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Valentine's flowers have several meanings
Updated On: Nov 22 2010 03:19:45 AM EST
Not sure of the right type of flower to get your sweetheart this Valentine's Day? Roses, of course, are the most popular choice, followed by tulips and carnations.
But with so many different types of flowers to pick from, so to speak, a little lesson in floral etiquette can make your day all the more special.
The floral Web site Flora2000, which facilitates floral deliveries in 150 countries worldwide, has put together a set of etiquette tips for Valentine's Day, suggesting which flowers would be most appropriate based on your relationship:
- Spouse: Rose.
- Mom: A mix of white, red and pink roses will show love, purity and admiration.
- New relationship: Pink, orange and yellow roses signifying happiness, a desire to get to know the person better and friendship respectively. Red would say "I love you" which might not be appropriate for a new relationship.
- Secret crush: Agapanthis and Gardenia.
Flora2000 said that depending on what color rose you select for your valentine, it may not convey the meaning you intended. The site said these are the most commonly accepted meaning for each color rose:
- Red: Love.
- Yellow: Friendship but also considered to show jealousy at times.
- White: Peace and humility.
- Pink: Happiness.
- Peach: Sympathy or gratitude.
Also, the site suggested that some flowers should never be given to your valentine. First remember not give anything that is black in color. Also never give withered flowers. Here are the symbolic meanings of these specific flowers you should avoid giving.
- Yellow hyacinth: Jealousy.
- Geranium: Folly.
- Striped carnation: Rejection.
- Sweet Pea: Goodbye.
- Dark crimson rose: Mourning.
- Yellow tulips: Hopeless love.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Grand Designs
Power Windows is that rarest of animals; a perfect album. Every track, the mood of the album, is electric. It is also one of the very best Rush albums. Polished, slick and glossy but more importantly, it is infused with layered depths of emotional and musical intelligence.
Grand Designs and Middletown Dreams overflow with excitement, powerful pulsating...
Published on 23 Nov 2008 by G. Young
3.0 out of 5 stars Power Windows
Not the best album produced by Rush but always been a fan of the unusual vocal, if you are a Rush fan you will enjoy but not their best piece
Published 14 months ago by MARK SHAW
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Grand Designs,
G. Young (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Power Windows is that rarest of animals; a perfect album. Every track, the mood of the album, is electric. It is also one of the very best Rush albums. Polished, slick and glossy but more importantly, it is infused with layered depths of emotional and musical intelligence.
Grand Designs and Middletown Dreams overflow with excitement, powerful pulsating basslines, combined with some of Neil Peart's most heroic, unusual, complex and exciting drum fills, fully brought to life by the lush, full bodied production.
Elsewhere, Marathon and Emotion Detector burst with feeling via Alex Lifeson's stunning guitar work. The Big Money will make you wonder how on earth three musicians can create something that sounds so vast. I find the songs pulse with energy and vibrancy, almost like a living thing, the craftmanship and quality of the songwriting is first class. This is one of those records that can transport you to another place, it is like taking a walk on a dark evening with lightning in the sky and a brilliant full moon, remote in the blackness, this is a record that will make you feel alive.
Power Windows is one of the best rock albums you will ever hear. Rush blended electronics with the full power of traditional instrumentation to create something quite extraordinary. To fully appreciate this album in its correct context I strongly recommend the previous studio album, Grace Under Pressure (an album approaching perfection) and Hold Your Fire - the latter being the sister record to Power Windows as it shares many rhythmic similarities and contains further developments on the the themes of power and emotion. Also, Rush experiment further with the fusion of electronic and acoustic instrumentation. Rush have never been afraid of taking chances, they are musical scientists exploring sprawling new avenues of sound with a rare honesty and bristling intelligence. For me, Power Windows rates amongst their best work, alongside Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and A Farewell To Kings.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep, powerful and quite exquisite,
Paul Gavin Appleyard "Everton Paul" (Liverpool) - See all my reviews
This is the only Rush album that I own .. which is odd, because this is one of my all time favourite albums. A friend lent me a cassette copy of this in 1991 whilst at Uni. I listened to it at night, in bed with my walkman - and it has left a deep impression on me. Later I purchased it on CD.
I usually am not one for deep lyrics, which I feel can often be pretentious and just get in the way of the music. Normally my ear gravitates towards instrumental performances. However this album has it all - fantastic instrumental performances and beautifully crafted lyrics that poetically yet efficiently ram the point home. The use of synthesisers (a new departure for Rush at the time - I think) is just perfect, blending wonderfully with Geddy Lee's superb bass lines and Lifeson's distant and reverb laden guitars, giving the album a smooth and mystical vibe. Production is 1st class - Pearts drums sit nicely with Lee's bass in the mix. Fantastic, memorable melodies - many of the vocal lines have real hooks and you can't help but sing along. This album is just beautiful - I can't praise it enough.
That's my opinion - as a non Rush aficionado!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best SYNTH album of the 80's... no doubt about it!,
Agma (UK) - See all my reviews
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Power Windows was released in October 1985, smack bang in the middle of 80's as u'd expect from rock titan's rush, excellent and intelligent songs await the listener with ABSOLUTELY NO FILLER WHATSOEVER!
Rush's career at this point featured the highest level of synthesizer in any of their albums, but power windows is so much more than the usual pop synth style trash circulating around in '85.
It was in my opinion ever since it's release been overshadowed by rush's previous rock staples 'hemispheres' and 'moving pictures'
Power windows or infact any of their 80's syntheiser albums will ever be regarded as their best, it is however still a classic no doubt about it, although this type of music in particular will never appeal to everyone it is definatly an album of it's time taken at face value and not comparing to so many other of rush's amazing releases, it is likely that power windows will become both a top 5 rush fan favourate and to also the casual listener.
THE BIG MONEY - AH what a cracking start to an album, well balanced guitar and synth throughout, an amazing riff chorus and solo from Lifeson also compliment the song greatly, a live and Hit favourate easy to see why outstanding song... 10/10
GRAND DESIGNS - Great song again very intriguing synth bursts you can see the relativity with the lyrics with the comment i made above 'so much style without substance' indeed! 9/10
MANHATTAN PROJECT - An umbelivable gem of a song amazing quality control on synths by geddy, very melodic but packs a punch too, could never imagine power windows a classic without this song! special mention to the intricacy and accuracy of the peart's drumming at the end i wonder sometimes are they human it's that good. 10/10
MARATHON - A breathtaking song to say the least, full of catchy synth hooks abound behind very melodic soloing from lifeson but most people including myself find the synth chorus the real gold in this song i cannot fault this song either 10/10 should be 11!
TERRITORIES - Probably the most guitar work of the 8 songs should be very welcomed by rush's 70's fans, A very very good song indeed in between the loud plunging of geddy's synth work, lifeson gives it his all on guitar but credit here must be given for Geddy's vocals which are arguably the best yet from any rush song, i can't imagine this song disapointing anyone! 10/10
MIDDLETOWN DREAMS - Apropriatly titled, here synth is on full blaze quite mellow in relation to the previous three but the ending for power and melody gives any of the songs on Power Windows a good run for their money absolutely not a throw away number! Great song 9/10
EMOTION DETECTOR - Well if geddy here was experimenting on how melody could bring a tear to the listers eye here he succeeds.
Full marks on bravery this song could well have been a huge failiure, fortunatly it isn't this song contains the most synth in all of rushes huge back catalogue that dosn't go over the top... very enjoyable! 9/10
MYSTIC RHYTHMS - Here the last song, and the best one is absolutely incredible, the range of back drops and flashy synth at the start of the song and between the chorus creates a very atmospheric and eerie tune (Creaking doors as well) hugely complex and melodic beyond imagination the three guys here are on red alert and maximum ability is clear to see one of rush's best songs 11/10 can't get better than this seriously!
Hope this review helps you out i can't recommend this album enough if your an 80's fan in any way, If not stay clear at all costs!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rush's finest,
Spazmo (UK) - See all my reviews
This was the first Rush album I listened to and despite loads of other songs I like spread across several albums this is my favourite. Here they found a perfect balance between great lyrics and great song writing and the arrangements are not as full on as in earlier recordings yet still have maximum impact. Always sublime to put the vinyl on and after the crackling wait for the opening of the first track.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rush rocks,
Printul Noptilor (Eastern Europe) - See all my reviews
I am more of a heavy metal fan, but Rush is a band that is well respected in the heavy metal community, or at least they were back in 1985. The first Rush album I ever heard was "Signals" (1982). So it's not surprising that I had no problem with Rush's style change in the 80's (as I simply had no idea how they had sounded in the 70's). When I first heard "Power Windows", it sounded to me exactly the way Rush was supposed to sound.
By today, I have heard almost all of Rush's records, but I still think "Power Windows" is the second-best, right after "Vapor Trails" (2002). Not that this one sounds anything like "Vapor Trails". It sounds exactly 1985 - keyboard-dominated melodic rock, but still unmistakably Rushy. The record is very even. None of the songs is really spectacular taken alone, but they are all good and they fit together very well, making a perfect album just the way I like it.
I totally love the mood on Rush's records, not only this one. Black metal helps me calm down when I'm angry, but Rush's music improves my mood when I'm down for no apparent reason (and not only then). They're so positive and inspiring - and, as I hardly need to tell you, really good with their instruments.
Good work, guys. You're still great - keep it up.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Their best,
Stephen "comedy nut" (Nottingham UK) - See all my reviews
Rush Well where do you start, well they are probably the biggest band no one has heard of. Which sound a bit strange but its true. I can go to work and I could not find anyone who has heard of them, but they sell millions of records. So who is buying them. Well I will tell you, real fans of real music.
As rush goes they are not a easy band to get into but this album might help you. In my view this is their best and is in my top 10 albums of all time. To start with its well played well written and well produced by Peter Collins. There is not one weak track on this album.
I am a bit of a hifi nut and still buy vinyl when I can get it and if I go out to buy any new hifi I take this album along as it will bring out all the strenghts and weaknesses of said product. This album is that I have even had a owner of a hifi shop sit and listen to the album with me in their demo room as he was blown away by a group he had never heard of.
If you buy this album and you are new to Rush then the nightmare begins as which album do you buy next. Well here the bad news as you have alot of catching up to do as they have about 19 sudio albums, 8 live albums, and many more.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars power trio at its best,
Mr. M. Dunn "msyrinx" (north east, england) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Power Windows (Audio CD)
i've loved rush since the late 80's. i think, if you have no love for the 80's you may struggle with this release. if you wonder at the quality of rush, dream theater or other 80's greats, then take a listen to this. as a big fan of rush, from fly by night to present day, and as a drummer (with persuasion toward bass)this is rush at it's peak. really, there's little anyone ever did to surpass it. it's a beautiful album. one of the few i own which is great start to finish. this is rush. timeless. the best.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly polished RUSH,
This review is from: Power Windows (Audio CD)
Power Windows is an album to be listened to as often as possible. Thoroughly enjoyable in both music and clever lyrics, it captures hopes and dreams that never get accomplished in "Middletown Dreams" and "Emotion Detector" but also the darker side of human achievement and greed in "Manhattan Project" and "Territories".
This is a more polished and refined album than some earlier ones and the music has more style and melody than raw enthusiasm but it is no less captivating and delightful for the change of direction.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A work of genius,
Rich (Wurzel Country, U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Power Windows (Audio CD)
IMHO this, along with 'Exit... Stage Left', is Rush's finest hour. From the opening statement-of-intent that is 'The Big Money' to the damning indictments of weapons of mass destruction and over-zealous 'patriotism', it hits the spot every time. Peart's lyrics have never been more incisive, and Geddy Lee attacks his shiny new Wal bass with obvious relish -- just check his fantastic playing on 'Marathon...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars rush in the 80's,
Mr Blackwell (scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Power Windows (Audio CD)
Fantastic musicianship as per usual,a welcome return to the mix for Alex Lifeson,with the guitar and lead solos more noticeable than the last couple of releases. Much of this disc,for me,remains a heavy rock version of Steely Dan,musical perfection sometimes at the cost of raw excitement,well played,constructed and flawless.almost too perfect.
Best tracks 'Big Money' ' & 'Mystic Rythmns','Manhattan Project & 'Territories'
While its not my favourite era 1984-89,this is certainly the best album,its a big bold production with the Bass performance of Geddy under pinning everything as usual,Pearts drumming dynamic and Alex's rightful return as wonderful as it was unexpected, as the rating says i like it ,its just not a 5 star disc for me,it also helped Rush survive the 80's,bringing in more fans,Rush transcending genres,sadly many of the new fans cant accept that long standing Rush fans may hold differing opinions,sad.
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Qualcomm and MediaTek not interested in octo-core CPUs
by Robert Triggs on Feb 27, 2013
When asked about their development of octo-core processors at MWC both Qualcomm and MediaTek seemed to shrug off the issue, simply stating that they don't see any real consumer demand for an eight core behemoth. Octo-core processors don't appear on the product road maps for either company, so Samsung looks to be the only manufacturer planning to put an eight core chip on the market, at least for the foreseeable future.
But with many consumers seemingly more interested in product pricing, battery life, and less intensive CPU tasks like watching videos and browsing the web, than blitzing out 1080p games and CAD design, you can understand why the two tech companies are hesitant to expend resources on designing a balanced eight core CPU. Many of the best selling tablets are still dual core devices, and top of the line smartphones have only just leapt up to quad cores. So if you ask me Qualcomm and MediaTek are reading consumer appetites pretty spot on.
As well as just consumer demand, Qualcomm was especially concerned that simply moving to eight cores isn't going to improve the user experience. As many applications and operating systems are coded for four cores at most, it clearly doesn't see a situation where eight cores are going to be useful, and I for one agree.
So then isn't Samsung wrong to branch out into eight core territory with its Exynos 5 Octa? Well not exactly, Samsung is looking at eight core chips from an energy efficiency perspective, balancing peak performance with minimal battery consumption on less intensive tasks. Check out the MWC demo if you want to see what this looks like in practice.
Bedsides, the two companies are operating on slightly different design philosophies to Samsung. Qualcomm's Krait CPUs are already designed to be energy efficient by working asymmetrically, and MediaTek products are aimed at slightly lower spec and more energy conservative devices anyway. So neither company would benefit much by moving over to a similar architecture to big.LITTLE.
We'll have to wait and see which design choices pay off over the next year, bring on the 2013 processor war.
Let LTE and quad-core apps processor battle begin
Junko Yoshida
NEW YORK – As the Mobile World Congress raises its curtain next week in Barcelona, practically every mobile chip company is rushing to announce new smartphone ICs with the mobile industry's two new "must-have features": quad-core and LTE modem.
Of course, not all quad-cores are equal. LTE modems, too, come in different flavors. Every modem chip is at a different stage in operators' certification processes, a hurdle that every chip vendor needs to clear before claiming a design win.
Aside from Qualcomm which detailed its Snapdragon 600 and 800 and announced it during International Consumer Electronics Show, and Broadcom which discussed last week what the company claims to be smallest 4G-LTE Advanced modem chip, both Nvidia and Marvell are competing for the market's attention this week.
Nvidia unveiled Tuesday (Feb. 19) Tegra 4i, a new member of the Tegra 4 family. It's an application processor integrated with LTE processor on the same die.
Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, called it a "stunner," due to a number of advanced features integrated in it. The 4i is based on four Cortex-A9 (2.3-GHz) CPUs jointly developed with ARM, featuring a fifth "battery saver" core. It also comes with 60 GPU cores and a version of the i500 LTE modem optimized for integration.
Nvidia's senior vice president, Phillip Carmack, wrote in his blog at Nvidia's website, "Tegra 4i will bring super phone capabilities to the mainstream smartphone market, and there will be nothing on the market like it."
Carmack probably isn't just saying that. With Tegra 4i, Nvida is firmly setting its sights on Qualcomm. Nvidia's spokesman claims that Tegra 4i "is significantly faster yet half the size of its nearest competitor, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800." If true, that sets a new benchmark.
Meanwhile, Marvell is rolling out Wednesday (Feb. 20) an LTE version of the company's quad-core ARM Cortex-A7-based world-mode platform. Compared to Nvidia's Tegra 4i (a quad-core CPU based on ARM's most efficient core—the R4 Cortex-A9 CPU—plus a fifth battery saver core), Marvell's apps processor appears decidedly modest. However, Marvell is emphasizing its own LTE modem, calling it "the industry's most advanced modem solution" that features support for field-proven five-mode cellular modems, including LTE TDD and FDD, HSPA+, TD-HSPA+ and EDGE.
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Marvell, which went through an arduous certification process with its previous LTE modem chip, is now claiming that the company is winning some LTE design-wins with global OEMs, including ZTE. Weili Dai, Marvell's co-founder, told EE Times that the company expects products based on Marvell's single-chip LTE/apps processor platform to go on sale this year.
That said, Nvidia's LTE modem, i500, appears definitely keeping up with its competitors' solutions.
In his blog, Nvidia's Carmack wrote: "The i410 is now certified for use on AT&T's LTE multi-mode network and is a testament to the capabilities of the soft modem architecture. It's been an ideal foundation for the i500, our second-generation LTE modem, which has more than five times the computational capacity of its predecessor." Nvidia's i500 has been designed for "global LTE multi-mode deployment" designed to serve high-end and mainstream devices globally, wrote Carmack.
Strauss is impressed with Nvidia's modem chip, largely because it "took Nvidia only 20 months" after Nvidia acquired Icera to deliver this combined application processor/advance modem product. He added, "Of course, Icera had been offering modems since 2005 and had an aggressive startup culture and advanced wireless design talent. Meanwhile Nvidia had deeper pockets and an equally aggressive culture."
Nvidia's i500 multimode modem based on a 28nm process is paired with its own 65nm RF transceiver (multi-band FDD & TDD LTE/HSPA+/EDGE and TD-SCDMA) with RX diversity.
It's important to note, however, that Nvidia's i500 modem is introduced with LTE Cat 3 capability (100 Mbps DL), not Cat 4. But Nvidia claims that it is software upgradeable to LTE Cat 4 with carrier aggregation (150 Mbps DL). Strauss observed, "It is perhaps the only LTE modem capable of software upgradeability (over the air, no less); so it really is a software-defined radio."
According to Marvell, at MWC 2013, Marvell's LTE solution will be used in ZTE's first dual radio dual standby LTE smartphone demonstration. Marvell's LTE platform will support both TD-SCDMA and dual-radio dual standby LTE voice solution, in addition to a Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) voice solution.


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|This is my first attempt at winter sowing. I followed directions to the 't' and I have many, many perennials and a few annuals sprouting nicely (I used Kevin Lee Jacobs' general guidelines).
I went to check on my cabbage during a warm week and everything was fine, and the soil stayed moist. However, at the end of this warm spell (about 4 days of temps being 50-60 daytime) and although the soil was moist, the seed-leaves (only 2 leaves) all were shriveled up (curled into themselves).
Some of the kohlrabi seedlings are up and fine, some not yet up, and the kale is poking out and seems fine. Why my precious cabbage?! I sowed 9 jugs of it because I want a lot of cabbage and have the space :*(
Should I resow the cabbage? Can I reuse the soil? Should I fear the same end for my other brassicas and take steps?
Also I sealed the entire circumference with duct tape and see that some only do one strip like a latch. The full seal would retain more heat and moisture but could this be a bad thing?
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|I wonder if the cabbage got too warm? Over heating can occur when the sun shines on those jugs. I'd take the tops off, as long as there is no frost predicted.
|Unfortunately, I'm still two weeks from LFD and a few weeks from GLFD so I can't leave them off yet. I will resow then and open during the day.
Think I can reuse the soil?
Frustrating :\ brassicas are my favorite and was hoping to get a little more out of them this season.
|Yes, reuse the soil. I'd just fluff the surface a bit and resow.
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SQL Server GROUP BY in PowerShell
I usually don't have any specific reason to play with PowerShell other than strict joy of doing it, but this time I did. I wanted to go through a client's server, and find out how many tables each database had.
Now something like this can easily be done in T-SQL for a single database with this bit of code:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS TotalCount FROM sys.all_objects WHERE is_ms_shipped = 0 AND type='U'
The above works but then you have to write the additional code to execute that against every database on a given server. I prefer to use PowerShell one-liners to get things like this done, at least when I can.
In this instance I figured out how I can by introducing you to the Group-Object cmdlet. This cmdlet can have a property passed to it and will provide a count based on the number of objects it finds based on that property. So what is done above can easily be accomplished using these two lines (ok isn't a one-liner):
Import-Module SQLPS -DisableNameChecking $s = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server ORKO ($s.Databases).Tables | Group-Object Parent | select Count, Name
The above will output the below against my local instance of SQL Server 2012:
Max User Connections set to one (oops)
I frequent Database Administrators forum over on Stack Exchange Network, and came across a question that intrigued me enough to play around with the setting noted in the first sentence: Maximum number of concurrent connections. What happens when you set this to one, and how do you set it back to default?
To make a small note the method or process this OP tried to use just to get a database restored was completely the wrong way to go about it. You should not be making changes to server-level configurations without knowing the full affect they can have, especially if you are on a production instance.
Now, if you read the documentation on this setting the main sentence that should grab you:
The user connections option specifies the maximum number of simultaneous user connections that are allowed on an instance of SQL Server.
The default value of zero (0) means unlimited, so it goes without warning that if you set this to anything above zero you are limiting how many connections you can have. I would say that setting this to one is equivalent to setting the instance to single-user mode.
I set this to one on my local SQL Server 2012 instance and restarted the instance; because any current connections are not going to be closed automatically by setting this value. Once I tried to connect back to my instance I receive this error:
Now what do you do to get access again? The most voted answer to the question states try using the DAC to connect. Alright, let us see what happens:
I will note above is clicking on "New Query" in SSMS, because the initial connection prompt you get when opening SSMS does not support a DAC connection. In doing this it let me connect, but it is not guaranteed in every situation. So what is another method you ask? PowerShell, I answer.
You can make modifications to SQL Server configurations using SMO and PowerShell. The example provided actually is what pointed me to these lines of code to fix my predicament:
Import-Module SQLPS $srv = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server ORKO $srv.Configuration.UserConnections.ConfigValue = 1 $srv.Configuration.Alter()
Executed the above and restarted the instance and I was back in business. Now I will stipulate that I executed the above code immediately after the instance was restarted so I ensured I grabbed the only connection allowed. If you have other applications or systems that are hitting your instance you may need to just try the DAC. If the DAC is disabled in your environment (some security standards want to see this disabled) then you will need to do a bit more work to grab that single connection.
I am Biml (Bacon Integrated Markup Language)
Wouldn't it be awesome if that is what it was really called? Maybe not, so what does Biml really stand for?
Small Background
Varigence is the company that created Biml, particularly Scott Currie, back in 2008. You can check their page to get the full store, it is worth a read. It is a pretty remarkable story that they took a thought and turned it into a full technology that includes a proprietary and an open source product. I can remember hearing about it within the past year or so but it never clicked with me at the time (it does now). I think around 2012 it started to get an uptick in exposure. It has begun showing up in sessions at PASS Summit and at SQL Saturdays in some places more and more in the past year.
Now BimlScript is the use of C# (by default) code within your Biml that offers an enormous amount of flexibility into what you can do. This is where you can get into dynamically creating things within an SSIS projects or even SSAS projects.
The Potential
I think back to a contract job I had with the Army handling ETL design. Through FOA request I was responsible for making packages that would pull data out of the source and dump it into an Access Database or Excel spreadsheet. The design pattern I had to used there was creating a package per table of data that needed to be pulled and then a master package that would simply iterate through all of those "table" packages.
We used AGILE development process so one request would generally take me a few days to build out the project, deploy it into test, then staging, and then finally production. So depending on what amount of data was being requested it could take up to a week to get everything designed and finalized to send the file to the requestor.
If I could have used Biml for this process I would have cut down the initial design time considerably. With it providing me the ability using C# (which I would have had to learn as well back then) to iterate over the table list of a given source to generate all the Data Flow tasks; man think of the clicks you do just setting up one data flow task and how much time this would have saved.
Biml Products
The most common product referenced in the community, at least that I have seen, with Biml is BidsHelper. Which BimlScript is one part of what is included in BidsHelper, there are a ton of little things that were added in there that creators of BIDS left off. If you are using SSDT-BI now a few of those things included may be obsolete possibly now. You can look at the list under documentation of what is included. I actually listed some of those I find worthy of noting even with SSDT-BI on my Tools of the Trade page.
BidsHelper is something that is used with Visual Studio (BIDS or SSDT-BI) and is an excellent starting point to get started using Biml. If you find you need to go to the next step Varigence has an IDE they created called Mist that provides a very robust environment to develop SSIS and SSAS. I link to a few videos below that show off what this product can do, very cool stuff! The other product they have is Vivid, this is an add-on for Excel users that handle data analysis.
Resources to Note
When I wanted to learn more about Biml I found myself asking, "where do I start?". Similar to how a lot of folks ask when they want to go into being a DBA or Database Developer. Below are just some links to articles and videos that can help you get started.
SQLServerCentral's Stairway to Biml (yes, you should register…just do it)
Bill Fellow's Blog post on Biml (some good nuggets if you learn by seeing)
BimlScript Walkthroughs, Getting Started
Biml Language Reference (similar to MSDN for SQL Server)
Biml Snippets (ton of examples to learn from here)
Videos that I found the most helpful:
SQLug.se – Peter Hansen's – Biml, session 1
SQLug.se – Scott Currie's – Biml, session 2
Using BIML as an SSIS Design Patterns Engine (PASS DW/BI Virtual Chapter) (Andy Leonard does a great walkthrough of Biml)
Biml Introduction and Fundamentals Webinar (Peter Avenant with Varigence, great video showing Mist and Biml, you should subscribe to their channel)
Working with BimlScript to ease and automate your SSIS development (Session done by Jeff Mlakar, just this month. Some excellent tips and examples)
Powershell: Backup Files to Tape
I had a maintenance plan on a server with a client that was having issues running successfully each night because it ended up filling the drive. This as it turns out ended up being that the clean up task was set to delete backups older than 1 day. Ok you would think that was sufficient, however it appears in this instance that was not working. The time stamps showing for the previous day backup was within a minute of the next run of the maintenance plan. So I took it to mean that it was not actually seeing them as over a day old and therefore skipped them. I decided to change it to 21 hours instead of one day and that seemed to work for this client.
Either way I needed to delete the old backups that I know were already backed up to tape. To do this I wrote up this function that will simply return a bit of information on the file like name, last access, last write, and attribute values. The attribute will show "Normal" if the file has been backed up (or the archive bit cleared) and "Archive" if it still has to be backed up.
Now I would caution you to do your own verification as to whether the file actually exist on your backup media (tape, disk, etc.). There are multiple things that can modify the archive bit, so use at your own discretion.
function Verify-FileBackedUp ($rootdir,[switch]$recurse) { # if value "archive" is shown means file has not been backed up # if value "normal" is shown means file has been backed up, or the archive bit cleared if ($recurse) { dir $rootdir -recurse | where {-not $_.PSIsContainer} | select FullName, LastAccessTime, LastWriteTime, @{Label="FileBackedUp";Expression={(Get-ItemProperty $_.FullName).Attributes}} } else { dir $rootdir | where {-not $_.PSIsContainer} | select FullName, LastAccessTime, LastWriteTime, @{Label="FileBackedUp";Expression={(Get-ItemProperty$_.FullName).Attributes}} } }
A sample output would look something like below:
SQL Server Data Tools: A spork of sorts (part two)
In the previous post (a bit of a rant too) I went over SSDT and how it has evolved for whatever reason by Microsoft into SSDT (Database development) and SSDT-BI (Business Intelligence development). In this post I wanted to go over how you actually get this installed so you can start the fun work of working with SQL Server 2014.
If during the CTP phases of SQL Server 2014 releases you may have caught the blog post on SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence (SSDT BI) for SQL Server 2014 CTP1 (another interesting post to read response to this in the comments). This is where it was told that you will not be able to install SSDT BI on a new machine with SQL Server 2014 installation media. It became a separate download. You would get this download from Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools page on MSDN, scroll down to the bottom of the page to find SSDT-BI download links for VS 2012 and VS 2013.
I opted to just go ahead and move to Visual Studio 2013 version and downloaded that from here. If you have installed the version for VS 2012 before it has not changed from that installation process. I will go over the installation for VS 2013 version to just provide a walkthrough for those that may be just starting out.
You start out with a file named "SSDTBI_x86_ENU.exe, yeah no 64-bit version still. After the download is complete just double click. Now this is a basic clicking next through the wizard and I will just point out a few notes from my experience installing this on a new Windows 7 machine.
- The file downloaded is going to extract the files to a directory of your choice. If you end up having to cancel and start over, you go into that extracted directory and run the setup.exe file. You are actually going to get the SQL Server Installation Center similar to this:
Just click on "New SQL Server stand-alone installation…" and it will bring you to the starting point of accepting the license terms.
- It states in the feature selection that .NET Framework 4.5 is installed through this media. In my instance it actually did not install this and failed with a feature rule check. Might be worth verifying that is installed if you are on a new machine.
- Also note above what it is also going to install, Visual Studio 2012. If you don't believe it, check out my own laptop:
Once you get done with the installation you are ready to get started with Business Intelligence development.
Happy learning!
SQL Server Data Tools: A spork of sorts (part one)
Prior to SQL Server 2012 the Business Intelligence (BI) toolset was made up of just Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Easy to install as it was part of the SQL Server installation media. Now with database development tools you had to go the route of getting a license for Visual Studio where it allowed you to create database projects. Oh, how that is all changing now, and in some ways go back in time.
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) brought about changes in BI and database development. First Database Development changed to SQL Server Projects and no longer required a fully licensed version of Visual Studio, it used the integrated shell. It stayed this way up until Visual Studio 2013. With VS 2013 it now appears it might have gone back to requiring a licensed version of VS. A bit more on this part below.
Business Intelligence development also changed tools from BIDS to SQL Server Data Tools. Wait, wasn't SSDT for database development? It is actually for both but actually require separate installs. It is now being referred to as SSDT-BI. Nice work there Microsoft.
If you have installed SSDT for SQL Server 2012 you will note that it actually is only installing SSDT-BI by viewing the new project window:
What?!!?? You want me to install the same thing again? Well it appears that even though they share the same title of application they are now separate. If you read the blog post on MSDN, SSDT and Visual Studio Versions, and note the comments. I particular liked this one:
What that means is SSDT is now something that encompasses two things: Database Development and BI Development (reference a fork + spoon = spork) but two different teams are developing each one. Glad that confusion is over.
Now if you go to the page for Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools it will provide al ink to "Download Visual Studio 2013 with SQL Server Tooling" that basically points you to the Visual Studio 2013 product page. Which I have installed VS 2013 for Desktop and no where can I find how to make it update to include SQL Server Tooling. If you visit the Visual Studio 2013 production comparison to Visual Studio Online and view under "Development Platform Support" you will notice that SSDT only shows up for Pro, Premium, and Ultimate Editions. So they went back to 2010? So right now it appears if you want to do database development stick with VS 2012 and down. I think VS 2012 includes support for SQL Azure development but I have not dove into that as of right now.
In the next post I will go over some things with SSDT-BI and how installation for this changed.
SQL Server Prerequisites .NET Framework
As of SQL Server 2012 the .NET Framework prerequisite of .NET 3.5 SP1 is no longer installed for you by the SQL Server installer if it is found to be missing from the server. Now with Window Server 2008 R2 SP1 or higher this is simply enabling the feature within Windows Server, no actual installation. This can be easily accomplished with PowerShell as a quick script to run prior to doing the installation of SQL Server.
The PowerShell Windows cmdlet that is used in this instance will be Get-WindowsFeature and Install-WindowsFeature (Windows Server 2008 R2 you will use Add-WindowsFeature).
The .NET 3.5 SP1 feature in Windows Server is referenced as "Net-Framework-Core" in PowerShell. You can find this by calling the command:
Get-WindowsFeature Net*
The below script is going first verify it is not installed and then will enable the feature (or technically install it I guess). In order to do this though you will need the OS media as you have to pass in the source path to "<drive letter>:\sources\sxs". Note: You have to execute this in an elevated PowerShell console, so "Run as Administrator".
#verify installed first Get-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Core).Installed #Add feature Install-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Core -source 'G:\sources\sxs'
When you run this command you will see a status "bar" of sorts appear while it is performing the installation. Once completed you should see output that lets you know it was successful.
Now if you happen to see any errors you might reference the KB 2734782 – .NET Framework 3.5 installation error as there are various reasons why this command might fail.
A small update to this post…
I recently came across a server that I was getting the "0x800f0906″ error and went through the article above verifying Internet access from the server and having mounted the ISO for the OS properly. I came across a blog post that brings up the possibility that you need to update the local source media on the server.


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What the Heck is Willow Smith Wearing?!?by Hilton Hater at . Comments
In a recent interview with W Magazine, Willow Smith says she can't do anything without her mother's permission.
Therefore, we'll direct this question at Jada Pinkett Smith: What the heck were you thinking letting your 10-year old daughter out of the house in this outfit?!?
The singing sensation attended last night's American Music Awards with her family and showed up in an ensemble that can only be described as uglier than Michael Lohan's attempts to capitalize off his daughter. But, hey, at least this isn't the most embarrassing piece of news concerning someone named Willow to come out today...
What do you think? Willow Smith's outfit is...
@ juniors girlfrend, it happend dat i cme across dis post...wow u mst b really dumb, actually i ddn tink dat ppl lyk u exist out der. Lol i live in south africa, m nt starving n i dnt hv aids. Oooh i cn evn access de internet. R u surprisd? Lol i cn tell u r uneducatd livin in n educatd society cz dats de only place u will get ppl wit yo kind of tinking..i dnt find to comment racist i find it plain stupid.
O.M.G willow wears some hot styles im just like dat NICE!
It's cute IMO at 10 yrs. old let her wear what she wants. As long as the litte girl isn't emulating one of them Bratz dolls then we have nothing to worry about. It's good to see some originality.
I think Willow is really pretty. She has the cutest little face and gorgeous hazel eyes, but the outfit? Yeah... Jada, honey, this is why mommies don't let their nine year old babies dress themselves ok?
i'm wondering why people are even replying to junior and his girlfriend. let them talk. its their opinion and its free. that being said imma say the same thing i say about all the negative people out there... where YOUR $$ at? cuz while you on here hating on her for being rich, black and famous, YOU are probably not even close to owning your own home, or your own business or anything like that... she is a phenomenon. and i think she would have been a great person no matter who she was born to... I'd rather my little 8yr old listen to her than miley cyrus or britney spears... so let the haters/ racists hate... they are the fuel that propels her :)
When I was her age, I was wearing leggings as pants, shirts with butterflies on them and merrels! The outfit is awkward and the boots ruin it. I personally am not a fan of her music, but she's 10! If I were her parents, I wouldn't let her release a song or anything, I would want her to grow up normally. My personal opinion, don't hate.
@Junior: no, she's right. Your comment was racist and totally out of line. I'm not even a black person but I have friends who are and I found it offensive. You basically implied that all african americans don't deserve any respect, have no respect for themsleves or others, will do anything for attention, are a waste of life, and deserve to suffer. How the hell is that NOT racist? Do you even know what that word means? Probably not because you sound like a total jackass. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? You clearly have a kkk mentality.
Junior's girlfriend - you REALLY could have kept that. I seem to recall Eminem (and other rappers) wearing their pants below their butts. Like it or not, it's the style (for now) so get used to it or keep your twisted comments to yourself instead of hiding behind a keyboard.


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Probably not worth my time to outline the laws I would like (none involve confiscation, but they involve registration and more thorough checks, especially for private sales, of both guns and ammo)
I'm sure that no matter what they are, you'll simply say, hey, I'm responsible, I havent shot up a classroom, I'm not the problem. Imposing restrictions on me wont make things safer.
In an isolated sense, you might even be right there. However, you'd be ignoring the very important fact that practically speaking, enforcement becomes impossible in an environment filled with exceptions (no matter how justified they are individually). If you cant monitor or enforce a law, there's no point in having it, and then it cannot provide benefit for everyone as it targets the dangerous people (ie: not you).
Guess what: in the 80s-90's, seat belt laws kicked in everywhere. There were plenty of folks who could also legitimately say, Ive driven for 40+ years with no accidents, I've not needed a seatbelt before. I'm not part of the problem, if you start making me wear one now, that wont make things any safer. Perhaps they were right, but that argument didnt fly with the cops then, and in my ideal world, the "I have a long history of safe gun ownership" wouldnt fly either.
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What's encouraging is the signs that the hysterical anti-gun lobby looks like they can't get this done. Not going to pass anything that cramps my rights and when the president tries to do it administratively, he'll get his head handed to him. Sooooooo....what now?
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I dont want the gov in my wallet to support someone who chooses to not put his oar in the water and start rowing, so that rules me out as a liberal. However, I also dont want the gov in my business, telling me who I cant or can't marry, or if my wife can have an abortion. That's none of their business either. So because of the last bit, I guess that rules me out as a conservative also. I never did understand how you can be anti-gov, but be ok with them telling you what you can do with your own body.... anyway...
I like the idea of natural selection, and that you are responsible for yourself. Ideally, If I succeed or fail, it should be because of what I did or didnt do, no other external influences. Reward the strong, prevent the weak from cheating to achieve parity, when they should be behind.
If an animal species gets some un-natural assistance, that can upset the balance of things, to the harm of the whole eco-system. Think of a Cheetah in the plains of Africa. All the animals, even his prey, NEED him to survive or die on his own. If a liberal gives the gazelles night-vision goggles so they can see him coming, that's bad, he starves, the gazelle herd over-populates, etc. Everyone suffers.
If a conservative allows the Cheetah to tip the scales the other way (ie: wear a jetpak so he can run faster, the equivalent of him having a gun), then he can use that to kill the fastest gazelles; once again the strong are no longer rewarded, and the weak not punished. Balance is screwed up again.
Just as entitlements allow some to "cheat" the market, guns allow others to also "cheat" the market, and survive or even thrive when their lack of skills should really see them wither. 16-year old gang-banger dropout should not be wearing more expensive watch than me. If he has no useful skills, he should starve, to send a message to other would-be gang-bangers.
If I build a better widget that people want, I should be able to enjoy the proceeds of that, not have them taxed away, or removed at gunpoint. My widget skills should determine how nice a car I can enjoy, not my marksmanship skills when I have to shoot back at someone who was busy honing their gun skills while I was busy perfecting my widgets.
Also, I look around and learn from other countries. I see tax-paying, hardworking people dying while waiting for medical treatment, so other countries got that wrong. But, I also see people being fatally shot at 1/10 the rate they are here, so other countries got that right. Borrow what works, discard what doesnt. That's why I do support gun controls as one of the few things the gov is good for.
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^^ The analogies are killing me Al. haha
You're really comparing 18th century medical practices to setting up sound government checks and balances? With all this "greatest country in the world" talk it would seem you feel they did a pretty darn good job, no? And you're right we do have the benefit of hind sight, but it seems that most are blind to it.
You're comment of elected official is somewhat laughable as well. I've got a card trick i can show you where at the end it appears like you picked the right card, but you didn't i steered you to that card and you were none the wiser. Forget the fact that I DIDN'T elect these officials and realize that these people are hand selected by the political machine based on things such as their likability, demographic, and or how easily they can be controlled. The day the that our representatives and senators passed laws that gave them exclusive benefits the rest of us can't have, we should have yanked all of them out of office and started with fresh people.
Also, don't let technology fool you in to thinking that our society is getting smarter.... The general public is clueless as to what goes on and how it goes on within our government. As long a their facebook works, the internet is up and they can party on friday night; all is good in america.
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frédéric Bastiat
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Wait, wait, wait let me know if I'm understand this correctly since this is the point it seems the lefties are making...
Some crazy psychopaths get their hands on guns and tragically kill a few good citizens. You now want all us law-abiding folks not to have guns because they might get into the hands of criminals. Is that right?
Well, why then do the police and govt have guns? I mean look at Ruby Ridge or one of the many other instances of the govt killing innocents. Let's take their guns away as well. At least when some maniac civilian goes on a shooting spree we put him in jail and throw away the key, but if some cop shoots a woman carrying a baby in the head he goes back to work the next day.
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There's no way to get an honest debate on this, I give up.
Most of those using the weasel words, refusing to be specific, relying on emotional arguments do not want something reasonable. They want all guns gone, taken up, to deny gun ownership to all.
They are just afraid to say it and instead are relying on incremental changes, little bites, a restriction here, a regulation there.
It's a cowardly approach but one that can work.
They are afraid and uninformed so I have to change?
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Unfortunately uneducated people are making the rule right now and they are manipulating peoples fear in fire arms. Like you said, its cowardly but it will evantually get the job done.
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our school had a lock down last year. they said we were so bad they had to keep us in one room the rest of the day. i have to agree. 7th graders were selling drugs while the 8th graders were having sex in gym,.
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My lockdown was a prank bomb thread we stayd on the school like for 2 hours just talking while the fireman go to the bathrooms to check
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the grandfathered agreements are not consistent or well understood by MISO or anyone else, and thus they don't lend themselves to a one-size-fits-all replacement contract. "The agreements are all over the board," Meloy says. "The agreements were entered into before the Midwest ISO assumed operational control over transmission in its footprint, and there are disputes over what the agreements actually require. Some don't even have an apparent termination date."
The fuzzy nature of these agreements cannot stand if MISO is to manage transmission rights across its territory in an effective and reliable way. With that in mind-and with an eye toward the goal of settling as many grandfathered agreements as possible-FERC ordered utilities under its jurisdiction to detail the terms of their agreements with non-MISO entities. FERC also asked non-jurisdictional utilities to voluntarily provide the same information.
"We note that there is very little transparency regarding transactions that take place under the terms of GFAs," FERC states in its May 26 order. 4 "The Midwest ISO is unsure how many megawatts of capacity the GFAs represent, or where the source and sink points of the GFA transactions will be. In terms of economic and reliability impact, the lack of information makes it difficult to forecast which parts of the Midwest ISO region will be adversely affected."
The whole situation bears the markings of an irresolvable conflict, but regulators nevertheless are trying. Although FERC doesn't have jurisdictional authority over most of the co-ops and municipal utilities that hold grandfathered agreements, it is attempting to reach a solution that will work for both MISO and the grandfathered utilities. Whether the non-jurisdictional utilities will accede to this plan depends largely on how successful FERC's administrative law judge will be in crafting a satisfactory solution.
"There's so much uncertainty," says Dave Sparby, vice president of government and regulatory affairs for Xcel Energy in Minneapolis. "When you look at all the unresolved elements on 300 contracts and the short time frame for the FERC hearings, there is a lot of uncertainty and potential for regulatory risk in this proceeding. You can't conclude that anybody will be happy with the outcome."
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