taskbar into a System Resource Monitor Create Shortcuts for Your Favorite or Most Used Folders in Ubuntu

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  • Send email from postfix server to outside email client

    - by Russ
    I have set up an email server and can send/receive email localhost and I can receive mail from outside sources but I cannot send emails to outside sources. I get this error when I try to send to an outside source such as live.com or gmail.com: Nov 8 22:15:13 server2 postfix/smtp[7598]: 699D480A64: to=, relay=none, delay=122043, delays=122022/0.01/20/0, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=live.com type=MX: Host not found, try again) Any ideas where I could look to resolve this?

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  • SQL SERVER – 4 Tips for ETL Software IDE Developers

    - by pinaldave
    In a previous blog, I introduced the notion of Semantic Types. To an end-user, a seamlessly integrated semantic typing engine significantly increases the ease of use of an ETL IDE (integrated development environment, or developer studio). This led me to think about other ease-of-use issues I have encountered while building ETL applications. When I get stumped while programming, I find myself asking the variations on these questions: “How do I…?” “Now what?” “Why isn’t this working?” “Why do I have to redo the work I just did?” It seems to me that a good ETL IDE will anticipate these questions and seek to answer them before they are even asked. So here are my tips to help software vendors build developer IDEs that actually make development easier. How do I…? While developing an ETL application, have you ever asked yourself: “How do I set up the connection to my SQL Server database?”,“How do I import my table definitions from Access?”, etc. An easy answer might be “read the manual” but sometimes product manuals are not robust or easily accessible. So, integrating robust how-to instructions directly into your ETLstudio would help users get the information they need at the time they need it. Now what? IDEs in general know where you last clicked or performed an action using an input device such as a keyboard; so they should be able to reasonably predict the design context you are in and suggest the next steps accordingly. Context-sensitive suggestions based on the state of the user’s work will help users move forward in ETL application development. Why isn’t this working? Or why do I have to wait till I compile to be told about a critical design issue? If an ETL IDE is smart enough to signal to users what in their design structures is left to be completed or has been completed incorrectly, then the developer can spend much less time in the designàcompileàerror-correct loop. Just-in-time validation helps users detect and correct programming errors earlier in the ETL development life cycle. Why do I have to redo the work I just did? In ETL development, schemas, transformation rules, connectivity objects, etc., can be reused in various situations. Using mouse-clicks to build and manage libraries of reusable design objects implies that the application development effort should decrease over time and as the library acquires more objects. I met a great company at SQL Pass that is trying to address many of these usability issues. Check them out at www.expressor-software.com. What other ease-of-use suggestions do you have for ETL software vendors? Please post your valuable comments. ?Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Best Practices, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology Tagged: ETL

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  • SQL SERVER – CTE can be Updated

    - by Pinal Dave
    Today I have received a fantastic email from Matthew Spieth. SQL Server expert from Ohio. He recently had a great conversation with his colleagues in the office and wanted to make sure that everybody who reads this blog knows about this little feature which is commonly confused. Here is his statement and we will start our story with Matthew’s own statement: “Users often confuse CTE with Temp Table but technically they both are different, CTE are like Views and they can be updated just like views.“ Very true statement from Matthew. I totally agree with what he is saying. Just like him, I have enough, time came across a situation when developers think CTE is like temp table. When you update temp table, it remains in the scope of the temp table and it does not propagate it to the table based on which temp table is built. However, this is not the case when it is about CTE, when you update CTE, it updates underlying table just like view does. Here is the working example of the same built by Matthew to illustrate this behavior. Check the value in the base table first. USE AdventureWorks2012; -- Check - The value in the base table is updated SELECT Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738'; Now let us build CTE with the same data. ;WITH CTEUpd(ProductID, Name, ProductNumber, Color) AS( SELECT ProductID, Name, ProductNumber, Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738') Now let us update CTE with following code. -- Update CTE UPDATE CTEUpd SET Color = 'Rainbow'; Now let us check the BASE table based on which the CTE was built. -- Check - The value in the base table is updated SELECT Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738'; That’s it! You can update CTE and it will update the base table. Here is the script which you should execute all together. USE AdventureWorks2012; -- Check - The value in the base table is updated SELECT Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738'; -- Build CTE ;WITH CTEUpd(ProductID, Name, ProductNumber, Color) AS( SELECT ProductID, Name, ProductNumber, Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738') -- Update CTE UPDATE CTEUpd SET Color = 'Rainbow'; -- Check - The value in the base table is updated SELECT Color FROM [Production].[Product] WHERE ProductNumber = 'CA-6738'; If you are aware of such scenario, do let me know and I will post this on my blog with due credit to you. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL View, T SQL Tagged: CTE

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  • Attention users running SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2!

    - by AaronBertrand
    In April and May, Microsoft released cumulative updates for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (I blogged about them here and here ). They are: CU #11 for 2008 SP3 (10.00.5840) ( KB #2834048 ) CU #12 for 2008 R2 SP1 (10.50.2874) ( KB #2828727 ) CU #6 for 2008 R2 SP2 (10.50.4279) ( KB #2830140 ) Sometime after that, looks like the next day, both downloads were pulled, allegedly due to an index corruption issue (if you believe the commentary on the Release Services blog post for CU #6 ) or due to an issue...(read more)

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  • SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio

    - by pinaldave
    Recently I had an interesting situation during my consultation project. Let me share to you how I solved the problem using Expressor Studio. Consider a situation in which you need to read a field, such as customer_identifier, from a text file and pass that field into a database table. In the source file’s metadata structure, customer_identifier is described as a string; however, in the target database table, customer_identifier is described as an integer. Legitimately, all the source values for customer_identifier are valid numbers, such as “109380”. To implement this in an ETL application, you probably would have hard-coded a type conversion function call, such as: output.customer_identifier=stringToInteger(input.customer_identifier) That wasn’t so bad, was it? For this instance, programming this hard-coded type conversion function call was relatively easy. However, hard-coding, whether type conversion code or other business rule code, almost always means that the application containing hard-coded fields, function calls, and values is: a) specific to an instance of use; b) is difficult to adapt to new situations; and c) doesn’t contain many reusable sub-parts. Therefore, in the long run, applications with hard-coded type conversion function calls don’t scale well. In addition, they increase the overall level of effort and degree of difficulty to write and maintain the ETL applications. To get around the trappings of hard-coding type conversion function calls, developers need an access to smarter typing systems. Expressor Studio product offers this feature exactly, by providing developers with a type conversion automation engine based on type abstraction. The theory behind the engine is quite simple. A user specifies abstract data fields in the engine, and then writes applications against the abstractions (whereas in most ETL software, developers develop applications against the physical model). When a Studio-built application is run, Studio’s engine automatically converts the source type to the abstracted data field’s type and converts the abstracted data field’s type to the target type. The engine can do this because it has a couple of built-in rules for type conversions. So, using the example above, a developer could specify customer_identifier as an abstract data field with a type of integer when using Expressor Studio. Upon reading the string value from the text file, Studio’s type conversion engine automatically converts the source field from the type specified in the source’s metadata structure to the abstract field’s type. At the time of writing the data value to the target database, the engine doesn’t have any work to do because the abstract data type and the target data type are just the same. Had they been different, the engine would have automatically provided the conversion. ?Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Database, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology Tagged: SSIS

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