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Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
We have a legacy system in our production environment that keeps track of when a user takes an action on Causes.com (joins a Cause, recruits a friend, etc). I say legacy, but I really mean a prematurely-optimized system that I'd like to make less smart. This 500m record database is split across monthly sharded tables. Seems like a great solution to scaling (and it is) — except that we don't need it. And based on our usage pattern (e.g. to count a user's total number of actions, we need to do query N tables), this leads to pretty severe performance degradation issues. Even with memcache layer sitting in front of old month tables, new features keep discovering new N-query performance problems. Noticing that we have another database happily chugging along with 900 million records, I decided to migrate the existing system into a single table setup. The goals were:
- reduce complexity. Querying one table is simpler than N tables.
- push as much complexity as possible to the database. The wrappers around the month-sharding logic in Rails are slow and buggy.
- increase performance. Also related to one table query being simpler than N.
Alternative Proposed Solutions
MySQL Partitioning: this was the most similar to our existing set up, since MySQL internally stores the data into different tables. We decided against it because it seemed likely that it wouldn't be much faster than our current solution (although MySQL can internally do some optimizations to make sure you only look at tables that could possibly have data you want). And it's still the same complexity we were looking to reduce (and would further be the only database set up in our system using partitioning).
Redis: Not really proposed as an alternative because the full dataset won't fit into memory, but something we're considering loading a subset of the data into to answer queries that we make a lot that MySQL isn't particularly good at (e.g. 'which of my friends have taken an action' is quick using Redis's built in SET UNION function). The new MySQL table might be performant enough that it doesn't make sense to build a fast Redis version, so we're avoiding this as possible premature optimization, especially with a technology we're not as familiar with.
Dumping the old data
MySQL provides the `mysqldump' utility to allow quick dumping to disk:
msyqldump -T /var/lib/mysql/database_data database_name
This will produce a TSV file for each table in the database, and this is the format that `LOAD INFILE' will be able to quickly load later on.
Installing Percona 5.5
We'll be building the new system with the latest-and-greatest in Percona databases on CentOS 6.2:
rpm -Uhv http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/percona-release-0.0-1.x86_64.rpm yum install Percona-Server-shared-compat Percona-Server-client-55 Percona-Server-server-55 -y
[ open bug with the compat package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-server/+bug/908620]
Specify a directory for the InnoDB data
This isn't exactly a performance tip, but I had to do some digging to get MySQL to store data on a different partition. The first step is to make use your my.cnf contains a
datadir = /path/to/data
directive. Make sure
/path/to/data is owned by mysql:mysql (
chown -R mysql.mysql /path/to/data) and run:
mysql_install_db --user=mysql --datadir=/path/to/data
This will set up the directory structures that InnoDB uses to store data. This is also useful if you're aborting a failed data load and want to wipe the slate clean (if you don't specify a directory, /var/lib/mysql is used by default). Just
rm -rf *
the data directory and run the
mysql_install_db command.
[* http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-install-db.html]
SQL Commands to Speed up the LOAD DATA
You can tell MySQL to not enforce foreign key and uniqueness constraints:
and drop the transaction isolation guarantee to UNCOMMITTED:
SET SESSION tx_isolation='READ-UNCOMMITTED'
and turn off the binlog with:
SET sql_log_bin = 0
And when you're done, don't forget to turn it back on with:
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS = 1; SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1; SET SESSION tx_isolation='READ-REPEATABLE'
It's worth noting that a lot of resources will tell you to to use the "DISABLE KEYS" directive and have the indices all built once all the data has been loaded into the table. Unfortunately, InnoDB does not support this. I tried it, and while it took only a few hours to load 500m rows, the data was unusable without any indices. You could drop the indices completely and add them later, but with a table size this big I didn't think it would help much.
Another red herring was turning off autocommit and committing after each `LOAD DATA' statement. This was effectively the same thing as autocommitting, and manually commiting led to `LOAD DATA' slowdowns a quarter of the way in.
[ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html, search for "DISABLE KEYS" ] [ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/01/innodb-performance-optimization-basics/]
Performance adjustments made to my.cnf
-- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit -- this loosens the frequency with which the data is flushed to disk -- it's possible to lose a second or two of data this way in the event of a -- system crash, but this is in a very controlled circumstance innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 -- rule of thumb is 75% - 80% of total system memory innodb_buffer_pool_size=16GB -- don't let the OS cache what InnoDB is caching anyway -- http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/01/innodb-performance-optimization-basics/ innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT -- don't double write the data -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_doublewrite innodb_doublewrite = 0
Use LOAD DATA INFILE
This is the most optimized path toward bulk loading structured data into MySQL. 184.108.40.206. Speed of INSERT Statements predicts a ~20x speedup over a bulk INSERT (i.e. an INSERT with thousands of rows in a single statement). See also 8.5.4. Bulk Data Loading for InnoDB Tables for a few more tips.
Not only is it faster, but in my experience with this migration, the INSERT method will slow down faster than it can load data and effectively never finish (last estimate I made was 60 days, but it was still slowing down).
INFILE must be in the directory that InnoDB is storing that database information. If MySQL is in /var/lib/mysql, then mydatabase would be in /var/lib/mysql/mydatabase. If you don't have access to that directory on the server, you can use LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE. In my testing, putting the file in the proper place and using `LOAD DATA INFILE' increased load performance by about 20%.
[ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-data.html]
Perform your data transformation directly in MySQL
Our old actioncredit system was unique on (MONTH(created_at), id), but the new system is going to generate new autoincrementing IDs for each records as it's loaded in chronological order. The problem was that my 50 GB of TSV data doesn't match up to the new schema. Some scripts I had that would use Ruby to transform the old row into the new row was laughably slow. I did some digging and found out that you can tell MySQL to (quickly) throw away the data you don't want in the load statement itself, using parameter binding:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.csv' INTO TABLE mytable FIELDS TERMINATED by '\t' ENCLOSED BY '\"' (@throwaway), user_id, action, created_at
This statement is telling MySQL which fields are represented in data.csv. @throwaway is a binding parameter; and in this case we want to discard it so we're not going to bind it. If we wanted to insert a prefix, we could execute:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.csv' INTO TABLE mytable FIELDS TERMINATED by '\t' ENCLOSED BY '\"' (id, user_id, @action, created_at SET action=CONCAT('prefix_', action)
and every loaded row's `action' column will begin with the string 'prefix'.
Checking progress without disrupting the import
If you're loading large data files and want to check the progress, you definitely don't want to use `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table'. This query will degrade as the size of the table grows and slowdown the LOAD process. Instead you can query:
mysql> SELECT table_rows FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_name = 'table'; +------------+ | table_rows | +------------+ | 27273886 | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.23 sec)
If you want to watch/log the progress over time, you can craft a quick shell command to poll the number of rows:
$ while :; do mysql -hlocalhost databasename -e "SELECT table_rows FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_name = 'table' \G ; " | grep rows | cut -d':' -f2 | xargs echo `date +"%F %R"` , | tee load.log && sleep 30; done 2012-05-29 18:16 , 32267244 2012-05-29 18:16 , 32328002 2012-05-29 18:17 , 32404189 2012-05-29 18:17 , 32473936 2012-05-29 18:18 , 32543698 2012-05-29 18:18 , 32616939 2012-05-29 18:19 , 32693198
The `tee' will echo to STDOUT as well as to `file.log', the '\G' formats the columns in the result set as rows, and the sleep gives it a pause between loading.
LOAD DATA chunking script
I quickly discovered that throwing a 50m row TSV file at LOAD DATA was a good way to have performance degrade to the point of not finishing. I settled on using `split' to chunk data into one million rows per file:
Over the duration of this script, I saw chunk load time increase from 1m40s to around an hour per million inserts. This is however better than not finishing at all, which I wasn't able to achieve until making all changes suggested in this post and using the aforementioned `load.sh' script. Other tips:
- use as few indices as you can
- loading the data in sequential order not only makes the loading faster, but the resulting table will be faster
- if you can load any of the data from MySQL (instead of a flat file intermediary), it will be much faster. You can use the `INSERT INTO .. SELECT' statement to copy data between tables quickly.
Thanks for reading drafts of this to Greg and Lann, two of my super-smart coworkers at Causes. Check out causes.com/joinus if this sort of work interests you!


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I love 'High Violet' - I put it at number four in my albums of 2010, The National were my second most played artist in 2010 (thanks last.fm!). Generally when that happens I don't like the material being messed with too much however, I really quite like this unique take on "Anyone's Ghost" by Silver Swans:
It's a dramatic, haunting, slower paced synth based version which completely changes the atmosphere of the song with beautiful, delicate vocals alongside a dreamy electro-pop sound. It is really quite lovely. Although, I do get the feeling it will go down a bit like Marmite with The National fans.
I'm not sure if Silver Swans is a side project, but vocalist Anna Yu is also lead singer in LoveLikeFire whose sound is more indie-guitar based (but also pretty good), I'll leave them for another time and concentrate on Silver Swans; Below you can listen to an original song by Silver Swans entitled "Holidays" which shows off that slow-disco chilled and quite gorgeous sound I was talking about:
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The post wouldn't be right without this, a sublime video of "Anyone's Ghost":

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Thomas Dale "Tom" Emberton, Sr. (born c. 1934), is a retired Kentucky politician and judge. Judge Emberton was born in Monroe County, Kentucky in 1932. Following a four year tour of duty with the United States Air Force, he attended Western Kentucky University and in 1962 graduated from the University of Louisville Law School. He has served on various boards and commissions related primarily to the legal profession, higher education, and government.
In the 1971 Kentucky governorship election in 1971, he was backed by term-limited Governor Louie B. Nunn. Emberton lost in 1971 to the Democratic Lieutenant Governor Wendell H. Ford, later a U.S. senator. Prior to his gubernatorial candidacy, Emberton served as a member of the Public Service Commission in the Nunn administration.
In 1987, Democratic Governor Wallace Wilkinson appointed Emberton to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He was elevated to Chief Judge of the KY Court of Appeals in 2002. He held that position until his retirement in 2004.
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UCSF is sponsoring a one-day symposium for the Bay Area research community to bring awareness to the problem of how certain foods can cause an addictive-like state in the brain and are a hidden cause behind the nation's obesity epidemic.
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Gail Lee joined UCSF this month to serve as the sustainability manager, the leader and organizational strategist to help UCSF become a national model for sustainability in academic health sciences.
January 20, 2010
Reducing salt in the American diet by as little as one-half teaspoon (or three grams) per day could prevent nearly 100,000 heart attacks and 92,000 deaths each year, according to a new study. Such benefits are on par with the benefits from reductions in smoking and could save the United States about $24 billion in healthcare costs, the researchers add.
Low Vitamin D Levels Are Associated With Greater Risk of Relapse in Childhood-Onset Multiple Sclerosis
January 20, 2010
Low vitamin D blood levels are associated with a significantly higher risk of relapse attacks in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who develop the disease during childhood, according to a study conducted by researchers from UCSF.
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Cancer survivor David Servan-Schreiber, a physician, neuroscientist and science writer, will speak about preventing and treating cancer at UCSF on Friday, Jan. 15.


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One afternoon, while drinking coffee together in my living room & discussing a reading I had gave, a dear friend suggested I start an audio zine. My initial (& internal) response to this idea was very negative, but my response to my response (in the name of working hard every day to be better & stronger & to obliterate the boundaries of comfort) was to start this project as soon as possible.
in 2011 I wrote the first issue of "Habits of Being", an oral history and creative nonfiction zine. It contains interviews with the residents of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Unrest Home (SuBAMUH), a women's intentional community in Amesville, Ohio. It also contains my own stories.
"The Way We Live Through This" is an extension of what was done in that first issue, weaving these womyn's voices with my own & with music by the Calliope Feminist Choir, Cara Beth Satalino, Waxahatchee, Radiator Hospital & others.
Because, who better to tell our stories than ourselves?
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It is time the Karen & Ellen letters come to a permanent close. The powers that be no longer want their business out and about for people to read. And I totally get that.
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YoYo Lipgloss is a gloss that was part of a published case study in the Global Business & Technology Journal. For more on that, take a look at the Start Up Case Study. The site now has a survey up for a study on "The Psychology & Marketing of YOYO Lip Gloss" along with some other fun interactive stuff.
What exactly is YoYo lip gloss? Well, think of it as a lip gloss on a yoyo-like attachment that you can attach to your belt. I haven't tried the gloss, so I can't tell you anything about it. But it looks like a fun item for girls and teens–or maybe for silly adults like me who just might find a way to wear such a thing!


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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the AJL Awards Committee comprised of Joan Biella, Fred Isaac, Amalia Warshenbrot, and myself, I am delighted to announce that this year's AJL Life Membership Award will be given to our esteemed colleague Heidi Lerner of Stanford University. A citation that includes some of Heidi's numerous achievements is below. Special thanks to the committee members for their thoughtful deliberation and to Joan Biella for crafting this citation. Please join me in congratulating Heidi on this much-deserved award!
With best wishes,
Aaron Taub, Chairperson
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For the past 25 years, Heidi Lerner has worked as Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica in the Catalog Department of Green Library at Stanford University. She performed original cataloging of monographs and serials in Hebrew and related languages and Judaica in those and Western languages in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) and local bibliographic systems using the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules/2nd edition (AACR2), Library of Congress (LC) subject headings and LC classification schedules until the advent of the new cataloging system known as Resource Description and Access (RDA). Then she chose to become an early student and eventually an expert user and teacher of the new rules. An experienced participant in LC's Name Authorities Cooperative Program (NACO) and Monographic Bibliographic Record Cooperative Program (BIBCO), she also coordinates and provides specialized training for fellow catalogers worldwide through the Hebraica and Judaica funnel projects sponsored by the Library of Congress. At Stanford she performs as liaison with the Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections and with every other library service with personnel handling Hebraica materials. In particular she participates in planning efforts for the processing of large-scale Hebraica acquisitions. In addition she assists in cataloging of humanities and art monographs in a variety of languages, and her well-rounded career includes valuable service at the Green Library Reference Desk/Information Center.
She earned her Master's of Library Science (MLS) degree in 1982 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she performed her first cataloging and classification as a music librarian. Returning to the United States, she served as a music librarian for the San Francisco Opera. Moving through a variety of cataloging and reference posts, she eventually found a home in the Stanford University Libraries system. Her fluency in Hebrew and her cataloger's reading knowledge of Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, French, Russian and German led her to her present work in Hebraica and Judaica, fields in which she is an acknowledged master and teacher.
Heidi is a vital force in professional organizations, especially as a member and often as an officer of the Association of Jewish Libraries. She served two terms, one ongoing, as Chair of the Research & Special Libraries Division's Cataloging Committee. She has also contributed expertise to the University of Pennsylvania/Cambridge University Genizah cataloging and digitization project, the digital library JSTOR's Hebrew Journals project, and the editorial board of AJS Perspectives, the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies. She is a founding member of the NACO Hebraica Funnel Project of the Library of Congress, which since 1994 has provided online coordination and training for a multinational group of Hebraica catalogers who provide high-quality records to the world's bibliographic databases. She also coordinates the sister projects for Hebraica/Judaica subject headings and bibliographic records, which increase through standardization the shareability of records for Hebraic materials.
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As an administrator, you can use journal rules to record, or "journal," e-mail communication in your organization. This can help your organization respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements.
A journal rule defines the messages you want to record. For example, a journal rule defines messages sent to specific users or messages sent to recipients outside your organization. A journal rule is used to generate e-mail messages known as journal reports that contain the specified messages as unaltered attachments.
Before you create journal rules, we recommend that you specify a recipient to receive journal report non-delivery reports (NDRs) to reduce the risk of losing journal reports. For more information, see Specify a Recipient for Undeliverable Journal Reports.
Navigate to Manage My Organization > Mail Control > Journal Rules > New.
Enter the following information:
* If the message is sent to or from... This defines the recipients you want to journal. The choices are the following:
• A specific user Select a recipient from the shared address book to journal. The messages that are actually journaled depend on the scope of the journal rule you select next. If you specify a group, the individual members of the group are journaled.
• Apply to all messages All recipients are journaled. The messages that are actually journaled depend on the scope of the journal rule you select next.
* Journal the following messages... This defines the scope of the journal rule. The choices are the following:
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You may choose to override the automatically-generated name by typing in a custom name. Just make sure the name is unique and descriptive.
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SAN DIEGO, February 14, 2012 – Is legislation needed to protect patient safety from pharmacy-promoted drug switching? Commonly called 'therapeutic substitutions', prescription drugs in pharmacies all across America are often subject to financial schemes that switch prescribed drugs to 'similar' (but molecularly different) medications under the same therapeutic class.
These machinations aim to save insurers billions of dollars while providing pharmacists with dubious bonuses to play along.
Such behavior begs the central question that observers of healthcare reform may ask: are registered pharmacists (designated 'RPh') betraying their sworn oath by carrying out undisclosed and unethical ploys to exploit incentives by insurers that reward pharmacies and pharmacists at the expense of the doctor-patient relationship?
Pharmacist Code of Ethics & Oath – Pharmacy Pledge & Sworn Statement
The following are the first four edicts of pharmacy's equivalent to a physician's Hippocratic Oath.
- 1. A pharmacist respects the covenantal relationship between the patient and pharmacist.
- 2. A pharmacist promotes the good of every patient in a caring, compassionate, and confidential manner.
- 3. A pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient.
- 4. A pharmacist acts with honesty and integrity inprofessional relationships.
Here is the 'Pharmacist's Oath':
At this time, I vow to devote my professional life to the service of all humankind through the professionof pharmacy.
I will consider the welfare of humanityand relief of human suffering my primary concerns.
I will apply my knowledge, experience, and skills to the best of my ability to assure optimal drug therapy outcomes for the patients I serve.
I will keep abreast of developments and maintain professional competency in my profession of pharmacy. I will maintain the highest principles of moral, ethical and legal conduct.
I will embrace and advocate change in the profession of pharmacy that improves patient care.
I take these vows voluntarily with the full realization of the responsibility with which I am entrusted by the public.
The Reality of 'Drug-Switching' Schemes
The following was obtained from the CVS/pharmacy "Pharmacy Team Training Guide" (February 2010), in the packet entitled "CustomeRx Savings Initiative:" the cover page reads as follows: "This training guide is to be read by all Pharmacy Team members prior to taking the Web-based Training in LEARNet." The guide's introduction continues "this new program will proactively identify lower cost products (typically generics) in the same therapeutic class for patients who are on brands that do not have a generic available."
The manual goes on: "…the [technician]…informs the RPh that Mrs. Jones has a cost savings opportunity." Using the example of the drug Aciphex, it goes on: "He explains to her that there are other medications that are in the same therapeutic class as Aciphex that are lower cost under her script plan…he explains that…he would be happy to contact her MD to present the cost savings information and obtain a new script if the MD deems it appropriate."
What is not disclosed to the patient is the reality of how the above scenario plays out in the vast majority of cases. Most physicians do not answer the phone when the pharmacy calls to ask to switch a patient's prescription. In most cases physicians or their nursing staff who authorize such changes do so under hurried conditions. Many doctors believe that the request to change the drug initiated with the patient themselves, with the primary goal of saving money.
It is highly likely that the patient is not informed by the pharmacy or pharmacist of the financial arrangement that exists behind the scenes between pharmacy, insurance company, and pharmacist. Furthermore, most doctors' offices are extremely busy, if not frankly harried, and there is little opportunity for the patient's healthcare provider to carefully reflect on the circumstances under which the original prescription was first written.
According to the Outcomes Pharmaceutical Health Care online website, 'targeted intervention programs' (called 'TIP' under trademark designation) allow for incentives from $20 to $100 dollars or more to pharmacies for each drug switch that is made at the retail pharmacy counter; oftentimes, pharmacists themselves are then given periodic bonuses that are directly tied to the number of patient prescription switches that are made.
These bonuses can reward pharmacists with thousands of dollars of extra income annually.
It is crucial to understand that the therapeutic switches in patient prescriptions are not between chemically identical medications, and that patients are not apprised of the potential differences in efficacy or drug interactions that may occur by making such a switch.
Because therapeutic substitutions result in changes to medicines with different active ingredients, patients with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, infections, depressions, etc. can effectively be pressured to make changes that may short-change their own treatment plans.
The behind-the-scenes economic arrangements from switching out prescriptions medications is not disclosed to patients, nor are there laws to mandate disclosure. This activity can undermine the doctor-patient relationship; it ignores differences between medications, putting pharmacy/pharmacist profits over patient health.
Considering that approximately 100 million Americans are on prescription medications for the common diseases of high blood pressure and high cholesterol alone, cost-driven 'drug switching' can have a profound and unpredictably deleterious effect on a huge percentage of the population.
It would behoove state and federal legislators to devise legislation to effect a 'Prescription Drug-Patient Bill of Rights', which would be posted by each pharmacy counter and require pharmacists engaging in such medicine-switching behavior to address the following questions on behalf of patients:
- Is this the same drug as my physician originally prescribed?
- Did my doctor personally approve of this switch, and can I consult with him/her first?
- What are the health implications of such a switch?
- Is this the same dosage as my original prescription?
- Are you (the pharmacist) receiving a financial incentive to make this switch for me?
The public knows little about the secret, financially-driven schemes between health insurers and pharmacy outlets; these arrangements allow for what would (in the medical profession) be considered kickbacks. There are federal anti-kickback laws to prevent such behavior by medical doctors. Why are there no such laws to regulate this behavior in the pharmacy industry? Currently, no such laws exist.
The pressures created by the 'Affordable Care Act' (Obamacare), and by local Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) which are mandated by the new health care law, may exacerbate these hidden arrangements between insurers and pharmacies. There appears to be a loophole in necessary oversight in the area of therapeutic drug substitution. For the sake of our health, we must address and remedy this growing and dangerous practice.
Doctor Dorin is a Hopkins-trained, board-certified anesthesiologist, practicing in a large group in San Diego. He is a small business owner, a Commander in the US Navy Reserves, and the Founder/President of America's Medical Society, Inc. (AMS), a non-profit corporation created to serve and educate physicians and the general public in matters of national health-care reform and medical politics.
AMS and many other medical groups in the United States are convening in San Diego this May 5th and 6th, 2012 for a 'Coalition of Doctors Conference' to address issues of concern related to patient safety and the recent healthcare reform legislation.
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Biba Restaurant
- Address:
2801 Capitol Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95816Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
ItalianPrice: $31 to $50
Biba Restaurant
- Dining Style: Fine Dining
- Website: http://www.biba-restaurant.com/
- Phone: 9164552422
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Tuesday - Friday: 11:30am - 2:00pm; Dinner: Monday - Thursday: 5:30pm - 9:00pm, Friday - Saturday: 5:30pm - 10:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Carte Blanche,Diners Club,JCB,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Italian
- Executive Chef: Biba Caggiano
- Dress Code: Business Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Entertainment, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: Available only on special request.
- Private Party Contact: Karen Hand 9164552422
- Entertainment: Piano in lounge Wed-Sat from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Getting there
- Cross Street: 28th & Capitol Avenue
- Public Transit: Bus stops on Capitol Avenue in either direction just a few yards away.
- Parking: Valet
- Parking Details: Public parking garage accepting only credit cards available just a half block away at 28th and N St. Valet parking also available for lunch and dinner.
A word from Biba Restaurant
Located in the historic Old Tavern Building, just minutes from the State Capitol, Biba Caggiano, celebrated chef, cookbook author, and TV personality, brings a bit of Italy to Sacramento. Savor the flavors of Biba's award winning authentic Italian cuisine in a friendly but refined ambiance, with attentive service that will make you feel instantly welcome. Enjoy spuntini with a cocktail or glass of wine in the lounge area, kick back and listen to piano music, or order a full meal at the bar or in the dining room. Only the finest and freshest ingredients are used and the food is truly Italian...house made lasagne Bolognese on Thursday and Friday and a different stuffed pasta dish every day. Osso bucco alla Milanese (veal shanks) or stinco di agnello (lamb shanks) are just some of the entrees you may expect to find. California and Italian wines are available to complement the food. And don't skip the dessert. The Tiramisu is to die for!Continued
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- Diners' Choice WinnerBest Overall
- Diners' Choice WinnerBest Ambiance
- Diners' Choice WinnerBest Food
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Biba Restaurant reviews from OpenTable diners
177 reviews since June 4, 2014
- Food4.7Service4.6
- Ambiance4.4Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (148)fit for foodies (115)romantic (93)great for lunch (67)neighborhood gem (61)notable wine list (60)good for groups (37)great for brunch (12)vibrant bar scene (12)hot spot (10)kid-friendly (4)scenic view (2)great for outdoor dining (1)Show More
- Great EveningDolcevitaDined on 9/26/2014Always a pleasure to try old favorites with a new twist. Italian dining at its finest!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- martistjDined on 9/26/2014This was our second visit to Biba's and it was wonderful. There were two of us and we split the Sicilian salad which was just perfect...not to big not to small with all fresh ingredients and not swimming in dressing. I ordered the Halibut and I can honestly say I have never had it prepared better...cooked to perfection, flavorful and well presented. My partner ordered the special which was beet raviolis also excellent. Great wine list. I will definitely be back and will tell friends about it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DisappointingOutstandingVIPDined on 9/25/2014Went for a special occasion. Been here many times before with positive experiences. This time was pretty unremarkable. Not as good as it used to be.
- Did they go fishing for the fishMorrisDined on 9/20/2014Sorry but the wait for dinner and no appitizer was a bit much. I decline desert - I did not have 2 hours more to wait. Food was good!
- Biba's SacramentoSacramentoWomanDined on 9/19/2014We were very disappointed with lunch.. My wife's carbonara did not taste good. When she told our waitperson he fluffed it off. When the busser came to pick up her plate he asked if she didn't like it. She said yes and he asked if we told the waiter. She said yes. The waitperson came over and said he could bring her a taste of something else. She said the lasagna. When he brought the bill he had charged us for the lasagna which was the more expensive dish. We were having some family problems and just wanted to go out for lunch,problem free. That is why we didn't complain to management. This was not the first time we have had a problem at Biba's. We will not be returning.
- Lovely food & ambienceLuv2EatDined on 9/19/2014Biba's remains one of the best restaurants in Sacramento's Farm to Fork movement, and with the chef and owner on site, the restaurant hums with excellence. Go soon and go often!Special Features:
- disappointedDined on 9/19/2014We waited a very long for our lasagna which was not even hot - lukewarm at best... very disappointed for such an expensive lunch!Special Features:
- Fresh and authentic!Freshestpasta916Dined on 9/17/2014The best pasta in town! It is also very nice to see Biba often greeting guests as they arrive. You can just tell how much she cares about her food and her customers. Desserts and wines are also exceptional. I'm never disappointed at Biba's!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Biba's never fails to deliverTdol43Dined on 9/16/2014Great food and wonderful service. Biba's sauces will amaze you.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- It's a Sacramento treasuredingodogDined on 9/16/2014Dined at Biba's on a Tuesday evening, a birthday treat. Food, wine and service were all at a level that befits a special occasion. Biba's personal hospitality is always welcome--we recalled a long ago visit to Biba's with my mother who was thrilled to meet the Hostess whose cooking show she had so long admired. Biba's can be noisy when full, but it doesn't really detract. It's a joy to dine there--the simple elegant décor, the dedication that staff shows to providing a great experience. Only regret is there was no lasagna on Tuesday eve.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Still SolidOpenTable Diner Since 2003VIPDined on 9/11/2014Consistently excellent service and food for thirty years. Obviously, Biba's constant presence ensures quality.Special Features:
- ExcellentLarryVIPDined on 9/5/2014Excellent as usual. We have never had a bad meal or service on any occasion.Special Features:
- Best restaurant in SacramentoDlovesgoodfoodDined on 9/5/2014Biba's is my favorite restaurant because the food is always first rate and the service exemplary. The multi layer lasagna is the best I have had anywhere in the world. Biba is always there welcoming me and the service is always wonderful.Special Features:
- Menu was lacking varietyOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/29/2014There could definitely be more to choose from in the way of entrees. Also the veal cutlets were nothing special, no sauce to accompany them. Lasagna was very good but only served on Thurs. and Fri.? We were seated next to the station where waiters and waitresses congregate so a little annoying to hear them converse. This should be the last table to seat guests. Our reservation was at 5:30pm. We were one of the first parties to be seated.Special Features:
- Lives up to its reputationCharBDined on 8/28/2014Biba was all that we expected and more. Love the Romaine salad with Gorganzola dressing. Much better than a Caesar. Spaghetti Carbonara delicious but a salty for my taste. Probably because of the pancetta. Husband really liked the lasagne, only served on Thursday and Friday. Highlight to the dinner was our dessert. Zuccotto Fiorentino. Like heaven. We had our dessert "To Go". Creme Anglaise was perfect. We used half the chocolate sauce so have more for later. Definitely a dessert to share and absolutely would order again. Be prepared for a food coma after the dessert.Special Features:
- BibaOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/26/2014We were visiting Sacramento and looking for a special dinner out. The restaurant was easy to find. The food was amazing. Our waitress was very attentive. When back in Sacramento, will be going back to Biba.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great as UsualOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 8/26/2014This is my wife's favorite place to eat. In the many years we have gone to Biba's we have NEVER had a bad meal. Service is always good and friendly. We have gone to Biba's "just because", special occasions and for no reason. It's a nice place to go to have a nice meal and relax.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A very nice dining experienceBoise1939Dined on 8/25/2014It has been years since dining here yet the food is still excellent. Biba has continually made sure the food service and staff friendliness are consistently above expectations. And, she is almost always available to greet you and sign cook books.Special Features:
- RareniteoutDined on 8/25/2014Had a lovely dinner with friends with good food and no pressure to rush us through. Nice to see Biba checking on every table!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Food needs an updateLanieDined on 8/22/2014My family has been going to Biba's for years for birthdays and anniversaries. We always enjoyed the food. But this time it felt like the food was very ordinary and plain. The beet salad was just pickled beats - nothing else. On the capresse sald - the mozzerella was very good but there was hardly any tomato - just a few thin slices. My lasagna was okay. My husband's veal was good, but the plate didn't look very appealing with two long slabs of meat, a dab of vegtables and long run of mashed potatoes. The level of cooking and presention need to be updated and improved. The setting is very nice but the food is not living up to the prices being charged. The meals felt old fashioned and boring compared to other restaurants in Sacramento.
- Anniversary venuemonamatikerDined on 8/22/2014This is the 2nd year in a row that we've celebrated our wedding anniversary at Biba's. It's a wonderful experience… the food, the service, the romantic atmosphere, and live piano on Friday's.Special Features:
- food appetizing but not the hostOpenTable Diner Since 2006Dined on 8/22/2014The lunch was great! Half a chicken was moist and flavorful. Pastas al dente! The gentleman host at lunchtime could have been more welcoming. I said hello to him, with a smile, and told him the time of my reservation...not a word from him :/Special Features:
- It just gets better every time.TableHopperDined on 8/20/2014Marilyn and I travel 100 miles to dine at Biba's, and we do it often. This time it was my birthday eve. We started with martinis at the bar, wonderful piano player and great crowd. Marilyn was thrilled to find eggplant raviolis on the menu and I had Buffalo Mozzarello for a starter, we shared these of course. She had the Halibut, which she declared the "best ever". I had Gnocchi with Osso Bucco sauce, wonderful. Biba's is always an experience, never just dining, and it is always more wonderful than the time before.Special Features:
- Wonderful DinnerSashaVIPDined on 8/20/2014A Wonderful Dinner with our Friends - The staff was great, it was a nice bonus to see Biba =) From our Salads, to the Entree's. Enjoyed nice bottle of Rombauer. We look forward to returning very soon!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ExcellentTmurphVIPDined on 8/19/2014The beet salad is the best around. Always surprised by how wonderful the specials turn out to be.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always ExcellentJimandlinDined on 8/19/2014Biba's never disappoints. This time around we experienced our best dinner ever! Perfect service, very attentive knowledgeable waitress, water, coffee and tea refilled frequently. Loved it all!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- UnsurpassedOpenTable Diner Since 2005Dined on 8/18/2014Biba's is the best restaurant in Northern California, and she is a gracious hostess. We started with appetizer plates of gnocchi, and eggplant ravioli, both on the menu as entrees, but the waitress suggested we try them. Delicious. My guests had the fixed price meal (three courses for $35.00 (pasta, salad or soup, entree of veal stew, chicken, or salmon). I had the seafood stew. I don't know how they get the sauce so flavorful. If I'd been home I would have picked up the bowl and drunk it once the fish were gone. They generally have a "wine of the month" which is a bargain. The salads were excellent. We were too full to have dessert. I'd suggest going with the waiter's recommendations of specials for the night - fresh local ingredients.Special Features:
- Fresh everythingKatiwDined on 8/15/2014The food and the service was excellent! The swordfish was amazing. I definitely recommend Biba's..........Special Features:
- Biba-an affordable gem.OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 8/12/2014We've eaten at Biba several times over the years, always for special occasions. The food is excellent and the service attentive and efficient. This is a place where the food become the center of conversation, tastings are shared and we constantly wonder, "how do they make this taste so good?" We also note that the prices are very reasonable for the quality of food and service provided. We remain impressed that every time we come to Biba the owner is present and obviously remains very engaged in the operation of the restaurant. Biba could easily have rested on her laurels and moved on to other things as so many other "celebrity chefs" have done. The fact that she hasn't earns our respect and appreciation. We hope to return more often.Special Features:
- italianguyDined on 8/7/2014The food is terrific! The ambiance is great, all-in-all, a very nice place. Special!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Fine DiningfishluvrDined on 8/5/2014We love great food and fine dining. Biba's was both. The food over delivers for the price you pay. The service is almost too good. If my water glass dropped 2" someone was there to fill it up. They are so fast and efficient, I never had time to deny them the opportunity (we are in a drought) and I didn't want to leave a full glass at the table. They provide a suitable list of beer and wine. I don't mean to understate their list, it appears to be very deliberate and compliments their menu well. It was a little too loud for me to consider it a romantic place, which did not bother me. We had a great experience and will return and have already recommended it to others.Special Features:
- Biba's is always greatMWReviewVIPDined on 8/5/2014Great food and service. Atmosphere and staff are good but almost a bit unfriendly. So, I would rank the overall dining experience 4 1/2 stars.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Good food, parking scam ruins b-dayRossVIPDined on 8/4/2014As usual, food at Biba's very good. The procuto and Mellon appetizer was very tasty and enough for four. Homemade chicken ravioli was outstanding. My girlfriend had seafood soup (ciopino) that was full of cockles and mussels. Disappointed with parking scam. I parked next to valet parking, clearly marked as 2 hour public parking. Asked by attendant to leave my keys so they could have extra room if needed. After dinner, my car was moved from public space into valet space and I was informed it would be $5 dollars to get my car back. Very disappointed.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Biba's is great!ElleJayVIPDined on 8/1/2014Biba's Restaurant continues to be excellent. The food is always wonderful and the service is among the best in town. The ambiance is welcoming and comfortable in all the right ways. While it's been a while since I hung out at the bar, the bar is once of the best and well-situated in the restaurant in town. Biba's should be at the top of everyone's list when visitors come to town and when you want to go out and have an intimate dinner or lunch.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lasagna To Die ForbigeaterzDined on 7/31/2014THE best lasagna ever. They only offer it Thursdays and Fridays, but definitely worth it! Had a reservation for 8:00 but was allowed to push it back a half hour with no problems.Special Features:
- Best Server EverVacationerVIPDined on 7/31/2014It was our first time at Biba, so perhaps all of the servers are as good. We mentioned that everything looked great and that we'd love to try lots of stuff, but we really can't eat that much. She was able to completely customize our experience. We split the two pasta specials. she had a half order of each split on two plates. One was a cheese ravioli, the other was gnocchi. Both were fabulous and I'm so glad we were able to have both! We then were able to each have only half a salad -- my husband had the Ceasar, I had Arugula. Then, we split the lamb shank. All of the food was fabulous, we were able to try four dishes and we were not overly stuffed when we left. If only all restaurants empowered the wait staff like that!Special Features:
- always a treat!!OpenTable Diner Since 2008Dined on 7/31/2014Great food, great service, great atmosphere- We celebrated a joint anniversary with friends-topnotch dining experienceSpecial Features:
- Just a reminder...RMG11375VIPDined on 7/29/2014This is the most consistently wonderful restaurant in Sacramento!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- a little disappointedSuzannaDined on 7/25/2014We wanted the fixed price menu as it was described on the web site. Then at the restaurant we were told that it was not available that day. Also, it took a very long time for our entree to arrive. We thought we were forgotten. Otherwise very nice. Would rather have a table all to ourselves, however.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- always a dining pleasure!SteveWVIPDined on 7/24/2014My wife and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary at Biba. As always, a tasty meal and excellent service. My wife ordered the Thursday/Friday-only Lasagne Verdi alla Bolognese, a 10-layer lasagne which melts in your mouth. I ordered a Salmon dish, which was a chef's menu addition for the evening. Delicious!Special Features:


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The gathering of the dispersed. That's what this scripture reading from Isaiah is called in those quaint little headings our Bibles use to divide scripture into manageable sizes. The gathering of the dispersed. We have been dispersed all over the country, some in places all over the world, like Costa Rica.
Isaiah is talking to the people of Judah who have not been all over the world, but mostly in Babylon, 500 miles away—as the crow flies. It's a long way from Babylon back to Jerusalem, like walking from here to New Haven, CT, to go visit your friends at Yale. And the Israelites actually take the long way home so they can stay near the rivers and not die of thirst, making their trip nearly 800 miles long. So, it's more like going all the way to Kennebunkport, ME, to visit the Bushes, Yale alumni that they are.
The Israelites are not in Babylon for a friendly visit; they are in Babylon because they were conquered by that country a generation earlier and carted away as exiles. But like most of scripture that's really good, Isaiah is not talking only to them. He could be talking to anybody who has been away for any number of reasons. He could be talking to us. We have been dispersed because Duke closes the dorms over the Christmas Break. I still call it Christmas Break because this is a Methodist school after all. When my parents were in college they had to come back and take finals after Christmas, so it really was the Christmas Break and not the semester break. And if we lived in Australia, it wouldn't be winter, so we couldn't call it the winter break. We'd have to call it the Christmas Break. Christmas just ended 4 days ago…and until today, we have been dispersed.
Like any scattered community, as we contemplate gathering, we have great expectations.
- Everybody still has a 4.0 for the semester.
- No one has missed a single Wesley Worship.
- Both basketball teams remain undefeated.
- And the winter solstice has passed; the light is coming back.
Isaiah spends a lot of time talking about light in this passage. You might want it to be a metaphor, but for people who lived in a land of deep darkness—Isaiah 9— on them light has shined. This is not just a metaphor; this is winter. On Dec. 21 there were 9 hours and 43 minutes of sunlight; but it was cloudy, so there weren't really that many minutes when it was light. The sun set officially at 5:06, but it was already getting dark by 4:30. We have been in darkness, literally.
It is the literal darkness that gives the metaphor meaning, so when Isaiah tells us way over in Chapter 60, the reading for this week, "your light has come," we know what that looks like.
- It looks like the days getting longer one minute at a time.
- It looks like my friends coming back to town, one person at a time.
- It looks like the first day of classes, the first weekly Eucharist, the start of something new, with all the potential and possibility that comes at the beginning.
In the beginning, the first thing God did is say, LIGHT, and light happened. Light points ahead, even while nothing that happened before this moment will disappear.
- Israel-Judah was still sacked by Babylon.
- Those grades you made in the fall are still your grades.
- That gift you didn't get for Christmas this year…well, maybe next year.
The past doesn't go away, but when the "light shines in the darkness"—John 1— the future looks brighter. We're in the Season of Epiphany right now; in fact, this is the Old Testament lesson for last Sunday, the Day of Epiphany. You may know that in most parts of the world the Day of Epiphany is way more important than the Feast of the Nativity, Christmas Day. Christmas Day is pretty specific—birth of the baby Jesus—but Epiphany is far richer, calling out for us deeper meanings of Jesus as Lord and Savior, broader understandings of light returning both literally and metaphorically.
People who wrote scripture didn't make such neat and tidy divisions between what was happening in the world physically and what was happening in their souls spiritually. It was all part of a whole. People who struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder can tell you something about the whole, about what happens when the sunlight goes away and how they feel when it starts to return. Light matters. That's why Isaiah makes the direct connection between the gathering of the dispersed and the return of light.
There's another very important aspect to this light described by Isaiah. When it illuminates you, people can see you. When people see the light, they come to it. When people come to the light, they are also illuminated. So, we are not passive light recipients. We are also active light reflectors.
You would expect a good Methodist to say that:
- Light dwelling, light shining
- Personal piety, social holiness
- Right belief, right action
Let your light shine. Makes me want to burst into song: "this little light of mine…"
What does it mean in the dead of winter to know the light is physically returning? What does it mean for us on the first day of class that we are physically gathering? It means, we're back, the same way the children of Israel came back from Babylon. Their return signaled something true about God and about them. Like the circling beam of a seashore lighthouse, word got out and moved around the countryside. The nations around them heard and believed, this God is for real. We thought they were goners for sure, but they're back.
Nobody thought we were goners; we only went home for Christmas. But as we come back we have the same opportunity the people of Israel had in the 4th century before the common era. We have the same opportunity the people of God have had from the beginning of time. We have the opportunity to live as those blessed by the light. We can do that with some very simple acts:
- Count blessings instead of list short comings
- Talk about opportunities rather than complain about omissions
- Make time for doing nothing rather than fill our lives with nothingness
These are practical tips for reflecting light, but the truth is, we can't reflect anything we don't absorb into the depths of our souls. The light is shining on us. God has provided this illumination. Even when everything about our lives looks and feels dark, we have this certainty.
Is it too simple for us to say, what we do is what we think? If we think God has gifted us with light, gathering us back together to celebrate and worship, then what we do becomes automatic. We simply react as those for whom the light has come.
Arise and shine, for your light has come. Amen.


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