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• SQLAuthority News – Resolution for New Year 2011

  - by pinaldave

  Today is the first day of the year so I want to write something very light. Last Year: 2010 Last Year was a blast; really traveled a lot. My family and I went on vacation. There I enjoyed being father, rolling on the floor and playing with my daughter. Here is the list of the countries I visited throughout 2010: Singapore (twice) Malaysia (twice) Sri Lanka (thrice) Nepal (once) United States of America (twice) United Arab Emirates (UAE) (once) My daughter who just completed 1 year on September 1, 2010 has so far visited three countries: Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, where I have done lots of community activities. The list containing all my activities can be found at Pinal Dave’s Community Events. I have written nearly 380 blog posts last year. It would be difficult for me to pick a few. However, I keep a running list of all of my articles over here: All Articles on SQLAuthority.com. I have so far received more than 10,000 email questions during the year and consequently I have done my best to answer most of them. I strongly believe if one would Search SQLAuthority.com blog, they would have found the answer quickly. The best part of 2010 for me was working on SQL Server Health Check and SQL Server Performance Tuning. This Year: 2011 This year, I came up with two simple goals: 1. Personal Goal: Reduce Weight 2. Professional Goal: Stay busy for the entire year with SQL Server Performance Tuning Projects. (Currently January 2011 is booked with performance tuning projects and 40 other days are already booked throughout the year). Future The future is something one cannot exactly guess and one cannot see. I just want to wish all of you the very best for this coming New Year. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: About Me, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology

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• 2010: It’s a Wrap

  - by merrillaldrich

  So, last day of the year, and I can see many people are in a reflective mood. I don’t usually deep dive into goals or resolutions, but I’m not immune either :-). But I’ll try to keep this short and to-the-point. First a big shout out to Adam for letting me have a presence here on sqlblog.com. I am humbled by the other SQL experts we have on this site, and I am certainly one of the least qualified, but I hope my small contributions are useful. Also thanks, Adam, for all the other community support...(read more)

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• An XEvent a Day (31 of 31) – Event Session DDL Events

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  To close out this month’s series on Extended Events we’ll look at the DDL Events for the Event Session DDL operations, and how those can be used to track changes to Event Sessions and determine all of the possible outputs that could exist from an Extended Event Session.  One of my least favorite quirks about Extended Events is that there is no way to determine the Events and Actions that may exist inside a Target, except to parse all of the the captured data.  Information about the Event...(read more)

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• Wanting to learn .NET, can I benefit from the MS discounts?

  - by Chris

  I quit high-school a couple of years ago and now I'm studying to get my diploma at a special course the EU created for people in my situation. This course is basically identical to normal high-school the only difference being fewer hours due to the fact that a lot of us have jobs(not me). I would like to learn windows development and .NET and I've seen around that they offer students some great discounts and even some free tools such as Visual Studio and Windows 7. I'm learning Java on Ubuntu at the moment but I'd like to move to .NET but can't afford Windows or other MS-related tools since I don't have a job and no real income. Can someone in my situation benefit from their offers?

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• What tools should I consider if my strategy is to make a game available to as many platforms as possible?

  - by Kenji Kina

  We're planning on developing a 2D, grid-based puzzle game, and although it's still very early in the planning stages, we'd like to make our decisions well from the beginning. Our strategy will be to make the game available to as many platforms as possible, for example PCs (Windows, Mac and/or Linux), mobile phones (iPhone and/or Android based phones), game consoles (XBLA and/or PSN) PC will have an emphasis, but I believe that's the most flexible platform so that shouldn't be a problem. So, what programming language, game engine, frameworks and all around tools would be best suited for our goal? P.S.: I'm betting a set of tools won't cover ALL of them, and that there will still be some kind of "translating" effort for some platforms, but we'd like to know what the most far reaching are.

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• oracle index for string column - does format of data affects quality of index?

  - by Jayan

  We have following type of "Unique ID" column for many tables in the database (Oracle). It is a string with following format <randomnumber>-<ascendingnumber>-<machinename> So we have some thing like this U1234-12345-NBBJD U1234-12346-NBBJD U1234-12347-NBBJD U1234-12348-NBBJD U1234-12349-NBBJD The UID value is unique, we have unique index on them. Does the following format is more efficient than above for index scans? NBBJD-U1234-12345 NBBJD-U1234-12346 NBBJD-U1234-12347 NBBJD-U1234-12348 NBBJD-U1234-12349

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• Why is Func<T> ambiguous with Func<IEnumerable<T>>?

  - by Matt Hamilton

  This one's got me flummoxed, so I thought I'd ask here in the hope that a C# guru can explain it to me. Why does this code generate an error? class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Foo(X); // the error is on this line } static String X() { return "Test"; } static void Foo(Func<IEnumerable<String>> x) { } static void Foo(Func<String> x) { } } The error in question: Error 1 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'ConsoleApplication1.Program.Foo(System.Func<System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<string>>)' and 'ConsoleApplication1.Program.Foo(System.Func<string>)' C:\Users\mabster\AppData\Local\Temporary Projects\ConsoleApplication1\Program.cs 12 13 ConsoleApplication1 It doesn't matter what type I use - if you replace the "String" declarations with "int" in that code you'll get the same sort of error. It's like the compiler can't tell the difference between Func<T> and Func<IEnumerable<T>>. Can someone shed some light on this?

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• Could not realize media player

  - by user556894

  I am using this code to run avi file using jmf but the error come like "Could not realize media player" and how to open all video format using jmf import javax.media.*; import javax.media.format.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class Test{ public static void main(String a[]) throws Exception{ CaptureDeviceInfo di = null; Player p = null; Vector deviceList = CaptureDeviceManager.getDeviceList(new AudioFormat("linear", 44100, 16, 2)); if (deviceList.size() > 0){ di = (CaptureDeviceInfo)deviceList.firstElement(); System.out.println((di.getLocator()).toExternalForm()); }else{ System.out.println("Exiting"); System.exit(-1); } try{ p = Manager.createPlayer(di.getLocator()); }catch (IOException e){ System.out.println(e); }catch (NoPlayerException e) { System.out.println(e); } System.out.println("Playing Started"); p.start(); } }

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• Coding a Tumblr Theme - List posts as list or just a stack of divs?

  - by Trippy

  I'm in the process of coding my own Tumblr Theme. Well I was wondering how should I list the posts? In the basic theme, (the one you get when you sign up) doesn't use list items (<li>). But I saw in another theme that it does use list items. By the way, this is what I mean... <div class="post-text"><div> <div class="post-audio"><div> ... or <ul> <li class="post-text"></li> ... </ul> I'm confused on the way I should go - I want to go to the semantic way of doing it because the theme will be built in HTML5.

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• iPhone In-App Purchase Store Kit error -1003 "Cannot connect to iTunes Store"

  - by Rei

  Hi all- I've been working on adding in-app purchases and was able to create and test in-app purchases using Store Kit (yay!). During testing, I exercised my app in a way which caused the app to crash mid purchase (so I guess the normal cycle of receiving paymentQueue:updatedTransactions and calling finishTransaction was interrupted). Now I am unable to successfully complete any transactions and instead am getting only transactions with transactionState SKPaymentTransactionStateFailed when paymentQueue:updatedTransactions is called. The transaction.error.code is -1003 and the transaction.error.localizedDescription is "Cannot connect to iTunes Store"! I have tried removing all products from iTunesConnect, and rebuilt them using different identifiers but that did not help. I have also tried using the App Store app to really connect to the real App Store and download some apps so I do have connectivity. Finally, I have visited the Settings:Store app to make sure I am signed out of my normal app store account. Any ideas? -Rei

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• gvim: Easy copying into system clipboard

  - by Georg Jaehnig

  I am using gVim on Ubuntu 10.10. I want to copy (yank) text to the system clipboard, so that the copied text is available in other applications. This works with "+y. But I want to have it working with y. I have tried to map y to "+y but then yy doesn't work anymore (since it produces "+y"+y). I have also tried :set clipboard=unnamed but this works only the other direction: Text in the system clipboard I can paste with p.

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• java.awt.Desktop.open doesn’t work with PDF files?

  - by Jason S

  It looks like I cannot use Desktop.open() on PDF files regardless of location. Here's a small test program: package com.example.bugs; import java.awt.Desktop; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class DesktopOpenBug { static public void main(String[] args) { try { Desktop desktop = null; // Before more Desktop API is used, first check // whether the API is supported by this particular // virtual machine (VM) on this particular host. if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) { desktop = Desktop.getDesktop(); for (String path : args) { File file = new File(path); System.out.println("Opening "+file); desktop.open(file); } } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } If I run DesktopOpenBug with arguments c:\tmp\zz1.txt c:\tmp\zz.xml c:\tmp\ss.pdf (3 files I happen to have lying around) I get this result: (the .txt and .xml files open up fine) Opening c:\tmp\zz1.txt Opening c:\tmp\zz.xml Opening c:\tmp\ss.pdf java.io.IOException: Failed to open file:/c:/tmp/ss.pdf. Error message: The parameter is incorrect. at sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.ShellExecute(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.open(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Desktop.open(Unknown Source) at com.example.bugs.DesktopOpenBug.main(DesktopOpenBug.java:21) What the heck is going on? I'm running WinXP, I can type "c:\tmp\ss.pdf" at the command prompt and it opens up just fine. edit: if this is an example of Sun Java bug #6764271 please help by voting for it. What a pain. :(

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• Can I run a JavaScript function AFTER Google Loader has run?

  - by thatryan

  I am loading Google API using google.load() and I need to process some of what is built by it, but I need to run the JavaScript after it has already completely loaded, is there a way to ensure that happens? Here is how I build the list of images, I need to add an attribute to each img tag though, can't do that until after it is built right? google.load("feeds", "1"); function initialize() { var feed = new google.feeds.Feed("myfeed.rss"); feed.load(function(result) { if (!result.error) { var container = document.getElementById("feed"); for (var i = 0; i < result.feed.entries.length; i++) { var entry = result.feed.entries[i]; var entryTitle = entry.title; var entryContent = entry.content; imgContent = entryContent + "<p>"+entryTitle+"</p>"; var div = document.createElement("div"); div.className = "image"; div.innerHTML = imgContent; container.appendChild(div); } } }); } google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);

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• How can I use the HTML5 <button> tag in Drupal 6

  - by Frankie Yale

  I have the following HTML which I'd like to use in my Drupal 6 theme. It needs to replace the search-box code. <fieldset class="search"> <input type="text" class="box font-myriad" /> <button class="btn" title="Submit Search">Search</button> </fieldset> I'm trying stuff like $vars['form']['button']['#attributes'] = array('class' => 'btn'); in template.php, but no luck so far. Couldn't find much help on drupal.org.

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• No difference between nullable:true and nullable:false in Grails 1.3.6?

  - by knorv

  The following domain model definition .. class Test { String a String b static mapping = { version(false) table("test_table") a(nullable: false) b(nullable: true) } } .. yields the following MySQL schema .. CREATE TABLE test_table ( id bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, a varchar(255) NOT NULL, b varchar(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; Please note that a and b get identical MySQL column definitions despite the fact a is defined as non-nullable and b is nullable in the GORM mappings. What am I doing wrong? I'm running Grails 1.3.6.

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• Command Design Pattern

  - by pchajer

  After reading command design pattern, I have a couple of question - Why we are creating concrete command and receiver object on client. Can't this initialization on invoker class? I think client should create invoker and pass it's request to invoker. Invoker should take care of all the stuff. By doing this, We have less dependency on client. The design of class diagram is totally different from actual design.

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• Parsing tables, cells with Html agility in C#

  - by Kaeso

  I need to parse Html code. More specifically, parse each cell of every rows in all tables. Each row represent a single object and each cell represent different properties. I want to parse these to be able to write an XML file with every data inside (without the useless HTML code). This is the way I thought it out initially but I ran out of ideas: HTML: <tr> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF"> 1 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="left"> <a href="/ice/player.htm?id=8471675">Sidney Crosby</a> </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="center"> PIT </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="center"> C </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 39 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 32 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 33 </td> <td class="statBox sorted" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #E0E0E0" align="right"> <font color="#000000"> 65 </font> </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 20 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 29 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 10 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 1 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 3 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 0 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 154 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 20.8 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 21:54 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 1px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 22.6 </td> <td class="statBox" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF" align="right"> 55.7 </td> </tr> C#: using HtmlAgilityPack; using System.Data; namespace Stats { class StatsParser { private string htmlCode; private static string fileName = "[" + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() + " NHL Stats].xml"; public StatsParser(string htmlCode) { this.htmlCode = htmlCode; this.ParseHtml(); } public DataTable ParseHtml() { var result = new DataTable(); HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(htmlCode); HtmlNode row = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr"); foreach (var statBox in row.SelectNodes("//td[@class='statBox']")) { System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(statBox.InnerText); } } } }

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• ADB crashes when device attached with eclipse

  - by user559592

  I am trying to get a development environment setup and having some problems with adb. I have eclipse installed and can create android projects and run/debug them in the emulator. But if I attached my device (HTC Evo) and try running on it, adb crashes. My device shows up so adb sees it. Everything is updated to the latest version. I even went and reinstalled my system so I had a clean start. It would still crash when I connect to the device. I restart adb but it just shuts right back down. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this? Running on Windows 7.

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• How to have a PHP Website tool with a version check

  - by Sara

  Hi, So I work on a small php website tool that a few people use and what I'm looking to have added is a little version checker in it. The tool is normally hosted by others on different servers/domains/whatever have you so I'm having a bit of a trouble figuring out how I can accomplish this and do so in the best possible method. So what I'm looking to do is have a webpage that just has a number on it which is the latest version. Lets say 3.2.2 is displayed on www.myawesomephptool.com/version.html in some way shape or form . Now on their installation when they open up their admin page it pulls in that 3.2.2 as the latest version to see if they are on that version. So trying to keep it simple on requirements too. Thanks for any help or suggestions, Sara

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• Can Capistrano set variables based on a role?

  - by conickal

  I am trying to use Capistrano to deploy to two different roles, using Bundler on both, however the Bundler command and flags will be different. Is it possible to set variables that are specific to a role? Either something like: set :bundle_flags, "--deployment --quiet", :role => "web" or: role :web do set :bundler_cmd, "--deployment --quiet" end Neither of those two options work, of course. Is there a way to accomplish this, or something like it?

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• archiving (ubuntu tar) hidden directories

  - by broiyan

  tar on a directory "mydir" will archive hidden files and hidden subdirectories, but tar from within "mydir" with a wildcard will not. Is this a longstanding and known inconsistency or bug or is it that hardly anybody ever looks inside a lengthy tar log long enough to notice? Edit (additional information): tar from within "mydir" with a wildcard will not "see" nor archive hidden files and hidden subdirectories in the immediate directory, with emphasis on "immediate". However, in subdirectories of "mydir" (obviously non-hidden) hidden files and hidden subdirectories will be archived.

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• I cannot get this Jquery Image ComboBox to Work

  - by WillingLearner

  Im trying to use this plugin: http://www.marghoobsuleman.com/jquery-image-dropdown I cannot get it to work in my file. I copied and pasted the code from the example files and made the necessary links to the js and css files just to test, and i still cant get it to work. Everytime i run it, i get this error: Error: Result of expression '$(".mydds").msDropDown' [undefined] is not a function The script im using to run the file is: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function showvalue(arg) { alert(arg); //arg.visible(false); } $(document).ready(function() { try { oHandler = $(".mydds").msDropDown().data("dd"); oHandler.visible(true); //alert($.msDropDown.version); //$.msDropDown.create("body select"); $("#ver").html($.msDropDown.version); } catch(e) { alert("Error: "+e.message); } }) </script> Why am I getting these errors and how can I fix it?

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• [iOS] How to catch cancallation of UIScrollView or others?

  - by kyu

  Sometimes, interruptions such as phone call occur and disturb a regular behavior of an app in iPhone or iPad. For example, I created one UIScrollView instance and implemented UIScrollView delegate methods: scrollViewWillBeginDragging and scrollViewDidEndDragging(and scrollViewDidEndDecelerating). A scrollViewWillBeginDragging method deactivated all custom buttons in my app. Then scrollViewDidEndDragging and scrollViewDidEndDecelerating methods activated these custom buttons. That is, while the user scrolled, all custom buttons became deactivated for a while. The problem was that while the user started to drag and just held an UIScrollView instance, if I took a screenshot by pressing a home button and a power button, then any of scrollViewDidEndDragging and scrollViewDidEndDecelerating didn't get called. So the app became messed up. I implemented a UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification method in my UIViewController, but it didn't get called after taking a screenshot. How can I catch any kind of interruption that disturbs a regular flow of events? Sometimes, touchesEnd and touchesCanceled didn't get called too due to an interruption. Thank you.

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• PHP memory exhausted when running through thousands of records

  - by James Skidmore

  I'm running the following code over a set of 5,000 results. It's failing due to the memory being exhausted. foreach ($data as $key => $report) { $data[$key]['data'] = unserialize($report['serialized_values']); } I know I can up the memory limit, but I'd like to run this without a problem instead. I'm not going to be able to keep upping the memory forever. EDIT The $data is in this format: [1] => Array ( [0] => 127654619178790249 [report_id] => 127654619178790249 [1] => 1 [user_id] => 1 [2] => 2010-12-31 19:43:24 [sent_on] => 2010-12-31 19:43:24 [3] => [fax_trans_id] => [4] => 1234567890 [fax_to_nums] => 1234567890 [5] => ' long html string here', [html_content] => 'long html string here', [6] => 'serialization_string_here', [serialized_values] => 'serialization_string_here', [7] => 70 [id] => 70 )

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• building a gl3 app under cygwin

  - by user445264

  i've got a small opengl 3.2 app that i've been developing on linux using the standard gnu tools (gmake/gcc). the code seems pretty portable--i had no problems running it on osx until i started using gl3 features that the mac mini gl drivers don't seem to support. i've got a bootcamp partition with windows xp on the same mini, and i'd like to run my app there if possible. the windows drivers definitely support gl 3.2, but i'm having trouble linking. this seems like a really common issue, but i haven't found any answers online that address using opengl 1.2 under cygwin. i'm using glew-1.5.5 and linking like so: g++ -o glToy *.o -L/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/glew-1.5.5/lib -lglew32 -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32 but i get a whole lot of this sort of output: Program.o:/home/Jacob/glToy/Program.cpp:134: undefined reference to `__imp____glewUseProgram' Program.o:/home/Jacob/glToy/Program.cpp:235: undefined reference to `__imp____glewActiveTexture' Program.o:/home/Jacob/glToy/Program.cpp:73: undefined reference to `__imp____glewGetShaderiv' ... any ideas what i'm doing wrong? or perhaps this isn't a workable setup? other ideas for getting this going on the mac mini (2009 version)? thanks!

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