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This weekend on December 6, 2014 I continue my evangelization of Columnstore—possibly the most exciting unheralded feature in SQL Server 2014—at SQL Saturday 347 at an auspicious venue: the Microsoft Technology Center in Chevy Chase, proximal to the US capital city of Washington DC.
Register, see the schedule, or see the event home page on the SQL Saturday site. I'll look forward to seeing you here:
Microsoft MTC 5404 Wisconsin Ave Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Join me & an All-Star cast of speakers including MVPs such as Reeves Smith, Joey D'Antoni, Allen White, Jessica Moss, Grant Fitchey, Steve Jones, Randy Knight, Jason Brimhall, & Wayne Sheffield. Other luminaries include shiny new Microsoft PFE Theresa Iserman & Consultant Ayman El-Ghazali.
Capping off a fantastic third week of presentations (see #SQLSatSLC & #SQLSatOregon), I'm speaking Thursday 11/6/2014 at 1:30p at the Professional Association for SQL Server International Summit. It's an honor to be chosen to speak at this event for a fifth time. This summit's topic:
To The Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT
I'll be joined by my colleague, Principal Architect Rob Beddard a brilliant, no-nonsense engineer who's shepherding much of the MSIT effort.
Much of the content may not strike you as profound, e.g., you'll know all about planning, or about the I/O challenges. Yet I know from surveying my peers that many of us have gaps. I'm confident you'll walk away with new insights. Here're details.
Session Summary: Microsoft IT's Cloud strategy involves migrating hundreds of applications to Azure. The scale on which it is being done may be unprecedented. Lessons Learned are numerous. This session exposes the most important—& painful—ones.
Dear Readers, think about that—we're migrating literally thousands of apps.
Here's additional info about the session.
Session Goal 1: Understand that forklifting applications to the Cloud has unexpected challenges. Session Goal 2: Understand that many fundamental best practices which have served us well on-prem remain important—& now we have new nuances to master. Session Goal 3: Understand the value of leveraging MSIT's lessons learned has the potential to save an organization weeks or months of time & hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars.
This is an exciting topic the work for which I'm intimately involved. I'm extremely enthusiastic about sharing the fruits of our efforts with the Community. Join us!
This Halloween weekend I continue my efforts to make the world of SQL DWs a better place—one table at a time—via evangelizing Columnstore at #SQLSaturday337 in Portlandia.
Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW /faster Bit
If you've not been in a crypt since last All Hallows Eve, you likely know this is one of my staples.
Mittleman Community Center 6651 SW Capitol Highway Portland, OR 97219
Kudos to Arnie Rowland (@ArnieRowland), Paul Turley (@Paul_Turley), Theresa Iserman (@TheresaIserman), Vern Rabe, Rob Boek (@robboek), & the rest of the Oregon SQL Users Group (@osqld) Leadership Team for their superb organizational efforts.
SQL Saturday Oregon All-Stars: Speaker Tom Roush (@GEEQL) flanked by Leadership Team members Theresa Iserman (also a speaker) & MVP Arnie Rowland.
I have the privilege of being selected to fill two slots this weekend at #SQLSaturday349 in Salt Lake City. The venue is simultaneously hosting the Big Mountain Data event.
My talks are:
To the Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT
The latter is one of my staples. The former is a new presentation, a preview of my forthcoming delivery for PASS Summit14.
Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building 1768 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Kudos to Pat Wright (blog | @sqlasylum) & crew for their crazy efforts (pardon the pun) in coordinating the event.
TJay Belt (@tjaybelt), Andrea Alred (@RoyalSQL), & Ben Miller (@DBADuck), keep your peepers peeled—I'm on the way!
Recently, SQL Community feedback from twitter prompted me to look in vain for SQL Server 2014 versions of the AdventureWorks sample databases we've all grown to know & love.
I searched Codeplex, then used the bing & even the google in an effort to locate them, yet all I could find were samples on different sites highlighting specific technologies, an incomplete collection inconsistent with the experience we users had learned to expect. I began pinging internally & learned that an update to AdventureWorks wasn't even on the road map.
Fortunately, SQL Marketing manager Luis Daniel Soto Maldonado (t) lent a sympathetic ear & got the update ball rolling; his direct report Darmodi Komo recently announced the release of the shiny new sample databases for OLTP, DW, Tabular, and Multidimensional models to supplement the extant In-Memory OLTP sample DB.
In my correspondence with the team, here's how I defined success:
1. Sample AdventureWorks DBs hosted on Codeplex showcasing SQL Server 2014's latest-&-greatest features, including: In-Memory OLTP (aka Hekaton) Clustered Columnstore Online Operations Resource Governor IO 2. Where it makes sense to do so, consolidate the DBs (e.g., showcasing Columnstore likely involves a separate DW DB) 3. Documentation to support experimenting with these features
1. Sample AdventureWorks DBs hosted on Codeplex showcasing SQL Server 2014's latest-&-greatest features, including:
2. Where it makes sense to do so, consolidate the DBs (e.g., showcasing Columnstore likely involves a separate DW DB)
3. Documentation to support experimenting with these features
As Microsoft Senior SDE Bonnie Feinberg (b) stated, "I think it would be great to see an AdventureWorks for SQL 2014. It would be super helpful for third-party book authors and trainers. It also provides a common way to share examples in blog posts and forum discussions, for example."
Exactly. We've established a rich & robust tradition of sample databases on Codeplex. This is what our community & our customers expect. The prompt response achieves what we all aim to do, i.e., manifests the Service Design Engineering mantra of "delighting the customer". Kudos to Luis's team in SQL Server Marketing & Kevin Liu's team in SQL Server Engineering for doing so.
Download your copies of SQL Server 2014 AdventureWorks sample databases here.
This is the second in a series of posts documenting big wins encountered using columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2012 & 2014. Many of these can be found in my big deck along with details such as internals, best practices, caveats, etc. The purpose of sharing the case studies in this context is to provide an easy-to-consume quick-reference alternative. See also Columnstore Case Study #1: MSIT SONAR Aggregations
As stated previously, If we're looking for a subset of columns from one or a few rows, given the right indexes, SQL Server can do a superlative job of providing an answer. If we're asking a question which by design needs to hit lots of rows—DW, reporting, aggregations, grouping, scans, etc., SQL Server has never had a good mechanism—until columnstore.
Columnstore indexes were introduced in SQL Server 2012. However, they're still largely unknown. Some adoption blockers existed; yet columnstore was nonetheless a game changer for many apps. In SQL Server 2014, potential blockers have been largely removed & they're going to profoundly change the way we interact with our data. The purpose of this series is to share the performance benefits of columnstore & documenting columnstore is a compelling reason to upgrade to SQL Server 2014.
DevCon Security provides home & business security services & has been in business for 135 years. I met DevCon personnel while speaking to the Utah County SQL User Group on 20 February 2012. (Thanks to TJ Belt (b|@tjaybelt) & Ben Miller (b|@DBADuck) for the invitation which serendipitously coincided with the height of ski season.)
DevCon users interrogate a SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services cube via SSRS. In addition, the SQL Server 2012 relational back end is the target of ad hoc queries; this DW back end is refreshed nightly during a brief maintenance window via conventional table partition switching.
Conventional relational structures were unable to provide adequate performance for user interaction for the SSRS reports. An SSAS solution was implemented requiring personnel to ramp up technically, including learning enough MDX to satisfy requirements.
Even though the fact table is relatively small—only 22 million rows & 33GB—the table was a typical DW table in terms of its width: 137 columns, any of which could be the target of ad hoc interrogation. As is common in DW reporting scenarios such as this, it is often nearly to optimize for such queries using conventional indexing.
DevCon DBAs & developers attended PASS 2012 & were introduced to the marvels of columnstore in a session presented by Klaus Aschenbrenner (b|@Aschenbrenner)
Classic vs. columnstore before-&-after metrics are impressive.
Scenario Conventional Structures Columnstore Δ SSRS via SSAS 10 - 12 seconds 1 second >10x Ad Hoc 5-7 minutes (300 - 420 seconds) 1 - 2 seconds >100x
Conventional Structures
SSRS via SSAS
10 - 12 seconds
1 second
Ad Hoc
5-7 minutes (300 - 420 seconds)
1 - 2 seconds
Here are two charts characterizing this data graphically. The first is a linear representation of Report Duration (in seconds) for Conventional Structures vs. Columnstore Indexes.
As is so often the case when we chart such significant deltas, the linear scale doesn't expose some the dramatically improved values corresponding to the columnstore metrics. Just to make it fair here's the same data represented logarithmically; yet even here the values corresponding to 1 –2 seconds aren't visible.
DevCon BI Team Lead Nathan Allan provided this unsolicited feedback:
"What we found was pretty awesome. It has been a game changer for us in terms of the flexibility we can offer people that would like to get to the data in different ways."
For DW, reports, & other BI workloads, columnstore often provides significant performance enhancements relative to conventional indexing. I have documented here, the second in a series of reports on columnstore implementations, results from DevCon Security, a live customer production app for which performance increased by factors of from 10x to 100x for all report queries, including canned queries as well as reducing time for results for ad hoc queries from 5 - 7 minutes to 1 - 2 seconds. As a result of columnstore performance, the customer retired their SSAS infrastructure.
I invite you to consider leveraging columnstore in your own environment. Let me know if you have any questions.
This is the first in a series of posts documenting big wins encountered using columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2012 & 2014. Many of these can be found in this deck along with details such as internals, best practices, caveats, etc. The purpose of sharing the case studies in this context is to provide an easy-to-consume quick-reference alternative.
If we're looking for a subset of columns from one or a few rows, given the right indexes, SQL Server can do a superlative job of providing an answer. If we're asking a question which by design needs to hit lots of rows—DW, reporting, aggregations, grouping, scans, etc., SQL Server has never had a good mechanism—until columnstore.
At MSIT, performance & configuration data is captured by SCOM. We archive much of the data in a partitioned data warehouse table in SQL Server 2012 for reporting via an application called SONAR. By definition, this is a primary use case for columnstore—report queries requiring aggregation over large numbers of rows. New data is refreshed each night by an automated table partitioning mechanism—a best practices scenario for columnstore.
Compared to performance using classic indexing which resulted in the expected query plan selection including partition elimination vs. SQL Server 2012 nonclustered columnstore, query performance increased significantly. Logical reads were reduced by over a factor of 50; both CPU & duration improved by factors of 20 or more. Other than creating the columnstore index, no special modifications or tweaks to the app or databases schema were necessary to achieve the performance improvements. Existing nonclustered indexes were rendered superfluous & were deleted, thus mitigating maintenance challenges such as defragging as well as conserving disk capacity.
The table provides the raw data & summarizes the performance deltas.
Logical Reads (8K pages) CPU (ms) Durn (ms) Columnstore 160,323 20,360 9,786 Conventional Table & Indexes 9,053,423 549,608 193,903 Δ x56 x27 x20
Logical Reads (8K pages)
CPU (ms)
Durn (ms)
Conventional Table & Indexes
The charts provide additional perspective of this data. "Conventional vs. Columnstore Metrics" document the raw data. Note on this linear display the magnitude of the conventional index performance vs. columnstore.
The "Metrics (Δ)" chart expresses these values as a ratio.
For DW, reports, & other BI workloads, columnstore often provides significant performance enhancements relative to conventional indexing. I have documented here, the first in a series of reports on columnstore implementations, results from an initial implementation at MSIT in which logical reads were reduced by over a factor of 50; both CPU & duration improved by factors of 20 or more. Subsequent features in this series document performance enhancements that are even more significant.
Hot off the presses is this new MSDN white paper:
Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
One of the gems introduced in SQL Server 2014 is the Cardinality Estimator (CE)—new! improved! & now with more cowbell. I'm thrilled to be a Technical Reviewer for a superb MSDN white paper authored by my friend, buddy, & pal Joe Sack (b|t). It's exciting & humbling to see my name among such an array of Contributors & Reviewers—including several former colleagues from Azure CAT (formerly SQL CAT b|t).
As described on the Cardinality Estimation (SQL Server) page:
Cardinality estimates are a prediction of the number of rows in the query result. The query optimizer uses these estimates to choose a plan for executing the query. The quality of the query plan has a direct impact on improving query performance.
The pre-existing CE is more than a decade old. Both OLTP & DW workloads have changed—& databases are bigger by far than they used to be. Often, cardinality changes spawned disparate plans (in one prototype, over 78 different plans were generated by the former CE). Plainly & simply—the CE needed more cowbell.
During SQL14 TAP, SQL Engineer Kate Smith provided a heads up. Highlights included:
Relaxing Independence Assumption: The old CE assumed that column values were independent. Yet columns such as City and State, or Manufacturer, Make, and Model are tightly correlated. Algorithms in the new CE better account for this.
Join Changes: Improvements to equijoins, non-equijoins, & join estimates related to primary keys.
Ascending Key Modifications: Newly inserted data are out of the range in histogram. The new CE assumes not only that the data actually does exist & also is present at the average frequency of values in the table. (And the same heuristics also apply to missing values in sample statistics.)
In other words, more cowbell.
Joe provides numerous examples & walk-throughs detailing the behavior of the new CE.
Here's some behind-the-scenes info. "Cardinality Estimator" didn't appear in the original title which referred merely to performance tuning. Who wouldn't want to read a perf paper from Joe? Yet the working title belied the true nature of the paper. The published title provides the precision the topic deserves.
I won't reprise the penultimate comma soliloquy that I shared with the editors, but you can learn more here, or pick up a copy of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
Tile: Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn673537.aspx
Summary: SQL Server 2014 introduces the first major redesign of the SQL Server Query Optimizer cardinality estimation process since version 7.0. The goal for the redesign was to improve accuracy, consistency and supportability of key areas within the cardinality estimation process, ultimately affecting average query execution plan quality and associated workload performance. This paper provides an overview of the primary changes made to the cardinality estimator functionality by the Microsoft query processor team, covering how to enable and disable the new cardinality estimator behavior, and showing how to troubleshoot plan-quality regressions if and when they occur.
Authors: Joseph Sack (SQLskills.com b|t)
Contributers: Yi Fang (Microsoft), Vassilis Papadimos (Microsoft)
Technical Reviewers: Barbara Kess (Microsoft), Jack Li (Microsoft), Jimmy May (Microsoft b|t), Sanjay Mishra (Microsoft), Shep Sheppard (Microsoft), Mike Weiner (Microsoft), Paul White (SQL Kiwi Limited b|t)
I'm confident you'll find the paper as edifying as I did. Enjoy!
In the latest-&-greatest effort in my mission to deliver my Columnstore presentation to every geekly denizen of the SQL community on the Northleft Coast of the United States & beyond, I'll be delivering this week to the Oregon SQL Server User Group.
Though Columnstore indexes were introduced in SQL Server 2012; they're still largely unknown. In 2012, some adoption blockers remained; yet Columnstore was nonetheless a game changer for many apps. In SQL Server 2014, potential blockers have been largely removed & Columnstore is going to profoundly change the way we interact with our data.
Here're the logistical details:
Title: Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW Faster Bit Group: Oregon SQL Server User Group URL: http://osql-d.org Twitter: @OSQLd Location: 1515 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 900, Portland, OR 97201 (downtown Portland in the ninth floor conference room of OHSU IT Group) Time: Wednesday evening April 9, 2014, 6:00p
Thanks to MVP Arnie Rowland (b|t) for the invitation as well as Vern Rabe & Paul Turley (b|t). As I understand it, there'll be several MVPs & MCMs there. No pressure—and with luck, there'll be no Stump-the-Chump.
I'm bringing a copy of the following for one lucky attendee: Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting by Christian Bolton (b|t), Rob Farley (b|t), Glenn Berry (b|t), Justin Langford (b|t), Gavin Payne (b|t), Amit Banerjee (b|t), with contributions & reviews from other big-time geeks such as Robert Davis (b|t) & Mike Anderson (b).
I've been working with Columnstore Indexes since Denali alpha bits were available. As SQL CAT Customer Lab PM, I hosted over a half-dozen customers in my lab proving out our builds, finding & entering bugs, & working directly with the product group & our customers to fix them.
Why Columnstore? If we're looking for a subset of columns from one or a few rows, given the right indexes, SQL Server has long been able to do a superlative job of providing an answer. But if we're asking a question which by design needs to hit lots of rows—reporting, aggregations, grouping, scans, DW workloads, etc., SQL Server has never had a good mechanism—until Columnstore. Columnstore was a competitive necessity—our Sybase & Oracle customers needed a solution to satisfy what was heretofore a significant feature & performance deficit in SQL Server. Our leadership & product team stepped up & provided a superb response.
I've delivered my Columnstore presentation over 20 times to audiences internal & external, small & large, remote & in-person, including the 2013 PASS Summit, two major Microsoft conferences (TechReady 17 & TechReady 18), & several PASS user groups (BI Virtual chapter, IndyPASS, Olympia, PNWSQL, Salt Lake City, Utah County, Denver, & Northern Colorado).
The deck has evolved significantly & includes a broad overview, architecture, best practices, & an amalgam of exciting success stories. The purpose is to educate you & convince you that Columnstore is a compelling feature, to encourage you to experiment, & to help you determine whether Columnstore could justify upgrading to SQL Server 2014.
Here's my deck's ToC:
I've included several demos, all of which are exceedingly simple & include step-by-step walkthroughs.
Let me know if you have any questions. In the meantime, enjoy!
I continue to receive dozens of inquiries each year about this issue. The "fix" in contemporary versions of Windows Server combined with the absence of formal guidance since the white paper's publication has led some to believe that disk partition is no longer a best practice. This is incorrect.
Partition alignment remains a best practice for all versions of Windows Server as well as SQL Server, including SQL Server 2012 & SQL Server 2014. No exceptions. Period. If, for whatever reason, misaligned volumes are created, they will fail to deliver their expected performance. SQL Server installed on such volumes will suffer concomitant performance degradation.
Prior to joining the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQL CAT), I was asked to document my presentation on Disk Partition Alignment as a formal white paper which was published in May 2009.
Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814.aspx
Denny Lee (blog|@dennylee) co-authored the paper with me. Some of the industry's best & brightest storage gurus contributed or reviewed it.
A design decision that had been extant in all versions of Windows prior to Windows Server 2008 baked misalignment into the OS; thus it was a ubiquitous issue, resulting in most cases in an enormous performance hit, especially for random read I/O, often resulting in superfluous IOPs of 20%, 30%, up to 50%. Many customers were unaware of partition alignment. Even experienced disk administrators were often unfamiliar with it. Explanations were often initially met with disbelief. Indeed, when it first came to my attention, I was wide-eyed, struck plumb dumb with what I was being told. I trusted the source, yet I performed my own experiments to verify. It turned out to be a well-known issue amongst my colleagues at SQL CAT.
Fortunately, the root cause was remediated in Windows Server 2008. All volumes created by versions of Windows since then should by default be aligned; but partitions must be validated—see below.
Many factors contribute to optimal disk I/O performance. partition alignment properly correlated with stripe unit size and file allocation unit size remains a best practice. Partition alignment provides an essential & fundamental foundation for optimal performance. See the white paper or my blog posts for specifics.
Thomas Kejser (blog), former SQL CAT PM Mike Ruthruff, former SQL CAT PM Mike Anderson (blog), Principal Engineer, Microsoft Sam Tudorov, Director, Simecom Inc.
Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server white paper My Blog Posts Windows Disk Alignment, a superb post on Mike Anderson's SQL Velocity blog EMC Symmetrix with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Best Practices Planning
I'm presenting soon to two Colorado user groups.
Topic: Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012 & 2014: Flipping the DW /faster bit
Monday 13 January 2014 @5:30p Northern Colorado SQL Server Users Group URL: http://nocodp.org :: http://nocodp.sqlpass.org Twitter: #nocodp Location: UNC Loveland Center at Centerra, 2915 Rocky Mountain Avenue, Loveland, CO 80538 (Breckenridge Conference Room 2nd floor) Erik Disparti (@ErikDis|blog)
Thursday 16 January 2014 @5:30p Denver SQL Server Users Group URL: http://www.denversql.org/ :: http://denver.sqlpass.org Twitter: @denversql Location: Denver Microsoft Offices, 7595 West Technology Way, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80237 (directions) Mike Fal (@Mike_Fal|blog)
I'm giving away one copy at each preso of SQL matriarch Kalen Delaney et al's latest-&-greatest hot-off-the-presses opus: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals Kalen Delaney (blog|twitter), Bob Beauchemin (blog|twitter), Connor Cunningham, Jonathan Kehayias (blog|twitter), Paul Randal (blog|twitter), & Ben Nevarez (blog|twitter)
I was originally asked to speak last summer. Linking my nascent passion for skiing with the timing resulted in a low latency response of something like, 'Hey, let's do this in six months, eh?'. I followed up with Mike at the 2013 PASS Summit & along with Erik we carved the dates in stone. I'm Denver-bound as I type this & am extremely eager to combine my passion for skiing along with my eagerness to evangelize one of the many new! &/or improved! features that SQL Server has to offer. I'll provide an update on both my experience on the slopes & with the groups.
In the meantime, as I write this, I'm looking out over the slopes of Vail being greeted by the winter's dawn.
It's going to be a great day—& a great week! I hope you can join us!
Yes, I'm back.
Though not welding an ax like Jack during the notorious scene in The Shining, I am indeed I'm back in the saddle again. My last post was four years ago. At that time my blog was consistently in the top 7% on MSDN. Collaborating with peers inside & outside of Microsoft, posting relevant content, & month-after-month watching the stats rise was a lot of fun. Unbelievably, this blog is still in the top 12%, reflecting, I hope, robust & durable content. We'll see whether the stats inflect with my new content.
A lot has happened since my last post. I'll never forget the wintry day Mike Ruthruff called to ask whether I'd consider joining the SQL Server Product Team as a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Consider? Joining SQL CAT had been a goal & a dream as a customer, & since joining Microsoft doing so had long been at the top of my professional development plan. Would I move to Redmond? Mark Souza (twitter) is the only person for whom I'd do so. My lovely bride & I dutifully packed up & moved from the comfort of the Midwest to the beauty of the Northleft Coast—& what a ride it's been!
As the Customer Lab PM, my motto was Change the World or Go Home. And change the world we did. We did things in the Lab that had never before been done & are likely never to be repeated, including in 2½ years over 100—count 'em, 100+—engagements, dozens of them with customers who'd parachuted in from all over the world bringing with them some of the biggest, fastest, best, & most interesting apps on the planet where we proved them out with our latest bits & on the best hardware available. We validated dozens of apps on Denali, especially AlwaysOn & Columnstore; hundreds of bugs were documented & fixed for SQL Server 2012 RTM because of our work. Dittos for Azure.
Last year I got a call from another friend, a former colleague from MSIT, Chris Lundquist, who asked me to onboard as an Architect to help with Enterprise BI. More about that exciting transition in another post...
My current role offers myriad challenges. I still get to work with the SQL Community & SQL Product Group, & last year I accepted the role of MSIT Service Design Engineering (SDE) Community Co-Lead.
Here's what's in the lineup for the next few months.
One of the original goals of this blog was flipping the SQL Server /faster bit. Performance remains a passion & it will continue to be so. I'll also focus on Columnstore indexes, perhaps SQL Server newest most powerful yet underutilized feature.
I'll speak from time-to-time about my specific roles at SQL CAT & MSIT as well as learnings I'm eager to share.
SDE is the formalized guidance for something I've long evangelized to colleagues, customers, & the community, something I call "Engineering Discipline". In MSIT, though my title is Architect, I work under the umbrella of Service Design Engineering. I accepted a leadership role in the MSIT SDE Community. I'm working alongside Casie Owen, an inspiring colleague & engineer, & more recently Melissa Lowe aka "Mel" (who's equally inspiring!), & together with other peers we're hoping to change the world from the inside out. I'll share our successes & insights.
I'm working on various self-service Business Intelligence (SSBI) projects. In addition, I have the privilege of being a lead in what I'm labeling The Reliability Project, adapting a Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) initiative to MSIT & across Microsoft, including a potential collaboration with engineers at Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (TwC) & Microsoft's Design Excellence team.
I remain as passionate about the User & MVP Community as ever. As a founder of two user groups back in Indy, I'm well-acquainted with the challenges faced by groups around the country. As a member of the SQL MVP v-Team, it's exciting to participate in this vital & vibrant community facet. I'll share a bit about how I approach my nominations & nominees. Since my last post I've spoken dozens of times around the country including several sessions at PASS, & I'll continue to do so. I'm provided the opportunity to review white papers, tech notes, & blogs, & will cross-reference them here.
The SQLMCM program is cancelled, & it's tragic. I won't dive more deeply into that now. Yet I've found certification & especially the MCM to be an invaluable asset on the job & for my career. Earning my MCM in 2008 has been tremendously gratifying from a personal, career, & relationship perspective. Being asked to assist others & watching them grow is one of the most exciting things about the Community & my work. I'll share my trials & tribulations as I sharpen the saw in preparation for upgrading my skill set as well as the goings on related to what used to be called #SQLMCM #Northleft.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right thing." —Peter Drucker
Having spent much of my geekly career overworked & underpaid (raise your hand if you know what I mean), I've invested a great deal of time mitigating the overworked aspect by enhancing not only my efficiency, but more importantly my effectiveness.
Kevin Kline (twitter|blog|blog) has often asked me to share my professional development insights. Masterminds such as Principal PM J.D. Meier (MSDN blog|Sources of Insight blog|Getting Results wiki) & Alik Levin (blog) & Rob Boucher have been primary contributors. Co-conspirators range from Robert Davis (twitter|blog), Thomas Kejser (blog), Joe Sack (twitter|blog), Mike Ruthruff (prolific twitter alias), my wingman Shahry Hashemi (twitter|blog), & many, many others. I'll share lessons learned from these & other brilliant resources.
During my geekly career I've spent lots of nights, weekends, & holidays in the trenches. Many of you, like me, are passionate about SQL Server. Indeed, our enthusiasm is one of our great strengths. Yet there's much more to life than flipping the /faster bit! My longtime search for balance has begun to pay off. I've renewed another passion—for health & fitness. Almost thirty years ago(!) I was one of the primary performers—one of the stars—in Richard Simmons's original Sweatin' to the Oldies (yeah, that's me in the mauve tank top). I've gained & lost 75 pounds (~35kg) three times in the past 20 years. Thanks to Dr. Mark Dedomenico's incredible 20/20 Lifestyles program at Pro Sports Club, for the first time I've kept it off for well over a year. I've been bitten by the ski bug & I'm a mountain biking phreak.
There are clear tie-ins to professional development. For example, puckerworthy moments on top of a mountain looking into the abyss down which I'm about to launch myself on a pair of boards attached to my feet offer great lessons in facing one's fears & how to overcome perceived limitations. Details to follow…
And if that's not enough, I promise plenty of off-topic material.
Thanks for the encouragement, support, & patience these past few years. Stay tuned!
Jimmy May, @aspiringgeek
While at the PASS Community Summit in November 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a handful of excellent presentations. One of the best was delivered by Mike Ruthruff (& not just because he shilled for my presentation on disk partition alignment later that day—though I suspect he contributed to my session being SRO).
Mike is a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQL CAT). He authored the deck with contributions from SQL CAT patriarch Prem Mehra.
Most of you probably know Mike because he is the primary author of the landmark white paper we all know-&-love & have read over-&-over again because we know how unbelievably valuable it is:
SQL Server Predeployment I/O Best Practiceshttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/pdpliobp.mspx
Mike provided a copy of his latest-&-greatest deck for publication here:
Microsoft SQL Server on SAN Best Practices
The deck includes the following:
I think you'll enjoy this presentation—one of the best, perhaps the best of its kind ever assembled. ¡Yo! Only first-rate decks on this blog. Besides which, SQL CAT does nothing but the best. Get ready to be wowed by 50 slides of geekly goodness.
Jimmy May, MCMSQL CAT Sr. Program ManagerSQL Server Customer Advisory Team, Business Platform Division317.590.8650http://blogs.msdn.com/jimmymay Microsoft: Change the world or go home.


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Has anyone found the "Crystal Ice" streps in the USA yet? They are on the Lyndon Lyon website (www.lyndonlyon.com) but that is in England, and they won't ship to USA. |
Follow-Up Postings:
Hi, I think Lyndon Lyon is a US vendor, since I just placed an order from them last week. But Dibley's, the hybridizer of the "Crystal" series is in England, and it's true that you can't order from them. They won't ship here. But if you found the Crystal streps on Lyndon Lyon, order them! People do occasionally sell them on ebay, at outrageous prices, so if you're really desperate, there's always that. Good luck! |
Cabarb, Yes, as Nikki said Lyndon Lyon is in the US. Go for it!! Larry |
Larry and mwedzi....you are both right, and I am wrong. I did mean Dibley's in England carries the Crystal Ice streps. I am so sorry....guess I can blame it on either old age or the darn earthquake we had earlier today! Thank you! |
Be patient. They will come to us. I am sure of that, since all the older Dibley's creations have made it into circulation here and in Canada. Someone will bring back a leaf and someone will propagate it and before you know it, our mail order specialists like Lyndon Lyon will offer it. By the way, I like the plants I have gotten from Lyon's though they are ones I bought at convention plant sales where they brought plants rather than mail order. But they are the same plants they ship. They grow amazingly robust and beautiful starter plants. Lyndon Lyon was a great hybridizer of AV's and gesneriads. He started the nursery in the late 40's I think. Today it is owned and operated by his grandson, Paul Sorano, who learned the business and learned the love of plants from his grandfather. He was the grandchild who hung out at the greenhouse from an early age. So, I am a big fan. Jon PS. Though the newer hybrids being created by Dibley's and other hybridizers, many of whom are also in the UK are outstanding, I still believe that one can get just about as nice plants by growing on seed, if that seed comes from some of the better hybrids. One seed pod from a single cross can produce an amazing assortment of outstanding flowers. A good source for a wide variety of strep seeds is the AGGS seed fund. |
- Posted by dampflippers Tyne & Wear UK (My Page) on Wed, Sep 29, 04 at 6:14
The African Violet centre (see straptocarpus leaves thread) in England has them in their nursery. You can email for a plant list, but again, I don't know if they send to USA. |
- Posted by robitaillenancy1 zone 5 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 29, 04 at 17:20
There are eight greenhouses in Ste. Foy, Quebec, two devoted to streptocarpus. Prim'fleurs get tissue culture from labs in Europe and take the tissue culture to streps in 4 1/2 inch pots. These are wholesale so you have to buy 15 plants at a time and shipping to US would be expensive. Many varieties are available including Crystal Ice. email@example.com I buy from Prim'fleurs and am satisfied with the plants. I am not able to sell or trade plants to US. For the moment, appreciate what you have. There are some really great streps from Rob's, Lyons and Martens. Try some of the less popular Rob's. I have Bristol's Bingo Bango plus 15 others of his and they are outstanding. Nancy |
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every question/problem about Craftsman garage door openers on these forums, I think I'd be rich. Will never buy one for sure!!!!
Kathy G in MI |
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I was hoping someone would say that. I'd like to come back in the new year and see "Garage Door Openers" as a distinct Forum separate from "Home Repair". -David |
- Posted by davidandkasie (My Page) on Thu, Dec 25, 08 at 19:43
this same post comes up periodically, and i will answer the sam eway i hav ein the past. THERE IS ALREADY A GARAGE FORUM SPECIFICALLY FOR THESE PROBLEMS. the biggest problem is that people google GDO problem and it points them to this particular forum on THS. unless and until iVillage moves all opener threads to teh garage forum, AND google/other engines then updates links, this will continue. |
- Posted by kathyg_in_mi (My Page) on Thu, Dec 25, 08 at 20:34
Isn't a broken garage door applicable to the Home Repair Forum also? Didn't know the Home Repair nazi was out and about. Sorry, but I didn't care for you shouting at me. I did put my post over there on the Garage Forum after you said/shouted that there is a Garage Forum. I never noticed it. So sorry. (Did I spell everything okay?) Kathy G in MI |
I believe Sears Craftsman is made by Chamberlain / Liftmaster so your selection just got much smaller. |
- Posted by kathyg_in_mi (My Page) on Fri, Dec 26, 08 at 10:49
zl700, Thanks for the heads up on Liftmaster. I believe our builder put in one 2 years ago when we had second garage built. So far no problems with it. Will have to check it out in warmer weather. Kathy G in MI |
- Posted by davidandkasie (My Page) on Sat, Dec 27, 08 at 0:08
no, i was not shouting at you. i was pointing out to the 2nd poster that there is already a forum for it and people ignore it because all teh search links point here to all teh old threads from before the forum was created. you would be surprised how many people post in similar threads as this and even after the forum is pointed out they still ask about getting a GDO forum. thus, the reason for the caps. maybe it will catch the eye of the next 10-15 people before they ask for a forum that already exists. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Sat, Dec 27, 08 at 10:45
I think it should be a "craftsman" garage door opener forum since that seems to be the center of the posts. Common sense will tell anyone that obviously sears has a bunk product. Go with genie. |
kathyg_in_mi I find it surprising if you've been a member here since 2001 and you make this post. Someone inevitably posts a similar "observation and conclusion" about Craftsman openers about once a year. There were/are at least two VERY knowlegable opener repair specialists at this site (Don and GDO_Specialist) that helped countless individuals with DIY repairs on openers. these same guys also posted responses to the derogatory posts endorsing and supporting the overall reliability and economy of Craftsman openers. They went into detail on how if anyone googles "Craftsman garage door repair" they will likely end up here. (In fact when I joined here in 2003 it was for an opener repair question.) IIRC, They said that Sears is the leading seller of GDOs to homeowners and if one could get statistics of openers sold / posted problems the ratio would probably be less than other manufacturers. I think someone should also do an analysis of the age of the "problem" opener from each post or how many posts are associated with user error or misuse as opposed to manufacturing defects/issues. Bottom line is that I am not associated with Sears and have nothing to gain by posting this. I'm on my second Craftsman GDO. The first lasted >15 years and even then could have been repaired with a $40 kit. Instead I opted to buy a new Craftsman unit that came with two remotes and a keyless entry pad for <$140. Even if it only lives for 10 years that's still a deal at $14 a year. Also, the configuration of the new one was compatible with the old hangar so installation just involved swapping out the unit. Very easy and it works great. I recommend that people at least post some facts before posting a general post that a product is no good. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Sat, Dec 27, 08 at 19:19
Spoken like a true "craftsman"! |
"I think it should be a "craftsman" garage door opener forum since that seems to be the center of the posts. Common sense will tell anyone that obviously sears has a bunk product. Go with genie." Where are your facts? I guess you missed this: |
Additionally, I took a couple of minutes and searched this forum for "GDO" and found this previous post. |
Here is a link that might be useful: same question from 2006
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Sun, Dec 28, 08 at 10:49
I only have two facts. One from a friend who over twenty years ago was a sears repir person. The other, our current overhead garage door company who both want nothing to do with a sears/craftsman garage door opener. One who repaired, the other who started out using them in their business finding too many call backs and switched to genie. |
I took a look at the 'Garage' forum---it is titled Garage/Shop---NOT garage door problem forum. It seems intended for conversations/information/advice about shops in garages or stand al;ones. It seems the GDO folks have taken it over---when logically, GDO problems should be in Home Repair forum. |
- Posted by davidandkasie (My Page) on Sun, Dec 28, 08 at 22:39
there was a post from the gods that be here when teh garage/workshop forum was created specifying that it was the place for GDO questions. several threads actually were moved over there. as a matter of a fact, part of the driving force behind it's creation was people in THIS forum requesting it. using your arguement that opener problems should go here, why not get rid of the plumbing/eletrical/HVAC/etc.. forums and lump them all in here? |
It seems that there should then be a separate forum for correcting improper forum posts. |
- Posted by don_1_2006 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 29, 08 at 10:02
Oh boy! There have been complaints in the garage/workshop forum about the door opener posts. They want that forum for drawers, shelves and epoxy floors. Some people also post opener problems in the tool shed forum. It isn't a problem for me as I can go wherever but some people do seem to find scrolling a somewhat difficult task. |
- Posted by sierraeast (My Page) on Mon, Dec 29, 08 at 10:20
I guess the g.d.o.'s should have their place and it's easy to ignore them if it doesn't pertain to individual interests, so in the grand scheme of things, being on any forum, it really isn't that big a deal. Sorry about my cry baby sally attitude towards the garage door posts, live and let live! A friend lived in an apartment and was into ham radios or some type of radio communication. He accidently stumbled on a frequency that operated the garage door opener across the street. He proceeded to have a blast driving the homeowner as well as the repair person crazy when the repair person showed up to make the fix. The repair person was called out several times! |
- Posted by kathyg_in_mi (My Page) on Mon, Dec 29, 08 at 22:25
The only reason I posted about the Craftsman GDO's was because over the years I have popped into this forum once in a while and it seemed to have a lot of posts on this subject. Finally just decided to voice my opinion(freedom of speech and all that). Our first GDO was a Genie and DH installed it in 1978. He replaced it in 2006. Yes, there were a few repairs to it, but nothing major! Kathy G in MI |
- Posted by davidandkasie (My Page) on Mon, Dec 29, 08 at 23:55
both our GDO's are Craftsman. i replaced both late 70's models 3 years ago. the reason they failed, dirt bauber nests inside them had ground the gears down. since they were close to 30 years old, i figured it was time. oh, and the reason for the nests was that the previous owner had only 1 vehicle and he kept 1 door open all teh time and the other shut all teh time. if he left the house, he simply locked the inside door. he did not even have a remote when we bought the house! |
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At some point in my code I used to call AutoCAD 2012 this way:
AcadApp = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application.18")
This procedure does for some reason not work in AutpCAD 2013
AcadApp = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application.19") produces an error
If if dim AcadApp as object I get a <COM Type> object (which I cannot use or convert to AcadApplication)
If I dim AcadApp A AcadApplication i get this exception:
{"Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.AcadApplication'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{2959C1CC-8577-4EDB-ADDC-6EBBAB147926}' failed due to the following error: En sådan grænseflade understøttes ikke (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))."} System.Exception
What changed from 2012 to 2013?
Jan Grenov
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Solved! Go to Solution.
Solved! by Alfred.NESWADBA. See the answer in context.
>> What changed from 2012 to 2013?
The library you have to use the refrences for 19. As minimum for the corrent type "AcadApplication" you need the "AutoCAD 2013 Type Library". Take care for all references you use that they point to a *19*-file.
- alfred -
>> What changed from 2012 to 2013?
The library you have to use the refrences for 19. As minimum for the corrent type "AcadApplication" you need the "AutoCAD 2013 Type Library". Take care for all references you use that they point to a *19*-file.
- alfred -
Oops .... Forgot about the references to the COM libraries. Stupid me. Thanks
Jan Grenov
Referencing these AutoCAD dlls, is not an option for me.
I need to use latebinding, mainly because my program needs to support all versions of AutoCAD from 2002 and up.
Is there any way to use something like the code below, for AutoCAD 2013 64bit
Private Function GetAcadObject(byval SelectedVersion as string) As Object Dim ReadyTimeout As TimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60) Dim ReadyPollInterval As TimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.25) Dim stopwatch__1 = Stopwatch.StartNew() Dim acadObj As Object While stopwatch__1.Elapsed < ReadyTimeout Try acadObj = CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application." + SelectedVersion) If Not acadObj Is Nothing Then Return acadObj End If Catch e As System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException If e.ErrorCode <> DirectCast(&H800401E3, Integer) Then ' MK_E_UNAVAILABLE If Not e.ErrorCode = DirectCast(&H8001010A, Integer) Then Throw End If End If If e.ErrorCode <> DirectCast(&H8001010A, Integer) Then 'RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER If Not e.ErrorCode = DirectCast(&H800401E3, Integer) Then Throw End If End If End Try Threading.Thread.Sleep(ReadyPollInterval) End While Throw New TimeoutException("Unable to acquire the AutoCAD Object") End Function
>> Is there any way to use something like the code below, for AutoCAD 2013 64bit
If that is just a question then I would say YES. You can use latebindng also in that case.
Or do you have any problems with your code, then which problem and at what line.
- alfred -
I have a similar problem.
I used "AutoCAD 2013 Type Library" in my vb6 project on a Windows 64-bit, but does not work.
(works on the autocad 2013 32bit!!)
error 429 the component can not create object.
you have any idea?
I leave you an example that I have constructed to understand the problem:
Option Explicit
Dim Acad As AcadApplication
Dim Dwg As AcadDocument
Private Sub Form_Load()
On Error GoTo Errore
Set Acad = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application.19")
Set Dwg = Acad.ActiveDocument
On Error GoTo 0
Exit Sub
MsgBox Err.Number & " " & Err.Description
End Sub
have you started AutoCAD before you run your code? If not then: GetObject does not start anything, it looks in the ROT for the first active/responding instance of an ActiveX-server. If GetObject does not find any it stops with the error you showed.
If you want your code to start AutoCAD then you have to use CreateObject!
- alfred -
I've managed to get this working, with just using CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application.19").
My settingfile was supplying AutoCAD.Application.19.0 which of course won't work...
I believed that I changed this to 19 but it was not the case..
Thanks for the help guys!
Alfred thanks for your answer,
Yes i have started AutoCAD before run my code.
The GetObject should catch the running AutoCAD and then execute commands.
The same code works fine on Windows 32-bit, it will not work for autocad 2013 on 64bit.
I do not know the instrument/function ROT.
can you help me please?
where can I find it?
(sorry for my bad english!)
have you tried to start any program with VBA, e.g. MS-Excel and do the GetObject from that programm?
Let's see if that works!
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Jul 4th 2011 12:42AM Deadwind Pass. 1-10 zone.
Honestly? If there weren't 8 dead giveaways before that, anyone who continued to believe this was real after reading this bit is a complete idiot.
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When I visited there, there was a guy named Satan commanding his numerous minions to commit suicide in the fireplace of the inn (there were several of them, and they did so repeatedly while yelling about how they lived to serve Satan), about 300 people downstairs, 75% of which were naked and spamming emotes, 50% of which engaged in all sorts of strip club activities, an entire horde raid trying to pvp in an upstairs bedroom, and three women and a BEAR having a foursome in another. This was all just in the inn. It was more of the same outside.
They don't just need to police it. They need to police it in uch a way that when anyone steps out of line, the town is flagged to be permanently on fire like the Hallow's End event. Only the water buckets are full of gasoline and all players within the limits of the city are flagged as dousable. Players who are on fire will burn down into a pile of ashes and be unable to rez for three hours.
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The second part, I don't agree with:
"And undercutting. Yes, I understand that undercutting your competition is an important part of business, but when you undercut someone, you don't undercut them by massive amounts, thereby driving down the value of your product. You undercut them by just enough that you can say, "Hey, look, we're cheaper!" But again, WoW players have no grasp on this. They go on the AH, see an item they want to sell up for 100G, and instead of putting it up for, say, 99G 99S or something, they go ahead and drop the price down to 90G. That's ten gold away from the value of your product! Why would you do that!?"
There are several reasons why you would deep undercut.
1. Items have no value. Value is defined by what people will pay for them. If there are 100 people who will buy item A at 100g, I'm willing to bet more of them would be willing to buy it at 90g. Those items sell faster, I make my money faster, and if there are enough people who would buy them at 90g (say 120 people as opposed to 100), I make more money than I would by selling them at 100g.
2. I need cash now for something and can't wait for that item to sell. I put up Cardinal Rubies on my server for 190g. That's the price I find that they sell every single time, regardless of what the competition does. It usually takes a day to sell though. If I need 100g now so I can get that Surge Needle Ring I want, which has mysteriously been absent from AH the last many months and may never be up there again, I'll put it up there for 140g because I know someone will snap it up real quick.
3. I'm starting a business on a new server and there are already several competitors on the market in my chosen field. If I have the cash, I can deep undercut those guys until they get tired of not being able to make any money and they leave the market for something the perceive as more profitable. I can then raise my prices to acceptable levels and make a very nice profit (until someone else decides to do the same that is, at which point I start over).
There are probably some other reasons I can't think of right now, but just because someone isn't undercutting by 1s doesn't mean they are idiots. If anything, I take it as a sign of intelligence. You could say that it destroys the value of the item, but what you really mean is it destroys YOUR profit margins. I'm in it to make money, and don't care about what anyone else's profit margins are. If I'm making money, and I'm happy with my profit margins, I will price things at whatever I like.
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Although Lyrics Born has already amassed a resumé that any MC would envy — founding member of Quannum Projects; collaborator with Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, KRS-One and many others, just to name a handful of credentials — he believes the best is yet to come. "I see myself on a trajectory," he explains. "I still don't feel like I've made my best album, and I still don't feel like, career-wise, I'm at the peak. That's really what I work toward daily."
Which means his latest effort, As U Were, can be considered another step toward perfection. "When I set out to make this album, I definitely was looking to make an album that I wanted to hear as a fan," he says. "As a fan of Lyrics Born — as a fan of music, as a fan of soul, as a fan of funk, as a fan of hip-hop — I definitely wanted to pay homage to a lot of the musical influences that maybe haven't been as obvious in my past work."
He does all that and more in As U Were, which is like a romp through selections of the best electro-funk from the '80s, with byways accessing Born's signature hip-hop stylings. His deep, hypnotic voice paints pictures of the price of fame, the true cost of money and how to rise above it all, set to a hip-shaking soundtrack. It's virgin territory — adjacent, but still somewhat foreign, to his previous work.
"That was the whole point," he notes. "I felt it was time for me to do something different. I didn't want to approach the production process, the writing process, in the same way that I had done my albums in the past. It was just time for me to get refreshed and really go for a different kind of sound, a different kind of sound palette.
"My blessing and my curse is that I make a different album every time," Born adds. "And I think artistically, for me, it's necessary. But there are challenges that come along with that. And I'm just very fortunate that people are on board for this crazy ride."
A crazy ride that, in this instance, ventures through deep, dark, frightening places at times. "There were a lot of points during the making of this album where I literally felt like the levees were breaking all around me," he reveals. "And I felt a lot of pressure to maybe do things that I wouldn't have done in the past — professionally, personally, artistically — but despite all the chaos, I just kept hearing that voice, and that voice just kept saying: 'Look: As you were, LB, just as you were.' Just because the world is crashing down around you doesn't mean that you have to fall apart. Just stick to the plan. The plan is, keep making albums, keep challenging yourself artistically, and everything else will work itself out."
And so it did. The album is complete, and he's embarking on another of his famously ambitious tours, with both a band and a DJ, to introduce it to the world. After plying his trade for fifteen years and establishing a name in hip-hop, Born says his biggest challenge is managing his life so he can maintain his momentum. "I think just as you get older, everything gets more complicated," he notes. "Particularly as your career grows, it gets infinitely more complicated. Especially in the modern era. The modern artist's career is infinitely more complicated than when I started.
"But at the same time, on a lot of levels, it's really exciting," he continues. "It's exhilarating the speed and the rate at which everything moves, and it really requires you to be incredibly nimble and grounded."
That grounding is evident in his treatment of subject matters such as drug addiction, heartache and regret — not necessarily new topics in hip-hop, but Born's analysis and approach reflect a thoughtful, uplifting theme that elevates his work. "I believe that music is a very spiritual thing," he muses, "and I think it's really helped me understand the reach that music has and the power that it has."
"To be able to do what I do for a living and succeed is, like, one in a million. It's not really something that I can look at and say, 'This is a coincidence.' With my sensibility, that just doesn't jibe. And then you start to realize, okay, maybe the purpose of what I'm doing is broader than what I originally thought. And then I start to treat what I do with a lot more respect and a lot more reverence, knowing that it has more power than I initially thought.
"It's still fun," he adds. "That's still a large part of the motivation, but now it's kind of like, 'Okay, how can I make music history? What can I really do here that's going to add on to a musical legacy that came before me? What am I doing with my music that's literally and actually helping people?' You know what I mean? What am I doing that is going to make my work memorable forever? These are the kinds of things that I think about now. It's not really about getting up out of bed, smoking weed and freestyling anymore; it's just not. That part, although fun, is over."


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Following a successful pilot project last year, the Ontario Heritage Trust has planned a series of more than 20 events across the province, starting on June 7th, International Trails Day. Locations familiar to Trans Canada Trail users will be explored over the 2008 season – including Greater Sudbury, Caledon East, the Toronto Waterfront, and Uxbridge, [...]
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WoW Moviewatch: Associate Professor Evil Kills All Ninja Looters
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Sonam Kapoor is excited about her upcoming Tamil-Hindi bilingual Ambikapathy (Raanjhanaa in Hindi). "Many actresses whom I admire — such as like Jayapradha, Hema Malini, Waheeda Rehman, Vyjayanthimala and Sridevi — have started their career in Tamil. I'm quite thrilled to enter the Tamil film industry through Ambikapathy. Incidentally, Sonam recalls her father Anil Kapoor's South connection too — it was Mani Ratnam's Kannada film Pallavi Anupallavi that who gave Anil his first break.
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Kumki actor Vikram Prabhu is on to his next with director Gaurav's (Thoonga Nagaram) Sigaram Thodu. Keeping him company are Monal Gajjar and Sathish (Ethir Neechal). The music by D. Imman is expected to add lustre to the lush locales that Gaurav has chosen to shoot the film in — the Himalayan mountain range near the Chandi Devi Temple in Haridwar. Cranking the camera is Vijay Ulaganathan who proved his mettle in films such as Thoonga Nagaram. The film's produced by UTV Motion Pictures.
True to life
Director Suryaprakash has scripted his forthcoming film Varushanaadu based on a true story that happened in Dindigul and surrounding districts. "This is a love story that involved people and families known to me. I have not portrayed any of them in a negative manner; most of them are still around. I have shot the film in the locations where the real incidents happened," says Suryaprakash. The lead role is played by Kumaran (Dhairyam) and his love interest, by Srushti Dange.
Mimicry, movies…
Badava Gopi, who won the appreciation of Kamal Hassan for the flair with which he mimics the sounds of birds and animals, recently did a programme on wildlife for a television channel. But it's not just the mimicry spells that keeps the actor busy . He will be seen in five films, which are in various stages of production. "I play the cameraman to Hansika's reporter in Biriyani, while in Saraswathi Sabatham I play a restless politician, in Nimirndhu Nil, a fraudulent government officer and a schoolteacher in Pattathu Yanai. In Balaji Sakthivel's untitled film I play a drunkard. I prefer to do character roles laced with humour," says Badava Gopi.
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Selena Gomez has sung many songs. Songs including Who Says and Round & Round. She's never content, though, so she's released yet another one called Love You Like a Love Song, complete with – as standard – a pretty sexy video.
Selena, in this video, is singing karaoke. Except really she isn't – it's a professionally-produced video, and the karaoke, the bar, the punters, everything is all a lie. Especially the way that, through the power of karaoke, she manages to transport herself through a realm of different psychedelic wonderlands. This rarely happens when you sing karaoke for real.
We don't sing karaoke anymore. We used to, but then again we used to go to a lot of pretty rubbish bars. And there was one incident that scarred us forever and we can't go back – suffice to say it involved being forced to sing Blue's masterpiece All Rise by four burly rugby players hepped up on coke, and everyone laughing at us because we didn't know the words.
Bet Selena knew all her bloody words
Why would you know the words to All Rise, anyway? And why couldn't they have picked a better song? It keeps us awake at nights, sometimes.
Back to Selena, though. Luckily for us, she happens to change into a foxy rainbow basque for part of the performance, which is nice, although she's still carrying that whole 'good girl' image around from her youth that Britney managed to invert in her very first video.
Later in the video there's some lightsaber mariachi piñata action. As you do
One day soon, we hope, Selena will cotton on to the fact that she's just plain hot, ditch that Beiber character, and kick out videos of herself in sexy costumes like good old Britney used to. One day. Soon.
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I've done a lot of research lately on international destinations for my family. We are taking our first international trip as a family in 2014 and since I speak "un poco de Español," my research has involved more spanish-speaking destinations. So if you're looking for a family escape that serves up a seriously beach-centric experience, complete with plenty of fun and the all-important combo of sun, sea and sand, Fuerteventura checks off all the right boxes.
As part of the sun-baked Canary Islands, a Spanish-owned archipelago located just off the west coast of Africa, Fuerteventura enjoys a temperate year-round climate with scorching summers and mild winters. Watch out for soaring temperatures during the peak season of June through August, when the barometer regularly reaches the 80s and 90s (high 20s and 30s Celsius). For a family holiday, if you are like me with a young child in tow, it may be better to travel in the early or late part of the season – such as May or September – when the temperatures are generally a little more bearable and there is usually still plenty of kids' entertainment on offer too.
As for things to see and do, Fuerteventura is famous for its beaches, so you can certainly expect to spend plenty of time building sandcastles and splashing around with the little ones. The island is home to many high quality family hotels, and from here you can book various day excursions with the kids such as jeep safaris and boat trips. The Pirates Adventure is a particular family favorite. Set sail onboard a fabulous schooner, complete with towering masts and billowing sails, and head for the horizon to discover the island's striking coastline and to spot whales and dolphins in their natural habitat.
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Bible Verses About Harry Potter
Bible verses related to Harry Potter from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance
Leviticus 20:27 - A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Deuteronomy 18:9-12 - When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. (Read More...)
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Mark 1:1-45 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; (Read More...)
Matthew 6:21 - For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 - There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, (Read More...)
Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Acts 16:16 - And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Luke 1:1-80 - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, (Read More...)
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