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Version of Record online: 13 FEB 2012
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2799
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Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 316–339, March 2013
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Rickard, B. J., Okrent, A. M. and Alston, J. M. (2013), HOW HAVE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES INFLUENCED CALORIC CONSUMPTION IN THE UNITED STATES?. Health Econ., 22: 316–339. doi: 10.1002/hec.2799
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- Issue online: 5 FEB 2013
- Version of Record online: 13 FEB 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 6 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 22 SEP 2011
- Manuscript Received: 12 APR 2011
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- agricultural policy;
- caloric intake;
- consumer support;
- food consumption;
- obesity;
- simulation model
Many commentators have speculated that agricultural policies have contributed to increased obesity rates in the United States, yet such claims are often made without any analysis of the complex links between real-world farm commodity support programs, prices and consumption of foods, and caloric intake. This article carefully studies the effects of US agricultural policies on prices and quantities of 10 agricultural commodities and nine food categories in the United States over time. Using a detailed multimarket model, we simulate the counterfactual removal of measures of support applied to US agricultural commodities in 1992, 1997, and 2002 and quantify the effects on US food consumption and caloric intake. To parameterize the simulations, we calculate three alternative measures of consumer support (the implicit consumer subsidy from policies that support producers) for the 10 agricultural commodities using information about government expenditures on agricultural commodities from various sources. Our results indicate that—holding all other policies constant—removing US subsidies on grains and oilseeds in the three periods would have caused caloric consumption to decrease minimally whereas removal of all US agricultural policies (including barriers against imports of sugar and dairy products) would have caused total caloric intake to increase. Our results also indicate that the influence of agricultural policies on caloric intake has diminished over time. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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"There is a an almost uncanny fit between India's needs in the urban water arena, and what Israeli companies are able to offer," so says Abraham Tenne, VP Desalination at Israel's Water Authority following a visit last week to India.
The delegation of Israeli water experts included, in addition to Tenne, Oded Distel, head of Israel NewTech, Zohar Yinon, CEO of the Jerusalem Water Authority "Hagihon" , and Elisha Arad of the Standards Institute of Israel.
The experts toured the Raipur water system, as guests of Taran Prakash Sinha, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Raipur. Raipur is the capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh, with a population of over a million, and its urban water system is in need of a major transformation. The Indian participants in the Raipur visit were very interested in learning from Israel's experience in the management of water systems and urban wastewater.
Following this visit, the delegation continued on to Delhi, for a seminar sponsored by the Indian Ministry of Urban Planning. The seminar was attended by 50 representatives of urban water utilities from all over India.
We spoke with Oded Distel just after the event. "India presents huge challenges in urban water planning. First and foremost, a change in 'concept' is needed, one in which people begin to perceive water as the precious resource that it is."
Distel continued, "Once this change in perception occurs, then changes can be achieved in urban water supply, management, measurement, pricing and collection. This is a very dramatic change, but the community of Indian urban water professionals appears poised to make it."
Abraham Tenne of the Israel Water Authority also told us about the Delhi conference. "India today is roughly in the situation in which Israel was 10 or so years ago, with 12 different government ministries responsible for urban water.
This created a lot of confusion and inefficiency, which was solved when water treatment was placed under the leadership of the Water Authority. The Indian water community looks to Israel as a sort of guru, they know the Israeli water industry very well and hold it in very high regard."
The Delhi conference included one on one meetings between the many Indian water professionals and water utility heads who attended, and the Israeli water technology companies who came to India on the delegation: Bermad, Ari, Amiad, Mekorot, Tahal, Powercom, LR, Mira Holdings, Aqwise and Arad.
Yoni Ben Zaken, the Israeli Economic Attache in India, concluded, "Raipur is a starting point, but there are 600 more cities in India with a similar urban water situation and needs, so the market potential is very significant."
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The film, itself an adaptation of the Icelandic film "Either Way," stars Paul Rudd as Alvin, a man who leaves his city home behind for a summer in the country repainting traffic lines along with his girlfriend's insecure brother Lance (Emile Hirsch). Only announced after its completion, Green aimed for the film to be a blend of his indie roots and more mainstream comedies.
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WHEELING - A local establishment well-known for showcasing the Ohio Valley's musical talent debuted a new star on Sunday as the community gathered to bless a new statue of Pope John Paul II recently installed in a special grotto at Generations Restaurant & Pub in Wheeling.
The statue of the saint was the fulfillment of a wish made years ago by Generations owner Michael Duplaga, who was mesmerized when he saw the statue's much larger brother during a trip to Poland.
"This is what I wanted for years," Duplaga said after removing the covering from the statue. "When I went to Poland I saw this 40-foot statue, and I said, 'That's my statue.'"
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Photo by Daniel Dorsch/Michael Duplaga Sr. speaks to the community as he reveals the new statue of Pope John Paul II now at home at Generations Restaurant &?Pub in Wheeling.
Keeping in mind the valley's diverse and often inclement weather, Duplaga said the Pontiff's statue was made out of steel and fiberglass and specially designed for durability.
To provide an official blessing, Monsignor Eugene Ostrowski came from the Corpus Christi Parish in Warwood. He said he was happy to help honor the Polish Pope, reflecting on the monumental achievements of his reign in the Vatican through the Cold War, an assassination attempt, drastic world changes and years of suffering toward the end of his life.
"I think he's an inspiration, and he's a source of hope," Ostrowski said before the ceremony. "He (Pope John Paul II) changed the face of the Papacy by bringing it to the people. He exhibited for us some of the finest qualities of living."
After unveiling the statue, Duplaga took a phone call from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., using speakers to share the conversation with more than 60 people in attendance.
"I think it's a tremendous tribute and a great honor to you and the entire faith-based community," Manchin said. "Sorry I'm not with you all, but I'm with you in thought and prayer."
Ostrowski said Duplaga's gesture gives a lesson from the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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The 23-year-old world number one was unveiled as the company's new brand ambassador in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
Although the exact details of the contract were not announced, it has been widely reported to be worth as much as $150m over 10 years, if McIlroy carries on winning majors.
"I chose Nike for a number of reasons," said the Northern Irishman.
"It's a company and a brand that really resonates with me. It's young. It's athletic. It's innovative. They are committed to being the best, as am I."
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McIlroy, previously with Titleist, will now use Nike's full range of clubs, balls, clothing and accessories as he joins 14-major winner Tiger Woods in the company's colours.
The champion golfers go head to head in Nike's new advert, which shows them teeing off on a golf course with some unexpected results.
McIlroy challenges Woods, who he refers to as "the old guy" as their golf balls bounce into homes, offices and even interrupt one couple's big day.
While McIlroy chuckles that he is having "one of those days" when he "just can't miss", Tiger has the last laugh.
Cindy Davis, president of Nike Golf, said: "Rory is an extraordinary athlete who creates enormous excitement with his on-course performance while, at the same time, connecting with fans everywhere.
"He is the epitome of a Nike athlete and he is joining our team during the most exciting time in Nike Golf's history. We are looking forward to partnering with him to take his remarkable career to the next level."
McIlroy tweeted he was "pumped to officially be a Nike athlete" and was welcomed to the fold by fellow Nike-sponsored sportsman Wayne Rooney, who said: "Excited to see you have another great season."
McIlroy, who already has two major titles under his belt, begins the new season this week at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
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BAGHDAD A string of bombings targeted Shiite worshippers in the Baghdad area during Friday prayers, killing at least 29 people in an apparently coordinated attack against followers of an anti-U.S. cleric who were blamed for some of Iraq's worst sectarian violence.
The blasts shattered a recent calm and underscored warnings that suspected Sunni insurgents would step up efforts to stoke sectarian violence as the Americans draw down their forces. Despite the violence, July remained one of the calmest months for Iraqis and the least deadly for American forces.
The largest blast was a car bombing near the al-Shoroufi mosque that killed at least 24 people and wounded nearly 30 in the northern neighborhood of Shaab, a former stronghold of the militia led by Muqtada al-Sadr, whose forces were accused of being behind sectarian bloodshed and were routed last year in a U.S.-backed government offensive.
The mosque was seized by Iraqi security forces more than a year ago and has been used as a base after explosives and ammunition were found inside. But worshippers continued to hold weekly Friday prayer services on the street outside. Bloodied prayer rugs and sandals covered the area after the explosion.
Odai Khalil, a 25-year-old mechanic who witnessed the blast, said the explosives were packed inside a taxi at a nearby parking lot.
"After the explosion, worshippers attacked the Iraqi commandos by throwing rocks at them, thinking that they left the car bomb inside the parking lot, but the commandos started shooting heavily into the air to disperse the people," he said.
Nearly simultaneous explosions struck four other Shiite mosques in Baghdad and south of the capital. Four people were killed and 17 wounded near the al-Rasoul mosque in the village of Jisr Diyala and one died and six were wounded at the al-Sadrain mosque in the southeastern Zafaraniyah neighborhood. The details and casualty tolls were reported by police and hospital officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
All the mosques were Sadrist except the al-Hakim mosque in Kamaliyah, which belongs to a rival Shiite party.
An al-Sadr aide, Amir al-Kenani, called it a coordinated attack against the cleric's loyalists, blaming al-Qaida in Iraq and political parties trying to undermine the movement. Al-Sadr, who is believed to live in Iran, has ordered a cease-fire and is seeking to position himself as a political force before national elections in January.
"We demand that government reopen the al-Shoroufi mosque so a massacre like this won't happen again," al-Kenani said.
In the past, bombings blamed on Sunni insurgents would be followed by mortar attacks and execution-style killings seen as retaliation by the Shiite extremists. U.S. military commanders have said they are optimistic the Shiites will continue to show restraint.
A car bomb also exploded near an outdoor market in a Kurdish area in the disputed city of Kirkuk, killing at least two people, local police officer Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qader said.
The blasts shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital, raising to at least 308 the number of Iraqis killed in July, according to an Associated Press count. Only three other months – all this year – saw fewer Iraqis killed since the AP began tracking war-related fatalities in May 2005. There were 242 deaths in January, 288 in February and 225 in May.
Seven American troop deaths were reported – the lowest monthly total since the war started in March 2003, according to the AP tally. Rockets struck a U.S. base outside Iraq's second largest city of Basra, but no casualties were reported. Three U.S. soldiers were killed earlier this month in a similar attack at the base.


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"I'm really looking for that special kid who can do it in the classroom, on the field and has a goal to be in the Coast Guard," Koczajowski said of her annual search for talent.
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"We have to find an academically qualified, athletically qualified kid who wants to forgo a traditional four-year scholarship to do something much harder," Koczajowski continued. "And they have to look down the road a lot more than just a normal kid being recruited by a four-year institution."
Feindel started gazing down that long road early in life. The levees along the Mississippi River marked the edge of her family's backyard in River Ridge, La., a small community about a 15-minute drive from the heart of New Orleans. Growing up, she watched the Coast Guard at work on the iconic waterway, keeping maritime traffic moving and people safe.
And when a young girl asked her dad how she could become a pilot, like the ones she saw guiding the Coast Guard helicopters and airplanes that frequented the skies over the Gulf of Mexico, he told her they were officers and that officers came from service academies.
So even if there weren't any direct military connections in her immediate family, beyond perhaps a couple of little-known relatives who served in the Navy, a seed took root early.
"We were always a very patriotic family, so I thought it was time somebody served," Feindel said. "My brother didn't do it, so I was like, 'OK, I guess it's me.'"
Of course, a lot of kids dream of flying helicopters and a lot of kids dream of serving in the military. But as competitive as entry into any one of the four service academies remains (unlike Army, Navy and Air Force, admission to the Coast Guard Academy is not done by congressional nomination), many of those dreams fade away behind the lure of four years of flip-flops, late-night pizza orders, afternoon classes and weekend road trips.
We were always a very patriotic family, so I thought it was time somebody served
-- Hayley Feindel on attending the Coast Guard Academy
A lot of kids didn't also live through Hurricane Katrina.
As she began her junior year of high school, Feindel didn't envision the storm's moving toward the Gulf Coast during the waning days of August 2005 as anything particularly life-altering. While Katrina ended up changing everything for a region, the storm itself initially wasn't anything new for an area that -- like Oklahoma with tornadoes or California with earthquakes -- was used to them.
"I was thinking "Oh, it's just another hurricane.'" Feindel said. "We had evacuated twice already that year, so we were like, 'Move the TV upstairs, pack everything, get the dog in the kennel.' It was just normal, 'We'll be back Monday.' I seriously didn't think it was anything -- that big of a deal."
The family left its home well before the storm made landfall and headed to Feindel's aunt's home in Baker, La., a short distance north of Baton Rouge. But when they saw the television footage of breached levees and the ensuing chaos in New Orleans, it became clear they would be out of their home for more than just a weekend. They relocated to another family member's home in Georgia for nearly six months, where Feindel spent the semester at Covenant Christian Academy, courtesy of the school's generosity to displaced families.
Some of her extended family lost everything. A grandmother who lived in New Orleans East went to stay with relatives in Virginia and never returned after her house was lost. An uncle in Mississippi lost his house and didn't return. Two cousins went back to the Gulf Coast region after losing homes but had to start from scratch. Feindel and her immediate family were able to reclaim their home after the extended absence, but nearby New Orleans offered a cold homecoming.
"It was just dead," Feindel recalled. "I've never seen New Orleans like that; just quiet, dead. Everything was boarded up, and they still had like the spray-paint X's on the door, you know, like how many people, or how many dogs, cats -- things that were found in the houses. You could see the water line everywhere around the whole city."
Beyond the scenes of devastation, the images that Feindel said struck her time and again were those of the Coast Guard in action. For everything that went colossally and tragically wrong in the hours, weeks and months after Katrina, the Coast Guard was often left to pick up the pieces, from rescuing thousands of stranded residents from rooftops to assessing and managing the environmental fallout of the disaster.
So while softball provided some return to normalcy after Feindel's return to Louisiana, she decided over the remaining year and a half of high school to stop thinking about the idea of serving and start doing the actual legwork literally. She survived an additional year at the New Mexico Military Institute, a prep school that serves as a feeder for the Academy, and the rigorous "Swab Summer," orientation that all cadets go through before their first fall.
Following that road also meant putting softball on hold for more than a year. The prep school in New Mexico didn't have a softball team, and there certainly weren't any chances to sneak away for a few innings during Swab Summer. So aside from the limited fall practices college teams are allowed, this spring at the Academy was Feindel's first chance to pitch competitively in almost two years.
"It's fun," Feindel said of being back in the circle. "[It's a] great release, great team; I love everyone on the team. Really cool camaraderie, you know, because you can't have that up in the barracks between classes. So to get on the field and all that's gone, you can just concentrate on something you know and something you like, it's a great release."
It hasn't been a bad experience for Koczajowski and the rest of the team, either. Feindel has started 33 of the team's 40 games to this point, posting a 30-3 record with a 0.82 ERA and 327 strikeouts in 240.1 innings.
"For us, for Division III, what makes her strong is she's a big, strong individual," Koczajowski said. "So she's a power pitcher, but she has the ability to also throw with movement and off-speed. And that combination, with two to three of those factors, makes her very unique at our level. Usually big Division I pitchers, they have the complete package. Haley has a pretty complete package, especially for us."
Out of the darkest days, some light must come. Feindel's calculus professor at Coast Guard flew rescue missions in the Gulf region after Katrina. Some high school softball stars follow a coach to a big-time program. In her own way, Feindel followed that calculus professor, even if she didn't know him as he flew overhead. And so, as many records as she'll set on the softball field, the importance of her story has little to do with the pitches she throws past hitters.
"Softball is a release, but it's not my main focus right now," Feindel said. "And it's like that for any of the girls, which makes it -- I think it's a key to our success that it's just fun for us. We can go out there and have fun. There's no real pressure. Our real job starts when we go back into the barracks."
Those boots are the attire of someone with a greater mission than strikeouts.
Graham Hays covers softball for ESPN.com. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Long Beach, Calif. - Long Beach State's 2013 non-conference schedule just picked up another marquee opponent, as the 49ers will open the Puerto Rico Tip-Off by facing Michigan on Thursday, November 21 at 2 p.m. PT. The game will be carried nationally on ESPN2, the only opening-round game of four to be played on ESPN2.
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Giving children a head start in school with the Early Start programme
Karen Cawley, Patricia Cleary, Mairéad Stewart and Siobhán Flanagan run the Early Start Programme in St Fergal's JNS Bray, Co Wicklow
The Early Start Team (from left ): Karen Cawley, and Patricia Cleary, in St Fergal's JNS in Bray.Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
'I think that people often get confused when I say I work in Early Start. They mix it up with the free preschool year and things like that when it's actually quite different." Mairéad Stewart makes the point, but her colleagues all nod in agreement.
It has been a very busy day, but then, every day is busy for the Early Start team in St Fergal's Junior National School in Bray, Co Wicklow. Every day, the team deals with 60 preschoolers and their parents. The day is split into two sessions, the first from 9am to 11.30am, the second from noon to 2.30pm.
Karen Cawley, a primary-school teacher, is teamed with Patricia Cleary, a qualified childcare worker, and they take 15 children for the morning session and another 15 in the afternoon. Stewart and Siobhan Flanagan do the same in their room across the hall.
We're sitting in one of the two Early Start rooms in the school. It's a big, colourful space with plenty of room and activity areas. There's a dressing-up rail, a home area, reading corner, sand and water table and artwork and posters on the walls.
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The Early Start programme runs in 40 schools around Ireland and was originally designed as a pre-intervention programme in selected schools in disadvantaged areas. The idea was to bring preschool-age children into school in the year before they entered junior infants to enable them to become accustomed, not only to the school environment, but also the workings of an infant classroom in a relaxed, welcoming manner.
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"The children nowadays are so much more confident coming in," she says. "We're at the stage where we actually had some of the parents in Early Start, but I think that generally the parents we deal with now have had a much more positive experience of education than the parents in the early days. That rubs off on the children."
"The younger parents are much more confident than even parents who are 10 years older," says Stewart. "You wonder whether it has something to do with the banning of corporal punishment or something. Certainly, the education experiences seem to have improved over the years."
Early Start is not just about acclimatising children to a school environment, it's also about welcoming the parents, and indeed whole families, into the school.
"We have an open-door policy when it comes to parents," Cleary says. "They are welcome to stay in the classroom if they want. In fact, we have had times where children with separation issues have had their mammies with them in Early Start until March."
"We have siblings in, grannies, granddads, you name it," says Flanagan. "It's great for them and it's great for us." There is a rota for parents to come in and help out in class. The idea is to give everyone a gentle introduction to the school.
Gentle is the word. In September, children begin with just an hour of activities in Early Start. This is then built-up over the weeks. The children take part in school life. They have little jobs to do around the school, such as collecting batteries from older classes as part of the Green Schools Initiative. In summer, they play out in the schoolyard and when their junior infants teacher is identified, there is a handover of information and experience.
By the time they are ready to start in junior infants, the children are accustomed to the school bell, they know their way around the building and they are used to the structure of a classroom. The adjustment for them is far less than for children coming from another or no preschool environment.
All Early Start units are made up of teams of teachers and childcare workers. They follow Aistear, the curriculum for early childhood learning, and plan like any primary school classroom. The structure is there but it's a fun structure.
The relationship between the teachers and the childcare workers is a close one. That partnership is crucial to the success of the day. "It really is teamwork," says Cawley. "I'd say each of us knows what the other is thinking at this stage."
"It's great to have two people," says Flanagan. "If one of you is flagging, normally the other has enough energy to carry things along."
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"It is," says Cleary. "You'd love a little bit more time in between sessions. Theoretically, the children are supposed to be gone at 11.30am so that we can grab something to eat and set up the rooms for the next session, but it doesn't always work that way."
However, they are all firmly convinced of the benefits. "Karen and I were infant teachers and we would always have noticed the difference," says Stewart.
"Definitely," agrees Cawley. "You know the Early Start children. They know to put their hands up. They can wash their hands, button their coats, blow their noses – they have a sense of independence and belonging from the beginning. It's a huge advantage for them."


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DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000) DECLARE @InsertedValue NVARCHAR(1000) SET @InsertedValue = 'The Script tags which were inserted' DECLARE cur CURSOR FOR select 'update [' + sysusers.name + '].[' + sysobjects.name + '] set [' + syscolumns.name + '] = replace([' + syscolumns.name + '], ''' + @InsertedValue + ''', '''')' from syscolumns join sysobjects on syscolumns.id = sysobjects.id and sysobjects.xtype = 'U' join sysusers on sysobjects.uid = sysusers.uid where syscolumns.xtype in (35, 98, 99, 167, 175, 231, 239, 241, 231) OPEN cur FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @sql WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN exec (@sql) FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @sql END CLOSE cur DEALLOCATE cur
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When dealing with a high load replication environment network latency and network traffic can become as issue. There are a few settings you can play with, within the subscription agents themselves such as the –PacketSize, -UseInprocLoader, and –SubscriptionStreams. While working with these settings may or may not help (personally I've had very limited success getting them to improve the data flow rate) there are some other techniques you can use.
The best technique to you is to include your stored procedures as articles within the publication. This will allow SQL Server to instead of replicating the entire record from one server to another, it will simply run the stored procedure on the subscriber with the same input settings as it was run with on the publisher. If you have very complex stored procedures, you'll want to evaluate the increase load on the subscribers CPU against the reduction of network traffic between the distributor and subscriber.
This technique is critical to use to reduce the network traffic if you have a multi-tier replication topology. This is where your subscribers are also publishers to subscribers of their own. This is because of the way that the replication writes data to the subscriber. Replication uses stored procedures on the subscriber to update the values of the record. Assuming a table which looks like this:
CREATE TABLE Employee
(EmployeeId INT IDENTITY(1,1),
LastName NVARCHAR(50),
FirstName NVARCHAR(50),
DepartmentId INT)
The stored procedure which Microsoft uses for replication will look like this.
CREATE PROCEDURE MS_Employee_Update
@EmployeeId INT,
@LastName NVARCHAR(50),
@FirstName NVARCHAR(50),
@DepartmentId INT,
@Columns INT,
@KeyField INT
UPDATE Employee
SET EmployeeId = CASE WHEN @Columns & 1 = 1 THEN @EmployeId ELSE EmployeeId END,
LastName = CASE WHEN @Columns & 2 = 2 THEN @LastName ELSE LastName END,
FirstName = CASE WHEN @Columns & 4 = 4 THEN @FirstName ELSE FirstName END,
DepartmentId = CASE WHEN @Columns & 8 = 8 THEN @DepartmentId ELSE DepartmentId END
WHERE EmployeeId = @KeyField
While this technique works great for a two tier replication topology, we suddenly have a problem when we try to replicate from the second tier to the third tier. On the second tier all the columns have been updated, no matter which columns have actually been updated. This will cause an undo amount of replication traffic between the second and third tier servers as every column must now be replicated instead of just the values which have changed.
When you replicate the stored procedures as well as the tables when the stored procedure is fired to update the data on the publisher, that same stored procedure will be fired on the subscriber thereby reducing the amount of data which needs to be sent from the second tier to the third tier as again only the stored procedure execution is replicated. On very wide tables this reduction of data can reduce your network traffic load up to 70% (or higher depending on the data being changed and the width of the table).
You can verify that SQL Server is indeed using the stored procedures by using SQL Profiler to profile the distribution process on the subscriber. If you see your stored procedure names being fired then it's using this technique. If you see procedures named by Microsoft, then it is not.
This technique will only work, if your application has no inline SQL. If you use a combination of stored procedures and inline SQL within the application, the data which is changed by stored procedure execution will be replicated using this technique; while the data which is changed by the inline code will be replicated using the traditional technique. If you have dynamic SQL within your stored procedures the SQL Server will not be able to use the replicated procedure to update the data on the subscriber. The dynamic SQL will prevent the SQL Server from recognizing that the stored procedure is what caused the data change, and the data will be replicated using the normal technique.
A Load Balanced Federated Database SolutionSQL
If you have a very high load on your database, but no specifically massive tables you may want to look into a fully load balanced solution for your database. This solution falls somewhere between your normal replication solution, and a federation solution. It's not truly a federation as no one table is spread across several servers; every server in the federation holds every record of every table.
When laid out on paper this type of replication looks very similar to the Pyramid Federation technique we talked about earlier. This type of setup is ideal for an OLTP environment. We use transactional replication to move the data from one server to another as quickly as possible (you'll want a pretty fast distributor to handle this). Because all writes are done to a single server (to prevent any potential identity column issues) this solution requires the most code change at the application layer as all commands which write data to the database must go to one connection string which talks to the publisher, which all the reads go to the load balancer which reads data from the federation of subscribers.
Because the publisher and distributor are both single points of failure in this setup, it's recommended that they both be clustered so that they can survive a hardware failure. There is no need to cluster the subscribers as they are redundant by the fact that there are several of them behind a load balancer.
This concludes my mini-series on database federation. I hope that you have found it useful. As always questions or comments are welcome in the comments section below. (There's no alerts when a response it posted, it's something that I've already brought up with the ITKE staff, so check back for a response.)
The full replication federationSQL
Another type of database federation is what I call the full replication federation. This is where you place all the dimension tables (sticking with our data warehouse example from last time) on all servers of the federation. In addition to having the dimension tables on all the servers in the federation, we also allow all the users to connect to all the servers in the federation. This effectively creates an Active/Active solution as users should be connecting to the SQL Servers through a load balancer. As the dimensions are going to be read only as far as the users are concerned it doesn't matter which server they connect to.
I call this the full replication federation as we setup replication on all tables which aren't our large table which has been federated.
As we are connecting to all the servers, we can't have our view and table named the same thing. In this case we want to have our actual table and view with different names. I prefer to simply use a different schema to hide the table where I want it. This changes our view to look more like this (using a three server federation).
CREATE VIEW dbo.FACT_Sales AS
FROM SQL0.MyDataWarehouse.Data.FACT_Sales
FROM SQL1.MyDataWarehouse.Data.FACT_Sales
FROM SQL2.MyDataWarehouse.Data.FACT_Sales
I like to put the local database name in the view script, so that the same script can be easily deployed to each server. You can at your discretion remove the local server and database name.
You can now query the Data.FACT_Sales table on all three servers by simply querying the view on the local table.
You may end up with some of the same "interesting" optimizer query plans as when using the Pyramid federation technique, and the same solutions which we discussed in the "The Pyramid Federation " post will still apply.
Great Turnout At the San Diego SQL Server Users Group Last NightSQL
I'd like to say thanks to the San Diego SQL Server Users Group for inviting me to speak last night.
I had a great time speaking to the group, and just like last time the questions were all excellent.
The slide deck for last night session on Federated Databases is now available. I believe that it will also be made available on the San Diego SQL Server Users Group website.
For those that missed the session, it is one of the sessions which I'm giving at the SoCal Code Camp on October 25 and 26 at USC in Los Angeles. Based on the time the presentation took last night, I'll be expanding it a bit to better fill the two hours I've allocated for it at the Code Camp. If you are going to attend the Code Camp, be sure to mark the interested check box after you register so that the Code Camp staff knows how large of a room to put all the session in.
The Pyramid FederationSQL
There are several techniques which can be used to federate your database. The first of which, which we will be talking about is the Pyramid Federation (I have no idea if that what it's actually called, but that what I've named it). In a pyramid federation we have a single server which holds the bulk of the tables. Then a set of servers sits beneath this server holding the large table which has been spread over the federation. Normally no data is replicated between all these servers, however data can be replicated if this will improve query performance. That's a decision which you'll have to make depending on your system design and platform load.
This type of system is great, if you have just a few tables which you need to federate because of their size, and length of time to return queries issued against them.
The basic layout of the system is that we have a single front end server which holds all our other tables. Using a data warehouse as an example, we keep all out dimensions on this front end server. While our large fact tables and then spread of the 3 servers which make up our backend system. While a user could connect to any of the four servers in the system, the only server which all the data will be available from is the front end server which holds the dimensions. The servers don't need to know that the table is spread out across three physical servers, as they will query a few as they normally would a single table on the system.
In our example our head server will be SQL_Main, and our three back end servers will be SQL0, SQL1 and SQL2. The table which we have spread over the federation is called FACT_Sales, and we have designed it to hold many, many years worth of sales data totaling in the several billions of rows. Each of the SQL0-SQL2 servers will hold 1/3 of the data for the table. We use the MOD (%) function to decide which SQL Server the data is stored on. (We'll cover this later, I promise.)
On our SQL_Main server we have a view called FACT_Sales. This view will be setup something like this.
CREATE VIEW FACT_Sales
FROM SQL0.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_Sales
FROM SQL1.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_Sales
FROM SQL2.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_Sales
As you can see from the view definition, the view the fairly simple, we simply query the three remote servers for all the data, matching whatever parameters we pass to the view when we call it. When we create the FACT_Sales tables on the SQL0-SQL2 servers an additional column should be created. As we are using the SalesId value (which is populated by our sales system, not the data warehouse) to figure out which server the row should be stored on, we place a SalesMod column on the table. We will also place a constraint on this column so that the table on SQL0 can only have a SalesMod value of 0, and the table on SQL1 can only have a SalesMod value of 1, and the table on SQL2 can only have a SalesMod value of 2. Loading the data can be done in two ways.
1. The first option is to simply bulk load all the data into the FACT_Sales view, and let the SQL Servers figure out where everything needs to go. This technique will work just fine for smaller sets of data. Just make sure to include a column as part of the select from the sales system(s) which has the formula of SalesId%2, this will give you the value of the SalesMod column to split the data between servers.
2. The second option is to split the data into three select statements through our ETL process and load each of the backend servers separately. If you have a larger amount of data to process this may be faster as there is one less server processing the data, and therefore one less network hop to work with. In addition when using the first technique all data must be written through the linked servers to the backend database servers, and linked servers are not the most efficient way to move a large amount of data.
When using this technique to federate your database, you must be very careful with your queries. You may find that if your dimensions are large, and you are using the dimensions to filter your data, you can end up with some extremely inefficient queries. If this happens you may wish to replicate some of the dimensions from the SQL_Main server to the three back end servers, and reference these replicated dimensions in your query. This will make your query much more complex, but if some correctly if can help the SQL optimizer make much more effective decisions. An example query could be using the DIM_DateTime to filter your records.
FROM FACT_SalesData
JOIN DIM_DateTime on FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = DIM_DateTime.DateTimeId
AND DIM_DateTime.Year = 2006
This could, under some circumstances, cause the SQL Optimizer to make some "interesting" decisions. A more effective query plan could result from a query something like this. Adjusting the indexes of the FACT tables will usually resolve this issue, however in some cases it may not. SQL Profiler will be your best friend when attempting to resolve these issues, as it will allow you to see exactly what commands the SQL Server you are connected to is sending to the remote server.
FROM FACT_SalesData
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL0.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime d0 ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = d0.DateTimeId
AND d0.Year = 2006
AND FACT_SalesData.SalesMod = 0
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL1.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime d1 ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = d1.DateTimeId
AND d1.Year = 2006
AND FACT_SalesData.SalesMod = 1
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL2.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime d2 ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = d2.DateTimeId
AND d2.Year = 2006
AND FACT_Salesdata.SalesMod = 2
By joining to all three servers DateTime dimension, and specifying that it should join to the local servers FACT_SalesData values only SQL Server should restrict the queries to the local server, and return the subset of data that we are looking for. It may however be necessary to manually break up the queries against each server within their own UNION ALL blocks.
FROM SQL0.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_SalesData FACT_SalesData
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL0.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime DIM_DateTime ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = DIM_DateTime.DateTimeId
AND d0.Year = 2006
FROM SQL1.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_SalesData FACT_SalesData
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL1.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime DIM_DateTime ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = DIM_DateTime.DateTimeId
AND d0.Year = 2006
FROM SQL2.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.FACT_SalesData FACT_SalesData
LEFT OUTER JOIN SQL2.MyDataWarehouse.dbo.DIM_DateTime DIM_DateTime ON FACT_SalesData.DateTimeId = DIM_DateTime.DateTimeId
AND d0.Year = 2006
Be sure to use the UNION ALL clause, and not the UNION clause so that the head SQL Server doesn't try and do a distinct on these values. They are all going to be distinct between each server, and the MOD will be different on each one.
Depending on each situation you'll need to make some decisions on which query technique gives you the best performance based on your specific data layout and dimension size. Different queries in your environment may have different query requirements.
When working with a federated database platform it is especially important to have an experienced query writer writing the bulk of the queries against the database platform, to reduce as much as possible the poor execution plans written against the database engine.
Look for my next post on database federation where we look into another technique for federating your database.
Scaling the database out, not up.SQL
When your database has grown beyond the performance capabilities of a single SQL Server, there are still ways get increase the system performance. This requires using a technique called a Federating the database, this is also known as scaling the database out. When you increase a servers capacity by increasing the CPU count within the SQL Server it is called scaling up the system. When you increase a servers capacity by adding additional servers to the system it is called scaling out the system. By scaling out the system we add additional entire servers to the database creating a database federation. There are a couple of ways which you can create the database federation. The technique that you use will depend on your own system requirements.
A database federation is not a high availability solution. The correct solution to use for a high availability solution would be Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) or Database Mirroring (SQL 2005 and up).
There are some potential down sides to federating your database which you need to be aware of in order to make an informed decision.
1. If any server in the federation is taken offline, the entire database system will become unavailable. This is because the way the federation works requires online access to all nodes of the federation. As the database which is being federated is probably an important asset to the company, this risk can be mitigated by using clustering in combination with database federation to provide a high availability solution to build your database federation on top of.
2. Licensing for a database federation is extremely expensive. SQL Server Enterprise Edition must be used, as database federation requires the use of distributed queries, which is an Enterprise Edition only feature. Another reason for Enterprise Edition would be the number of CPUs supported. As the system is apparently CPU bound (which is one of the key reasons to use a federated database) you will want to use SQL Servers which have as many CPUs as possible in them. This would lead you to select servers along the line of the HP DL700 series of servers, of the SUN Fire 4600 series of servers. Use of these massive servers will decrease the number of servers in your federation, thereby increasing the ease of setup of the federation.
3. The design of a database federation is not a simple task. It requires an intimate knowledge of the not only the database, but the entire application platform which works with the database backend. In addition you need to have a solid grasp of not only the current system requirements, but of the far reaching expandability requirements of the database as well. This knowledge is key as changing the design of your database federation is an extremely complex task, which if not done correctly can easily lead to ours of down time, and poor performance while data is moved from one node of the federation to another.
While these are some pretty important things to think about, federating your database has some major upsides as well.
1. By federating your database, you will increase the amount of data that can be loaded into cache, as that data is loaded as each server loads its own data into its own cache. This allows you to go well beyond the 64 Gigs of memory that Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition support. With enough servers in the federation this will allow you to go beyond the 2 TB limit of Windows 2008 Data Center Edition.
2. In addition to the additional data cache you have access to, you also get access to more CPUs than you would be able to fit in a single server, unless you where to purchase a very high end system such as an EMC Superdome, or one of the IBM iSeries servers.
3. Given that the data is laid across multiple servers this then increase the number of disk controllers, or HBAs that you have access to, which can increase the available throughput to the disk. It also increases the number of PCI busses which you have access to, thereby preventing any sort of contention as the data crosses through the HBAs or RAID Controllers and through the PCI bus on its way to the CPUs and RAM.
Now that we've gone over some of the basics of the federated databases, read through my next few posts as I talk about the various techniques which can be used to federate a database, and we go through the design processes to use each one within your database environment.


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H. James Birx looks at some books on Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has had an enormous influence on modern thought, particularly inspiring those individuals of mythical creativity and poetic vision in film, music, philosophy and literature. In his scholarly and fascinating work Zarathustra's Children, Raymond Furness focuses on seven authors: Theodore Däubler, Ludwig Derleth, Ludwig Klages, Alfred Mombert, Christian Morgenstern, Rudolf Pannwitz and Alfred Schuler. During the early decades of the twentieth century, these little-known and eccentric German thinkers wrote about life and nature in terms of pervasive vitalism and monistic pantheism. Their romantic imaginations excelled in the use of mystical symbols and cosmic images to express the sublimity of reality.
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Thunder has gone from being hated to loved
Only a couple years ago, the Thunder opened training camp as the most hated franchise in sports.
This year?
NBATV dispatched a camera crew to Oklahoma City to document media day on Monday and the opening of practice on Tuesday, and ESPN.com deemed the Thunder the No. 1 threat to Los Angeles in the Western Conference, and Kevin Durant received messages from folks via Twitter saying they expect his team to win the NBA title this season.
The Thunder opens camp today as one of the darlings of the NBA. This bunch is being touted and celebrated, watched and cheered. It's quite a turnaround, and we're not just talking about the team's dramatic 27-game improvement last season.
This franchise was loathed when it came to Oklahoma City two years ago, residue from its exodus from Seattle.
Now, the lovefest is on.
What happened?
As with many things related to the Thunder, it starts with Durant. Everyone, friend and foe alike, loves this guy. He plays the game with present-day flare but an old-school attitude.
That's how Durant has always been. People are just recognizing it now, whether in the playoffs this spring or at the World Championships this summer.
"He's showing it to the world," Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook said.
Durant wows people with what he does on the court, but it's his attitude off the court that has won over the masses. He announced his massive contract extension quietly on Twitter, using 140 characters on the social networking site instead of a one-hour prime-time special. He played for Team USA this summer when other NBA superstars declined. He bought a random fan a pair of shoes during a trip to the mall back home in Washington, D.C.
Add those sorts of things to Durant's skills, and there is no more lovable superstar in all of sports.
"Kevin's a very humble guy," Westbrook said.
Durant is easy to cheer.
So, too, is the Thunder's style. These guys are fun to watch. They pass. They defend. They get after it. They play a brand of basketball that's easy on the eyes.
It's not like the Spurs. I mean, San Antonio has gotten great results for many years with its methodical style, but unless you're a Spurs fan, you wouldn't clear your calendar to watch one of their games on TV. It's not extremely watchable.
The Thunder, though, is an exciting team.
What's more, people can tell that these guys like each other. It's not some sort of on-court act or in-game ruse. There are some real, genuine friendships here.
"I'd love to see them in a Chemistry Contest," ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons wrote last season.
Simmons, if you aren't aware, loves the Thunder. He hearts Durant and Serge Ibaka and Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green and ... well, he's as big a Thunder fan as anyone living outside the 405 area code.
This is the same guy, by the way, who penned a nearly 15,000-word column about the torture and torment that this very franchise created when it left Seattle. He said it was stolen. He said the move was reprehensible. He even took to calling the team the Zombies, in homage to Seattle.
Still, he can't help loving the Thunder.
Ditto for the rest of the basketball world.
What happens on the court is the main reason for that, but there are a couple off-court reasons, too.
First off, Clay Bennett is largely a silent owner. He grants few interviews and garners little attention. He just sits courtside in his navy blazers.
What if he were like Mark Cuban?
If Bennett was jumping around and yelling at refs and acting the fool, it would be much more difficult for outsiders to like the Thunder. Instead, the man who became the bad guy in Seattle has faded into the background and allowed the team to become the story.
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