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"The Power of Two", Oracle Magazine, May/June 2008, Technology

Use Oracle SQL Developer to aid Oracle Application Express development.

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Completing a Basic ASP.NET 3.5 User Input Validation Project

You learned the basics and configuration steps of the most common types of validation web controls used in ASP.NET 3.5 in the first two parts of this tutorial series. In this last part you will learn how to integrate all of these validation web controls in a working ASP.NET project. You will also learn not only how to validate user input in the client side but also how to validate the page on the server side.... Microsoft SQL Server? Value Calculator Reduce Costs & Increase Value with Microsoft SQL Server? 2008. Download Today!

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RIA Services - using Entity Framework

In this article I will walk through step by step to demonstrate how Entity Framework can be used to access SQL database.

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Q: Is it me or is ADO.NET BACKWARDS? (20 replies)

To simplify the question, I create 2 tables in SQL. Table 1 has columns: ColumnA (PK), ColumnB and Type. Table 2 has columns: A (PK) and Description Now, I want to set things up so that Table 1.Type is of type Table 2.A. 1) I guess in SQL lingo, what I'm trying to say is that Table 1.Type is a FK to Table 2.A. Is that correct terminology? Is that backwards? It appears to me to be correct. 2) So I ...

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Q: Is it me or is ADO.NET BACKWARDS? (20 replies)

To simplify the question, I create 2 tables in SQL. Table 1 has columns: ColumnA (PK), ColumnB and Type. Table 2 has columns: A (PK) and Description Now, I want to set things up so that Table 1.Type is of type Table 2.A. 1) I guess in SQL lingo, what I'm trying to say is that Table 1.Type is a FK to Table 2.A. Is that correct terminology? Is that backwards? It appears to me to be correct. 2) So I ...

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"Managing File Versions"

Edit files and use version control in Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.

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simple app for salary calculation [on hold]

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I am very new to webdevelopment. I've been given this task to built an application to calculate final salary in the end of the month. The employees are callers and after every call they will get some form on which they will give their call summery like time duration. They are payed for each call depending on time duration. In the back end there will be sql database and some code to calculate the the final salary. Current they have to calculate the salary manually, they are just using google docs form.I have some idea that i need php in the front end sql in the back end but i am not clear about the whole picture please can someone give me a clear skeleton. My main question is what to use to calculate the salary from the database??And what should i use to create a front end form ??

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Nashorn ?? JDBC ? Oracle DB ?????·?? 3

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???? Nashorn ?? JavaScript ??????? JDBC ? Oracle DB ???????????????????? Oracle DB ????? SQL ??????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????? URL ? https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn_ja/entry/nashorn_jdbc_3 ??? JDBC ??????????????? JDBC ????????????????? Nashorn ????? JavaScript ????????????? ???????? JDBC OCI ???????????????????????????????? ????? ?? Java ??????????????? Nashorn ? JavaScript ???????????????? // Invoke jjs with -scripting option. /* * This sample can be used to check the JDBC installation. * Just run it and provide the connect information. It will select * "Hello World" from the database. */ var OracleDataSource = Java.type("oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"); function main() { // Prompt the user for connect information print("Please enter information to test connection to the database"); var user, password, database; user = readLine("user: "); slash_index = user.indexOf('/'); if (slash_index != -1) { password = user.substring(slash_index + 1) user = user.substring(0, slash_index); } else password = readLine("password: "); database = readLine("database(a TNSNAME entry): "); java.lang.System.out.print("Connecting to the database..."); java.lang.System.out.flush(); print("Connecting..."); // Open an OracleDataSource and get a connection var ods = new OracleDataSource(); ods.setURL("jdbc:oracle:oci:@" + database); ods.setUser(user); ods.setPassword(password); var conn = ods.getConnection(); print("connected."); // Create a statement var stmt = conn.createStatement(); // Do the SQL "Hello World" thing var rset = stmt.executeQuery("select 'Hello World' from dual"); while (rset.next()) print(rset.getString(1)); // close the result set, the statement and the connection rset.close(); stmt.close(); conn.close(); print("Your JDBC installation is correct."); } main(); oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource ? Java.type() ?????Nashorn ??????????????????????????? Java ? System.out.println() ? System.out.flush() ? java.lang. ???????????????? Java ?????????? readEntry() ????? Nashorn ? readLine() ???????????? Java ????????????????????????JavaScript ?????????????????? ?? Java ??????????????????????????? Java ???????????????? JavaScript ?????????????????? ???????? JDBC OCI ???????????????? LD_LIBRARY_PATH ????????????????? ???Nashorn ? readLine() ??????????jjs ????? -scripting ????????????????? $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib $ jjs -scripting -cp ${ORACLE_HOME}/jdbc/lib/ojdbc6.jar JdbcCheckup.js Please enter information to test connection to the database user: test password: test database(a TNSNAME entry): orcl Connecting to the database...Connecting... connected. Hello World Your JDBC installation is correct. JDBC OCI ????????????????? "select 'Hello World' from dual" ??? SQL ?????????????? ?????????????????database ???? :: ??????????? ??? ??? Oracle DB ????? SQL ???????????????? Java ? JDBC ??????????????????????????? Nashorn ??????????????????????????????????

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?Oracle Database 12c????TTnn TMON??redo??????

- by Liu Maclean(???)

?Oracle 11g? Data Guard?redo?????????3???????: ARCi (FAL – archived redo shipping, ping, local only archivals) NSAi (async) 12.1 name: TTnn , NSSi (sync) –– live redo shipping ????12c?? ??TTnn ??TT00?????async ???redo??? ???????TMON????Redo transport monitor? SQL> select banner from v$version where rownum=1; BANNER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.1.0 - 64bit Production SQL> select program,pid from v$process where program like '%TMON%' or Program like '%TT%'; PROGRAM PID ------------------------------ ---------- ORACLE.EXE (TMON) 7 ORACLE.EXE (TT00) 24 ??????? ?11g ???NSAi async redo ship?????????LGWR?????????,?????redo ????; ???12c?TTnn???redo???????LGWR? ??? ??????async redo ship ??redo??! 11g?: 12c?

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??????·??Oracle Audit Vault???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Audit Vault??Oracle Database?SQL Server?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????1. ?????????????DB??Oracle Database 9i~11g?SQL Server 2000/2005?Sybase ASE 12.5.4/15.02?DB2 8.2/9.5????????????????????????Audit Vault Agent???DB???????????????????????????DB?Oracle?????????Audit Vault Agent??????????????????Agent?????????????????2. ????·???????????????Oracle Advanced Security??????????????Audit Vault Server?????????Audit Vault Server??????????????????????????Oracle Database Vault??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????3. ??·??·??????Audit Vault Server?????????????????????GUI???????????????????GUI??????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????·? ???????????????????????????·???????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????DB??????????????????GUI????????????????? ?????? Oracle Direct

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????????Oracle Database VaultOracle Database Vault???????2???????????????????(DBA)???????????·?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????(??????)??????????????????????? Oracle Database Vault????????????DBA????????????????????DBA????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database Vault??Oracle-EBS?PeopleSoft?Siebel?SAP?????????????????????????????·?????????????????1. Separation of Duties (????)DBA(?????????)????????????????????????????????????????????????????·????? ????·???????????????????????????DBA????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????Database Vault??DBA?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????2. ???(????)???????·?????????????·???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? SELECT/DML/EXECUTE ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? DDL ???????????????????????????3. Multi-Factor Access Control Policy Enforcement (???????·??????)Oracle Database Vault???????????????????????????????????????????????????????·???????????????????????????????????????????????????DDL?DML???????????????????????????4. ???????·?????? ???????????????? (ex ???IP??????)??????? ??????????????? "??" or "???" ????????????????1???????????????????? ???·??? ???????????????? ???????????5. ????·???SQL???????????·???????????????·????true ???????????SQL??????????????????? ?????? Oracle Direct

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?????????????????????????|WebLogic Channel|??????

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Java EE????????·????????????????/??????????????????????·?????????????????????????WebLogic Server?????????????WebLogic Server???????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???)???????WebLogic Server???????　????WebLogic Server 11g(10.3.5)??????????????????????????????????????????????????(1)WebLogic Server???????(2)????????????????(3)?????????????(4)JDBC????????????(5)?????????????　???????Windows?WebLogic Server??????10.3.5????????Oracle Database Express Edition????????????????????????????????????EXE???ZIP???2????????????????EXE???????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????MIDDLEWARE_HOME(?????????????)(????????????????)C:\Oracle\MiddlewareWebLogic Server??????????????Oracle CoherenceOracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse?????????·????????????????????????????????????????????????(Windows?????)??????????Windows????????(??????????????)?????Web????Oracle HTTP Server?????????????(????????????????????)Oracle ADF(Application Development Framework)??????????WebLogic Server????????????????(Oracle ADF??????????????????????????????)Fusion Middleware Control???????????(Oracle HTTP Server?????????????????????????????)???????????TokyoDomain???????ID/?????weblogic/welcome1??????????AdminServer:7001????????????Server1:7011Server2:7012???????????????Host1??????????????????????????Host1?Server1???Host2?Server2???????JVMJRockit????????????????????????(???????)C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains???????????????????????????????????????　???WebLogic Server??????????GUI????CUI?????????????????????????????????????????????????·????3??????????????????????????????????GUI???????????????????????¦??????????Oracle WebLogic Server ???????·????????????WebLogic Server?????????????????????!(1)WebLogic Server???????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????·???·????????????????????????????????????????　????????????????????????????My Oracle Support???????????????????My Oracle Support?????????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????　?????????????·?????????WebLogic Server?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　????????????JDK????????????????????????JDK??????????????????????????????????JDK??????????????????????????????????????·???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???????????Windows????????????????WebLogic Server?Windows?????????????Windows?????????????????????????????????????????????????????Windows?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　??????????????????????All Users???????·??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　????????????????????????????????????????????????????(2)????????????????　???????????????????????????????????????????1??????JDBC??????????Oracle Database????????????Web????????HTTP??????????????????????????　??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????domain1??????????????JDKJRockit SDK 1.6????????1????????Server1?????????????7002???ID??????ID:weblogic?????:welcome1　????????????????????????????????????????2????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???????????????)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Web????·????·???????·????????????????????/??????????????????????(???????·???)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Web????·???·???????·???????????????????????????????????　???????????????????WebLogic Server??????????????????　WebLogic Server???????????????Configuration Wizard?????????????????Windows???????????????????????-?Oracle WebLogic?-?WebLogic Server 11gR1?-?Tools?-?Configuration Wizard?????????(UNIX???????WLS_HOME/common/bin/config.sh??????)?????????????????WebLogic????????????????????????????　????????????????·???????????WebLogic Server???????????????Oracle SOA Suite?Oracle Business Process Management???Fusion Middleware??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Basic WebLogic Server Domain?????????Basic WebLogic Server Domain??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　????????????????JDK???????????????????????????(????????)???????????JDK???????????????????????JRockit????????????????????????JDK????????????????JDK????????????JDK?????????????????????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????????RDBMS???????·?????????????????????????????????????????????　?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　??????????????????????????????????DOMAIN\startWebLogic.cmd?(UNIX??????startWebLogic.sh?))???????????????????????ID????????????????????????????????????????<??> ?????????????????????????????(3)?????????????　??????????????????????????????????????????????????7001?????????Web??????http://localhost:7001/?????????????????????????????????????????????ID????????????????????????　??????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????(domain1)??????????????????????????????????-??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　??????????????????????????????DOMAIN\bin????????????????????????(??????Server1??????????????7001????)?startManagedWebLogic.cmd Server1 http://localhost:7001　????????????ID????????????????????????????<??> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????DOMAIN_HOME\bin\stopManagedWebLogic.cmd?????????????????????????stopManagedWebLogic Server1¦??????????????Oracle???????????????????????·????!(4)JDBC????????????　????JDBC??????????????Java EE????????·????????JDBC?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????JNDI(Java Naming and Directory Interface)??????????/??????????????????????????????·???????????????????????????　?????????????????????????????????????????????JDBC???????????????JDBC??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????WebLogic Server????????JDBC???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???WebLogic Server???????????????????????????????????????????1?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????·?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database????????·?????????Oracle Real Application Clusters(RAC)?????????????????????　???WebLogic Server 11g????????JDBC?????????????MySQL??Oracle Database????????????????????????????????????Oracle Thin Driver 11gojdbc6.jarTYPE4MySQL5.0 JDBC????mysql-connector-java-commercial-5.0.x-bin.jar WebLogic Type4 JDBC????DB2?:wldb2.jarMS SQL Server?:wlsqlserver.jarInformix?:wlinformix.jarSybase?:wlsybase.jarDataDirect?OEM??　??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(*?????)??Oracle Database????????????*WebLogic Server?????dsAJNDI?*JNDI??????????jdbc/dsA????????*Oracle?DB2???1Oracle???????*????????????????1Oracle Thin Instance-Connection????????·??????XA??????????1phase commit???????*???????IDORCL????*???????????Localhost???*?????????????1521??????·?????????????????SCOTT???????????·??????????TIGER????·????*JDBC??????????2oracle.jdbc.OracleDriverURL*JDBC URL?2jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:ORCLJDBC????·?????JDBC???? ????????(or SQL)??????????????SQLSQL SELECT 1 FROM DUAL?????WLS?????????????????Server1?1　????????????BOX?????2　?????????????????　?????????·?????????????????????????????????????????1??????????????????????????????????????1?????1?????????????????15?????????????????????????1????????????????????????????????????????????(???????????????????)false?????(?)????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???????????????????)120?????????????????????????????????????????????????10????(?)?????????????????????900??????????????(?)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????0(??)???????????(?)????????????????????????????????10??????????(?)?????????????????????????????0???????JDBC????????????SQL????????????????JDBC?????Statement.setQueryTimeout????????????-1?1　???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???????????·???(?????)???????????????????????????????????????????????????WebLogic Server?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　JDBC?????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????-?JDBC?-?????????????????????????????JDBC???????????????-??????·?????????????　???JDBC????????????JNDI??????????????????·??????????????????Oracle Database Express Edition???????????????????????????????Oracle?????????·????????XA???????　???????????????????????????????·?????????????????????????1????·?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????·????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????JDBC?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????　????????????????????????????????????????-?JDBC?-????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¦????????????Oracle WebLogic Server - JDBC??????(5)?????????????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????Java EE 5????????????????????Java EE??????????????????Eclipse?Oracle JDeveloper 11g?Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g????????????????·?????????????????????WebLogic Server?????????????????????????WebLogic Server??????????????????????Web?????????WAR?????EJB?????????JAR????????WAR?JAR????????EAR??????????????　?????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　?????????????·??????·????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(????????)????????????????????????????????????　???????????? ??????????????????????????????????????　?????????????????????????????????????????????????????-????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???????WebLogic Server????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????WebLogic Server????????????????????????????????????????????·???????????????/????????????????????????????WebLogic Server????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????WebLogic Server?????????????????¦????????WebLogic Server???···????????????????????!

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??????????????????????????/????????????????????????·???????????|WebLogic Channel|??????

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??????????????????·???????Oracle Coherence??????Java???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Java API??????Oracle Coherence???????????3????????????????????????Coherence???????????????????????????????3???????????(???)???????Coherence???????????????Java??????????　???????????????????????·??????????/????·????Oracle Coherence???????????????????????Java API??????Oracle Coherence????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　?????????????Coherence??????????????????????????????/???????????????????????????????????????????3???????(4)????????/????????????　????????????????????????????????????·???/?????????　Oracle Coherence????????????????1?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Coherence?????????????????????????·????????????????????????????????????????In-Place Processing????????Oracle Coherence???In-Place Processing?????????????????????????????????????????　????·???/???????????In-Place Processing??????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????　???In-Place Processing????????·????????????Oracle Coherence 3.6????????????Coherence Query Language(CohQL)??????????????????????????????CohQL???????????????????SQL?????????????????SQL?WHERE?????????????????????????????(5)???????????????　???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(?????)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　Oracle Coherence?????????????????????????????????????Oracle Coherence???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/????????????????????????????????????????????　??????·????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Coherence?????????????????????????????????????????????(??????)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????　???????·????????????Continuous Query Cache??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Continuous Query Cache????????????????????????(6)???????????????????　????Oracle Coherence????????????Invocation Service??????????????????(4)?????In-Place Processing?????????????·?????????????????????????????????????????????????????Java??????????????????????????????·????????????????????????????????????????????????　??????????????????????Oracle Coherence ??????????????????????????????????????????CPU???????????????????????Oracle Coherence???????????????????????????????????Web???????????????????????????Oracle Coherence?????????????????????????????????????????*　　　*　　　*　?????????Java????????????????????Oracle Coherence?6???????????????????????????Oracle Coherence????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Coherence?????:Aleksandar Seovic?Mark Falco?Patrick Peralta??:????·??????????????·????Oracle Coherence: Share and Manage Data In Clusters?···3????????????·??????????????????????????

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?Exadata??????DBFS

- by Liu Maclean(???)

?Exadata???DBFS ??????? 1. ??fuse RPM [root@dm01db01 ~]# yum install fuse Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security This system is not registered with ULN. ULN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package fuse.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: fuse x86_64 2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 el5_latest 85 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 85 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: fuse-2.7.4-8.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | 85 kB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : fuse 1/1 Installed: fuse.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 [root@dm01db01 ~]# yum install fuse-libs Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security This system is not registered with ULN. ULN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 set to be updated ---> Package fuse-libs.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: fuse-libs i386 2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 el5_latest 71 k fuse-libs x86_64 2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 el5_latest 70 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================================== Install 2 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 141 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | 70 kB 00:00 (2/2): fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.0.1.el5.i386.rpm | 71 kB 00:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 71 kB/s | 141 kB 00:01 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : fuse-libs 1/2 Installing : fuse-libs 2/2 Installed: fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 fuse-libs.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 Complete! [root@dm01db01 ~]# yum install fuse-devel Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security This system is not registered with ULN. ULN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package fuse-devel.i386 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 set to be updated ---> Package fuse-devel.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: fuse-devel i386 2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 el5_latest 28 k fuse-devel x86_64 2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 el5_latest 28 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================================== Install 2 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 57 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): fuse-devel-2.7.4-8.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | 28 kB 00:00 (2/2): fuse-devel-2.7.4-8.0.1.el5.i386.rpm | 28 kB 00:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 21 kB/s | 57 kB 00:02 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : fuse-devel 1/2 Installing : fuse-devel 2/2 Installed: fuse-devel.i386 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 fuse-devel.x86_64 0:2.7.4-8.0.1.el5 Complete! 2. ?? DBFS??? ?????? cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin sqlplus / as sysdba Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> @prvtfspi.plb Package body created. No errors. Package body created. No errors. ?????dbms_dbfs_sfs package SQL> create tablespace dbfstbs datafile size 20g; Tablespace created. SQL> create user maclean_dbfs identified by oracle; User created. SQL> grant dba to maclean_dbfs; Grant succeeded. @@!!! SQL> grant dbfs_role to maclean_dbfs; Grant succeeded. 3. ??DBFS SQL> conn maclean_dbfs/oracle Connected. SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/dbfs_create_filesystem.sql dbfstbs mac_dbfs No errors. -------- CREATE STORE: begin dbms_dbfs_sfs.createFilesystem(store_name => 'FS_MAC_DBFS', tbl_name => 'T_MAC_DBFS', tbl_tbs => 'dbfstbs', lob_tbs => 'dbfstbs', do_partition => false, partition_key => 1, do_compress => false, compression => '', do_dedup => false, do_encrypt => false); end; -------- REGISTER STORE: begin dbms_dbfs_content.registerStore(store_name=> 'FS_MAC_DBFS', provider_name => 'sample1', provider_package => 'dbms_dbfs_sfs'); end; -------- MOUNT STORE: begin dbms_dbfs_content.mountStore(store_name=>'FS_MAC_DBFS', store_mount=>'mac_dbfs'); end; -------- CHMOD STORE: declare m integer; begin m := dbms_fuse.fs_chmod('/mac_dbfs', 16895); end; No errors. 4. ??mount point [root@dm01db01 ~]# mkdir /dbfs [root@dm01db01 ~]# chown oracle:oinstall /dbfs 5. ??library path ?OS # echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr_local_lib.conf 6. ?????? export ORACLE_HOME=/s01/orabase/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 [root@dm01db01 ~]# ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 /usr/local/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 [root@dm01db01 ~]# ln -s $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libnnz11.so /usr/local/lib/libnnz11.so [root@dm01db01 ~]# ln -s /lib64/libfuse.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libfuse.so.2 7. ??ldconfig [root@dm01db01 ~]# ldconfig [root@dm01db01 ~]# 8. ??fusermount??????? [root@dm01db01 ~]# chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount [root@dm01db01 ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/fusermount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 7 03:06 /usr/bin/fusermount -> /bin/fusermount [root@dm01db01 ~]# ls -l /bin/fusermount -rwsr-x--x 1 root fuse 27072 Oct 17 2011 /bin/fusermount 9. ???????OS dbfs_client maclean_dbfs@dm01db01:1521/orcl /dbfs 10. ????nohup + &?????mount DBFS,???????????? [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ echo "oracle" >> dbfs_pw [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ nohup dbfs_client maclean_dbfs@dm01db01:1521/orcl /dbfs < dbfs_pw & [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbSys1 30G 15G 14G 53% / /dev/sda1 502M 30M 447M 7% /boot /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbOra1 99G 20G 75G 21% /u01 tmpfs 81G 0 81G 0% /dev/shm dbfs-maclean_dbfs@orcl:/ 20G 120K 20G 1% /dbfs [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ mount /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbSys1 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,nodev) /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbOra1 on /u01 type ext3 (rw,nodev) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,size=82052m) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) dbfs-maclean_dbfs@orcl:/ on /dbfs type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,max_read=1048576,default_permissions,user=oracle) [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ ls -l /dbfs/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 0 Sep 14 05:11 mac_dbfs [oracle@nas ~]$ dbfs_client --------MOUNT mode: usage: dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> [options] <mountpoint> db_user: Name of Database user that owns DBFS content repository filesystem(s) db_server: A valid connect string for Oracle database server (for example, hrdb_host:1521/hrservice) mountpoint: Path to mount Database File System(s) All the file systems owned by the database user will be seen at the mountpoint. DBFS options: -o direct_io Bypass the Linux page cache. Gives much better performance for large files. Programs in the file system cannot be executed with this option. This option is recommended when DBFS is used as an ETL staging area. -o wallet Run dbfs_client in background. Wallet must be configured to get credentials. -o failover dbfs_client fails over to surviving database instance with no data loss. Some performance cost on writes, especially for small files. -o allow_root Allows root access to the filesystem. This option requires setting 'user_allow_other' parameter in '/etc/fuse.conf'. -o allow_other Allows other users access to the file system. This option requires setting 'user_allow_other' parameter in '/etc/fuse.conf'. -o rw Mount the filesystem read-write. [Default] -o ro Mount the filesystem read-only. Files cannot be modified. -o trace_file=STR Tracing <filename> | 'syslog' -o trace_level=N Trace Level: 1->DEBUG, 2->INFO, 3->WARNING, 4->ERROR, 5->CRITICAL [Default: 4] -h help -V version --------COMMAND mode: Usage: dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> --command command [switches] [arguments] command: Command to be executed, e.g., ls, cp, mkdir, rm switches: Switches are described below for each command. arguments: File names or directory names NOTE: All database pathnames must be absolute and preceded by dbfs:/ Commands ls dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> --command ls [switches] target Switches: -a Show all files including those starting with '.' -l Use a long listing format. In addition to the name of each file print the file type, permissions, size, user and group information -R List subdirectories recursively cp dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> --command cp [switches] source destination Switches: -r, -R Copy a directory and its contents recursively into the destination directory rm dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> --command rm [switches] target Switches: -r, -R Removes a directory and its contents recursively mkdir dbfs_client <db_user>@<db_server> --command mkdir directory_name Examples dbfs_client ETLUser@DBConnectString --command ls -l -a dbfs:/staging_area/directory1 dbfs_client ETLUser@DBConnectString --command cp -R /tmp/1-Jan-2009-dump dbfs:/staging_area dbfs_client ETLUser@DBConnectString --command rm dbfs:/staging_area/hello.txt dbfs_client ETLUser@DBConnectString --command mkdir dbfs:/staging_area/directory2 [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ ls -lh /tmp/largefile -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2.0G Sep 14 08:50 /tmp/largefile [oracle@dm01db01 ~]$ time dbfs_client maclean_dbfs@dm01db01:1521/orcl --command cp /tmp/largefile dbfs:/mac_dbfs Password: /tmp/largefile -> dbfs:/mac_dbfs/largefile real 0m11.802s user 0m0.580s sys 0m2.375s ?Exadata?????2G?????? DBFS???11s => 200MB/s

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Log a user in to an ASP.net application using Windows Authentication without using Windows Authentic

- by Rising Star

I have an ASP.net application I'm developing authentication for. I am using an existing cookie-based log on system to log users in to the system. The application runs as an anonymous account and then checks the cookie when the user wants to do something restricted. This is working fine. However, there is one caveat: I've been told that for each page that connects to our SQL server, I need to make it so that the user connects using an Active Directory account. because the system I'm using is cookie based, the user isn't logged in to Active Directory. Therefore, I use impersonation to connect to the server as a specific account. However, the powers that be here don't like impersonation; they say that it clutters up the code. I agree, but I've found no way around this. It seems that the only way that a user can be logged in to an ASP.net application is by either connecting with Internet Explorer from a machine where the user is logged in with their Active Directory account or by typing an Active Directory username and password. Neither of these two are workable in my application. I think it would be nice if I could make it so that when a user logs in and receives the cookie (which actually comes from a separate log on application, by the way), there could be some code run which tells the application to perform all network operations as the user's Active Directory account, just as if they had typed an Active Directory username and password. It seems like this ought to be possible somehow, but the solution evades me. How can I make this work? Update To those who have responded so far, I apologize for the confusion I have caused. The responses I've received indicate that you've misunderstood the question, so please allow me to clarify. I have no control over the requirement that users must perform network operations (such as SQL queries) using Active Directory accounts. I've been told several times (online and in meat-space) that this is an unusual requirement and possibly bad practice. I also have no control over the requirement that users must log in using the existing cookie-based log on application. I understand that in an ideal MS ecosystem, I would simply dis-allow anonymous access in my IIS settings and users would log in using Windows Authentication. This is not the case. The current system is that as far as IIS is concerned, the user logs in anonymously (even though they supply credentials which result in the issuance of a cookie) and we must programmatically check the cookie to see if the user has access to any restricted resources. In times past, we have simply used a single SQL account to perform all queries. My direct supervisor (who has many years of experience with this sort of thing) wants to change this. He says that if each user has his own AD account to perform SQL queries, it gives us more of a trail to follow if someone tries to do something wrong. The closest thing I've managed to come up with is using WIF to give the user a claim to a specific Active Directory account, but I still have to use impersonation because even still, the ASP.net process presents anonymous credentials to the SQL server. It boils down to this: Can I log users in with Active Directory accounts in my ASP.net application without having the users manually enter their AD credentials? (Windows Authentication)

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MVC using ODP.NET getting ORA-01840

- by sse

I am writing a simple MVC Application using ODP.NET. I am trying to call a Pl/Sql proc that inserts a record. Here is the simple Pl/Sql: procedure spAddCountry(pGisRecid in country.GISRECID%type, pCountryCode in country.COUNTRYCODE%type, pCountryName in country.COUNTRYNAME%type, pCurrencyCode in country.CURRENCYCODE%type, pEUTerritory in country.EUTERRITORY%type, pFatCAStatus in country.FATCASTATUS%type, pFATF in country.FATF%type, pFSCountryCode in country.COUNTRYCODE%type, pInsertedBy in country.INSERTEDBY%type, pInsertedOn in country.INSERTEDON%type, pLanguages in country.LANGUAGES%type, pNCCT in country.NCCT%type) is PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION; begin INSERT INTO COUNTRY (GISRECID, COUNTRYCODE, COUNTRYNAME, CURRENCYCODE, EUTERRITORY, FATCASTATUS, FATF, FSCOUNTRYCODE, INSERTEDBY, INSERTEDON, LANGUAGES, NCCT) VALUES(pGISRECID, pCOUNTRYCODE, pCOUNTRYNAME, pCURRENCYCODE, pEUTERRITORY, pFATCASTATUS, pFATF, pFSCOUNTRYCODE, pINSERTEDBY, pINSERTEDON, pLANGUAGES, pNCCT); Commit; end; I am having difficulty passing the date parameter, pInsertedOn, to the Stored Proc. I have verified that the web form retrieves the form data successfully and calls the AddCountry method below, which in turns calls the stored proc, spAddCountry, after populating all of the parms. Here is a snippet of the MVC C# code. I get the following exception: "ORA-01840 input value not long enough for date format". public void AddCountry(Country aCountry) //because the country object field names match the form field names they automatically get bound!! { string oradb = "Data Source=XYZ;User Id=XYZ;Password=xyz;"; OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(oradb); OracleCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = "tstpack.spAddCountry"; cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; ... OracleParameter paramInsertedBy = new OracleParameter(); paramInsertedBy.ParameterName = "pInsertedBy"; paramInsertedBy.Value = aCountry.InsertedBy; cmd.Parameters.Add(paramInsertedBy); // CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-US"); OracleParameter paramInsertedOn = new OracleParameter(); paramInsertedOn.ParameterName = "pInsertedOn"; // paramInsertedOn.Value = DateTime.Now; //just testing to see if it's WebForm issue // paramInsertedOn.Value = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString(), ci); //flail! paramInsertedOn.Value = aCountry.InsertedOn; cmd.Parameters.Add(paramInsertedOn); ... conn.Open(); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); //CRASH! ORA-01840 conn.Close(); } Just to verify that the flow of the program is working, I tried removing the date parm "pInsertedOn" from the pl/sql and from the parm list above, and everything worked fine. I know I am going off of the rails with the date. Can someone tell me how to pass a date to Oracle from an MVC WebForm? Is there some sort of type cast needed? I would really appreciate an example too. Thanks so much! ps, I did try changing the parm type to Varchar2 in the Pl/Sql and doing some conversions myself in the Pl/Sql, the automatic MVC binder was getting in my way, forcing the property of paramInsertedOn.OracleType to DateTime. I tried forcing it to Varchar2, but no luck there either...

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No data when attempting to get JSONP data from cross domain PHP script

- by Alex

I am trying to pull latitude and longitude values from another server on a different domain using a singe id string. I am not very familiar with JQuery, but it seems to be the easiest way to go about getting around the same origin problem. I am unable to use iframes and I cannot install PHP on the server running this javascript, which is forcing my hand on this. My queries appear to be going through properly, but I am not getting any results back. I was hoping someone here might have an idea that could help, seeing as I probably wouldn't recognize most obvious errors here. My javascript function is: var surl = "http://...omitted.../pull.php"; var idnum = 5a; //in practice this is defined above alert("BEFORE"); $.ajax({ url: surl, data: {id: idnum}, dataType: "jsonp", jsonp : "callback", jsonp: "jsonpcallback", success: function (rdata) { alert(rdata.lat + ", " + rdata.lon); } }); alert("BETWEEN"); function jsonpcallback(rtndata) { alert("CALLED"); alert(rtndata.lat + ", " + rtndata.lon); } alert("AFTER"); When my javascript is run, the BEFORE, BETWEEN and AFTER alerts are displayed. The CALLED and other jsonpcallback alerts are not shown. Is there another way to tell if the jsoncallback function has been called? Below is the PHP code I have running on the second server. I added the count table to my database just so that I can tell when this script is run. Every time I call the javascript, count has had an extra item inserted and the id number is correct. <?php header("content-type: application/json"); if (isset($_GET['id']) || isset($_POST['id'])){ $db_handle = mysql_connect($server, $username, $password); if (!$db_handle) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } $db_found = mysql_select_db($database, $db_handle); if ($db_found) { if (isset($_POST['id'])){ $SQL = sprintf("SELECT * FROM %s WHERE loc_id='%s'", $loctable, mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['id'])); } if (isset($_GET['id'])){ $SQL = sprintf("SELECT * FROM %s WHERE loc_id='%s'", $loctable, mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id'])); } $result = mysql_query($SQL, $db_handle); $db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $rtnjsonobj -> lat = $db_field["lat"]; $rtnjsonobj -> lon = $db_field["lon"]; if (isset($_POST['id'])){ echo $_POST['jsonpcallback']. '('. json_encode($rtnjsonobj) . ')'; } if (isset($_GET['id'])){ echo $_GET['jsonpcallback']. '('. json_encode($rtnjsonobj) . ')'; } $SQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO count (bullshit) VALUES ('%s')", $_GET['id']); $result = mysql_query($SQL, $db_handle); $db_field = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); } mysql_close($db_handle); } else { $rtnjsonobj -> lat = 404; $rtnjsonobj -> lon = 404; echo $_GET['jsonpcallback']. '('. json_encode($rtnjsonobj) . ')'; }?> I am not entirely sure if the jsonp returned by this PHP is correct. When I go directly to the PHP script without including any parameters, I do get the following. ({"lat":404,"lon":404}) The callback function is not included, but that much can be expected when it isn't included in the original call. Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here? Thanks in advance!

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jsp error plz check this code why are not insert my data into database

- by lekhni

<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <%@ page import="java.sql.*" %> <%@ page import="java.io.*"%> <%@ page import="java.io.File"%> <%@ page import="java.util.*"%> <%@ page import="java.sql.*"%> <%@ page import="java.sql.Blob"%> <%@ page import="java.sql.PreparedStatement"%> <%@ page import="java.sql.BatchUpdateException"%> <%@ page import="javax.servlet.*"%> <%@ page import="javax.servlet.http.*"%> <% String path = request.getContextPath(); String basePath = request.getScheme()+"://"+request.getServerName()+":"+request.getServerPort()+path+"/"; %> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <base href="<%=basePath%>"> <title>My JSP 'p.jsp' starting page</title> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="This is my page">  </head> <body> <% int activityId = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("activityId")); String name = request.getParameter("name"); String activityType = request.getParameter("activityType"); int parentId = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("parentId")); String description = request.getParameter("description"); %> <% Connection conn=null; PreparedStatement pstatement = null; try{ Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); conn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pol","root","1234"); Statement st=conn.createStatement(); String queryString = "INSERT INTO activity(activityId,name,activityType,parentId,description)" + " VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)"; pstatement = conn.prepareStatement(queryString); pstatement.setInt(1, activityId); pstatement.setString(2, name); pstatement.setString(3, activityType); pstatement.setInt(4, parentId); pstatement.setString(5, description); } catch (Exception ex) { out.println("Unable to connect to batabase."); } finally { pstatement.close(); conn.close(); } %> </body> </html>

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Tool or library for end-users to run queries to select (not modify) data?

- by Mark Rushakoff

For a utility I'm working on, the client would like to be able to generate graphic reports on the data that has been collected. I can already generate a couple canned graphs (using ZedGraph, which is a very nice library); however, the utility would be much more flexible if the graphs were more programmable or configurable by the end-user. TLDR version I want users to be able to use something like SQL to safely extract and select data from a List of objects that I provide and can describe. What free tools or libraries will help me accomplish this? Full version I've given thought to using IronPython, IronRuby, and LuaInterface, but frankly they're all a bit overpowered for what I want to do. My classes are fairly simple, along the lines of: class Person: string Name; int HeightInCm; DateTime BirthDate; Weight[] WeighIns; class Weight: int WeightInKg; DateTime Date; Person Owner; (exact classes have been changed to protect the innocent). To come up with the data for the graph, the user will choose whether it's a bar graph, scatter plot, etc., and then to actually obtain the data, I would like to obtain some kind of List from the user simply entering something SQL-ish along the lines of SELECT Name, AVG(WeighIns) FROM People SELECT WeightInKg, Owner.HeightInCm FROM Weights And as a bonus, it would be nice if you could actually do operations as well: SELECT WeightInKg, (Date - Owner.BirthDate) AS Age FROM Weights The DSL doesn't have to be compliant SQL in any way; it doesn't even have to resemble SQL, but I can't think of a more efficient descriptive language for the task. I'm fine filling in blanks; I don't expect a library to do everything for me. What I would expect to exist (but haven't been able to find in any way, shape, or form) is something like Fluent NHibernate (which I am already using in the project) where I can declare a mapping, something like var personRequest = Request<Person>(); personRequest.Item("Name", (p => p.Name)); personRequest.Item("HeightInCm", (p => p.HeightInCm)); personRequest.Item("HeightInInches", (p => p.HeightInCm * CM_TO_INCHES)); // ... var weightRequest = Request<Weight>(); weightRequest.Item("Owner", (w => w.Owner), personRequest); // Indicate a chain to personRequest // ... var people = Table<Person>("People", GetPeopleFromDatabase()); var weights = Table<Weight>("Weights", GetWeightsFromDatabase()); // ... TryRunQuery(userInputQuery); LINQ is so close to what I want to do, but AFAIK there's no way to sandbox it. I don't want to expose any unnecessary functionality to the end user; meaning I don't want the user to be able to send in and process: from p in people select (p => { System.IO.File.Delete("C:\\something\\important"); return p.Name }) So does anyone know of any free .NET libraries that allow something like what I've described above? Or is there some way to sandbox LINQ? cs-script is close too, but it doesn't seem to offer sandboxing yet either. I'd be hesitant to expose the NHibernate interface either, as the user should have a read-only view of the data at this point in the usage. I'm using C# 3.5, and pure .NET solutions would be preferred. The bottom line is that I'm really trying to avoid writing my own parser for a subset of SQL that would only apply to this single project.

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How can I remove this query from within a loop?

- by Chris

I am currently designing a forum as a personal project. One of the recurring issues I've come across is database queries in loops. I've managed to avoid doing that so far by using table joins or caching of data in arrays for later use. Right now though I've come across a situation where I'm not sure how I can write the code in such a way that I can use either of those methods easily. However I'd still prefer to do at most 2 queries for this operation rather than 1 + 1 per group of forums, which so far has resulted in 5 per page. So while 5 isn't a huge number (though it will increase for each forum group I add) it's the principle that's important to me here, I do NOT want to write queries in loops What I'm doing is displaying forum index groupings (eg admin forums, user forums etc) and then each forum within that group on a single page index, it's the combination of both in one page that's causing me issue. If it had just been a single group per page, I'd use a table join and problem solved. But if I use a table join here, although I can potentially get all the data I need it'll be in one mass of results and it needs displaying properly. Here's the code (I've removed some of the html for clarity) <?php $sql= "select * from forum_groups"; //query 1 $result1 = $database->query($sql); while($group = mysql_fetch_assoc($result1)) //first loop {?> <table class="threads"> <tr> <td class="forumgroupheader"> <?php echo $group['group_name']; ?> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="forumgroupheader2"> <?php echo $group['group_desc']; ?> </td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr> <th class="thforum"> Forum Name</th> <th class="thforum"> Forum Decsription</th> <th class="thforum"> Last Post </th> <tr> <?php $group_id = $group['id']; $sql = "SELECT forums.id, forums.forum_group_id, forums.forum_name, forums.forum_desc, forums.visible_rank, forums.locked, forums.lock_rank, forums.topics, forums.posts, forums.last_post, forums.last_post_id, users.username FROM forums LEFT JOIN users on forums.last_post_id=users.id WHERE forum_group_id='{$group_id}'"; //query 2 $result2 = $database->query($sql); while($forum = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2)) //second loop {?> So how can I either a) write the SQL in such a way as to remove the second query from inside the loop or b) combine the results in an array either way I need to be able to access the data as an when so I can format it properly for the page output, ie within the loops still.

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Images missing after moving Django to new server

- by miszczu

I'm moving Django project to new server. I'm newbie in Django, and I don't know where should be upload folder. There are all images which should be displayed on website. In config file I haven't seen upload folder I could specify, so I'm guessing it always should be the same location for django projects or I just can't find it. Locations are saved in database. When I've put uploaded files into media folder, so url was like domain.co.uk/media/upload/media/images/year/month/day/image_name.ext and the same is on the old website, images on website ware still missing. All images are visible if I put url by hand, but django doesn't seems to see files. Also I check django log file: 2012-05-30 09:13:33,393 ERROR render: Thumbnail tag failed: [in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/templatetags/thumbnail.py (line 49)] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/templatetags/thumbnail.py", line 45, in render return self._render(context) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/templatetags/thumbnail.py", line 97, in _render file_, geometry, **options File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/base.py", line 50, in get_thumbnail cached = default.kvstore.get(thumbnail) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/kvstores/base.py", line 25, in get return self._get(image_file.key) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/kvstores/base.py", line 123, in _get value = self._get_raw(add_prefix(key, identity)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/kvstores/cached_db_kvstore.py", line 26, in _get_raw value = KVStoreModel.objects.get(key=key).value File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 132, in get return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 344, in get num = len(clone) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 82, in __len__ self._result_cache = list(self.iterator()) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 273, in iterator for row in compiler.results_iter(): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 680, in results_iter for rows in self.execute_sql(MULTI): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 735, in execute_sql cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py", line 34, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 86, in execute return self.cursor.execute(query, args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 174, in execute self.errorhandler(self, exc, value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler raise errorclass, errorvalue DatabaseError: (1146, "Table 'thumbnail_kvstore' doesn't exist") 2012-05-30 09:13:33,396 DEBUG execute: (0.000) SELECT `freetext_freetext`.`id`, `freetext_freetext`.`key`, `freetext_freetext`.`content`, `freetext_freetext`.`active` FROM `freetext_freetext` WHERE (`freetext_freetext`.`active` = True AND `freetext_freetext`.`key` = office-closed-message ); args=(True, u'office-closed-message') [in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py (line 44)] 2012-05-30 09:13:33,399 DEBUG execute: (0.000) SELECT `menus_menu`.`id`, `menus_menu`.`name`, `menus_menu`.`slug`, `menus_menu`.`base_url`, `menus_menu`.`description`, `menus_menu`.`enabled` FROM `menus_menu` WHERE (`menus_menu`.`enabled` = True AND `menus_menu`.`slug` = about ); args=(True, u'about') [in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py (line 44)] 2012-05-30 09:13:33,401 DEBUG execute: (0.000) SELECT `menus_menuitem`.`id`, `menus_menuitem`.`menu_id`, `menus_menuitem`.`title`, `menus_menuitem`.`url`, `menus_menuitem`.`order` FROM `menus_menuitem` INNER JOIN `menus_menu` ON (`menus_menuitem`.`menu_id` = `menus_menu`.`id`) WHERE `menus_menu`.`slug` = about ORDER BY `menus_menuitem`.`order` ASC; args=(u'about',) [in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py (line 44)] 2012-05-30 09:13:33,404 DEBUG execute: (0.000) SELECT `freetext_freetext`.`id`, `freetext_freetext`.`key`, `freetext_freetext`.`content`, `freetext_freetext`.`active` FROM `freetext_freetext` WHERE (`freetext_freetext`.`active` = True AND `freetext_freetext`.`key` = contactdetails-footer ); args=(True, u'contactdetails-footer') [in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py (line 44)] I checked database and there is no table calls thumbnail_kvstore, but I have database backup, and in backup files this table doesn't exist. All uploaded files I get are in media/uploads/media/. Also I'm getting errors on some pages: Syntax error. Expected: ``thumbnail source geometry [key1=val1 key2=val2...] as var`` /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.6.egg/sorl/thumbnail/templatetags/thumbnail.py in __init__, line 72 In template /var/www/vhosts/domain.co.uk/sites/apps/shop/products/templates/products/product_detail.html, error at line 34 {% thumbnail image.file "800x700" detail as zoom %} Maybe some modules I install are not in the right version. Dont know how to fix it. Im using, CentOS 6, mod_wsgi, apache, python 2.6. Update 1.0: On the old server was Django 1.3, on the new one is Django 1.3.1 Update 1.1: I this i know where is the problem. I tried python manage.py syncdb and this is output: Syncing... Creating tables ... The following content types are stale and need to be deleted: orders | ordercontact Any objects related to these content types by a foreign key will also be deleted. Are you sure you want to delete these content types? If you're unsure, answer 'no'. Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: no Installing custom SQL ... Installing indexes ... No fixtures found. Synced: > django.contrib.auth > django.contrib.contenttypes > django.contrib.sessions > django.contrib.sites > django.contrib.messages > django.contrib.admin > django.contrib.admindocs > django.contrib.markup > django.contrib.sitemaps > django.contrib.redirects > django_filters > freetext > sorl.thumbnail > django_extensions > south > currencies > pagination > tagging > honeypot > core > faq > logentry > menus > news > shop > shop.cart > shop.orders Not synced (use migrations): - dbtemplates - contactform - links - media - pages - popularity - testimonials - shop.brands - shop.collections - shop.discount - shop.pricing - shop.product_types - shop.products - shop.shipping - shop.tax (use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these) Next I run python manage.py migrate, and thats what i get: Running migrations for dbtemplates: - Migrating forwards to 0002_auto__del_unique_template_name. > dbtemplates:0001_initial ! Error found during real run of migration! Aborting. ! Since you have a database that does not support running ! schema-altering statements in transactions, we have had ! to leave it in an interim state between migrations. ! You *might* be able to recover with: = DROP TABLE `django_template` CASCADE; [] = DROP TABLE `django_template_sites` CASCADE; [] ! The South developers regret this has happened, and would ! like to gently persuade you to consider a slightly ! easier-to-deal-with DBMS. ! NOTE: The error which caused the migration to fail is further up. Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 13, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 220, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/management/commands/migrate.py", line 105, in handle ignore_ghosts = ignore_ghosts, File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/__init__.py", line 191, in migrate_app success = migrator.migrate_many(target, workplan, database) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 221, in migrate_many result = migrator.__class__.migrate_many(migrator, target, migrations, database) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 292, in migrate_many result = self.migrate(migration, database) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 125, in migrate result = self.run(migration) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 99, in run return self.run_migration(migration) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 81, in run_migration migration_function() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/migration/migrators.py", line 57, in <lambda> return (lambda: direction(orm)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django_dbtemplates-1.3-py2.6.egg/dbtemplates/migrations/0001_initial.py", line 18, in forwards ('last_changed', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField')(default=datetime.datetime.now)), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/db/generic.py", line 226, in create_table ', '.join([col for col in columns if col]), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.6.egg/south/db/generic.py", line 150, in execute cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/util.py", line 34, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 86, in execute return self.cursor.execute(query, args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 174, in execute self.errorhandler(self, exc, value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler raise errorclass, errorvalue _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1050, "Table 'django_template' already exists") Also i run python manage.py migrate --list, and uotput is: dbtemplates (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__del_unique_template_name contactform (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_callback (*) 0003_auto__add_field_callback_notes (*) 0004_auto__add_field_callback_is_closed__add_field_callback_closed (*) 0005_auto__add_field_callback_url (*) 0006_auto__add_contact (*) 0007_auto__add_field_contact_category (*) 0008_auto__add_field_contact_url links (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_category_enabled__add_field_category_order media (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__del_field_image_external_url__add_field_image_link_url__del_fiel (*) 0003_add_model_FileAttachment (*) 0004_auto__chg_field_file_slug__chg_field_image_slug (*) 0005_auto__chg_field_image_file (*) 0006_auto__chg_field_file_file pages (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__chg_field_page_meta_description__chg_field_page_meta_title__chg_ (*) 0003_auto__add_field_page_show_in_sitemap (*) 0004_auto__add_field_page_changefreq__add_field_page_priority popularity (*) 0001_initial testimonials (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_testimonial_is_featured brands (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_brand_template (*) 0003_auto__chg_field_brand_meta_description__chg_field_brand_meta_title__ch (*) 0004_auto__add_field_brand_url (*) 0005_auto__del_field_brand_image__add_field_brand_logo collections (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_collection_discount (*) 0003_auto__chg_field_collection_meta_description__chg_field_collection_meta (*) 0004_auto__add_field_collection_is_featured (*) 0005_auto__add_field_collection_order discount (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_added_field_discount_description (*) 0003_auto__add_field_discountvoucher_automatic (*) 0004_auto__add_field_discountvoucher_collection (*) 0005_auto__del_field_discountvoucher_collection (*) 0006_auto__chg_field_discountvoucher_expiry_date pricing (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_pricingrule product_types (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_producttype_meta_title__add_field_producttype_meta_des (*) 0003_auto__add_field_producttype_summary__add_field_producttype_description products (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__del_field_product_is_featured (*) 0003_auto__chg_field_product_meta_keywords__chg_field_product_meta_descript (*) 0004_auto shipping (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_shippingmethod_includes_tax__add_field_shippingmethod_ (*) 0003_auto__add_field_shippingmethod_order (*) 0004_auto__del_field_shippingmethod_tax_rate__del_field_shippingmethod_incl (*) 0005_auto__del_field_shippingrule_enabled tax (*) 0001_initial (*) 0002_auto__add_field_taxrate_internal_name (*) 0003_initial_internal_names (*) 0004_auto__add_unique_taxrate_internal_name (*) 0005_force_unique_taxrate_name (*) 0006_auto__add_unique_taxrate_name After that some images source were something like this: src="cache/1e/bd/1ebd719910aa843238028edd5fe49e71.jpg" Is any1 could help me with syncdb pledase?

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DMV {dm_os_ring_buffers} - Queries to help pinpoint current Issues / usual usage patterns

- by NeilHambly

I'm been running some queries (below) to help me identify when I have had time-sensitive performance issues around Memory/CPU, I didn't want to load up additional overhead to the system (unless absolutely neccessary) using traces or profiler - naturally we have various methods to do this Perfmon counters, DBCC, DMVs etc.. One quick way I like is to run a few DMV queries (normally back in seconds) to help me find those RECENT specific time periods when the system has been substantially changed in some way using, this is using the DMV dm_os_ring_buffers This one helps me identify when I'm expericing Timeout Errors (1222).. modiy code to look for other error as highlight belowDECLARE @ts_now BIGINT,@dt_max BIGINT, @dt_min BIGINT SELECT @ts_now = cpu_ticks / CONVERT(FLOAT, cpu_ticks_in_ms) FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info SELECT @dt_max = MAX(timestamp), @dt_min = MIN(timestamp) FROM sys.dm_os_ring_buffers WHERE ring_buffer_type = N'RING_BUFFER_EXCEPTION' SELECT record_id ,DATEADD(ms, -1 * (@ts_now - [timestamp]), GETDATE()) AS EventTime ,y.Error ,UserDefined ,b.description as NormalizedText FROM ( SELECT record.value('(./Record/@id)[1]', 'int') AS record_id, record.value('(./Record/Exception/Error)[1]', 'int') AS Error, record.value('(./Record/Exception/UserDefined)[1]', 'int') AS UserDefined, TIMESTAMP FROM ( SELECT TIMESTAMP, CONVERT(XML, record) AS record FROM sys.dm_os_ring_buffers WHERE ring_buffer_type = N'RING_BUFFER_EXCEPTION' AND record LIKE '% %' ) AS x ) AS y INNER JOIN sys.sysmessages b on y.Error = b.error WHERE b.msglangid = 1033 and y.Error = 1222 ORDER BY record_id DESC Sample Output record_id EventTime Error UserDefined NormalizedText 15199195 18/03/2010 14:00 1222 0 Lock request time out period exceeded. 15199194 18/03/2010 14:00 1222 0 Lock request time out period exceeded. 15199193 18/03/2010 14:00 1222 0 Lock request time out period exceeded. 15199192 18/03/2010 14:00 1222 0 Lock request time out period exceeded. 15199191 18/03/2010 14:00 1222 0 Lock request time out period exceeded. This one helps me identify when I have Unusally High Processing (> 50%) or # Page-FaultsSELECT record.value('(./Record/@id)[1]', 'int') AS record_id,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/SystemIdle)[1]', 'int') AS SystemIdle,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/ProcessUtilization)[1]', 'int') AS SQLProcessUtilization,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/UserModeTime)[1]', 'bigint') AS UserModeTime,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/KernelModeTime)[1]', 'bigint') AS KernelModeTime,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/PageFaults)[1]', 'bigint') AS PageFaults,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/WorkingSetDelta)[1]', 'bigint') AS WorkingSetDelta,record.value('(./Record/SchedulerMonitorEvent/SystemHealth/MemoryUtilization)[1]', 'int') AS MemoryUtilization,TIMESTAMPFROM ( SELECT TIMESTAMP, CONVERT(XML, record) AS record FROM sys.dm_os_ring_buffers WHERE ring_buffer_type = N'RING_BUFFER_SCHEDULER_MONITOR' AND record LIKE '% %' ) AS x Example: Showing entries > 50% SQL CPU record_id SystemIdle SQLProcessUtilization UserModeTime KernelModeTime PageFaults WorkingSetDelta MemoryUtilization TIMESTAMP 111916 66 29 36718750 1374843750 21333 -40960 100 7991061289 111917 54 41 50156250 1954062500 26914 -28672 100 7991121290 111918 57 39 42968750 1838437500 30096 20480 100 7991181290 111919 41 53 43906250 2530156250 22088 -4096 100 7991241307 111920 48 45 40937500 2124062500 26395 8192 100 7991301310 111921 52 43 35625000 2052812500 21996 155648 100 7991361311 111922 40 55 36875000 2637343750 33355 -262144 100 7991421311 111923 36 58 44843750 2786562500 47019 28672 100 7991481311 111924 31 64 53437500 3046562500 31027 61440 100 7991541314 111925 36 57 43906250 2711250000 37074 -8192 100 7991601317 111926 52 43 43437500 2060156250 29176 20480 100 7991661318 111927 71 24 33750000 1141250000 14478 16384 100 7991721320 111928 71 23 34531250 1116250000 12711 -20480 100 7991781320 111929 53 36 46562500 1714062500 26684 200704 100 7991841323 Finally one to provide some understanding of the level of memory state changes that are ocuringSELECT record.value('(./Record/@id)[1]', 'int') AS 'record_id',record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Notification)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS 'ReservedMemory',record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Indicators)[1]', 'int') AS 'Indicators',record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@state)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@reversed)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect)[1]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS 'APPLY-HIGHPM',record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@state)[2]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@reversed)[2]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect)[2]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS 'APPLY-HIGHPM',record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@state)[3]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect/@reversed)[3]', 'VARCHAR(100)') + ' - ' + record.value('(./Record/ResourceMonitor/Effect)[3]', 'VARCHAR(100)') AS 'REVERT_HIGHPM',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/ReservedMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'ReservedMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/CommittedMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'CommittedMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/SharedMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'SharedMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/AWEMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'AWEMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/SinglePagesMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'SinglePagesMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryNode/CachedMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'CachedMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/MemoryUtilization)[1]', 'int') AS 'MemoryUtilization',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/TotalPhysicalMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'TotalPhysicalMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/AvailablePhysicalMemory)[1]', 'int') AS 'AvailablePhysicalMemory',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/TotalPageFile)[1]', 'int') AS 'TotalPageFile',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/AvailablePageFile)[1]', 'int') AS 'AvailablePageFile',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/TotalVirtualAddressSpace)[1]', 'bigint') AS 'TotalVirtualAddressSpace',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/AvailableVirtualAddressSpace)[1]', 'bigint') AS 'AvailableVirtualAddressSpace',record.value('(./Record/MemoryRecord/AvailableExtendedVirtualAddressSpace)[1]', 'bigint') AS 'AvailableExtendedVirtualAddressSpace', TIMESTAMPFROM ( SELECT TIMESTAMP, CONVERT(XML, record) AS record FROM sys.dm_os_ring_buffers WHERE ring_buffer_type = N'RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE_MONITOR' AND record LIKE '% %' ) AS x

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Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Microsoft BI Conference 2010)

- by smisner

"Laissez les bons temps rouler" is a Cajun phrase that I heard frequently when I lived in New Orleans in the mid-1990s. It means "Let the good times roll!" and encapsulates a feeling of happy expectation. As I met with many of my peers and new acquaintances at the Microsoft BI Conference last week, this phrase kept running through my mind as people spoke about their plans in their respective businesses, the benefits and opportunities that the recent releases in the BI stack are providing, and their expectations about the future of the BI stack. Notwithstanding some jabs here and there to point out the platform is neither perfect now nor will be anytime soon (along with admissions that the competitors are also not perfect), and notwithstanding several missteps by the event organizers (which I don't care to enumerate), the overarching mood at the conference was positive. It was a refreshing change from the doom and gloom hovering over several conferences that I attended in 2009. Although many people expect economic hardships to continue over the coming year or so, everyone I know in the BI field is busier than ever and expects to stay busy for quite a while. Self-Service BI Self-service was definitely a theme of the BI conference. In the keynote, Ted Kummert opened with a look back to a fairy tale vision of self-service BI that he told in 2008. At that time, the fairy tale future was a time when "every end user was able to use BI technologies within their job in order to move forward more effectively" and transitioned to the present time in which SQL Server 2008 R2, Office 2010, and SharePoint 2010 are available to deliver managed self-service BI. This set of technologies is presumably poised to address the needs of the 80% of users that Kummert said do not use BI today. He proceeded to outline a series of activities that users ought to be able to do themselves--from simple changes to a report like formatting or an addtional data visualization to integration of an additional data source. The keynote then continued with a series of demonstrations of both current and future technology in support of self-service BI. Some highlights that interested me: PowerPivot, of course, is the flagship product for self-service BI in the Microsoft BI stack. In the TechEd keynote, which was open to the BI conference attendees, Amir Netz (twitter) impressed the audience by demonstrating interactivity with a workbook containing 100 million rows. He upped the ante at the BI keynote with his demonstration of a future-state PowerPivot workbook containing over 2 billion records. It's important to note that this volume of data is being processed by a server engine, and not in the PowerPivot client engine. (Yes, I think it's impressive, but none of my clients are typically wrangling with 2 billion records at a time. Maybe they're thinking too small. This ability to work quickly with large data sets has greater implications for BI solutions than for self-service BI, in my opinion.) Amir also demonstrated KPIs for the future PowerPivot, which appeared to be easier to implement than in any other Microsoft product that supports KPIs, apart from simple KPIs in SharePoint. (My initial reaction is that we have one more place to build KPIs. Great. It's confusing enough. I haven't seen how well those KPIs integrate with other BI tools, which will be important for adoption.) One more PowerPivot feature that Amir showed was a graphical display of the lineage for calculations. (This is hugely practical, especially if you build up calculations incrementally. You can more easily follow the logic from calculation to calculation. Furthermore, if you need to make a change to one calculation, you can assess the impact on other calculations.) Another product demonstration will be available within the next 30 days--Pivot for Reporting Services. If you haven't seen this technology yet, check it out at www.getpivot.com. (It definitely has a wow factor, but I'm skeptical about its practicality. However, I'm looking forward to trying it out with data that I understand.) Michael Tejedor (twitter) demonstrated a feature that I think is really interesting and not emphasized nearly enough--overshadowed by PowerPivot, no doubt. That feature is the Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector, which enables search of the content of Excel workbooks and Reporting Services reports. (This capability existed in MOSS 2007, but was more cumbersome to implement. The search results in SharePoint 2010 are not only cooler, but more useful by describing whether the content is found in a table or a chart, for example.) This may yet be the dawning of the age of self-service BI - a phrase I've heard repeated from time to time over the last decade - but I think BI professionals are likely to stay busy for a long while, and need not start looking for a new line of work. Kummert repeatedly referenced strategic BI solutions in contrast to self-service BI to emphasize that self-service BI is not a replacement for the services that BI professionals provide. After all, self-service BI does not appear magically on user desktops (or whatever device they want to use). A supporting infrastructure is necessary, and grows in complexity in proportion to the need to simplify BI for users. It's one thing to hear the party line touted by Microsoft employees at the BI keynote, but it's another to hear from the people who are responsible for implementing and supporting it within an organization. Rob Collie (blog | twitter), Kasper de Jonge (blog | twitter), Vidas Matelis (site | twitter), and I were invited to join Andrew Brust (blog | twitter) as he led a Birds of a Feather session at TechEd entitled "PowerPivot: Is It the BI Deal-Changer for Developers and IT Pros?" I would single out the prevailing concern in this session as the issue of control. On one side of this issue were those who were concerned that they would lose control once PowerPivot is implemented. On the other side were those who believed that data should be freely accessible to users in PowerPivot, and even acknowledgment that users would get the data they want even if it meant they would have to manually enter into a workbook to have it ready for analysis. For another viewpoint on how PowerPivot played out at the conference, see Rob Collie's observations. Collaborative BI I have been intrigued by the notion of collaborative BI for a very long time. Before I discovered BI, I was a Lotus Notes developer and later a manager of developers, working in a software company that enabled collaboration in the legal industry. Not only did I help create collaborative systems for our clients, I created a complete project management from the ground up to collaboratively manage our custom development work. In that case, collaboration involved my team, my client contacts, and me. I was also able to produce my own BI from that system as well, but didn't know that's what I was doing at the time. Only in recent years has SharePoint begun to catch up with the capabilities that I had with Lotus Notes more than a decade ago. Eventually, I had the opportunity at that job to formally investigate BI as another product offering for our software, and the rest - as they say - is history. I built my first data warehouse with Scott Cameron (who has also ventured into the authoring world by writing Analysis Services 2008 Step by Step and was at the BI Conference last week where I got to reminisce with him for a bit) and that began a career that I never imagined at the time. Fast forward to 2010, and I'm still lauding the virtues of collaborative BI, if only the tools will catch up to my vision! Thus, I was anxious to see what Donald Farmer (blog | twitter) and Rita Sallam of Gartner had to say on the subject in their session "Collaborative Decision Making." As I suspected, the tools aren't quite there yet, but the vendors are moving in the right direction. One thing I liked about this session was a non-Microsoft perspective of the state of the industry with regard to collaborative BI. In addition, this session included a better demonstration of SharePoint collaborative BI capabilities than appeared in the BI keynote. Check out the video in the link to the session to see the demonstration. One of the use cases that was demonstrated was linking from information to a person, because, as Donald put it, "People don't trust data, they trust people." The Microsoft BI Stack in General A question I hear all the time from students when I'm teaching is how to know what tools to use when there is overlap between products in the BI stack. I've never taken the time to codify my thoughts on the subject, but saw that my friend Dan Bulos provided good insight on this topic from a variety of perspectives in his session, "So Many BI Tools, So Little Time." I thought one of his best points was that ideally you should be able to design in your tool of choice, and then deploy to your tool of choice. Unfortunately, the ideal is yet to become real across the platform. The closest we come is with the RDL in Reporting Services which can be produced from two different tools (Report Builder or Business Intelligence Development Studio's Report Designer), manually, or by a third-party or custom application. I have touted the idea for years (and publicly said so about 5 years ago) that eventually more products would be RDL producers or consumers, but we aren't there yet. Maybe in another 5 years. Another interesting session that covered the BI stack against a backdrop of competitive products was delivered by Andrew Brust. Andrew did a marvelous job of consolidating a lot of information in a way that clearly communicated how various vendors' offerings compared to the Microsoft BI stack. He also made a particularly compelling argument about how the existence of an ecosystem around the Microsoft BI stack provided innovation and opportunities lacking for other vendors. Check out his presentation, "How Does the Microsoft BI Stack...Stack Up?" Expo Hall I had planned to spend more time in the Expo Hall to see who was doing new things with the BI stack, but didn't manage to get very far. Each time I set out on an exploratory mission, I got caught up in some fascinating conversations with one or more of my peers. I find interacting with people that I meet at conferences just as important as attending sessions to learn something new. There were a couple of items that really caught me eye, however, that I'll share here. Pragmatic Works. Whether you develop SSIS packages, build SSAS cubes, or author SSRS reports (or all of the above), you really must take a look at BI Documenter. Brian Knight (twitter) walked me through the key features, and I must say I was impressed. Once you've seen what this product can do, you won't want to document your BI projects any other way. You can download a free single-user database edition, or choose from more feature-rich standard or professional editions. Microsoft Press ebooks. I also stopped by the O'Reilly Media booth to meet some folks that one of my acquisitions editors at Microsoft Press recommended. In case you haven't heard, Microsoft Press has partnered with O'Reilly Media for distribution and publishing. Apart from my interest in learning more about O'Reilly Media as an author, an advertisement in their booth caught me eye which I think is a really great move. When you buy Microsoft Press ebooks through the O'Reilly web site, you can receive it in any (or all) of the following formats where possible: PDF, epub, .mobi for Kindle and .apk for Android. You also have lifetime DRM-free access to the ebooks. As someone who is an avid collector of books, I fnd myself running out of room for storage. In addition, I travel a lot, and it's hard to lug my reference library with me. Today's e-reader options make the move to digital books a more viable way to grow my library. Having a variety of formats means I am not limited to a single device, and lifetime access means I don't have to worry about keeping track of where I've stored my files. Because the e-books are DRM-free, I can copy and paste when I'm compiling notes, and I can print pages when necessary. That's a winning combination in my mind! Overall, I was pleased with the BI conference. There were many more sessions that I couldn't attend, either because the room was full when I got there or there were multiple sessions running concurrently that I wanted to see. Fortunately, many of the sessions are accessible for viewing online at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica along with the TechEd sessions. You can spot the BI sessions by the yellow skyline on the title slide of the presentation as shown below. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Microsoft BI Conference 2010)

- by smisner

Laissez les bons temps rouler" is a Cajun phrase that I heard frequently when I lived in New Orleans in the mid-1990s. It means "Let the good times roll!" and encapsulates a feeling of happy expectation. As I met with many of my peers and new acquaintances at the Microsoft BI Conference last week, this phrase kept running through my mind as people spoke about their plans in their respective businesses, the benefits and opportunities that the recent releases in the BI stack are providing, and their expectations about the future of the BI stack.Notwithstanding some jabs here and there to point out the platform is neither perfect now nor will be anytime soon (along with admissions that the competitors are also not perfect), and notwithstanding several missteps by the event organizers (which I don't care to enumerate), the overarching mood at the conference was positive. It was a refreshing change from the doom and gloom hovering over several conferences that I attended in 2009. Although many people expect economic hardships to continue over the coming year or so, everyone I know in the BI field is busier than ever and expects to stay busy for quite a while.Self-Service BISelf-service was definitely a theme of the BI conference. In the keynote, Ted Kummert opened with a look back to a fairy tale vision of self-service BI that he told in 2008. At that time, the fairy tale future was a time when "every end user was able to use BI technologies within their job in order to move forward more effectively" and transitioned to the present time in which SQL Server 2008 R2, Office 2010, and SharePoint 2010 are available to deliver managed self-service BI.This set of technologies is presumably poised to address the needs of the 80% of users that Kummert said do not use BI today. He proceeded to outline a series of activities that users ought to be able to do themselves--from simple changes to a report like formatting or an addtional data visualization to integration of an additional data source. The keynote then continued with a series of demonstrations of both current and future technology in support of self-service BI. Some highlights that interested me:PowerPivot, of course, is the flagship product for self-service BI in the Microsoft BI stack. In the TechEd keynote, which was open to the BI conference attendees, Amir Netz (twitter) impressed the audience by demonstrating interactivity with a workbook containing 100 million rows. He upped the ante at the BI keynote with his demonstration of a future-state PowerPivot workbook containing over 2 billion records. It's important to note that this volume of data is being processed by a server engine, and not in the PowerPivot client engine. (Yes, I think it's impressive, but none of my clients are typically wrangling with 2 billion records at a time. Maybe they're thinking too small. This ability to work quickly with large data sets has greater implications for BI solutions than for self-service BI, in my opinion.)Amir also demonstrated KPIs for the future PowerPivot, which appeared to be easier to implement than in any other Microsoft product that supports KPIs, apart from simple KPIs in SharePoint. (My initial reaction is that we have one more place to build KPIs. Great. It's confusing enough. I haven't seen how well those KPIs integrate with other BI tools, which will be important for adoption.)One more PowerPivot feature that Amir showed was a graphical display of the lineage for calculations. (This is hugely practical, especially if you build up calculations incrementally. You can more easily follow the logic from calculation to calculation. Furthermore, if you need to make a change to one calculation, you can assess the impact on other calculations.)Another product demonstration will be available within the next 30 days--Pivot for Reporting Services. If you haven't seen this technology yet, check it out at www.getpivot.com. (It definitely has a wow factor, but I'm skeptical about its practicality. However, I'm looking forward to trying it out with data that I understand.)Michael Tejedor (twitter) demonstrated a feature that I think is really interesting and not emphasized nearly enough--overshadowed by PowerPivot, no doubt. That feature is the Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector, which enables search of the content of Excel workbooks and Reporting Services reports. (This capability existed in MOSS 2007, but was more cumbersome to implement. The search results in SharePoint 2010 are not only cooler, but more useful by describing whether the content is found in a table or a chart, for example.)This may yet be the dawning of the age of self-service BI - a phrase I've heard repeated from time to time over the last decade - but I think BI professionals are likely to stay busy for a long while, and need not start looking for a new line of work. Kummert repeatedly referenced strategic BI solutions in contrast to self-service BI to emphasize that self-service BI is not a replacement for the services that BI professionals provide. After all, self-service BI does not appear magically on user desktops (or whatever device they want to use). A supporting infrastructure is necessary, and grows in complexity in proportion to the need to simplify BI for users.It's one thing to hear the party line touted by Microsoft employees at the BI keynote, but it's another to hear from the people who are responsible for implementing and supporting it within an organization. Rob Collie (blog | twitter), Kasper de Jonge (blog | twitter), Vidas Matelis (site | twitter), and I were invited to join Andrew Brust (blog | twitter) as he led a Birds of a Feather session at TechEd entitled "PowerPivot: Is It the BI Deal-Changer for Developers and IT Pros?" I would single out the prevailing concern in this session as the issue of control. On one side of this issue were those who were concerned that they would lose control once PowerPivot is implemented. On the other side were those who believed that data should be freely accessible to users in PowerPivot, and even acknowledgment that users would get the data they want even if it meant they would have to manually enter into a workbook to have it ready for analysis. For another viewpoint on how PowerPivot played out at the conference, see Rob Collie's observations.Collaborative BII have been intrigued by the notion of collaborative BI for a very long time. Before I discovered BI, I was a Lotus Notes developer and later a manager of developers, working in a software company that enabled collaboration in the legal industry. Not only did I help create collaborative systems for our clients, I created a complete project management from the ground up to collaboratively manage our custom development work. In that case, collaboration involved my team, my client contacts, and me. I was also able to produce my own BI from that system as well, but didn't know that's what I was doing at the time. Only in recent years has SharePoint begun to catch up with the capabilities that I had with Lotus Notes more than a decade ago. Eventually, I had the opportunity at that job to formally investigate BI as another product offering for our software, and the rest - as they say - is history. I built my first data warehouse with Scott Cameron (who has also ventured into the authoring world by writing Analysis Services 2008 Step by Step and was at the BI Conference last week where I got to reminisce with him for a bit) and that began a career that I never imagined at the time.Fast forward to 2010, and I'm still lauding the virtues of collaborative BI, if only the tools will catch up to my vision! Thus, I was anxious to see what Donald Farmer (blog | twitter) and Rita Sallam of Gartner had to say on the subject in their session "Collaborative Decision Making." As I suspected, the tools aren't quite there yet, but the vendors are moving in the right direction. One thing I liked about this session was a non-Microsoft perspective of the state of the industry with regard to collaborative BI. In addition, this session included a better demonstration of SharePoint collaborative BI capabilities than appeared in the BI keynote. Check out the video in the link to the session to see the demonstration. One of the use cases that was demonstrated was linking from information to a person, because, as Donald put it, "People don't trust data, they trust people."The Microsoft BI Stack in GeneralA question I hear all the time from students when I'm teaching is how to know what tools to use when there is overlap between products in the BI stack. I've never taken the time to codify my thoughts on the subject, but saw that my friend Dan Bulos provided good insight on this topic from a variety of perspectives in his session, "So Many BI Tools, So Little Time." I thought one of his best points was that ideally you should be able to design in your tool of choice, and then deploy to your tool of choice. Unfortunately, the ideal is yet to become real across the platform. The closest we come is with the RDL in Reporting Services which can be produced from two different tools (Report Builder or Business Intelligence Development Studio's Report Designer), manually, or by a third-party or custom application. I have touted the idea for years (and publicly said so about 5 years ago) that eventually more products would be RDL producers or consumers, but we aren't there yet. Maybe in another 5 years.Another interesting session that covered the BI stack against a backdrop of competitive products was delivered by Andrew Brust. Andrew did a marvelous job of consolidating a lot of information in a way that clearly communicated how various vendors' offerings compared to the Microsoft BI stack. He also made a particularly compelling argument about how the existence of an ecosystem around the Microsoft BI stack provided innovation and opportunities lacking for other vendors. Check out his presentation, "How Does the Microsoft BI Stack...Stack Up?"Expo HallI had planned to spend more time in the Expo Hall to see who was doing new things with the BI stack, but didn't manage to get very far. Each time I set out on an exploratory mission, I got caught up in some fascinating conversations with one or more of my peers. I find interacting with people that I meet at conferences just as important as attending sessions to learn something new. There were a couple of items that really caught me eye, however, that I'll share here.Pragmatic Works. Whether you develop SSIS packages, build SSAS cubes, or author SSRS reports (or all of the above), you really must take a look at BI Documenter. Brian Knight (twitter) walked me through the key features, and I must say I was impressed. Once you've seen what this product can do, you won't want to document your BI projects any other way. You can download a free single-user database edition, or choose from more feature-rich standard or professional editions.Microsoft Press ebooks. I also stopped by the O'Reilly Media booth to meet some folks that one of my acquisitions editors at Microsoft Press recommended. In case you haven't heard, Microsoft Press has partnered with O'Reilly Media for distribution and publishing. Apart from my interest in learning more about O'Reilly Media as an author, an advertisement in their booth caught me eye which I think is a really great move. When you buy Microsoft Press ebooks through the O'Reilly web site, you can receive it in any (or all) of the following formats where possible: PDF, epub, .mobi for Kindle and .apk for Android. You also have lifetime DRM-free access to the ebooks. As someone who is an avid collector of books, I fnd myself running out of room for storage. In addition, I travel a lot, and it's hard to lug my reference library with me. Today's e-reader options make the move to digital books a more viable way to grow my library. Having a variety of formats means I am not limited to a single device, and lifetime access means I don't have to worry about keeping track of where I've stored my files. Because the e-books are DRM-free, I can copy and paste when I'm compiling notes, and I can print pages when necessary. That's a winning combination in my mind!Overall, I was pleased with the BI conference. There were many more sessions that I couldn't attend, either because the room was full when I got there or there were multiple sessions running concurrently that I wanted to see. Fortunately, many of the sessions are accessible for viewing online at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica along with the TechEd sessions. You can spot the BI sessions by the yellow skyline on the title slide of the presentation as shown below. 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PASS: Bylaw Changes

- by Bill Graziano

While you’re reading this, a post should be going up on the PASS blog on the plans to change our bylaws. You should be able to find our old bylaws, our proposed bylaws and a red-lined version of the changes. We plan to listen to feedback until March 31st. At that point we’ll decide whether to vote on these changes or take other action. The executive summary is that we’re adding a restriction to prevent more than two people from the same company on the Board and eliminating the Board’s Officer Appointment Committee to have Officers directly elected by the Board. This second change better matches how officer elections have been conducted in the past. The Gritty Details Our scope was to change bylaws to match how PASS actually works and tackle a limited set of issues. Changing the bylaws is hard. We’ve been working on these changes since the March board meeting last year. At that meeting we met and talked through the issues we wanted to address. In years past the Board has tried to come up with language and then we’ve discussed and negotiated to get to the result. In March, we gave HQ guidance on what we wanted and asked them to come up with a starting point. Hannes worked on building us an initial set of changes that we could work our way through. Discussing changes like this over email is difficult wasn’t very productive. We do a much better job on this at the in-person Board meetings. Unfortunately there are only 2 or 3 of those a year. In August we met in Nashville and spent time discussing the changes. That was also the day after we released the slate for the 2010 election. The discussion around that colored what we talked about in terms of these changes. We talked very briefly at the Summit and again reviewed and revised the changes at the Board meeting in January. This is the result of those changes and discussions. We made numerous small changes to clean up language and make wording more clear. We also made two big changes. Director Employment Restrictions The first is that only two people from the same company can serve on the Board at the same time. The actual language in section VI.3 reads: A maximum of two (2) Directors who are employed by, or who are joint owners or partners in, the same for-profit venture, company, organization, or other legal entity, may concurrently serve on the PASS Board of Directors at any time. The definition of “employed” is at the sole discretion of the Board. And what a mess this turns out to be in practice. Our membership is a hodgepodge of interlocking relationships. Let’s say three Board members get together and start a blog service for SQL Server bloggers. It’s technically for-profit. Let’s assume it makes $8 in the first year. Does that trigger this clause? (Technically yes.) We had a horrible time trying to write language that covered everything. All the sample bylaws that we found were just as vague as this. That led to the third clause in this section. The first sentence reads: The Board of Directors reserves the right, strictly on a case-by-case basis, to overrule the requirements of Section VI.3 by majority decision for any single Director’s conflict of employment. We needed some way to handle the trivial issues and exercise some judgment. It seems like a public vote is the best way. This discloses the relationship and gets each Board member on record on the issue. In practice I think this clause will rarely be used. I think this entire section will only be invoked for actual employment issues and not for small side projects. In either case we have the mechanisms in place to handle it in a public, transparent way. That’s the first and third clauses. The second clause says that if your situation changes and you fall afoul of this restriction you need to notify the Board. The clause further states that if this new job means a Board members violates the “two-per-company” rule the Board may request their resignation. The Board can also allow the person to continue serving with a majority vote. I think this will also take some judgment. Consider a person switching jobs that leads to three people from the same company. I’m very likely to ask for someone to resign if all three are two weeks into a two year term. I’m unlikely to ask anyone to resign if one is two weeks away from ending their term. In either case, the decision will be a public vote that we can be held accountable for. One concern that was raised was whether this would affect someone choosing to accept a job. I think that’s a choice for them to make. PASS is clearly stating its intent that only two directors from any one organization should serve at any time. Once these bylaws are approved, this policy should not come as a surprise to any potential or current Board members considering a job change. This clause isn’t perfect. The biggest hole is business relationships that aren’t defined above. Let’s say that two employees from company “X” serve on the Board. What happens if I accept a full-time consulting contract with that company? Let’s assume I’m working directly for one of the two existing Board members. That doesn’t violate section VI.3. But I think it’s clearly the kind of relationship we’d like to prevent. Unfortunately that was even harder to write than what we have now. I fully expect that in the next revision of the bylaws we’ll address this. It just didn’t make it into this one. Officer Elections The officer election process received a slightly different rewrite. Our goal was to codify in the bylaws the actual process we used to elect the officers. The officers are the President, Executive Vice-President (EVP) and Vice-President of Marketing. The Immediate Past President (IPP) is also an officer but isn’t elected. The IPP serves in that role for two years after completing their term as President. We do that for continuity’s sake. Some organizations have a President-elect that serves for one or two years. The group that founded PASS chose to have an IPP. When I started on the Board, the Nominating Committee (NomCom) selected the slate for the at-large directors and the slate for the officers. There was always one candidate for each officer position. It wasn’t really an election so much as the NomCom decided who the next person would be for each officer position. Behind the scenes the Board worked to select the best people for the role. In June 2009 that process was changed to bring it line with what actually happens. An Officer Appointment Committee was created that was a subset of the Board. That committee would take time to interview the candidates and present a slate to the Board for approval. The majority vote of the Board would determine the officers for the next two years. In practice the Board itself interviewed the candidates and conducted the elections. That means it was time to change the bylaws again. Section VII.2 and VII.3 spell out the process used to select the officers. We use the phrase “Officer Appointment” to separate it from the Director election but the end result is that the Board elects the officers. Section VII.3 starts: Officers shall be appointed bi-annually by a majority of all the voting members of the Board of Directors. Everything else revolves around that sentence. We use the word appoint but they truly are elected. There are details in the bylaws for term limits, minimum requirements for President (1 prior term as an officer), tie breakers and filling vacancies. In practice we will have an election for President, then an election for EVP and then an election for VP Marketing. That means that losing candidates will be able to fall down the ladder and run for the next open position. Another point to note is that officers aren’t at-large directors. That means if a current sitting officer loses all three elections they are off the Board. Having Board member votes public will help with the transparency of this approach. This process has a number of positive and negatives. The biggest concern I expect to hear is that our members don’t directly choose the officers. I’m going to try and list all the positives and negatives of this approach. Many non-profits value continuity and are slower to change than a business. On the plus side this promotes that. On the negative side this promotes that. If we change too slowly the members complain that we aren’t responsive. If we change too quickly we make mistakes and fail at various things. We’ve been criticized for both of those lately so I’m not entirely sure where to draw the line. My rough assumption to this point is that we’re going too slow on governance and too quickly on becoming “more than a Summit.” This approach creates competition in the officer elections. If you are an at-large director there is no consequence to losing an election. If you are an officer the only way to stay on the Board is to win an officer election or an at-large election. If you are an officer and lose an election you can always run for the next office down. This makes it very easy for multiple people to contest an election. There is value in a person moving through the officer positions up to the Presidency. Having the Board select the officers promotes this. The down side is that it takes a LOT of time to get to the Presidency. We’ve had good people struggle with burnout. We’ve had lots of discussion around this. The process as we’ve described it here makes it possible for someone to move quickly through the ranks but doesn’t prevent people from working their way up through each role. We talked long and hard about having the officers elected by the members. We had a self-imposed deadline to complete these changes prior to elections this summer. The other challenge was that our original goal was to make the bylaws reflect our actual process rather than create a new one. I believe we accomplished this goal. We ran out of time to consider this option in the detail it needs. Having member elections for officers needs a number of problems solved. We would need a way for candidates to fall through the election. This is what promotes competition. Without this few people would risk an election and we’ll be back to one candidate per slot. We need to do this without having multiple elections. We may be able to copy what other organizations are doing but I was surprised at how little I could find on other organizations. We also need a way for people that lose an officer election to win an at-large election. Otherwise we’ll have very little competition for officers. This brings me to an area that I think we as a Board haven’t done a good job. We haven’t built a strong process to tell you who is doing a good job and who isn’t. This is a double-edged sword. I don’t want to highlight Board members that are failing. That’s not a good way to get people to volunteer and run for the Board. But I also need a way let the members make an informed choice about who is doing a good job and would make a good officer. Encouraging Board members to blog, publishing minutes and making votes public helps in that regard but isn’t the final answer. I don’t know what the final answer is yet. I do know that the Board members themselves are uniquely positioned to know which other Board members are doing good work. They know who speaks up in meetings, who works to build consensus, who has good ideas and who works with the members. What I Could Do Better I’ve learned a lot writing this about how we communicated with our members. The next time we revise the bylaws I’d do a few things differently. The biggest change would be to provide better documentation. The March 2009 minutes provide a very detailed look into what changes we wanted to make to the bylaws. Looking back, I’m a little surprised at how closely they matched our final changes and covered the various arguments. If you just read those you’d get 90% of what we eventually changed. Nearly everything else was just details around implementation. I’d also consider publishing a scope document defining exactly what we were doing any why. I think it really helped that we had a limited, defined goal in mind. I don’t think we did a good job communicating that goal outside the meeting minutes though. That said, I wish I’d blogged more after the August and January meeting. I think it would have helped more people to know that this change was coming and to be ready for it. Conclusion These changes address two big concerns that the Board had. First, it prevents a single organization from dominating the Board. Second, it codifies and clearly spells out how officers are elected. This is the process that was previously followed but it was somewhat murky. These changes bring clarity to this and clearly explain the process the Board will follow. We’re going to listen to feedback until March 31st. At that time we’ll decide whether to approve these changes. I’m also assuming that we’ll start another round of changes in the next year or two. Are there other issues in the bylaws that we should tackle in the future?

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