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GOG.com redesigned, adds section for DRM-free movies
GOG.com has announced that they have expanded their service to include DRM-free movies. Each film is priced at $5.99 and, at the moment, has something to do with gaming or Internet culture, though future additions will expand to include "TV and cinema classics from major studios." Buyers can either stream or download the films, and as with the games, digital extras will be included with purchase. There are currently 20 documentaries available, two of which, Art of Playing and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, are being offered for free so that users can get a chance to experience the service.
Play a reviewer covering Always Sometimes Monsters in new demo
Vagabond Dog has released a new demo for their role-playing adventure title Always Sometimes Monsters. In it, players take on the role of a game reviewer who is attending a launch event, where they will get to chat it up with other writers, the developers, and also play through select portions of the game. After finishing the game, the player will then be able to write about their experience and score the game, which will both determine the game's success and be shared with other players. For those who enjoy themselves, Steam is currently offering a weekly discount of 50% off.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt editions, pre-order extras revealed
During their GOG.com Summer Conference, CD Projekt Red detailed a Collector's Edition and pre-order bonuses for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Wild Hunt will be available in three versions: a digital version, a standard boxed version, and the Collector's Edition. The standard physical release will include the game, the soundtrack, an informational book titled Witcher Universe – The Compendium, a map, a set of stickers, and a protective sleeve. The Collector's Edition includes even more, adding a steelbook box, a 200-page art book, a Witcher medallion, and a 33x24x26 cm hand-painted figure of Geralt of Rivia fighting a Griffin. There will even be an inner and outer box to store the goods.
Stories abound with release of Always Sometimes Monsters for PC
Always Sometimes Monsters, a new story-driven role-playing game inspired by real-life events, has launch for PC. Players choose a race, gender, and sexual orientation, and play out a life in a game world that reacts to each choice they make. Beginning shortly after finding their love about to marry another, players will be given numerous choices throughout this new phase of their life, and each choice they make will impact an ever-branching story that is designed to change with each playthrough.
GOG.com begins the Battle of the Games, The Witcher 2 80% off
Purveyor of yesteryear GOG.com has begun a new promo that offers gamers a chance to vote on which titles they want to save their cash on, the Battle of the Games. Two trios will be posted, and the set with the most votes will be discounted by 75% for 24 hours and the other by 60%. New games will be posted each day at 5:00 a.m. CST until April 21. To kick things off, The Witcher and The Witcher 2 are 80% off, Heroes of Might and Magic I, II, and III are each 75% off, and Blackguards Special Edition is 50% off.
Age of Wonders III sets out on campaign, now on GOG and Steam
The Age of Wonders series has been dormant for over a decade, but it returns today with the release of Age of Wonders 3 on GOG and Steam. The Triumph Studios-developed turn-based strategy title features online play with versus modes and scenarios, two playable factions, new leader classes (e.g., warlord, rogue, theocrat), a new tactical combat system, and an increased focus on unit specialization. Leaders will have to undertake quests, set up economies, negotiate with neighboring factions, and of course, crush enemy armies.
Blackguards makes a break for it on GOG, Steam for Mac and PC
Blackguards, adventure-gaming maven Daedalic's foray into the role-playing world, is now available on GOG and Steam for Mac and Windows PC. A new entry in The Dark Eye universe, Blackguards has players take on the role of a convicted murderer and lead a group of criminals and outcasts against a new sinister power that threatens the land. Players must not only fight against these forces of evil but also wild beasts and monsters as well as the law—they are criminals, after all. The action-heavy title features over 180 battle maps and a turn-based combat system.
Wasteland 1 – The Original Classic now available on GOG, Steam
inXile has brought back Wasteland. Not the successful Kickstarter-funded sequel but the 1988 original, courtesy of digital distribution. Released last Friday as a backer reward for its Kickstarter campaign, Wasteland 1 – The Original Classic is now available for all via GOG.com and Steam. The $5.99 download takes players back to 2087, 89 years after a nuclear war has left Earth irradiated and nearly uninhabitable. As the leader of a band of Rangers, players will take to the wilds in order to battle bandits and mutated animals as they track down a new, even more dangerous threat. This latest version has been updated to run on modern systems and includes an expanded save function, new voice-over work, support for higher resolutions (with a choice of classic or smooth visuals), tracks from Wasteland 2, and text from the original pack-in book and manual.
Beware friend and foe in Avadon 2: The Corruption, out now for PC
Spiderweb Software's latest role-playing game has hit the download circuit. Avadon 2: The Corruption is now available for Mac and Windows PC on GOG.com, Steam, and the official website. Picking up where The Black Fortress left off, players must not only fight off invading foes after the fall of the fortress but also stave off an impending civil war in Avadon. In addition to new quests, weapons, and artifacts, The Corruption also adds a new class, the Tinkermage.
Grab some lantern fuel, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs launches for PC
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has launched for PC on GOG, Desura, Steam, and other digital outlets. The atmospheric first-person horror title comes from Frictional Games and The Chinese Room, the studios behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther, and is described as a "narrative-driven horror, free of combat and complex puzzles."


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Dear Brent Ozar Unlimited readers: thanks for following me for three great years. I'm off on a new adventure, but I hope to see you at a user group, a SQL Saturday, or a conference in the future!
I'm leaving with a lot of great memories – and here are a few of my favorites from the last three years.
My first company retreat was also my first SQL Cruise!
I got to co-present my first full-day pre-con at PASS Summit with Brent, Jeremiah, and Kendra in 2013.
Body boarding at the company retreats in Mexico is always a blast.
We had awesome training weeks in Chicago in 2013 and 2014.
We ate at Little Goat on May the 4th. Or, Doug usually dresses up for nights out. You can decide.
And I'll always fondly remember our mascot from Mexico: donk!
Kendra says: Jes has been amazing and fun to work with. But you can tell that from the pictures! We wish her all the best and are proud to have her as an alumnus.
Doug says: Thanks to you, Jes, I've learned a whole new repertoire of workplace-appropriate donkey jokes. (Not appropriate for other workplaces. Just this one.) We're gonna miss you!
Jeremiah says: It's been a blast working with Jes – for once I wasn't the loudest person in the room! I'll miss your energy and your love of log shipping.
Brent says: I can't believe it's been three years already since we first talked to Jes about the job – and in a coffee shop, of course. I'm so happy we got to be part of her journey, and I can't wait to see what she does next.
Are "bad" statistics the reason my query is slow?
How often are "bad" statistics to blame for a "slow" or "bad" query? Chances are, not nearly as often as you think.
What are "bad" statistics?
Most often, when people say statistics are "bad", what they mean is "out-of-date". But what does that mean?
Let's compare two tables – dbo.OrderStatuses and dbo.Orders. OrderStatuses is a 25-row table that contains a master list of all possible order statuses. Only one or two changes occur per year. Orders is a 2-million-plus-row table that contains information about every order placed in our system. There are, on average, 10,000 new orders placed per day (currently).
Let's say that statistics were last updated on dbo.OrderStatuses 90 days ago, and last updated on dbo.Orders 9 days ago. Are either of those "out of date"? The date the statistics were last updated isn't as important as how many changes have occurred since the last update.
Rougly, all tables with more than 500 rows will need a number of changes equal to 20% of the rows plus 500. (The formula for updating statistics is documented here.) This formula applies to tables of 1,000 rows, 560,000 rows, or even 2,000,000 rows. Larger tables require more changes to automatically update – thus, large tables are more susceptible to "bad" statistics.
How do I tell if statistics are my problem?
Or, as the question was asked in a different way, is there a way to tell if statistics are my problem without looking at the query plan? When asked that way, I would answer, "Not easily."
I most commonly find tables that have statistics problems by looking at a query's actual execution plan and comparing the estimated and actual rows returned.
Finding out-of-date stats in other ways would require me to do some digging. I'd have to find the number of rows in an index, calculate the change threshold, and use sys.dm_db_stats_properties modification_counter to determine if it's close to the threshold. Then I'd have to decide if I should manually update the stats or not.
I prefer to approach the problem on a query-by-query basis instead.
What can you do to combat this?
Leave the default options to auto-create and auto-update stats turned on.
Run Ola Hallengren's index maintenance script – or, his entire set of scripts. Ola's index maintenance script has the parameter @UpdateStatistics, which allows you to choose index stats, column stats, or all. You can also choose to set @OnlyModifiedStatistics to true, so stats are only modified if rows have changed since the last stats update. This is a great way to include stats maintenance along with index maintenance in your regular routine.
If you have large tables which have frequent updates, but automatic stats updates and a weekly stats job aren't enough to keep up, it's acceptable to create a SQL Server Agent Job that updates the stats on that table on a regular basis – perhaps once a day.
In SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft introduced trace flag 2371. With this trace flag enabled, rather than a set 20% change threshold, the more rows you have in a table, the lower the change percentage gets for an auto update. What is the formula? That's not published yet, but one example is given in the KB – "For example, if the trace flag is activated, update statistics will be triggered on a table with 1 billion rows when 1 million changes occur." Be careful with this option, though, and test it thoroughly before putting it in production. Frequent stats updates can cause frequent query recompilations – queries can take a bit longer to run, and CPU will be used more.
What if statistics aren't my problem?
The chances of a poor query performance being caused by out-of-date statistics is very low.
There are so many things that factor into query performance that you should look at first. Is the query slow only for you, or for one set of values? The problem could be parameter sniffing. Evaluate the overall health of your SQL Server by checking your wait statistics, or using a tool like sp_AskBrent to see what is happening in your server right now. Is your server suffering from blocking? Review the query execution plan – are there obvious issues such as large scans, index seeks combined with key lookups, large sorts, or other common problems? And last but not least, do you have baselines to compare to?
Remember: bad, or out-of-date, statistics, can cause problems, but it's rare. A poorly-performing query is always worth tuning!
Want to learn more about statistics? Check out my video Statistics: Beyond Performance. Need performance tuning help? Check out Developer's Guide to SQL Server Performance!
Kendra says: I completely agree with Jes– I was once a "statistics blamer" and thought it was the source of all my slow query problems. It turns out that there was just a lot I didn't understand.
What Problems can Extended Events Solve? (Video)
Extended Events have been available since SQL Server 2008, but they are still a black box to most database administrators. Rather than focusing on the technicalities of sessions and targets, Jes will show the value of Extended Events by showing you what problems can be solved. Metrics can be gathered, performance problems can be targeted, and events can be tracked. Let me show you how easy it is!
Brent Says: The timeline in here showing XE changes from SQL Server 2008 to SQL 2014 is really helpful. Profiler is a dead man walking, and XE is more like a zombie that rose up from the dead and became a powerful superhero working for the good guys. (Look, writing analogies isn't my day job.)
Kendra Says: I agree– Profiler stinks! I especially love Jes' analysis of what SQL Trace had that we don't have in Extended Events: super helpful and not something you'd notice right away. I'm totally on Team Extended Events, I just like knowing the little things I may need to code or manage around.
"It's Slow" Is Not A Metric
When I start a SQL Server Critical Care with a client, the first thing I ask is, "What is your #1 pain point? Where does it hurt?" The answer I hear most often is, "The server is too slow".
I'm a runner. If I was able to run a 5K race at an 8:30 per mile pace, I would think I was the fastest runner on earth. The world record for a 5K by a woman is at a 4:34 per mile pace. She would think an 8:30 pace was…slow.
Slow is relative.
Slow is not a metric.
In order to effectively measure our systems, we need metrics.This is why baselines for our systems are so essential.
Getting Started with Baselines
The first thing to ask is, "What information do I need to track?" There are a few data points to monitor on any SQL Server: CPU usage, memory usage, number of reads and writes, time spent on reads and writes, wait statistics, and more.
If you have baselines, when a user says, "The system is slow", you can check your current metrics against your baselines. Has CPU spiked significantly? You can then use a tool like sp_WhoIsActive or sp_AskBrent® to find queries using a large amount of CPU. Maybe you can't find anything in SQL Server – use Resource Monitor to see if there's an external process in Windows chewing up CPU.
Are reads or writes taking longer than usual? Again, use a tool to see what queries are currently running and how much work they are doing. If you have shared storage, such as a SAN, have a method in place to determine if it's the SQL Server using the storage, or another system connected to the SAN.
Become familiar with wait statistics. Run samples so you know what your average waits are. If you get a call saying, "It's slow", look at a 60-second sample of current waits. If the top three are normally CXPACKET, ASYNC_NETWORK_IO, and PAGEIOLATCH_SH, and now LCK_M_IX is second on the list, dig into your server to see what is holding the locks.
Tools for Baselines
You have many options for collecting and reporting on baselines. You can write your own, or you can invest in a third party tool.
You can create your own tool using a variety of tools:
- Perfmon: http://www.brentozar.
com/archive/2006/12/dba-101- using-perfmon-for-sql- performance-tuning/
- Wait Stats: http://www.brentozar.
com/responder/triage-wait- stats-in-sql-server/
- DMVs: http://www.brentozar.
com/blitz/slow-storage-reads- writes/
- Extended Events: http://www.brentozar.
Data can be saved to a repository database you create, and you can write custom reports to track anything you wish in Reporting Services (or another report tool). Of course, this involves time, effort, and testing. You want to make sure you are tracking the right metrics, storing them correctly, and reporting on them accurately. The level of customization you get is wonderful, but you need to ensure you create an accurate solution.
There are many third party tools available for you to monitor SQL Server. The best way to approach selecting one is to write down a list of what you want to track, and make sure the software you pick has those features. Remember things like custom metrics, reports, and alerts! Most tools will offer a free trial; take advantage of that to make sure you're making the right decision.
Have metrics, not feelings
"Slow" is relative. "Slow" is not a metric. You never know when someone is having a bad day and everything feels slow to him, or he needs to rush out the door early because his kid is sick, or she is getting ready for vacation and time has slowed down in her world. Measure and track. Numbers don't lie.
Brent says: You get what you measure. The instant you start putting a graph on your cubicle wall, people start paying attention.
Kendra says: User complaints per day is also a metric! Find out what parts of the application people are complaining about and what their experience is specifically. As you work through issues, "Numbers of complaints solved" is a really useful metric for your next performance review.
Three reasons to use Extended Events
I have a new mission: to convince you, the long-time Profiler user, to switch to Extended Events. I realize I have a long, difficult task ahead of me. Profiler has been around for a long time. You're comfortable with it. You know it's not perfect, but you have learned to live with its imperfections. Now I want you to step outside your comfort zone and learn a new tool, with new terminology, a new interface and new capabilities.
I'm going to start with a few reasons for you to consider Extended Events. I want you to think about these things, and if they could make your job easier.
1. The number of events in Profiler has remained the same since SQL Server 2008. The number of events in Extended Events (XE) has more than tripled.
What kind of events are being added to XE, but not Profiler? Events for any new features, such as Availability Groups, In-Memory OLTP, and Windows Azure Storage. You can query sys.trace_events to see which events are available for Profiler, and sys.dm_xe_objects to see the events for XE.
/* Profiler */ SELECT trace_event_id, name FROM sys.trace_events; /* XE */ SELECT pkg.name AS PkgName, pkg.description as PkgDescr, obj.name as EventName, obj.description as EventDescr FROM sys.dm_xe_objects obj inner join sys.dm_xe_packages pkg ON pkg.guid = obj.package_guid WHERE obj.object_type='event' and pkg.name NOT IN ('qds', 'ucs', 'SecAudit');
If I am using XE and have an Availability Group, I can track availability_replica_state_change to see what the replica's previous state and current state are – such as when a replica goes from a secondary to primary. If using SQL Server 2014's buffer pool extensions, I can count how many times pages are read, using buffer_pool_extension_pages_read, or when they are removed, using buffer_pool_extension_pages_evicted. Even without any special features, XE lets me dig deeper into what SQL Server is doing. I can track async_io_requested and async_io_completed events, which I can't do with Profiler. You can count page_split as it's happening, to see if that's causing a performance problem. XE has many, many events!
2. XE gives you multiple options to save and view the data. With Profiler, you can view the action live on-screen, and risk bringing the server down, or you can save it to a trc file and view it after the fact. XE allows you to choose one or more targets for each session, and they allow a lot of flexibility.
You can "View Live Data" and watch the events you've selected scroll across the screen (although I still wouldn't recommend this approach). You can save your events to a file on disk, then review them later. You can also collect data in ways Profiler didn't allow. For example, using the event_counter target allows you count the instances of an event happening – while it's happening, no going back and having to aggregate after the fact. The histogram target is similar, but allows you to put the event in groups – again, as it's happening, not later. You can also use the pair_matching target to find related events that match.
3. XE sessions are easily scriptable & portable. Yes, you could script out a Profiler session. Does this really make sense to you?
An XE script is simple to read and understand. I can create this once and deploy it to any server.
It's time to consider moving away from Profiler and using Extended Events. In a future release of SQL Server, Profiler will be gone – so learn more about Extended Events starting today!
Querying Extended Events Target XML [Video]
If you've poked at Extended Events in the last five years, you know the targets store data as…XML. Has XML been the reason you haven't adopted Extended Events? Don't let it stop you! In this video, Jes breaks down her method for unraveling the XML of targets.
The scripts I used can be downloaded here.
Jeremiah says: This is great! I wish I'd had this kind of tutorial when I started working with Extended Events.
Kendra says: XQuery is rough, and totally weird when you're first looking at it. It's great to get a guided tour of this strange part of the TSQL language.
How to Query Extended Events Target XML
When Extended Events (XE) were released with SQL Server 2008, I was excited – something new to learn! I read Microsoft articles about them, read blog posts about them, and tried to use them. At that time, there was no GUI for XE. I had to create the sessions with T-SQL. That wasn't awful – I learned the syntax after some trial and error, and could start and stop sessions. There was also no GUI to view the saved data – and it was all saved as XML.
I gave up when faced with XML. When SQL Server 2008R2 came out, I once again looked at XE. With no GUI for creating or viewing data, I retreated in defeat again. With SQL Server 2012 came the GUI – a new session wizard, a new session dialog box, the (not-recommended) ability to view live data, and the ability to see the information you collected. But that didn't solve the root problem for me – all the good data, all the results I wanted to view, aggregate, and slice and dice, were still in XML.
So, I learned to query XML with T-SQL. It hasn't been easy for me to understand. But, by breaking it down into small steps I was able to conquer it. If querying XML has been the reason you've been avoiding XE, I'm here to help you get past it!
Create a session
I'm going to create a session that collects wait statistics and puts them in the Ring Buffer target, then run a small workload to capture waits.
CREATE EVENT SESSION [Ring Buffer - Track Waits] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlos.wait_info( ACTION(sqlserver.database_id,sqlserver.database_name,sqlserver.is_system,sqlserver.session_id,sqlserver.sql_text)) ADD TARGET package0.ring_buffer WITH (STARTUP_STATE=OFF) GO /* Start session */ ALTER EVENT SESSION [Ring Buffer - Track Waits] ON SERVER STATE=START; /* Run a workload or series of queries. */ USE StackOverflow_20130906; GO SELECT Id, DisplayName, CreationDate, LastAccessDate FROM Users WHERE UpVotes > 1000; SELECT V.PostId, V.VoteTypeId FROM Votes V INNER JOIN Users U ON U.Id=V.UserId WHERE U.DownVotes > 100;
I used the default query from Books Online to view the data. This is not helpful!
SELECT name, target_name, CAST(xet.target_data AS xml) FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets AS xet JOIN sys.dm_xe_sessions AS xe ON (xe.address = xet.event_session_address) WHERE xe.name = 'Ring Buffer - Track Waits';
Even if I click the target_data column (which I can do!), I just get a page of XML I have to read through. Yuck!
Querying XML
So, how do I make this data understandable, so I can count the number of each wait type that happened? We want to get the XML into a format we can use. I'm going to start by inserting the data into a temp table and selecting it.
SELECT CAST(target_data as xml) AS targetdata INTO #capture_waits_data FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets xet JOIN sys.dm_xe_sessions xes ON xes.address = xet.event_session_address WHERE xes.name = 'Ring Buffer - Track Waits' AND xet.target_name = 'ring_buffer'; SELECT * FROM #capture_waits_data;
This gives us the same link to a page of XML. What we can do now that that data is in a temp table, though, is "shred" the XML. XML is just nodes of data. You only need to understand the hierarchy of the nodes to query it.
Let's look at this XML. I can see there is one element, event name="wait_info" (highlighted in green) that I want to dig into. Under that, I want to get the "wait_type", "duration", and "signal_duration" (highlighted in yellow) attributes.
To do so, I use the T-SQL XML value function to pull out wait_type, like so.
SELECT xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)') AS wait_type FROM #capture_waits_data CROSS APPLY targetdata.nodes('//RingBufferTarget/event') AS xed (event_data);
Once I understand how to use the value function, I can do the same for other data I want to see.
SELECT xed.event_data.value('(@timestamp)[1]', 'datetime2') AS [timestamp], xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)') AS wait_type, xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="duration"]/value)[1]', 'int') AS wait_type_duration_ms, xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="signal_duration"]/value)[1]', 'int') AS wait_type_signal_duration_ms FROM #capture_waits_data CROSS APPLY targetdata.nodes('//RingBufferTarget/event') AS xed (event_data);
Level up: Aggregating data
For this XE session (and wait statistics in general), having every wait listed out isn't helpful. I want to aggregate the data so I can see which wait occurred the most frequently. What happens when I try to aggregate this query?
SELECT xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)') AS wait_type, COUNT (xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)')) AS count_wait_type, SUM (xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="duration"]/value)[1]', 'int')) AS sum_wait_type_duration_ms, SUM (xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="signal_duration"]/value)[1]', 'int')) AS sum_wait_type_signal_duration_ms FROM #capture_waits_data CROSS APPLY targetdata.nodes('//RingBufferTarget/event') AS xed (event_data) GROUP BY xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)');
I have to take a different approach. I'm going to use a derived table. I will put my initial query to select the data from the temp table into the FROM clause, then aggregate on the results.
SELECT xei.wait_type, COUNT(xei.wait_type) AS count_wait_type, SUM(xei.wait_type_duration_ms) AS sum_wait_type_duration_ms, SUM(xei.wait_type_signal_duration_ms) AS sum_wait_type_signal_duration_ms FROM (SELECT xed.event_data.value('(@timestamp)[1]', 'datetime2') AS [timestamp], xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="wait_type"]/text)[1]', 'varchar(25)') AS wait_type, xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="duration"]/value)[1]', 'int') AS wait_type_duration_ms, xed.event_data.value('(data[@name="signal_duration"]/value)[1]', 'int') AS wait_type_signal_duration_ms FROM #capture_waits_data CROSS APPLY targetdata.nodes('//RingBufferTarget/event') AS xed (event_data)) AS xei GROUP BY xei.wait_type ORDER BY SUM(xei.wait_type_duration_ms) DESC;
I have usable data!
Last but not least, I'll clean up after myself.
/* Clean up */ DROP TABLE #capture_waits_data; GO /* Stop session */ ALTER EVENT SESSION [Ring Buffer - Track Waits] ON SERVER STATE=STOP; /* Drop session */ DROP EVENT SESSION [Ring Buffer - Track Waits] ON SERVER;
Querying the XML output from Extended Events sessions is easy if you take it step-by-step. When you are looking at the raw XML, establish what elements you want to extract. (These will vary by the events you choose to capture.) Move the data into a temp table you can work with. Use the XML value function to extract one element at a time, until you have the data you need. At last, if you need or want to, you can aggregate.
Don't let XML be the reason you won't use Extended Events – it isn't for me any longer!
Want to learn more about Extended Events? Start here!
[Video] Statistics: Beyond Performance
Tables and indexes in your databases have statistics associated with them, and you know they help the query optimizer determine the best way to execute a query. But do you know where the information about them is stored, what types of maintenance you should be performing on them, how to check if they need to be updated, and what causes them to change? Jes will explain the care and feeding of database statistics in this webinar.
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Corruption: it can strike at any time. You know this, so you have your page verification option set to CHECKSUM and you run DBCC CHECKDB regularly. When the dreaded day finally arrives, what do you do? If you haven't faced corruption yet, or you want to brush up your repair skills, Jes will show you how to corrupt your database with a sample database and a hex editor – and how to fix it!
Want to learn more about repair options? Read up on how to restore a page in SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Edition.
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How to Restore a Page in SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Edition
One of the many restore features in SQL Server is the ability to restore one or more pages of data. This can be very convenient in some narrow situations – for example, corruption occurs on one page or an oops update is made to one record.
The page restore process is not straightforward, however, and, as I recently discovered, the Books Online article about it is confusing. See, you have to perform the restore offline in all versions except Enterprise Edition – but the only example Books Online gives is…Enterprise Edition.
Here's a straightforward breakdown of how to do a page-level restore both offline and online. For the sake of brevity, let's say I have two databases – TestRestoreOnline and TestRestoreOffline. Both are in Full recovery. Each has one damaged page, which I'm going to restore. (For a full demo script, click here.)
You should already have an existing full backup – mine is at D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-Backup1.bak. I also have one transaction log backup, D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-LogBackup1.trn.
/* This example uses an OFFLINE restore, which is applicable to all versions of SQL Server. */ USE master; GO /* The NORECOVERY statement in this last log backup makes the database "offline" - you don't actually set it OFFLINE. */ BACKUP LOG TestRestoreOffline TO DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-LogBackup2.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; GO /* Restore full backup, specifying one PAGE. I used sys.dm_db_database_page_allocations to find the page number. */ RESTORE DATABASE TestRestoreOffline PAGE='1:293' --Have multiple? Separate with commmas. FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-Backup1.bak' WITH NORECOVERY; /* Restore log backups */ RESTORE LOG TestRestoreOffline FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-LogBackup1.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; RESTORE LOG TestRestoreOffline FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOffline-LogBackup2.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; /* Bring database "online" */ RESTORE DATABASE TestRestoreOffline WITH RECOVERY;
That is an offline page restore. By putting the database in a NORECOVERY mode before the restores begin, the database can't be accessed.
An online page restore is only available in Enterprise Edition. This will allow users to access other objects in the database while you are restoring the page(s) needed.
You should already have an existing full backup (D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-Backup1.bak) and log backup(s) (D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-LogBackup1.trn).
/* This is an example of an online page restore. */ USE master; GO /* Restore full backup, specifying one PAGE. I used sys.dm_db_database_page_allocations to find the page number. */ RESTORE DATABASE TestRestoreOnline PAGE='1:293' --Have multiple? Separate with commmas. FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-Backup1.bak' WITH NORECOVERY; /* Restore log backups */ RESTORE LOG TestRestoreOnline FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-LogBackup1.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; /* With Enterprise Edition, the "online" restore - a log backup with NORECOVERY - goes here. */ BACKUP LOG TestRestoreOnline TO DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-LogBackup2.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; GO /* Restore the last log backup */ RESTORE LOG TestRestoreOnline FROM DISK=N'D:\SQL Backups\TestRestoreOnline-LogBackup2.trn' WITH NORECOVERY; /* Restore database */ RESTORE DATABASE TestRestoreOnline WITH RECOVERY;
The steps for an online restore differ slightly. The tail-log backup is taken after all the other log backups are applied, instead of at the beginning of the sequence.


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James Stengel (16) and Emmett Murphy race a pair of 1972 McLaren M8F entries during the HAWK Vintage Races at Road America. (Shawn Mueller Photo)
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This is so undervalued. Buy before earnings and watch it take off.
Many companies have come out with stellar earning and have gotten whacked regardless.What would be music to the wise and prudent investors' ears is great earnings AND future guidance!I'd say wait until you see more institutional buying, closer to the April 1st high.The current buy point is $14.69.


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YOUNGSTOWN —Members of a faith-based community organization will protest Saturday in front of an adult book store on the city's South Side.
Members of the Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhood will march from St. Patrick Church on Oak Hill Avenue at 10 a.m. to the store, on the corner of Market Street and Cleveland Avenue. The march is to call attention of South Side residents concerned about the adult business in their neighborhood.
Yeah, because that's the biggest problem on the South Side...
Thank you Ianacek.
Why do they call it a book store? Do they even sell books there? I mean, given the lack of education around that area, can the people that frequent such facilities even read?


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Washington D.C. – The American Immigration Council applauds the U.S. Senate for passing comprehensive immigration reform legislation (S. 744) by a vote of 68-32 (including 14 Republicans). This vote reflects how far the country has come in understanding the significance of immigration reform to the health and well-being of the nation as a whole. Regardless of what may come next, today's vote reflects the irrefutable fact that the social and economic benefits of immigration reform are tangible and achievable. There will be much work ahead to continue to perfect the policies reflected in this bill. But for the moment, we should thank the Senate, led by the Gang of Eight, for the courage and vision to finally move the country forward on immigration.
"Today's vote is a game-changer. The debate around immigration reform is forever changed, the notion that the Senate cannot act on immigration is a thing of the past, and now we know that it is possible to find bi-partisan agreement on an issue once deemed toxic," said Benjamin Johnson, Executive Director of the American Immigration Council.
"There is little doubt that today's vote offers the country a chance to start again on immigration. While the compromises necessary to achieve a significant bipartisan vote were many, this is a lesson for us all in democracy—we can respect deep disagreements on policy grounds, yet still find a way forward. The Senate should be commended for giving us all a chance to change the conversation on immigration," said Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigration Policy Center.
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DD is at the dentist getting 4 teeth pulled for her two "double teeth"- shark teeth :-) These are her first teeth lost- so whats the tooth fairy rate these days????
Tooth fairy rate
Proud Mama to S (5/06) and T (8/10). A Crunchy/Vegetarian, extended BF'ing "grad", BW'ing gal.
We paid $2 for the first tooth and $1 for any subsequent teeth.
Maybe in your DD's case, you could give her $5 even ($2 for each tooth and $1 extra thrown in because they were pulled at the dentist's office).
It is the debate team after all, not the pat you on the head team.~bobbylite doitright
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let see I did $5 for the first tooth. But the little snot also told everyone in the family and manage to to0 get $25 by the end of the day. 2nd tooth was 3 dollars and First top front tooth was 5 again after this its 3 for the teeth he looses. But i told him if he gets cavities he gets less money for those teeth
DS(12),DS(8, ASD, ADHD ,Anxiety), DS(3 ( Severe Allergies to Dairy, Egg, Peanut, Tree Nuts
$5 for the first tooth and $1 for each tooth thereafter in our house; however, once grandma was visiting, and decided to add a $10 under her pillow after I went to bed, so she ended up with $11! One of the teeth that came out was somewhat traumatic so that one the tooth fairy also paid $5 for.
Hannah 10/2/05 ~~ Madison 10/13/08
Wow, DH and I were just discussing this not too long ago because DS is getting to the point when he's going to start losing teeth. $5?!? I guess that's the cost of inflation lol. I got like 50 cents when I was a kid so I told DS that the tooth fairy would probably bring him $1 I suppose a dollar doesn't really buy much these days though does it, maybe we'll have to do more.
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we do $1 for every tooth regardless. Although the last tooth that came out DD caught DH putting the money under her pillow and we ended up having the tooth fairy/Easter bunny/ santa claus aren't real talk. I'm guessing we'll still give her $1 a tooth, just maybe not under the pillow while she's sleeping.
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my son had to have surgery also to remove two teeth since it was surgery we gave him two $2 bills after that it has been $1
$20 for the first tooth or for any tooth pulled...for regular teeth...$10.
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It seems that "computer programmer" is often listed as one of the best jobs in America. There are cram schools popping up promising six figure salaries in 12 weeks. And even a former celebrity has chosen it as a second act. All this because there's apparently a tech talent crunch. But is learning to code the best strategy for a viable career? [more inside]
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Maggie's morning coffee
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mosquito netting
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This damn thing scared me at night. Always looked like someone was outside on the patio!
Path below the house.
Pool was a short walk from the house.
Leaf in the pool
Dragonfly near the pool
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Following fast on the heels of Wednesday's "Adventure Worlds" trailer, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have unveiled the Ghostbusters expansion packs for their LEGO Dimensions toy-to-life game.
Announced at GamesCom in Germany, they include a level pack, featuring a playable Peter Venkman playable minifigure, the ECTO-1 and a ghost trap, and two fun packs: one containing Slimer and the other the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have debuted a new trailer for LEGO Dimensions that introduces the 14 Adventure Worlds of the toy-to-life video game.
There's a DC Comics world, a Simpsons world, a Lord of the Rings world, a Back to the Future world, a Wizard of Oz world, a LEGO Ninjago world — well, you get the picture. They separate from the game's main story, with each playable character able to unlock the corresponding world.
WB Games and Avalanche Studios have debuted a "Stronghold," a new trailer for Mad Max that introduces players to the faces and places of the Wasteland they'll encounter in the upcoming video game.
Debuting Sept. 1 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, Mad Max allows gamers to become the legendary lone warrior as they create and upgrade equipment and weapons to survive in the brutal post-apocalyptic world for George Miller's film series.
Believe it or not, there's more to LEGO Dimensions than throwing together a bunch of characters from unrelated franchises into the same video game. There's actually a story, as this new trailer demonstrates.
You see, evil mastermind Lord Vortech vows to rule the LEGO Multiverse by summoning characters from assorted worlds to help him find the Foundational Elements that will allow him to achieve his goal. When a powerful vortex appears and sweeps up characters from DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings and The LEGO Movie, Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle set out to save their friends, only to discover that Lord Vortech is summoning villains from different LEGO worlds to help him gain control.
Just a day after its launch, Warner Bros. last night suspended Windows PC sales of Batman: Arkham Knight. The move comes in the wake of thousands of negative user reviews for the highly anticipated finale to the Rocksteady Studios trilogy.
The game has been removed from sale on Steam, although the listing remains.
Complaints about the technical performance of the PC version began to flood social media and Steam shortly after Arkham Knight's debut on Tuesday, with many users and observers dubbing the launch a "disaster." Rocksteady's initial statement on Tuesday referred to "our external PC development partner," which led to the determination that the PC port was outsourced to 12-person developer Iron Galaxy Studios.
Just days before the June 23 release of Batman: Arkham Knight, WB Games has abruptly canceled the $200 Batmobile Edition.
The highest-tier collector's edition offered, it came bundled with an 80-page art book, a limited-edition comic, an exclusive New 52 skin pack and a transforming Batmobile statue. Kotaku reports that a problem with the latter, produced by Project TriForce, led to the last-minute cancellation.
We already knew LEGO Dimensions would include Valve's popular puzzle game Portal in its mashup world, but this new trailer from Warner Bros. and TT Games demonstrates just how fully it will be integrated.
In the video, which debuted at E3, Portal's primary antagonist GLaDOS puts Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle through a series of tests that can only be solved using the LEGO Dimensions Toy Pad (it's what allows players to introduce characters, vehicles and devices into the toy-to-life game). The footage also depicts Homer Simpson, who doesn't fare so well, and Portal's protagonist Chell.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released the launch trailer for LEGO Jurassic World, the family-friendly adventure that allows gamers to relive all four franchise films, and even play as LEGO dinosaurs.
Arriving today in North America, even as Jurassic World opens in theaters, the game recreates scenes and action sequences from the movies, and enables fans to fully explore the grounds of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna.
Add one more in-game skin to the growing list of incentives to preorder Batman: Arkham Knight, the hotly anticipated conclusion of the Rocksteady Studios trilogy.
Those who preorder the $90 Premium Edition will not only get the game, the Harley Quinn DLC and a Season Pass for future DLC content, but also an exclusive Batman Flashpoint skin. That's of course a nod to the 2011 DC Comics crossover that depicted an alternate timeline in which a young Bruce Wayne is gunned down in Crime Alley, and his father Thomas becomes a gun-wielding Dark Knight.
The Batmobile undergoes some serious upgrades in this new trailer for LEGO Dimensions that showcases the rebuild features of the "t0y-to-life" game: Every vehicle and gadget can be built and then rebuilt twice more to create three different objects that can be introduced into play.
The trailer also features more game footage that confirms the inclusion of some of the properties leaked last month (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment made it official that we'll be seeing The Simpsons, Scooby-Doo, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Portal, Jurassic World, LEGO Chima and Midway Arcade franchise).
Just in case franchise fans needed any more incentive to preorder Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady Studios and WB Games are offering one more enticement: the "Gotham's Future" Skin Pack, featuring the costumes from the animated Batman Beyond and the seminal comic miniseries Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
On the opposite end of the timeline, an in-game skin based on Batman's 1939 debut is being offered as part of the Serious Edition comic bundle.
Following the debut Wednesday of the new LEGO Dimensions trailer, we now get a look at seven of the team packs and fun packs teased in the gameplay footage — including The Joker and Harley Quinn.
Developed by TT Games for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the Disney Infinity-style "toy-to-life" game will launch Sept. 27 with Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle minifigures and the Batmobile. Players will then be able to purchase of additional fun packs and team packs, containing LEGO sets that they'll build into characters, vehicles and devices that they'll be able to introduce into the game with the Toy Pad.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment goes all out in the latest trailer for LEGO Dimensions, which sees Christopher Lloyd reprise his role as Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
It's just one of numerous properties that will be featured as part of the upcoming "toy-to-life" game — others include DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who and Jurassic World — developed by TT Games. Unlike with the popular Skylanders and Disney Infinity, players won't purchase characters but instead LEGO sets that they'll build into characters, vehicles and devices that can be introduced into the game with the Toy Pad.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment trumpeted its "toy-to-life" console game LEGO Dimensions last month, it promised "a lot more" properties would join the likes of DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings and Back to the Future at launch. Thanks to a leak, we now know at least some of them — including Doctor Who, Portal 2, Jurassic World and The Simpsons.
Similar in approach to the popular Skylanders and Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions will enable players to purchase LEGO sets that they'll build into characters, vehicles and devices that can be introduced into the game with the Toy Pad. They'll be able to mix and match characters and objects from a range of properties, changing and expanding gameplay.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Avalanche Studios have released a gameplay trailer for Mad Max, which puts player in the role of the film franchise's star, left in a post-apocalyptic wasteland without a car. Or much of anything else, really. But once Max does assemble a new ride, everyone better get out of his way.
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Your ability to assess the market and, thus, to establish a realistic listing price was the very TOOL that moved the sale of the house quickly.
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View of the beach from Topper's restaurant at Flamingo Beach where we were having our first rum punch at happy hour.
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Ceviche at Jimbo's, a decent restaurant at the end of our street, Billy Folly Road, Simpson Bay.
The earrings I didn't buy in Phillipsburg at The Place.
Sunset at Flamingo Beach
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This crab visited me during my morning coffee.
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McDonald's pay bump was the result of a higher cash-based bonus of $3.3 million, which was up 36 per cent from the previous year. His base salary of $1.6 million and stock awards of $6.4 million were unchanged from the previous year. His stock options were valued at $4.2 million, a 4 per cent dip.
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Cuneta is a duo formed by Alba Murcia and Vicent Pelechano. Since 2006 they have been delivering parcels of electronic music and explored various terrains building their music that blends experimental music made with found objects and a certain electronic pop.
In 2008 they began "Músicas Brutas / Raw Musics II" a very special project within their biography. The project began while conducting a music workshop with a group of people with physical and psychical disabilities. The aim: to make music with people without musical prejudice and preconception, people whose minds are free to wander about in the boundaries of music, sound and composition.
This first approach was formalised by Cuneta using recordings done Clara Montana G. Murcia; Alba's sister who had Down Syndrome. The recordings are based on improvisations using different instruments and voice and they were published as the first "Músicas Brutas. Raw Musics" on January 2013.
Finally we get to "Músicas Brutas / Raw Musics II" after the first glimpse of the project, Murcia and Pelechano ended up in Bristol UK. There they conducted a workshop at the National Star College an institution devoted to education and personal development of young people with complex disabilities. Through a series of sessions with the inmates of the college Cuneta assembled a variety of recordings that ultimately conform what's presented here, the second instalment and a long time awaited project by this duo from Valencia, Spain.
Raw Music can be understood as many things, and can be approached from many perspectives, disciplines, etc. In their own words Cuneta states that this project primarily seeks to attend in various issues concerning the people involved in the project. While trying to set up an album Cuneta is also providing tools to people with disabilities or people with different needs to understand sound as a medium as an alternative way to engage, express or communicate freely without musical constrains.
While trying to assemble a sound art piece of work Cuneta goes beyond the creative process and states that regardless of the condition anyone is capable of being creative, and no boundaries to creativity exist if the will is to work freely.
Finally, Cuneta aims to provide visibility to those people involved in the preliminary workshop as artists working in a creative project that transcends the walls of the caring and educational institution. "Músicas Brutas / Raw Musics II" is a beautiful tale about how to reclaim difference as a booster of creativity and inspiration.
Recorded at National Star College (Cheltenham, England) on 8th & 9th October 2013 during Cuneta's Raw Musics workshop. Mixed in Bristol between October 2013 and February 2014 by Cuneta.
The National Star College is a provider of specialist further education, training and personal development for young people with complex physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries and associated sensory, learning, medical, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Thanks to:
All amazing students and staff members from the National Star College Creative and Performing Arts Department (CAPA) who joined Raw Musics workshops and produced the picture for the album cover; Charlie Baxter for his support and collaboration; Juanjo Rico from Moments Arts; Paula Olivares for helping with translation tasks; Caseta Mágica for the artwork; Audiotalaia netlabel and special thanks to Paul Tarling, CAPA director, for trust in Cuneta.
You can find more about Raw Musics project at: www.cucuneta.blogspot.co.uk
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In the following essay, Bache contends that "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is "valuable both as a comment on and as a representation of Hemingway's craftsmanship and insight."
At first glance the short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"1 by Ernest Hemingway may seem slight; yet if it is slight, it is so only in length and not by any other standard. The intrinsic value of the story has been well recognized by Mark Schorer, who has said of it: "'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' is not only a short story, it is a model of the short story, with all the virtues that attend it as a genre singularly lighted."...
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When I started hunting for reviews on Marvel's latest Spider-Man title, Avenging Spider-Man by writer Zeb Wells and artist Joe Madureira, I wasn't surprised that the reviews were good–Wells and Madureira are certainly up for the task–but I was surprised by how good they were. As a reader, I didn't really have this book on my radar, but after seeing how much folks liked it, and how words like "fun" and "the team-up is back" were being thrown around, I decided to download it and read it myself. As the owner of near-complete runs of Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-In-One, I was pleased to find out that, indeed, as Chris Sims put it, "this comic is Marvel Team-Up, and with this issue, it's earned the name."
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This is so adorable and cute
Lol I was looking at the comments and listening to music then I swear the gifs were dancing!!!
I love it!!
I love it!!
oh wow!! That is so amazing! I love the new coloring style and how I can just feel the hard work put into this! It's so smooth and adorable ^^
aww wow she looks soo beautiful and elegant i really love her outfit and the color scheme, the colors just look lovely together her expression is too cute i love how innocent and sweet she looks. Her hair is so graceful in the wind i love how flowy you drawn it and the single strands everywhere the flowers are gorgeous i love the color and how they are flowing in the wind. Her eyes are really brought out here. I love how you did the background it fits perfectly. Beautiful work on the coloring, the new coloring style is really pretty ; o ;. This is really breathe taking <3
What beautiful pose and lovely colors! And those flowers looks beautiful
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SO PRETTY!!! I really love that background *U*
sooooo cute
It's really good
I like it. You can take her home? xd
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sorry for my bad English. :с
Wow this is beautiful!
amazing detail in the flowers!!
and i like the new coloring style too! <3333
and i like the new coloring style too! <3333
This is a very lovely work. Love her expression, and the coloring is really good. Lire's Arch Ranger outfit its my favorite one for her ^^
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yeah, that's Lire I love her <3
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The low-frequency noise in the silicon nanowire field-effect transistor (SNWFET) is characterized using SNWFETs with different channel diameters dNW. The current density and the simulation result indicate that the volume inversion as manifested by the spatial charge distribution is enhanced in smaller dNW. The measured noise data are discussed based on the number and correlated mobility fluctuation model. It is shown that the low-frequency noise decreases in smaller dNW. This dNW-dependent noise behavior is clarified in terms of the effective oxide trap density and the fraction of inversion charges near the Si-SiO2 interface.