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• Core Data grouping data in table

  - by OscarTheGrouch

  I am using core data trying to create a simple database app, I have an entity called "Game" which has a "creator". I have basically used the iPhone table view template and replaced the names. I have the games listed by creator. Currently the tableview looks like this... Chris Ryder Chris Ryder Chris Ryder Chris Ryder Dan Grimaldi Dan Grimaldi Dan Grimaldi Scott Ricardo Tim Thermos Tim Thermos I am trying to group the tableview, so that each creator has only one cell in the tableview and is listed once and only once like this... Chris Ryder Dan Grimaldi Scott Ricardo Tim Thermos any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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• Windows 7 restarts PC when selected from GRUB Menu

  - by Dan Still

  I installed windows 7 on a RAID 5 (2@160GB SATA +1@160GB SATA for RAID 5) I then proceeded to install Ubuntu 11.10 using the Live CD and opted: "Install along side Windows 7 Option" Upon boot GRUB appears normally and I can select and run Ubuntu with no difficulties. When I select Windows 7 from GRUB the PC restarts and consequently goes back to GRUB. I have attempted to use the Windows 7 DVD to repair the installation but to no avail. The Wizard ran twice as it described it might, after the second attempt came back with an '...inability to repair...' error. I am sure there is an answer to this somewhere but I have yet to be able to find it. (2 weeks and countless attempts and searches before posting this question. Although I am happy to use Ubuntu alone my wife likes to watch Netflix and therein requires the Windows 7 installation. Any answers are appreciated and welcomed. Thanks in advance. Dan Still

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• FairScheduling Conventions in Hadoop

  - by dan.mcclary

  While scheduling and resource allocation control has been present in Hadoop since 0.20, a lot of people haven't discovered or utilized it in their initial investigations of the Hadoop ecosystem. We could chalk this up to many things: Organizations are still determining what their dataflow and analysis workloads will comprise Small deployments under tests aren't likely to show the signs of strains that would send someone looking for resource allocation options The default scheduling options -- the FairScheduler and the CapacityScheduler -- are not placed in the most prominent position within the Hadoop documentation. However, for production deployments, it's wise to start with at least the foundations of scheduling in place so that you can tune the cluster as workloads emerge. To do that, we have to ask ourselves something about what the off-the-rack scheduling options are. We have some choices: The FairScheduler, which will work to ensure resource allocations are enforced on a per-job basis. The CapacityScheduler, which will ensure resource allocations are enforced on a per-queue basis. Writing your own implementation of the abstract class org.apache.hadoop.mapred.job.TaskScheduler is an option, but usually overkill. If you're going to have several concurrent users and leverage the more interactive aspects of the Hadoop environment (e.g. Pig and Hive scripting), the FairScheduler is definitely the way to go. In particular, we can do user-specific pools so that default users get their fair share, and specific users are given the resources their workloads require. To enable fair scheduling, we're going to need to do a couple of things. First, we need to tell the JobTracker that we want to use scheduling and where we're going to be defining our allocations. We do this by adding the following to the mapred-site.xml file in HADOOP_HOME/conf: <property> <name>mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler</value> </property> <property> <name>mapred.fairscheduler.allocation.file</name> <value>/path/to/allocations.xml</value> </property> <property> <name>mapred.fairscheduler.poolnameproperty</name> <value>pool.name</value> </property> <property> <name>pool.name</name> <value>${user.name}</name> </property> What we've done here is simply tell the JobTracker that we'd like to task scheduling to use the FairScheduler class rather than a single FIFO queue. Moreover, we're going to be defining our resource pools and allocations in a file called allocations.xml For reference, the allocation file is read every 15s or so, which allows for tuning allocations without having to take down the JobTracker. Our allocation file is now going to look a little like this <?xml version="1.0"?> <allocations> <pool name="dan"> <minMaps>5</minMaps> <minReduces>5</minReduces> <maxMaps>25</maxMaps> <maxReduces>25</maxReduces> <minSharePreemptionTimeout>300</minSharePreemptionTimeout> </pool> <mapreduce.job.user.name="dan"> <maxRunningJobs>6</maxRunningJobs> </user> <userMaxJobsDefault>3</userMaxJobsDefault> <fairSharePreemptionTimeout>600</fairSharePreemptionTimeout> </allocations> In this case, I've explicitly set my username to have upper and lower bounds on the maps and reduces, and allotted myself double the number of running jobs. Now, if I run hive or pig jobs from either the console or via the Hue web interface, I'll be treated "fairly" by the JobTracker. There's a lot more tweaking that can be done to the allocations file, so it's best to dig down into the description and start trying out allocations that might fit your workload.

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• Display problem with fresh install of 12.04

  - by Dan

  Just intalled Ubuntu 12.04 from CD and install went with no problems. After rebooting, I get the initial purple screen and then a black screen with mouse pointer and a few stray pixels at the bottom left of screen. Occasionally during the boot process, the purple screen comes back momentarily but then back to the black screen with the mouse pointer. When I finally give up and press the power button, the purple screen returns with the Shut Down box visible as it is shutting down. Any ideas? I have tried adding nomodeset after quiet splash, but no change. Possibly not doing it correctly, since I am somewhat of a newbie to linux. Thanks! Dan

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• Master/Detail insert using BCP?

  - by Joseph

  I've a master table with identity on for the primary key and I've some child tables. When I insert a record to the master table using BCP, how can I use the newly created ID from the master table to insert in the related child tables (May be BCP again)? Will it be possible? I may be able to set identity off, but, will it work? Thanks Joseph

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• Python Class which checks input before passing to console (C) program

  - by Joseph Melettukunnel

  Hello, We are asked to write a web-frontend (in python) for a very complex (and old) console application, written in C. Since we have no access to the C Source Code, and we assume that there might be some unsafe methods, we'd like to check the input which will the passed to the console application. WebClient - Python Module - Console Application Do you have any suggestions or tips what we should check for? Right now we are only limiting the string length and filtering some (program specific) unallowed keywords. Thanks, Joseph EDIT: Will remove strings like %s because of format string attacks

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• Error with python-setuptools doing "sudo easy_install python-graph-core"

  - by Dan

  Using easy_install, part of the python-setuptools, I get the following error: $ sudo easy_install python-graph-core [sudo] password for dan: Searching for python-graph-core Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/python-graph-core/ Reading http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/ Reading http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/downloads/list?can=1 Reading http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/downloads/list Best match: python-graph-core 1.7.0 Downloading http://python-graph.googlecode.com/files/python-graph-core-1.7.0.tar.gz Processing python-graph-core-1.7.0.tar.gz Running python-graph-core-1.7.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-GwpYiM/python-graph-core-1.7.0/egg-dist-tmp-1yqbyV setup.py:8: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1671, in main with_ei_usage(lambda: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage return f() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1675, in <lambda> distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup run_setup(setup_script, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 27, in run_setup lambda: execfile( File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 63, in run return func() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in <lambda> {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'} File "setup.py", line 8 except ImportError as ie: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Any suggestions to what I may be doing wrong? Thanks, Dan

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• Maze not generating properly. Out of bounds exception. need quick fix

  - by Dan Joseph Porcioncula

  My maze generator seems to have a problem. I am trying to generate something like the maze from http://mazeworks.com/mazegen/mazetut/index.htm . My program displays this http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/374060_426350204045347_100000111130260_1880768_1572427285_n.jpg and the error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1 at Grid.genRand(Grid.java:73) at Grid.main(Grid.java:35) How do I fix my generator program? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Component; import java.awt.Graphics; import javax.swing.*; import java.util.ArrayList; public class Grid extends Canvas { Cell[][] maze; int size; int pathSize; double width, height; ArrayList<int[]> coordinates = new ArrayList<int[]>(); public Grid(int size, int h, int w) { this.size = size; maze = new Cell[size][size]; for(int i = 0; i<size; i++){ for(int a =0; a<size; a++){ maze[i][a] = new Cell(); } } setPreferredSize(new Dimension(h, w)); } public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame y = new JFrame(); y.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); Grid f = new Grid(25, 400, 400); y.add(f, BorderLayout.CENTER); y.setSize(450, 450); y.setVisible(true); y.setDefaultCloseOperation(y.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); f.genRand(); f.repaint(); } public void push(int[] xy) { coordinates.add(xy); int i = coordinates.size(); coordinates.ensureCapacity(i++); } public int[] pop() { int[] x = coordinates.get((coordinates.size())-1); coordinates.remove((coordinates.size())-1); return x; } public int[] top() { return coordinates.get((coordinates.size())-1); } public void genRand(){ // create a CellStack (LIFO) to hold a list of cell locations [x] // set TotalCells = number of cells in grid int TotalCells = size*size; // choose a cell at random and call it CurrentCell int m = randomInt(size); int n = randomInt(size); Cell curCel = maze[m][n]; // set VisitedCells = 1 int visCel = 1,d=0; int[] q; int h,o = 0,p = 0; // while VisitedCells < TotalCells while( visCel < TotalCells){ // find all neighbors of CurrentCell with all walls intact if(maze[m-1][n].countWalls() == 4){d++;} if(maze[m+1][n].countWalls() == 4){d++;} if(maze[m][n-1].countWalls() == 4){d++;} if(maze[m][n+1].countWalls() == 4){d++;} // if one or more found if(d!=0){ Point[] ls = new Point[4]; ls[0] = new Point(m-1,n); ls[1] = new Point(m+1,n); ls[2] = new Point(m,n-1); ls[3] = new Point(m,n+1); // knock down the wall between it and CurrentCell h = randomInt(3); switch(h){ case 0: o = (int)(ls[0].getX()); p = (int)(ls[0].getY()); curCel.destroyWall(2); maze[o][p].destroyWall(1); break; case 1: o = (int)(ls[1].getX()); p = (int)(ls[1].getY()); curCel.destroyWall(1); maze[o][p].destroyWall(2); break; case 2: o = (int)(ls[2].getX()); p = (int)(ls[2].getY()); curCel.destroyWall(3); maze[o][p].destroyWall(0); break; case 3: o = (int)(ls[3].getX()); p = (int)(ls[3].getY()); curCel.destroyWall(0); maze[o][p].destroyWall(3); break; } // push CurrentCell location on the CellStack push(new int[] {m,n}); // make the new cell CurrentCell m = o; n = p; curCel = maze[m][n]; // add 1 to VisitedCells visCel++; } // else else{ // pop the most recent cell entry off the CellStack q = pop(); m = q[0]; n = q[1]; curCel = maze[m][n]; // make it CurrentCell // endIf } // endWhile } } public int randomInt(int s) { return (int)(s* Math.random());} public void paint(Graphics g) { int k, j; width = getSize().width; height = getSize().height; double htOfRow = height / (size); double wdOfRow = width / (size); //checks verticals - destroys east border of cell for (k = 0; k < size; k++) { for (j = 0; j < size; j++) { if(maze[k][j].checkWall(2)){ g.drawLine((int) (k * wdOfRow), (int) (j * htOfRow), (int) (k * wdOfRow), (int) ((j+1) * htOfRow)); }} } //checks horizontal - destroys north border of cell for (k = 0; k < size; k++) { for (j = 0; j < size; j++) { if(maze[k][j].checkWall(3)){ g.drawLine((int) (k * wdOfRow), (int) (j * htOfRow), (int) ((k+1) * wdOfRow), (int) (j * htOfRow)); }} } } } class Cell { private final static int NORTH = 0; private final static int EAST = 1; private final static int WEST = 2; private final static int SOUTH = 3; private final static int NO = 4; private final static int START = 1; private final static int END = 2; boolean[] wall = new boolean[4]; boolean[] border = new boolean[4]; boolean[] backtrack = new boolean[4]; boolean[] solution = new boolean[4]; private boolean isVisited = false; private int Key = 0; public Cell(){ for(int i=0;i<4;i++){wall[i] = true;} } public int countWalls(){ int i, k =0; for(i=0; i<4; i++) { if (wall[i] == true) {k++;} } return k;} public boolean checkWall(int x){ switch(x){ case 0: return wall[0]; case 1: return wall[1]; case 2: return wall[2]; case 3: return wall[3]; } return true; } public void destroyWall(int x){ switch(x){ case 0: wall[0] = false; break; case 1: wall[1] = false; break; case 2: wall[2] = false; break; case 3: wall[3] = false; break; } } public void setStart(int i){Key = i;} public int getKey(){return Key;} public boolean checkVisit(){return isVisited;} public void visitCell(){isVisited = true;} }

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• Dutch for once: op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging!

  - by Dennis Vroegop

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dvroegop/archive/2013/10/11/dutch-for-once-op-zoek-naar-een-nieuwe-uitdaging.aspxI apologize to my non-dutch speaking readers: this post is about me looking for a new job and since I am based in the Netherlands I will do this in Dutch… Next time I will be technical (and thus in English) again! Het leuke van interim zijn is dat een klus een keer afloopt. Ik heb heel bewust gekozen voor het leven als freelancer: ik wil graag heel veel verschillende mensen en organisaties leren kennen. Dit werk is daar bij uitstek geschikt voor! Immers: bij iedere klus breng ik niet alleen nieuwe ideeën en kennis maar ik leer zelf ook iedere keer ontzettend veel. Die kennis kan ik dan weer gebruiken bij een vervolgklus en op die manier verspreid ik die kennis onder de bedrijven in Nederland. En er is niets leukers dan zien dat wat ik meebreng een organisatie naar een ander niveau brengt! Iedere keer een ander bedrijf zoeken houdt in dat ik iedere keer weg moet gaan bij een organisatie. Het lastige daarvan is het juiste moment te vinden. Van buitenaf gezien is dat lastig in te schatten: wanneer kan ik niets vernieuwends meer bijdragen en is het tijd om verder te gaan? Wanneer is het tijd om te zeggen dat de organisatie alles weet wat ik ze kan bijbrengen? In mijn huidige klus is dat moment nu aangebroken. In de afgelopen elf maanden heb ik dit bedrijf zien veranderen van een kleine maar enthousiaste groep ontwikkelaars naar een professionele organisatie met ruim twee keer zo veel ontwikkelaars. Dat veranderingsproces is erg leerzaam geweest en ik ben dan ook erg blij dat ik die verandering heb kunnen en mogen begeleiden. Van drie teams met ieder vijf of zes ontwikkelaars naar zes teams met zeven tot acht ontwikkelaars per team groeien betekent dat je je ontwikkelproces heel anders moet insteken. Ook houdt dat in dat je je teams anders moet indelen, dat de organisatie zelf anders gemodelleerd moet worden en dat mensen anders met elkaar om moeten gaan. Om dat voor elkaar te krijgen is er door iedereen heel hard gewerkt, is er een aantal fouten gemaakt, is heel veel van die fouten geleerd en is uiteindelijk een vrijwel nieuw bedrijf ontstaan. Het is tijd om dit bedrijf te verlaten. Ik ben benieuwd waar ik hierna terecht kom: ik ben aan het rondkijken naar mogelijkheden. Ik weet wèl: het bedrijf waar ik naar op zoek ben, is een bedrijf dat openstaat voor veranderingen. Veranderingen, maar dan wel met het oog voor het individu; mensen staan immers centraal in de software ontwikkeling! Ik heb er in ieder geval weer zin in!

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• Communications and Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)

  Dan Byrnes, Oracle Industry Strategy Vice President, explains how Oracle's AIA for Communication delivers the Communications industry's only pre-integrated, open standards suite of applications and technology. Dan will also discuss how customers are leveraging the Oracle Communications Suite to automate their end-to-end business processes.

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• APress Deal of the Day - 30/Nov/2011 - Moving to VB .NET Strategies, Concepts, and Code

  - by TATWORTH

  Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at  is Dan Appleman's "Moving to VB .NET Strategies, Concepts, and Code"."Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman exposes the reality behind the VB .NET hype, and shows you how to evaluate this technology in the context of your specific problems."Considering the vast amount of VB6 still in use, this book from 2001 will be of immense help to all tasked with converting Vb6 to VB.NET or C#.

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• confusion about installing/using git; how to undo

  - by dan

  I'm very new to ubuntu so I'm sure this is a dumb question. I wanted to install some source code that was on git. Don't really know what that means, I've never used git before, but I figured it was time to learn so I first installed git. Next I tried to clone the git directory of the software I want to install. I got a message saying "the authenticity of IP:IP:IP:IP can't be established". I went ahead and ended up with another message saying warning such and such will be added to known hosts. I went ahead and it said something about hanging up on the connection. After searching the internet for awhile I realized I didn't need git to install the software but now I have it installed and have added some host to some file or another. I'm concerned I've created some security issues I need to fix. I know this is stupid but can anyone help me undo what I've done, or better understand what I've done. Did adding a git project open up my system? Beyond that can anyone tell me how git works. Everything I've found assumes I know stuff that I don't yet. Thanks. Dan

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• SAS: add comment to lst ouput file

  - by Dan

  In SAS, How do I add comments to my .LST output file. Like adding a comment saying "This is the output for tbl_TestMacro:" right before doing a proc print? So that my output file will read: This is the output for tbl_TestMacro: Obs field1 field2 1 6 8 2 6 9 3 7 0 4 7 1 Instead of just: Obs field1 field2 1 6 8 2 6 9 3 7 0 4 7 1 Thanks, Dan

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• Linux: Best-practices for Hard Linking?

  - by Dan

  I've used hard links in the past, but they seem to make a bit of a mess of things... When is the proper time to use Hard links? What are the best practices for when and where to use hard linking? Thanks, Dan

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• Access Router after logging into VPN

  - by Dan

  I access my linksys router through its webserver (192.168.1.1 into a web browser), but can no longer access it once I log into my work vpn. Is there a way I can still get at my router and change the settings? Or do I first have to disconnect from the VPN first? Thanks, Dan

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• Google Chrome Interferes with Copy and Paste in Excel

  - by Dan

  I have got a following problem: Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) function in Excel 2010 does not work (or acts weirdly) is I have Google Chrome opened at the same time. This issue is Excel-specific meaning that in Word or Powerpoint copy/paste works fine. It is also Chrome- and CoolNovo-specific as the copy/paste in Excel does not interfere with other internet browsers. Any suggestions? Cheers, Dan

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• ubuntu: kept old menu.lst, think it is the source of problems

  - by Dan

  I recently upgraded to karmic, and clicked to keep my old menu.lst (to keep my windows XP boot info)... but now I'm not using the right kernel. Is there a way to have it give me the correct up to date menu.lst file again which I can manually merge into my old file? Thanks, Dan

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• SSL certificate: suggestions for choosing the CA [closed]

  - by dan

  Hi all. I am running a public web application. I would like to get a SSL certificate from a CA. Have you got any suggestions or a CA that you are happy of using (or the opposite)? What are the things I should be careful about? My requirements are: _ it must be recognized by all browsers (desktop and mobile) _ it must be not too expensive (up to 60$/year) Can I get something good with that money? Thanks, Dan

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• GNU-Screen still has only old groups for my username.

  - by Dan

  I was recently added to a group on the unix server. My active screen session has not been update to the new groups: $groups A B C D $screen -r $groups A B C Without closing my screen session is there a way for me to use my new privileges in the screen session? Or if not, is there at least a way I can save all of the different directories each of the tabs are on? Thanks, Dan

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• SQL Server 2008 DBNETLIB error

  - by Joseph

  Hi all Our ASp.net applications getting error as below" [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access denied " But i can connect with Enterprise manager management studio and Query analaizer with out any issue. It was running these applications with out any issue long time. last one week we are getting this error.If we restart the server .it works then it will come again after 3to 4 hours. We are running on Windows 2003 server. I was seraching and didnt find a solution yet. If anybody knows anything for this error, please post the details to resolve. Thank you in Advance Joseph

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• Html table to csv table with image

  - by Joseph

  How to export this html table in to CSV example table: i want this table to be exported to csv .so how to achieve using JQUERY? <html> <body bgcolor="cyan"> <table border="1" align="center" > <br><a href="imp2.csv">Click Here To View In CSV format</a><img src="up.jpg" align="middle" width="39" height="32" /> <tr> <th>ID</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> </table> </body> </html> Thanks Joseph

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• Table fragmentation in SQL server

  - by Joseph

  Hi Anybody have an idea about Table fragmentation in SQL Server(not Index fragmentation).We have a table ,this is the main table and its not storing any data permently,dat come here and goes out continusly. there is no index on this because only insert and delete staements are running frequently. recently We face a huge delay for the response from this table. If we select anything it tooks more than 2 to 5 minuts to return result,even there is very few datas. At last we delete and recreate this table,and now its working very fine. Appreciate If any comments,how this is happening ? Joseph

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• Accessing SQL server Table is slow -very few data inside

  - by Joseph

  Dear all I have a temp table ,datas keep on coming in and going out. now a days even if there is very few records also if we select ,its taking so long. i cant put index on this table because its a Temp table. The only way i found that drop the table and recreate it.its working very fine. any idea why this is happening?is it like some kind of fragmentation?if there is index ,then we can check the frgment,but if there is no index then waht to do. we are using sql server 2008 64 bit thanks Joseph

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• Oracle Australia Supports MS Sydney to Gong Ride by Chris Sainsbury

  - by user769227

  What is the Sydney to Gong Ride? The Gong Ride is a one of a kind fundraising event. You can pedal 90 km from Sydney to Wollongong on any day of the year but it's only on the first Sunday of November that you'll experience the camaraderie, fellowship, unity, safey, scenery and sense of achievement for pedalling in support of people living with MS. Well done to the 22 members of the Oracle Sydney to Gong ride on Sunday 6 November. For many, this was the first time riding over distance – officially a 90km event, by GPS about 84km. The event started in Sydney Park, Newtown. We left in a few separate groups between 6.30 and 7.30am – and finished with times between 2 hours 45 mins and 6 hours. With 10,000 riders there was a lot of congestion at the start but that soon thinned out as we left Sydney. It was a great spring day for the event but at 34 degrees it was getting pretty warm once we left the shade of the Royal National Park and carried on over the Sea Cliff bridge and down the coast road towards Wollongong. Unfortunately Dan managed to get himself a facial scrub when someone clipped his front wheel on the descent from Bald Hill lookout. No major incidents thankfully and Dan soldiered on. Most importantly everyone had a good time (even Dan) and we raised $5,800 for Multiple Sclerosis Australia. In total more than $3.7m was raised for this good cause.

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• Why is an Add method required for { } initialization?

  - by Dan Tao

  To use initialization syntax like this: var contacts = new ContactList { { "Dan", "dan[email protected]" }, { "Eric", "[email protected]" } }; ...my understanding is that my ContactList type would need to define an Add method that takes two string parameters: public void Add(string name, string email); What's a bit confusing to me about this is that the { } initializer syntax seems most useful when creating read-only or fixed-size collections. After all it is meant to mimic the initialization syntax for an array, right? (OK, so arrays are not read-only; but they are fixed size.) And naturally it can only be used when the collection's contents are known (at least the number of elements) at compile-time. So it would almost seem that the main requirement for using this collection initializer syntax (having an Add method and therefore a mutable collection) is at odds with the typical case in which it would be most useful. I'm sure I haven't put as much thought into this matter as the C# design team; it just seems that there could have been different rules for this syntax that would have meshed better with its typical usage scenarios. Am I way off base here? Is the desire to use the { } syntax to initialize fixed-size collections not as common as I think? What other factors might have influenced the formulation of the requirements for this syntax that I'm simply not thinking of?

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