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Finding myself :) Learning to play the guitar and djembe drum. Crafting a parasol. Starting a career as a singer, model and actor in China! Finishing my apartment wall decoration.
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Personal philosophy would mean to create a rigid framework from which to see and interpret the world and people in it.. Ive always had a very fluid nature and since people learn new things constantly I would rather put down things that feel right for me at this time in my life.
At the moment, I am all about self-discovery and expressing how I feel (I dont write "who I am" since that is unclear and always changing). I believe that many aspects of our selves are about creativity and should thus be expressed because creativity is beautiful. This also means that I strive to let other people express themselves how they are and not restrict their creativity. My experience shows that restricting creativity is what ultimately leads to disassociation from our senses, body and our "selves". May I heal and may others around me heal from times we denied ourselves the freedom to express! :)
Yoga, African dancing, dancing in general, djembe playing, reading Sci-fi, Reiki, Yoga, travelling :)
Lately, I was very impressed by George Orwells 1984. My all time favourite is also Isabelle Allendes House of the Spirits.
I enjoy the work of many artists, but more important is what the music comprises of for me. I enjoy positive, uplifting tones and rhythms and I mostly listen to music from the ambient and Indiepop/Dreamgaze scene. But I have also found some great tunes from DnB, Dub, Dubstep, House, Techno, Electro, Trance, etc.
Ive let myself be vulnerable in order to love. Ive looked into myself and survived.
I can teach you anything of the above :)
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Seth Nadel is active – so much so that his guitar playing can be called "kinetic music," to borrow Agam's term. Though his side curls and beard certainly suggest a Hassidic persona, his music resounds of rock, pop, folk and blues.
Much of the "Jewish" music that sells today showcases velvet kippas and very Jewish looking musicians who capitalize on their appearance and insert a few passages of Hebrew texts into their music to make it Jewish.
Seth Nadel, in contrast, genuinely maintains his identity as a Jewish musician, though claiming that to him the roles of musician and educator are intertwined. As a second year Semicha student at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at Yeshiva University (YU) who transferred to YU undergraduate from the film program at Hunter College, Nadel laments YU's lack of an education major, even though many of the Semicha guys end up teaching.
Education, however, is not only an amateur interest of Nadel's, but lies within his arena of expertise; he has run a Sunday program for students at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies (New Jersey) for six years, and he runs activities and Shabbatonim on occasion for them. He has taught a wide variety of elective courses at BCHSJS from surveys of Jewish music, Mesilat Yesharim and the Hassidic Revolution, to "Strumming Jewishly" and "MTV Challenge (Media Vs. Torah Values Challenge)."
This semester, he is teaching "G-d, Judaism and Rock 'N Roll." Nadel teaches his students through music generally, and this carries through to his public performances as well. "Ultimately, Jewish music has always been used to inspire," he says. "It should move a Jew."
"Music in Judaism was always part and parcel with the service of G-d," Nadel feels, and one begins to grasp his meaning when one considers the central role the Levite song enjoyed in the Temple service. "There is a tachlis – a greater purpose," he says, citing his tendency to tell personal tales, or words of Torah during his performances. He also cites much of the Hassidic literature that discusses the "holiness of song" and the necessity of a holy source for that song, like the Baal Shem Tov's interpretation of the passage "Vehaya k'nagen hamenagen" (II Kings, 3:18), which maintains that when the musician is like the instrument, then the hand of G-d rests upon him. Nadel takes this mapping of the musician across the instrument as a statement about the removal of the components of ego, fame and fortune from the musician's vocabulary.
Nadel released his debut CD "Achas Shoalti – One Thing I Ask" in May 2004. The backup for Nadel's performance (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keys, banjo, percussion) is by David Keesey (electric guitar), Hillel Coren (bass), Elly Geldwerth (drums), Dan Cousin (piano, organ, harmonica), Bin Goldman (backing vocals) and a slew of guests for 14 original songs on "Achas," the product of almost two years of effort. "Achas" draws inspiration from the tradition of Rav Shlomo Carlebach, though you would not necessarily recognize Carlebach – whom Nadel calls "one of my Rebbes" in an interview with Mordechai Shinefield on the Mima'amakim magazine's website (www.mimaamakim.org) – in the distinctly American flavor that permeates Nadel's music.
Whereas Carlebach occasionally suspended his own primarily Hassidic tunes to sing gospel songs like "On My Way To Canaan Land," Nadel's entire album overflows with rock-n-roll influence of the Bob Dylan variety. Nadel builds his music on the same premise that Dylan and the Band espoused when they insisted that the raucousness and joy of rock contained the spookiness of country and the soulfulness of the blues: the sound of what former "Rolling Stone" music critic Greil Marcus called "the old weird America." Yet, instead of connecting these elements to hallucinatory poetry as Dylan did, "Achas" looks to Tehillim for most of its lyrics.
While this combination may seem more contemporary than your average niggun by rock standards, the "Achas" sound is more revivalist than revolutionary; rock like this hasn't been popular in the mainstream for nearly 30 years. For Jewish music with a more contemporary pop attitude, you'll have better luck with Blue Fringe or Moshav Band, but the upside is that the banjo picking, rhythm and blues horn parts and boogie-woogie piano which fill the album manage to capture the flavor of the words Nadel sings.
The soulfulness which captured the imagination of a generation of musicians from the Sixties who were searching for their own piece of the American experience complements the verses from Tehillim and the Siddur, which Nadel has chosen to adopt. The album's back cover has a picture of Nadel approaching the train tracks, guitar in hand, like a blues-singing, train-jumping, hobo of the Jack Kerouac variety.
Ultimately, though, the nomad, wandering amongst the train tracks, wears his side curls long and his kippa large. He talks about Dylan in the same breath that he calls his purposeful union of pesukim with melody "a shidduch." He argues that Jewish music has always been a product of contemporary society, from the Arabic influences in Mizrachi music to African rhythms in Jewish African music to heavy Ukrainian and Gypsy influences in Klezmer music.
"It's the story of the Jew in the Diaspora being influenced by the surrounding, larger culture," he says. And yet Nadel brings another piece to the puzzle. To him, Jewish music means teaching, and his music carries that message. He blends together a wide panoply of sounds. Like a grand tableau, he mixes in a lot of personal narrative and Hassidic tales. What emerges is a very personal, religious sound that is both experiential and instructive.
Menachem Wecker edits the Arts and Culture Section of the Yeshiva University Commentator. As an artist, he has trained at the Massachusetts College of Art. Menachem may be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
I gratefully acknowledge the insightful comments of my good friend Aaron Roller throughout this article.
Seth Nadel will be playing at Young Israel of East Northport on October 3rd; Tifereth Israel (Passaic) on October 4th; and at Rock B'Davar (Teaneck) on October 30th. For more information on these performances, and future ones, visit www.sethnadel.com.
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Thank you, and I will now turn the call over to Greg.
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Thanks, Jennifer, and welcome to our call. Before I discuss our outlooks in near term -- our results and near term outlook I'd like to spend a few moments to reflect on what we've accomplished in 2011 and over the past few years. PMC finished 2011 with $654 million of revenue, 3% growth over 2010, and 46% growth from the $449 million of revenue we generated in 2007, or roughly 2.5x the industry growth rate. And in that same time period, we increased our non-GAAP earnings per share by over 250%. We achieved this growth despite one of the most volatile periods in the industry, and simultaneously working down our legacy exposure from roughly 30% of total revenue to approximately 10% of total revenue today. We've refocused our technology strategy around 3 major market segments that are critical to enabling the storage and bandwidth required to support the explosion of data traffic from video and more capable mobile devices.
Our growth has come from our storage and mobile investments. In storage, we entered the market and captured the leading technology and share position in 6-gig system silicon as well as the largest server OEM. This allowed us to report our largest quarter ever in Q3 2011 and grow a business that now represents over 60% of our revenue. And in mobile backhaul, we've captured the #1 position in hybrid backhaul designs that will enable the transition to packet networking and wireless backhaul. Along the way, we also reasserted our leadership in the Metro network by delivering the highest integration and most advanced OTN switching silicon that the industry has seen to date. Looking ahead, we will maintain our focus on being the semiconductor innovator transforming the networks that connect, move and store digital content. With the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and fat video content, packet-based networks and bandwidth requirements will continue to expand at a rapid pace. This demand is driving enterprises and carriers to upgrade and improve their storage and network capacity and performance. And PMC is at the center of enabling the infrastructure required for these fundamental traffic growth drivers.
So with this as a backdrop, I'll now discuss the results for Q4. The fourth quarter 2011 was a challenging time for the semiconductor industry, however, PMC performed in line with expectations. We reported $0.13 non-GAAP EPS on net revenues of $152.6 million. Revenues were down in Q4 due to a 14-week Q3, as well as inventory consumption.
Now I'll turn to provide a bit more color on the recent Q4 results by the end market segment. At the top level, the Storage Network segment was 64% of total revenue, up from 61% in Q3. Optical revenue came in at 23% of the total, down from 24% and mobile came in at 13%, down from 18% last quarter. Our Storage business in Q4 was down just under 17% coming off our largest quarter ever in Q3. If we factor in the 7.5% for the 14-week quarter of Q3, we're roughly flat quarter-to-quarter. However, we clearly see signs of inventory consumption, and a potential impact from hard drive shortages happening at major accounts that will continue into Q1.
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Various embodiments of the present invention are direct to the utilization of Blob Handles (BHs) which are an internal representation of a large value. BHs are immutable and stateless references to a large data object. The structure of a BH contains enough information to return an ILockBytes interface in order to provide access to the corresponding large data block, and a BH can also return information regarding its own lifetime description. A BH can be completely described using (a) a pointer to the beginning of BH data and (b) the byte-length of the BH.
1. A method for handling a large data object in a database system implemented in a computer system, said method comprising:
creating a handling structure comprising:
a reference to locate the large data object stored in the database system, the reference being configured to point to a small value data object within the handling structure itself provided that the small value data object is stored entirely within the handling structure;
information to return an interface to provide access to the large data object in the database system; and
a field having a value indicative of a length of time during which the handling structure is valid,
wherein partial update of the large data object referenced by the handling structure is processed by replacing only a portion of the large data object without updating the large data object in its entirety to avoid substantial negative impact on overall performance of the database system.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. A system for handling a large data object in a database system implemented in a computer system, said system comprising:
a subsystem comprising a server computer for creating a handling structure Comprising:
a reference to locate the large data object stored in the database system, the reference being configured to point to a small value data object within the handling structure itself provided that the small value data object is stored entirely within the handling structure;
information to return an interface to provide access to the large data object in the database system; and
a field having a value indicative of a length of time during which the handling structure is valid;
wherein partial update of the large data object referenced by the handling structure is processed by replacing only a portion of the large data object without updating the large data object in its entirety to avoid substantial negative impact on overall performance of the database system.
6. The system of
7. The system of
8. The system of
9. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions for handling a large data object in a database system implemented in a computer system, said computer-readable instructions causing the computer system to perform a method comprising:
creating a handling structure comprising:
a reference to locate the large data object stored in the database system, the reference being configured to point to a small value data object within the handling structure itself provided that the small value data object is stored entirely within the handling structure;
information to return an interface to provide access to the large data object in the database system; and
a field having a value indicative of a length of time during which the handling structure is valid;
wherein partial update of the large data object referenced by the handling structure is processed by replacing only a portion of the large data object without updating the large data object in its entirety to avoid substantial negative impact on overall performance of the database system.
10. The computer-readable storage medium of
converting into a large data object with a corresponding handling structure, a data object having a type from a group of types consisting of text, ntext, and image data types.
11. The computer-readable storage medium instructions of
in an event that the data object is of a type, text, the data object is converted into a large data object of a type varchar(MAX);
in an event that the data object is of a type, ntext, the data object is converted into a large data object of a type nvarchar(MAX); and
in an event that the data object is of a type, image, the data object is converted into a large data object of a type varbinary(MAX), wherein the varchar(MAX), nvarchar(MAX), and varbinary(MAX) data types each comprise a handling structure type and a MAX value corresponding to a predetermined maximum size value.
12. The computer-readable storage medium of
The present invention generally relates to the field of database systems and, more specifically, to systems and methods for providing a large object infrastructure that can be used for reimplementation of large object data types (text, ntext, and image), to support large user-defined types, as well as other new data types such as XML.
In database storage platforms, including previously released versions of Microsoft's SQL Server, small value objects are copied without much concern for the overhead involved because such overhead costs are relatively nominal. However, for large-value objects, the overhead costs are much more significant and can negatively impact overall performance.
Heretofore large objects have been stored using large object (LOB) data types—text, ntext, and image data types—to overcome the size limitations of varchar, nvarchar, and varbinary types for values too large for these data types that are best suited to small data objects. However, there have been many restrictions on what has been allowed in the programming model with large objects, and the infrastructure led to an error prone implementation of large objects. For example, most string functions and operators are not allowed for LOBs, and there are also shortcomings with the text pointer functions in particular regard to insertions and deletions. (Text pointers are physical references used as row locators in earlier releases of SQL Server). Moreover, there is no efficient means for modifying one or more rows of a LOB at a time, and there is no support for LOB variables or copy functions for LOBs of any kind. These limitations, and others, result in LOBs being perceptibly different from other data types and therefore more difficult to use.
What is needed is a large object infrastructure where users/programmers can handle large values (data blocks) in the same way smaller values are handled, and thereby eliminate the user-perceptible differences in the handling of small and large values, in order to provide a single comprehensive programming model.
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for providing an infrastructure that can be used for reimplementation of text, ntext, and image data types as new varchar(MAX), nvarchar(MAX), varbinary(MAX), and XML data types, as well as support large user-defined types (UDTs), and further enables support of additional new data types and programming model constructs. Several embodiments of the present invention are also directed to providing a data-handling infrastructure where users/programmers can handle large values (data objects) in the same way smaller values are handled, and thereby eliminate the difference between small and large values in order to provide a single comprehensive programming model.
These various embodiments utilize Blob Handles (BHs) which are an internal representation of a large value. BHs are immutable and stateless references to large data. The structure of a BH contains enough information to return an ILockBytes interface in order to provide access to the corresponding large data block, and a BH can also return information regarding its own lifetime description. These concepts and elements are described in more detail herein below.
The foregoing summary, as well as the following detailed description of preferred embodiments, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, there is shown in the drawings exemplary constructions of the invention; however, the invention is not limited to the specific methods and instrumentalities disclosed. In the drawings:
The inventive subject matter is described with specificity to meet statutory requirements. However, the description itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. Rather, the inventor has contemplated that the claimed subject matter might also be embodied in other ways, to include different steps or combinations of steps similar to the ones described in this document, in conjunction with other present or future technologies. Moreover, although the term "step" may be used herein to connote different elements of methods employed, the term should not be interpreted as implying any particular order among or between various steps herein disclosed unless and except when the order of individual steps is explicitly described.
Computer Environment
Numerous embodiments of the present invention may execute on a computer.
As shown in
A number of program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 29, optical disk 31, ROM 24 or RAM 25, including an operating system 35, one or more application programs 36, other program modules 37 and program data 38. A user may enter commands and information into the personal computer 20 through input devices such as a keyboard 40 and pointing device 42. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite disk, scanner or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 21 through a serial port interface 46 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port or universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 47 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 23 via an interface, such as a video adapter 48. In addition to the monitor 47, personal computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers. The exemplary system of
The personal computer 20 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 49. The remote computer 49 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the personal computer 20, although only a memory storage device 50 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the personal computer 20 is connected to the LAN 51 through a network interface or adapter 53. When used in a WAN networking environment, the personal computer 20 typically includes a modem 54 or other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 52, such as the Internet. The modem 54, which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 23 via the serial port interface 46. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the personal computer 20, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used. Moreover, while it is envisioned that numerous embodiments of the present invention are particularly well-suited for computerized systems, nothing in this document is intended to limit the invention to such embodiments.
Networking Environment
The network may include client computers 20 a, a server computer 20 b, data source computers 20 c, and databases 70, 72 a, and 72 b. The client computers 20 a and the data source computers 20 c are in electronic communication with the server computer 20 b via communications network 80, e.g., an Intranet. Client computers 20 a and data source computers 20 c are connected to the communications network by way of communications interfaces 82. Communications interfaces 82 can be any one of the well-known communications interfaces such as Ethernet connections, modem connections, and so on.
Server computer 20 b provides management of database 70 by way of database server system software, described more fully below. As such, server 20 b acts as a storehouse of data from a variety of data sources and provides that data to a variety of data consumers.
In the example of
Client computers 20 a that desire to use the data stored by server computer 20 b can access the database 70 via communications network 80. Client computers 20 a request the data by way of SQL queries (e.g., update, insert, and delete) on the data stored in database 70.
BLOB Handles
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to BLOB Handles (BHs). A BH (along with its interface, IBlobHandle), is an internal representation of an immutable and stateless reference to a large object (LOB) (hereinafter a "data block"). Using BHs, all instances of LOBs in a system (including BLOBs, which are binary large objects) can be consolidated into a single representation. In essence, a BH is a reference to locate a data block, wherein the BH completely describes the data block. The BH itself can be described with (a) a pointer to the beginning of BH data and (b) the byte-length of the BH.
For example, in C++, a BH supports method invocation like regular C++ objects using a pointer to the beginning of the buffer. The structure of a BH contains enough information to return an ILockBytes interface in order to provide access to the corresponding data block, and some BHs may support a "delete" method which destroys associated storage. BHs can also return information regarding their own lifetime descriptions. Furthermore, for small values the BH will be able to contain the value within itself and thereby bypass the retrieval of an ILockBytes interface and the virtual method calls to read from a separate data block.
BH Infrastructure
In the BH infrastructure, large value parameters are handled by using a copy of the BH (instead of a copy of the data block) to provide a copy on demand as an input parameters. This copied BH is passed as a pointer reference by using the BH aliasing mechanism provided by the BH infrastructure. However, if changes to the data block are necessary for one copy of the BH, then the large value is copied and the writing BH would point to this new copy alone; thus this copy functionality, by necessity, would generally occur for output parameters.
However, for various embodiments, the BH infrastructure may also support "partial updates" to data blocks—that is, the ability to change only a portion of a large value without incurring a full copy of the entire data value—to preclude some of the necessity for copying the entire data block. In operation, a partial update ascertains (a) a replacement value corresponding to a "chunk" of a data block (a chunk being a subpart of said data block), (b) an "offset" for the beginning of the chunk in the data block, and (c) the byte-length of the chunk to be replaced (which also corresponds to the byte-length of the replacement value). Logically, this approach simply replaces the byte-length number of bytes at the offset position of the data block (which essentially defines the metes and bounds of the subject chunk) with the aforementioned replacement value having an identical byte-length. In alternative embodiments, the replacement value need not be the same byte-length as the chunk being replaced, and smaller or larger values can be put into the chunk using various methods (e.g., pointer-based methods) known and appreciated by those of skill in the art. Moreover, either of these techniques can be used with the virtual copy concept described earlier herein and illustrated in
Internally, partial updates are represented as a special form of column update (that can be mixed with other partial or regular updates) and, where possible, the change is pushed to disk storage modify only the specific portions of the B-tree required. However, in some cases, the system may choose to implement the partial update as a full copy for reasons of efficiency or robustness, and in other cases the update would not be performed partially but, instead, a full replacement is performed. The system implements partial updates as full copies (i.e. replacing the old value with the new) in the presence of updates that require a movement of the data row to a different physical location, for examples, updates to the partitioning or clustering key. The reason for this is that the movement of the row to a different location requires a full copy, and it is more efficient to complete the operation in one step. It should also be noted that the system will not reject as unfeasible update statements containing partial updates, but will instead choose to make a full copy implementation in the aforementioned cases.
Partial updates infrastructure also takes into account "Halloween protection" (i.e. when values being used as arguments in the UPDATE are also being updated themselves).
This partial update infrastructure represents a big advance over previous text pointer based technology. Given that partial updates are known operations to the query processor (QP), several features are now enabled that used to be restricted in the text pointer implementation, including but not limited to: index and indexed view maintenance, partitioning, replication, and constraint validation.
As part of the BH infrastructure for several embodiments of the present invention, the underlying storage infrastructure would also have the concept of a column in-row limit. This limit determines the size boundary at which a given value is chosen to be pushed off row as opposed to being kept in the main page. The smaller the in-row limit is, the sooner a column is pushed off row, and a larger limit has the opposite effect. As known and appreciated by those of skill in the art, this reflects a trade-off where small limits enable a larger number of rows to fit per page which, in turn, increases the row density and improves scan performance, but where the large value columns are not part of the scan. In this regard, the BH infrastructure allows an internally configurable in-row limit per type. Thus MAX V-Types can expose a given behavior based on a specific in-row limit, while UDTs or XML types can choose a different limit and achieve different density and scan performance characteristics more suitable to their size and structure.
BH Methods and API
For various embodiments of the present invention, the BH may support one or more of the following methods which are described in more detail later herein:
Although the BH can be used to locate a corresponding data block, it does not provide interfaces to manipulate the LOB data of the data block. Instead, for certain embodiments the PilbGetILockBytes method would be used to retrieve ILockBytesSS for data manipulation. The exact set of ILockBytesSS methods supported would vary on BH implementation but would typically falls into two categories: (i) read-only LOBs that only support read operations, such as a BH that represents data from a user table and which is typically read-only (with exceptions in the case of a partial update); and (ii) read-write LOBs that support both reading and updates to the data block, such as temporary BHs used to store temporary LOB values.
In certain embodiments, a delete method on BHs could be invoked in order to delete the LOB value associated with the BH. However, only some BHs would support this operation (e.g., temporary BHs) while others would not (e.g., a BH from user table). In any event, the delete operation would be non-failing, which is useful for handling cleanup to ensure that auto-destructors do not fail.
BHs in certain embodiments also support the FGetPointer method that, as an alternative to ILockBytesSS, could be used to return a pointer to and the length of the LOB data block, and thereby provide a faster means for accessing small read-only data. However, if the data block is not comprised of small read-only data, the method may return FALSE to indicate that the PilbGetILockBytes method should be used to access data instead.
For various embodiments, BH API methods except for Delete may throw exceptions.
BH Properties
In several embodiments the PbhpGet method returns CBlobHandleProperties which is an encapsulation of BH properties. Typically many BHs share common properties, and a comparison of properties via a pointer (CBlobHandleProperties*) is used to distinguish a BH's "flavor" (e.g., whether a BH points to data in a user table or instead points to a "custom" data block; BH Flavors are discussed in more detail later herein).
Several embodiments utilize a "lifetime" property for the length of time a BH reference is valid. For example, a BH may no longer be associated with an existing LOB value after some kinds of events. For certain embodiments, this property may simply be assigned one of two values, "query lifetime" or "row lifetime" (or other binary-equivalent designations). "Row lifetime" indicates the associated LOB values can be accessed only while a Query Execution (QE) iterator is processing a current row, and once the iterator proceeds to the next row the BH is no longer associated with the LOB value (and thus any further access is via the BH is prohibited). "Query lifetime," on the other hand, would indicate that the LOB values are valid until the end of the query (or, in other non-query cases, until the "BH Factory" is purged or shutdown, BH Factories being discussed in greater detail elsewhere herein).
BH Flavors
Several embodiments of the present invention comprise one or more "flavors" of BHs, said flavors comprising the following BH implementation variations:
For certain embodiments, assumptions about maximum buffer size are needed to contain the BH. For these embodiments, a QE would typically use the maximum size derived by a Query Optimizer (QO), although a very maximum BH size could also be defined as constant, e.g., const BLOBHANDLE_SIZE=8000. However, a "temporary" BH could have a limit based on the processor architecture, e.g., defined as const TEMPBLOBHANDLE_SIZE=0×40 for a 32-bit architecture. The main idea behind this approach is that most components would either access BHs by reference (and without allocating their own buffer) or use temporary BHs to spool the large value of a data block. Therefore it may be desirable to allocate small buffers (that is, of size TEMPBLOBHANDLE_SIZE) if the BH will be persisted. On the other hand, QE will typically use much larger BHs. However, the important consideration here is that almost any component can handle BHs of TEMPBLOBHANDLE_SIZE size, but if the BH is larger than this value and is visible to components outside Query Execution then it must only be accessed by its associated pointer. For example, if QE exposes large BHs to a Language Processing and Execution component (LPE), the LPE typically cannot copy the large BH into its own buffer and thus must use a pointer to the QE buffer.
BH Factories
A BH Factory (BHF) is an object that creates new BHs. In general, there may be no common interface supported by all BF Factories, but there is be a common interface supported by "Temporary BH Factories" (TBHFs) whereby temporary data blocks are used to store large data for processing by one or many components. In the latter case, an IBlobHandleFactory pointer is passed from one component to another for continued processing, and the TBHF has optimizations that make processing of data blocks representing smaller values (e.g., less than 8K) more efficient (as described above). There is also a special BHF that supports parallel access from multiple threads (described in more detail below).
The following method creates a BH using a TBHF:
In certain embodiments, this method creates a new BH associated with an "empty" LOB value. Data can then be written into this BH using ILockBytesSS, and additional methods to close and release the BH (ILockBytesSS::Close and ILockBytesSS::Release) could be used.
In general, BHFs can service multiple threads, though the specific thread that creates the BHF owns that particular BHF and is the only thread allowed to cleanup the BHF when the time comes. BHFs can also create BHs in groups by tagging the member BH so created with a given group identification number. This enables the BHF to provide services for releasing all BHs associated with a given group with a single operation.
Depending on the BHF, the BH created by a BH may be backed by disk or by memory. Initially (and preferably) BHFs do not have specific disk storage associated with them, but in general storage is created on demand on first use or through an explicit request. In this regard, various embodiments of the present invention utilize one or more types of BHFs, including but not limited to the following:
Using BHs, various embodiments of the present invention are also directed to the use of a MAX specifier for the varchar, nvarchar, and varbinary data types (together hereinafter the "V-types"). For example, table columns and TSQL variables may specify varchar(MAX), nvarchar(MAX), or varbinary(MAX) (together hereinafter the "MAX V-types") at definition/declaration time. In operation, MAX V-type columns and variables would use the "MAX" keyword as the specifier for the size of the type, and such values would be defined based on a size supportable by the system—e.g., varchar(MAX) !=varchar(<a valid number>)—although the largest literal that can be used at declaration to specify the max size for a varchar or varbinary continues to be 8000 and 4000 for an nvarchar. (Normally varchar or varbinary columns have a maximum size of 8000, but the MAX keyword qualifies columns whose maximum size is equivalent to the highest supportable by the system, using the BH infrastructure.)
In various alternative embodiments, one or more of the following operations and functionality would then be supported for the MAX V-types: comparison; TSQL variables; concatenation; certain string functions; full SELECT statement support, including DISTINCT, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, aggregates, joins, subqueries, and so forth; CHECK constraints, RULEs and DEFAULTs (were defaults greater than 8K are no longer silently truncated as happens today with LOBs); being part of indexed views definitons; visibility on inserted/deleted tables on AFTER triggers; and data type conversions; allowed in FFO cursors; FETCH . . . INTO . . . @variable; SET ANSI_PADDING; SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL; Full Text Search; and CREATE TYPE (to replace sp_addtype), among other things. However, because of the real and substantial size differences, for some embodiments of the present invention subtle differences between MAX V-types and V-types would continue to exist, including but not limited to the following: sql_variant still cannot contain MAX V-types; MAX V-type columns cannot be specified as a key column in an index (although they are allowed to be used as index subkeys); and MAX V-types columns cannot be used as partitioning key columns. It is however allowed to specify a prefix of the column as the key of the index or indexed view. This can allow the system to automatically consider the index in order to quickly retrieve the rows that qualify certain kinds of predicates involving the MAX V-type column. For example, a predicate in the form [Varchar(MAX) column]=Value, can be automatically split by the system into Prefix([Varchar(MAX) column])=Prefix(Value) AND [Varchar(MAX) column]=Value. The implied predicate over the prefix of the column can allow the usage of the index.
To ensure backward compatibility, when sending data downlevel to clients that do not support MAX V-types, the varchar(MAX), nvarchar(MAX), and varbinary(MAX) data types would be sent as LOB-type text, ntext, and image types respectively. Conversely, migration support for data receiving uplevel from clients in the form of LOB-type text, ntext, and image data would be transformed into the varchar(MAX), nvarchar(MAX), and varbinary(MAX) data types respectively.
The various systems, methods, and techniques described herein may be implemented with hardware or software or, where appropriate, with a combination of both. Thus, the methods and apparatus of the present invention, or certain aspects or portions thereof, may take the form of program code (i.e., instructions) embodied in tangible media, such as floppy diskettes, CD-ROMs, hard drives, or any other machine-readable storage medium, wherein, when the program code is loaded into and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. In the case of program code execution on programmable computers, the computer will generally include a processor, a storage medium readable by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements), at least one input device, and at least one output device. One or more programs are preferably implemented in a high level procedural or object oriented programming language to communicate with a computer system. However, the program(s) can be implemented in assembly or machine language, if desired. In any case, the language may be a compiled or interpreted language, and combined with hardware implementations.
The methods and apparatus of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of program code that is transmitted over some transmission medium, such as over electrical wiring or cabling, through fiber optics, or via any other form of transmission, wherein, when the program code is received and loaded into and executed by a machine, such as an EPROM, a gate array, a programmable logic device (PLD), a client computer, a video recorder or the like, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing the invention. When implemented on a general-purpose processor, the program code combines with the processor to provide a unique apparatus that operates to perform the indexing functionality of the present invention.
While the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the various figures, it is to be understood that other similar embodiments may be used or modifications and additions may be made to the described embodiment for performing the same function of the present invention without deviating there from. For example, while exemplary embodiments of the invention are described in the context of digital devices emulating the functionality of personal computers, one skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited to such digital devices, as described in the present application may apply to any number of existing or emerging computing devices or environments, such as a gaming console, handheld computer, portable computer, etc. whether wired or wireless, and may be applied to any number of such computing devices connected via a communications network, and interacting across the network. Furthermore, it should be emphasized that a variety of computer platforms, including handheld device operating systems and other application specific hardware/software interface systems, are herein contemplated, especially as the number of wireless networked devices continues to proliferate. Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to any single embodiment, but rather construed in breadth and scope in accordance with the appended claims.
Finally, the disclosed embodiments described herein may be adapted for use in other processor architectures, computer-based systems, or system virtualizations, and such embodiments are expressly anticipated by the disclosures made herein and, thus, the present invention should not be limited to specific embodiments described herein but instead construed most broadly.
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There is debate among economists and social scientists about which ratio is the most accurate.
From that, they extracted the ratio of the number of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms.
The ratio tends to be steady--a little lower in recessions, a litlte higher in booms.
1630s, "reason, rationale," from Latin ratio "reckoning, numbering, calculation; business affair, procedure," also "reason, reasoning, judgment, understanding," from rat-, past participle stem of reri "to reckon, calculate," also "think" (see reason (n.)). Mathematical sense "relationship between two numbers" is attested from 1650s.
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Relation in degree or number between two similar things.
The relation between two quantities expressed as the quotient of one divided by the other.
A relationship between two quantities, normally expressed as the quotient of one divided by the other. For example, if a box contains six red marbles and four blue marbles, the ratio of red marbles to blue marbles is 6 to 4, also written 6:4. A ratio can also be expressed as a decimal or percentage.
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Shop to rent Waterside Park, Royal Docks, London, E16 2HP
The property comprises new built ground floor accommodation with significant frontage. The space has been fitted as a showroom and office with separate male and female w/c's and kitchenette. More details ›
£48,060 pw
5,340 sq ft
Warehouse to rent Abbey Road, Barking, IG11
The property COMPRISES a MODERN warehouse UNIT constructed approximately 7 years ago, with first floor OFFICES. BENEFITING from Full height LOADING DOOR, 3 phase power and gas and EXCELLENT NATURAL LIGHT. More details ›
100,000 sq ft
Distribution Warehouse to rent Unit 2, Tower Thurrock, Oliver Road, Grays, RM20
Tower Thurrock is A NEW SPECTACULAR DEVELOPMENT designed for DISTRIBUTION OR INDUSTRIAL USE. BUILT TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD with each unit having dock and level loading within separate deep secure yards. The scheme will be completed and ready for occupation by the end of 2014. More details ›
£575,000 pa
6,444 sq ft
Office to rent 32 Curzon Street, Mayfair, W1
32 Curzon Street is situated on the south side of this INTERNATIONALLY-KNOWN ROAD which links Berkeley Square to Park Lane in the very HEART OF MAYFAIR. Mayfair is the home of many major multinational companies, private Clubs, and world-famous restaurants. GREEN PARK UNDERGROUND STATION IS CLOSE. More details ›
30 acres
Land to rent Former Beckton Gas Works, Armada Way, Beckton, E6 7ER
This large site is situated on the bank of the River Thames and is close to the end of the North Circular Road OFFERING EXCELLENT ACCESS OUT OF THE CITY. The site is a vast industrial site situated in an emerging area at the far east end of Docklands. DEVELOPMENT HAS RECENTLY OCCURRED IN THE AREA. More details ›
45,000 sq ft
Distribution Warehouse to rent Thames Gateway Park, Chequers Lane, Dagenham Docks, RM9
Designed for INDUSTRIAL/WAREHOUSE uses, BUILT TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS each unit will have FINISHED OFFICE ACCOMMODATION. Situated off the Goresbrook Interchange at Dagenham Dock on the A13 dual carriageway midway between M25 junctions 30/31 and the City of London. More details ›
£316,246 pa
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Land to rent Oliver Road, Grays, Thurrock, RM20 3ED
The site is situated on Oliver Road which is an established industrial and logistics location in Thurrock. The SELF-CONTAINED accommodation comprises of a range of HIGH SPECIFICATION including fencing around the perimeter and a mix of concrete and brick paved hard standing surface. More details ›
£235,000 pa
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Business Park to rent UNIT 6 & 7 GEMINI BUSINESS PARK ARMADA WAY BECKTON LONDON E6 7FF
A modern warehouse with office space available with parking. Offered in very good condition. More details ›
£215,000 pa
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Land to rent Site at junction of Creek Road and Long Reach Road, Barking, IG11 0JW
Rear open site available for a short term let, suitable for a wide range of storage users. More details ›
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Warehouse to rent Units 5&6 Alpine Way, London Industrial Estate, London, E6 6LA
London Industrial Park IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE A13 OFF WOOLWICH MANOR WAY (A117) and Alpine Way is the main estate road through the development. The property comprises 2 ADJOINING MODERN INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE UNITS. More details ›
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Medirest is part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, who provide a full range of Hotel Services (including staff, patient and visitors catering, domestics, portering and security) at over 130 NHS Trust and private hospitals
An exciting opportunity to join our Domestic Team has become available at Kings Mill Hospital. Domestics Assistants are required to clean in all areas of the hospital including entrances, wards, A&E, corridors, toilets, offices and deep clean.
We are seeking staff to work a varied shift pattern, we are seeking staff who are fully flexible with availability to work weekends where required.
Ideal candidates will have a good ability to comunicate and work with patients, visitors and hospital staff whilst maintaining a high level of cleanliness. The candidate will be expected to maintain checklists and records to audit stadards.
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