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Centered in the Scottish War of Independence, Willam Wallace, the Braveheart of legend, faces the real task of defeating the English on the medieval battlefield.
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SQL Server 2012 BareMetal Workshop
Last week Brent, Jeremiah and Kendra attended the SQL Server 2012 BareMetal workshop at Microsoft Headquarters. This was a special train-the-trainer style event where Microsoft Program Manager Dandy Weyn (blog | twitter) brought MVPs, Microsoft employees, and MCMs together. We talked about implementing SQL Server, training the community to use new features, and helping people adopt new technologies to scale out their applications.
What did we think? Here's our highlights.
Brent Says, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby"
I love the command line. I love batch files. I love queries. But somehow, I could just never get into the habit of installing SQL Server via unattended scripting. The GUI works well enough, and I don't install that many SQL Servers, so why bother scripting things out when I've heard so many horror stories about the difficulty of unattended install scripts?
After Dandy Weyn's #SQLBareMetal training in Seattle, I see the attraction. Dandy's put a hell of a lot of work into an elaborate set of scripts that:
- Download evaluation versions of everything (Windows, SQL, Office, and more)
- Create Hyper-V templates for Windows
- Copy the templates into a domain controller VM and several SQL Server VMs
- Creates a domain and joins the other VMs to it
- And much more
It's impressive. Really impressive. With a properly equipped host (24-32GB of memory and a single SSD or a RAID 10 of conventional hard drives), you can spin up your own SQL Server 2012 lab in an hour or two complete with a cluster and Availability Groups.
If everything works.
Unfortunately, we've still got a way to go. Troubleshooting all these moving parts still isn't easy, as evidenced by the number of stumped Microsofties, MVPs, and MCMs in the room that struggled for hours getting everything working correctly on brand-new clean virtual machines. Troubleshooting machines in the wild is another matter altogether – scripting doesn't make that much easier. In fact, it's probably worse: if you take a stranger's scripts and run 'em, and you run into problems, you're fighting two battles simultaneously. You have to figure out what the scripts were doing, and figure out how to fix problems.
Sitting in the workshop, watching people struggle, it hit me: Microsoft's not bragging about easier management of SQL Server 2012. If you want easy management, the solution (supposedly) is SQL Azure. SQL Server, on the other hand, gives you much more powerful features and tools, but you pay for that power by way of more difficult setup and troubleshooting. Scripting doesn't help that – it just makes the errors pop up faster with less repetitive manual labor.
We've come a long way, baby, but in terms of manageability, we've still got a really long way to go.
Jeremiah says, "You press the button, we do the rest."
I love automation; the more I can remove a meat bag from a decision making process, the happier I am. It's not because I don't trust people; it's because people go on vacation or play games on their cell phone, or don't check their email for hours on end. Of course we all like to build complex Rube Goldberg style solutions to problems that should have simple solutions. To put it plainly – the more critical something is, the simpler the solution must be.
It's pretty well known that I'm a big fan of large scale distributed databases. Part of the appeal is the massive fault tolerance that comes along as part of the deal. SQL Server 2012's Availability Groups bring that massively robust and massively simple fault tolerance to SQL Server. Before going in to the training, I understood what Availability Groups brought to the table, but I didn't quite see the bigger picture. As Brent mentioned, getting things up and running isn't the easiest thing on earth. Once we were up and running with the Availability Group the administration wasn't as simple as firing up a Riak cluster and throwing a switch, but it was really close.
During the configuration process, there were a few places where the wizards weren't as clear as I'd like, but all of the functionality is configurable via PowerShell and T-SQL. Like Brent I love me some scripting. The ability to script Availability Groups once and then modify a base set of scripts means that I can deploy this feature fairly easily, provided that the Windows side of things is set up correctly.
George Eastman originally said "You press the button, we do the rest." SQL Server 2012 is getting very close. The UI isn't always as simple as pressing the button, but SQL Server will do the rest… most of the time.
Kendra says, "Give us a week, we'll take off the weight."
Brent told you above about how we built out a lot of installations with a great set of scripts. One thing that thrilled me about our installs was how fast and simple it was to deploy Windows and SQL Server onto Windows Server Core.
What's different about Server Core? There's only a very lightweight GUI: most of your work is done through a command prompt. There's still a little bit of the old familiar, though– you can fire up Task Manager in a pinch for an easy graphic view of what's running on the server itself. For the most part, however, you administer Server Core locally either by command line or PowerShell. If you want to fire up the graphic Windows Event Viewer, other MMC snap-ins, or SQL Server Management Studio, you need to enable those to be run from remote machines.
Server Core is important to SQL Server database administrators for three reasons:
- A smaller surface area is stronger and has less room for attack. (Bonus: that means less of a surface to patch, and fewer downtimes!)
- Not having the GUI protects you from yourself. All those tools we run on servers use up precious resources in terms of CPU and memory. If the patient is having a hard time breathing, they don't want a doctor who needs to sit on their chest to do an exam.
- In the future, Microsoft is headed toward minimal GUI features. It's time to start adapting now.
Do yourself a favor: make one of your goals this year to install Server Core with a SQL Server 2012 instance into your development or test environment. Spend some time with it and include it in your experiments with the new features of SQL Server 2012.
Yes, there'll be tricky points you hit. You'll find yourself reading a few new blogs and learning a few new PowerShell commands. But in a few years, you'll be really glad you did.
Understanding Database Choice
Everyone needs a distributed database right? Wrong. It's easy to get so excited about trying out a new technology that you close your eyes to the problem you're trying to solve. I came across a question on Stack Overflow where the poster was asking what kind of distributed database they needed. Rather than jump right into the fray and say "You don't need it," I took a step back and asked myself "What's the real question here?"
Understand Your Requirements
We all hope that some day our business will be as successful as Google or Facebook or whatever the next big thing is. Those business got that way by first concentrating on doing something incredibly well and then growing as needed. Nobody reasonable wakes up and says "We're going to build this incredibly robust application and here's how we're going to do it." The internet is full of articles about how different companies have dealt with their problems of scaling. Do your job well and worry about success when it happens.
In the StackOverflow question, Ted (we'll call this person Ted) was asking which distributed database they should use to scale their system. They gave some vague requirements for data throughput, but left out why the system needed to be distributed across multiple servers.
This triggered my buzzword detector. I think distributed databases are incredibly cool, but they have a place; Ted's requirements didn't match at all. without much explanation for why a distributed database would be important here, it was hard to even refute the argument about using a distributed database.
Distributed databases have some operational advantages – they tend to be more robust and tolerant of equipment failures, but that's based on certain configuration details like using multiple server replicas. RDBMSes, out of the box, aren't distributed across multiple servers, but there are a lot of features that have been built to make it possible to replicate data across data centers or to shard the database across multiple servers. The closest thing to a business requirement was that the database needed to be free; open source would be nice, too.
Understand Your Hardware
Business requirements only matter so much. Eventually somebody has to write data to a disk. Once that drive head starts moving, the best designed software won't matter if the underlying hardware can't keep up with the load. That's why it's important to know what your hardware is capable of handling. It's just as important to know what your application is capable of producing
Ted needed a system that would be handling less than 100 transactions per second and would probably end up writing data at a rate of around 400 kilobytes per second. Neither of these requirements are show stoppers. Assuming that the server was going to be writing at a constant rate, the amount of data generated and kept would be around 10 terabytes of data a year. While it's nothing to scoff at, it's not an unheard of data generate rate. The thing is, almost any off the shelf database software can handle these kinds of load. Almost any off the shelf server can handle this kind of data throughput.
The requirement to handle ~100 requests per second at around 4 kilobytes per record isn't a matter of choosing a database product, it's a matter of designing a storage solution that can handle the ongoing needs of the business. When SAN space can be purchased from around $15,000 per terabyte, 10TB per year becomes a minor budget line item for all but the most cash strapped startup.
Understand Your Data
There was one feature I left out until now. It's important to understand how your data will be used. Graph databases excel at helping users explore the relationship between different data points. Relational databases make it easy to build incredibly flexible, good enough solutions to most problems. Key value databases make it possible to do single key lookups in near constant time. The way that data is read limits the playing field.
Ted mentioned that almost of the data lookups were going to be by primary key lookups. If this were the only requirement for reading data, this problem could be solved by any database. Then he threw in a little hook – there would be some joins in the data. In the world of databases once you use the j-word, your options get very limited very quickly. You have to start thinking about querying patterns, potential optimizations, and the trade offs of read vs write optimizations.
If you do need joins, you can take one of two approaches – let the database do it, or write it yourself. Neither approach is difficult (and one is certainly easier than the other), but they're both feasible – heck the hard part has already been done for you: someone else came up with the algorithm.
Understand Obscenity
Justice Potter Stewart in an attempt to classify obscenity said "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced… but I know it when I see it." Right now, there's no good definition of what makes data into Big Data. Some people say that you've hit Big Data when you can no longer predict query performance. Some people use hard and fast numbers of data volume in bytes, in data churn rate, or in the massively parallel nature of the database. There's no right or wrong answer and Big Data is something that varies from organization to organization.
It's important to understand what problem you're trying to solve, understand the volume of data, and understand how the data is going to be used before making the final selection. There are many ways to store data.
What would I have done in this situation? Taking into account that I know SQL Server well, I would use SQL Server. SQL Server can perform admirably as a glorified key value store. B+trees are pretty quick in most use cases and they balance many of the problems of simultaneously reading and writing data to provide a good enough solution to the problem (with great management tools on top). When business users demand better querying capability, it's easy enough to start adding non-clustered indexes on top of the solution.
DBA Darwin Awards: Log File Edition
Right after the DBA says "Uh oh," they call in the consultants. We get to see some really amazing acts of career suicide.
You wouldn't believe some of the stuff we've seen, and some of these things are probably happening in your environment right now. In this session, we'll talk about some of the most common ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and we'll show you how to put the gun back in the holster.
If you're a production DBA of any experience level, do yourself a favor and look for these common mistakes before they call in the consultants. We'll discuss recovery modes, bulk inserts, VLFs, replication, copy_only backups, and of course, shrinking – all so you can learn what you're doing wrong before your boss has to hear it from the outsider.
Links We Discussed
Automatically Shrink Your Transaction Logs – Jeremiah Peschka shares a diabolically dangerous idea to shrink your log files as soon as they grow.
A Busy/Accidental DBA's Guide to Managing VLFs – Dave Levy explains the basics of Virtual Log Files, gives you a script to check how many you've got, and shows how to fix the problem.
Performance Impact of VLFs – Linchi Shea tested how delete/insert/update (DUI) performance is affected by 20,000 VLFs, and then follows up with an OLTP test too.
Minimally Logging Bulk Load Inserts – Greg Robidoux has a great chart explaining how to get minimally logged inserts depending on whether you've got clustered indexes, nonclustered indexes, existing data, etc. Also, in the video, I don't explicitly say that these also work in simple and full recovery modes, but they do. (I wanted to keep things simple – no pun intended – for the 30-minute session.)
Microsoft Data Loading Performance Guide – Thomas Kejser, Peter Carlin, and Stuart Ozer discuss the improvements of trace flag 610 to get minimally logged inserts in 2008.
Availability, Data Locality, and Peer-to-Peer Replication
I want to make something clear: high availability is not load balancing. The two options don't have to be mutually exclusive, but they aren't the same thing. Several months ago, I wrote about resolving write conflicts. Some of the approaches I mentioned for resolving write conflicts (such as taking a "last write wins" approach) involved using peer-to-peer replication. It's important to understand conflict resolution and peer-to-peer replication. Since I've already talked about conflict resolution, let's dig into how peer-to-peer replication fits into the mix.
Peer-to-Peer Replication and You
Peer-to-peer replication is a special and magical kind of replication, it works in a ring or mesh to make sure that one row's updates will magically spread to all servers. You'd think that this would mean every server is equal, right?
In some distributed databases actions can take place on any server. Using Riak as an example, when you want to add a new record to the database you can write the record to any server and the record will be routed to the server responsible for handling that data. This is part of the beauty of a specific type of distributed database: the database is a collection of nodes that serve reads and writes without regard for hardware failure. There's a lot of software trickery that goes into making this work, but it works quite well.
SQL Server's peer-to-peer replication is a distributed database, just not in the sense that I've used the term previously. In SQL Server peer-to-peer replication every node is an exact copy of every other node: the same tables, rows, indexes, and views exist on every node. This is where the difficulty begins – if every row exists on every node, how do we know where to update data? The problem is that we don't know where to update a row. There is no out of the box mechanism for determining row ownership.
Distributed database systems like Riak, Cassandra, HBase, and Dynamo work by assigning an owner to every record, shouldn't we do the same thing with SQL Server? When we're spreading data across a number of servers, we have to ensure that writes go to the correct location, otherwise we need to build a large number of checks in to ensure that all nodes have the appropriate updates and that everyone is working on the correct version of data. Otherwise, we run into conflicts. This is the reason I hinted at using peer-to-peer replication combined with write partitioning and a last write wins method of conflict detection. If changes to a row can only occur on server A, we don't need to worry about updates on other servers – those updates can be ignored since they did occur not in the correct location.
The difficulty lies in finding a way to do all of this. SQL Server's replication offers no routing functionality, it just replicates data to the appropriate subscribing servers. In order to make sure that data gets to the right place, there must be another piece to the puzzle. There must be a way to correctly locate data.
Record Ownership
If you absolutely must use peer-to-peer replication as a form of load balancing, record ownership is an important concept to consider. Regardless of whether the distributed database is relational or not, software still needs to be aware of where the definitive version of a record can be found. If there's no way to determine which version of a record is the definitive version of a record, two updates can occur in different locations. This will undoubtedly lead to painful conflict scenarios. Instead of worrying about handling conflicts, we worry about getting data to the right place. Once we know that the data is in the right place, we can trust our database to be as accurate as possible.
I use the term record instead of row for an important reason: a record represents a complete entity in a system. A row may be part of a record (e.g. a line item in an order) but the record is the complete order.
Record ownership is a tricky thing to think about; how do you determine who owns any single row? What's a fair and efficient way to handle this? Let's take a look at different techniques and see how they stack up. Here's a quick list of possible ways we can distribute row ownership in a database:
- Random
- Range-based
- Static
Random Record Ownership
Randomness is frequently used to ensure an even distribution. Randomly bucketizing data turns out to be a very effective way of ensuring that data will be split very close to evenly across any arbitrary number of locations. The difficulty is in ensuring randomness.
Some systems like Riak and Cassandra use a hash function to distribute data ownership around the database cluster. Different nodes are assigned a range of values – if there are four servers in the distributed database, each one is roughly responsible for 1/4 of the data in the database (I'm simplifying, of course, but you get the drift). Special routing code takes care of getting data to clients and sending writes to the appropriate place. The location of a record is typically determined by applying a hashing function to the record's key. In this way, we can always find a row at a later date: by applying a function to the key we can quickly find the row even if the number of servers in the cluster has changed.
This mechanism provides a reliable way to uniquely identify data and distribute it among many servers. This technique is difficult to accomplish with SQL Server. There is no peer-to-peer replication functionality in the SQL Server space that makes it easy to say "This record belongs on server A and this record belongs on server B." There's a reason for this: peer-to-peer replication is a high availability technology. It exists to make life easier in the unfortunate event that your data center slides into the ocean. It's possible to build some kind of load balancing layer in SQL Server using SQL Server Service Broker (or just about any other technology), but the point remains that SQL Server doesn't provide out of the box functionality to automatically implement random record based ownership.
Range-Based Record Ownership
Range-based ownership is far simpler than random record ownership. In range-based ownership a range of records are claimed by a single server. This could be users 1 through 100,000 or it could be users whose names start with 'A' through users whose names start with 'K'. At a quick glance range-based record seems like it doesn't have many down sides: it's easy to determine where an appropriate record goes. My data goes to server A, your data goes to server B, his data goes to server C.
Range-based record ownership has a major flaw: some servers will experience more load than others. For example, if we're partitioning by name we will quickly discover that first names aren't very unique, at least not in Western cultures. In a survey of first names conducted in the UK, one quarter of women were likely to have only one of ten first names in 1994. One in three women was likely to be named Emily. Needless to say, data distribution will cause skew in the activity distribution on different servers. If one server accumulates a clump of very active users (e.g. a group of active early adopters), that server may experience a higher load than the others.
Designing an effective range-based record ownership scheme for SQL Server peer-to-peer replication is possible but very difficult. The effectiveness of the scheme depends on intimate knowledge of write patterns. Most of us don't have the time to develop a deep understanding of how data is written and then develop a scheme that takes into account those patterns.
Static Record Ownership
With static record ownership, we assign each record to a server when it is created. This could be as simple as assigning a user to the closest server or it could mean assigning records to a server by some other arbitrary means. However this is accomplished, it's important to remember that some piece code still must able to determine where a record should go and that the mechanism for identifying that initial location should be general purpose enough to meet your user's needs in the long term.
There are several common ways to split out data. If you have a system that's multi-tenant, it becomes easy to assign ownership for all of a single client/customer's data to a single server. If that customer grows, you can buy a separate server or move them onto a different server with fewer users. Every record ends up having a composite key made up of the record identifier and the client identifier, but this is a small price to pay for clearly being able to separate data responsibility by client.
Another way to split out data is geographically. If I sign up for a service, it's nice if the primary place to write my data is as close to me as possible. In this case, the service might have three data centers: in LA, in New York, and one in London. Much like using a multi-client architecture, a geographic method to determine ownership would use the location as part of the key for each record – records stored in LA would use a composite key with the data center location ('LA') and some other arbitrary key value to identify a unique record.
No matter what scheme you decide to use, static record ownership is an easy way to determine which SQL Server should be responsible for writes to a single record. An advantage of static record ownership is that routing can be handled in the application or a sufficiently sophisticated router can handle routing writes without any additional application code being added to the application – just a few load balancer rules will need to be created or changed
In Summation
Here's the trick: throughout all of this we've ignored that order of events is important. We've just assumed that when data is being written, we're guaranteeing the order of events. If the data is being written to random servers, there's no guarantee of event order. In a naive system, a record might be written to one server and an update applied to a second server before the original record even shows up! Distributing data is difficult. Randomly distributing data is even more difficult. No matter how you distribute your data or distribute writes, remember that distributing data in SQL Server through peer-to-peer replication is a high availability technology. It can be co-opted for scale out performance improvement, but there are some design decisions that must be made.
SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review
I read a lot of technical books – stuff on SQL Server, VMware, storage – and they all start to blend together. Within the first few pages of reading SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers by Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar, though, it jumped out and grabbed me because it's really different.
When buying this book, you need to appreciate it for what it is: a series of questions and answers. No more, no less.
There's almost no code, no syntax – and believe it or not, that's refreshing. It's just plain English dialog. That's not to say the book is shallow, either, because it touches on topics that all of us could stand a refresher on. This book works really well for its purpose in much the same way that Applied Architecture Patterns works; it doesn't teach you as much as it just exposes you to subjects. From there, it's up to you to follow the trail if you're interested in the topic, and that's where Pinal and Vinod break new ground.
Check out this quote from page 50:
"What is a filtered index? A filtered index is used to index a portion of the rows in a table. This means it applies a filter on an INDEX which improves query performance, reduces index maintenance costs, and reduces index storage costs when compared with full-table indices. When we see an index created with a WHERE clause, then that is actually a Filtered Index. (Read more here http://bit.ly/sqlinterview27)"
The "read more here" part is actually in the book, and it links to one of Pinal's intro posts about filtered indexes. Just like all of Pinal's posts, it includes clear, easy-to-follow script examples and screenshots. Having said that, if you don't like Pinal's blog, you're probably not going to like the book either. The book has less technical details than the blog, and there are grammatical/editing issues. That kind of thing doesn't bother me as much with this book because of its intended market – it's just a series of questions and answers.
Will The Answers Help or Hurt the Interview Process?
In my DBA interview questions and SQL developer interview questions blog posts, I went out of my way not to include the answers. I wanted to give managers some starting points for questions that they could use to filter out candidates, but I didn't want to give unqualified candidates a leg up in the interview process. Those blog posts are consistently popular in Google searches, but based on the search terms being used, I know the candidates are looking for ways to cheat the interview process. Therefore, my first concern going into this book was, "Are unqualified candidates going to sneak into jobs by reading this book?"
I don't think that's going to be a problem because the book is more of a refresher than a cheat sheet. As I read the questions, I found myself nodding and saying, "Yep, that's a great way to answer that question, but if somebody doesn't understand the underlying concepts, they're still going to fail the interview as soon as somebody drills down." An interviewer can see past the fakers just by asking, "And how have you used that concept in your work?" The book also doesn't stand alone as a complete interview process: managers still need to ask candidates to whiteboard concepts or reverse engineer a stored procedure to see what it's doing. Frankly, if somebody walked into an interview with this book memorized start to finish, and they didn't have any other skills whatsoever, they'd still be more qualified than a lot of candidates I've interviewed.
My second concern about the book was that an incorrect or poorly-worded answer might cause a good candidate to miss out on a job. If a non-SQL-savvy manager asked questions verbatim out of this book and expected verbatim answers, the book could lead to problems. Some of the book's answers are open to interpretation – for example, on page 41, the book asks, "What is OLTP?" The book's answer doesn't match with what I would give, nor with Wikipedia's definition. Some of the answers are more clear-cut, though, like when page 54 says there's a limit of 256 tables per query, and that's wrong. I'd recommend keeping the book's online errata handy.
I get really nervous about the thought of a manager relying on this book's answers as their only gauge of a candidate's knowledge. However, I've been through interviews like that myself – having a disagreement with a manager about the answer to a particular topic – and that's a place that should be inside every DBA's comfort zone. We work with developers, project managers, and end users who have all kinds of incorrect assumptions about technology, and they've got books or blog posts to back up those assumptions. We have to be able to back up our own answers, and sometimes that means saying to a manager, "We both believe we're right – can you pop open a search engine and let's check the latest documentation on SQL Server from Microsoft itself?"
Is This Book Just for Job Candidates?
I also bet that any of my readers will learn at least one thing reading this book, and it'll drive you to go dive deeper into a particular topic. I'd already learned something by page 34 when the book covers the order of the logical query processing phases: FROM, ON, OUTER, WHERE, GROUP BY, CUBE | ROLLUP, HAVING, SELECT, DISTINCT, ORDER BY, TOP. I read that and a little light went on above my head – I've seen this kind of thing before, but I hadn't thought about it in years, and it inspired me to go hit Google and learn more about the phases again.
The funny part about this book is that I like all of the questions, most of the answers for accuracy, and the rest for provoking thought. I know that wasn't the original intent, and it's a hilarious thing for me to write in a book review, but there it is.
This book is a good starting point for MCITP test-takers, too. The questions give you an idea of your qualifications because when an answer doesn't feel natural to you, you can go drill down into the web to learn more about the topic. If a topic feels like a no-brainer to you, then you probably shouldn't waste time studying MCITP information about that topic either.
You can buy SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers for about $10 at Amazon, and Amazon Prime members with Kindles can read the Kindle version for free.
Anatomy of the SQL Server Database: Settings and Secrets Video
What are the key settings for a SQL Server database? What are some lesser-known settings that may have unexpected consequences? Kendra Little checks out a lot of databases in the wild– she finds loads of cases where database settings are dragging down performance or not protecting the database properly. If you're a database administrator or developer who's been working with SQL Server for more than six months, this 30-minute session is for you.
If you liked this video, here's our upcoming webcast schedule:
- January 17 – DBA Darwin Awards: Log File Edition – Brent Ozar – Right after the DBA says "Uh oh," they call in the consultants. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've seen, but here's the worst of it: some of these things are probably happening in your environment right now. If you're a production DBA of any experience level, do yourself a favor and look for these common mistakes before they call in the consultants. We'll discuss recovery modes, bulk inserts, VLFs, and copy_only backups so you can learn what you're doing wrong before your boss has to hear it from the outsider. Register now.
- Jan 31 – Anatomy of the SQL Server Transaction Log: Limitations and Performance – Kendra Little – How does the SQL Server transaction log impact the performance of your code? What impacts the performance of the transaction log, and how do you know when you're pushing the limits of your log? Kendra Little explains the role of the transaction log in SQL Server and what you can do to optimize your use of the log– we'll discuss everything from the physical structure of the log to using minimal logging in your code. This talk is aimed toward database administrators and developers who have been working with SQL Server for one year or more. Register now.
- February 7 – DBA Darwin Awards: Index Edition – Brent Ozar – Right after the DBA says "Uh oh," they call in the consultants. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've seen, but here's the worst of it: some of these things are probably happening in your environment right now. If you're a production DBA of any experience level, do yourself a favor and look for these common mistakes before they call in the consultants. We'll discuss heaps, duplicate indexes, and the Database Tuning Advisor's stupidity so you can learn what you're doing wrong before your boss has to hear it from the outsider. Register now.
SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS
Geeks love duct tape. Sure, we pride ourselves on building a rock-solid solution the right way, but when the brown stuff hits the moving metal stuff, we love to show off our ingenuity. We carry our money in duct tape wallets, wear duct tape shirts, practice ductigami, and hang our duct tape from custom metal brackets.
I'm about to discuss a feature of SQL Server that's probably going to horrify you at first, but take a step back and think of it as duct tape. I don't want you to build a solution from scratch with it, but it's a killer tool that deserves a prominent spot in your bag of tricks. Since I've started using SQL 2012 in my lab, not a week has gone by that I haven't used this feature to do something faster and easier.
A Brief History Lesson on Trace Flag 1807
In the past, Microsoft SQL Server required its database files to be stored on local drives or SAN storage. The SQL Server 2000 I/O Basics whitepaper explains in stern terms why not just any storage will do – we have to be sure our data will hit the disk in a calm, orderly fashion. Server vendors got the point, and everybody's local storage and SAN storage followed the guidelines. Over time, we stopped buying hardware from a Windows Hardware Compatibility List because, well, everything worked. If you could buy it off the shelf from a major vendor, you were fine.
For ambitious people who wanted to gamble with their data, trace flag 1807 let you store your database files on network shares or mapped drives. This was a pretty bone-headed idea – heck, it was hard enough to get our local and SAN storage to be reliable enough – so few people used it. Database administrators are usually way too paranoid to let their databases get corrupted just because somebody tripped over a network cable or a $200 NAS box failed. Even if you didn't mind unreliability, performance was a major problem – network file shares just weren't fast enough to handle database access.
Network attached storage gained mainstream credibility over the last few years, and it's gained widespread use thanks to virtualization and the Network File System protocol (NFS). Under virtualization, each drive on your virtual server is really just one big file (VMDK or VHD), and it's easier to manage accessing big files on a file share rather than mapping a bunch of LUNs to VMware hosts.
With tuning, NFS performance is fine for virtualization, and this has a bit of a hidden meaning: if we're running our entire SQL Server in VMware, then we're already doing database access over NFS. So why can't we let physical SQL Servers access their own databases via NFS too?
SQL Server 2008R2 and 2012 <3 Your NAS
SQL Server 2008R2 did away with the trace flag and lets you put your data & log files anywhere. This statement works fine:
CREATE DATABASE [DestinedForGreatness] ON PRIMARY ( NAME = N'DestinedForGreatness', FILENAME = N'\\LittleBlackBox\SQL2012data\MSSQL\Data\DestinedForGreatness.mdf' ) LOG ON ( NAME = N'DestinedForGreatness_log', FILENAME = N'\\LittleBlackBox\SQL2012data\MSSQL\Data\DestinedForGreatness_log.ldf') GO
And just to make things really clear, that statement doesn't just work fine – it doesn't give you a single warning. Just like that, you've got a database relying on a network share, along with all the gotchas that entails. Its database icon looks just like the rest in SSMS, and there's nothing to suggest that your hosting strategy just got a lot riskier.
File share access goes over the same network paths as your client communications (queries, results, RDP sessions, etc). A heavily accessed database could saturate your network cards, thereby slowing down everything else – or vice versa. An unrelated file copy or backup could bring your network-attached database to its knees.
You also have to start monitoring the remote file share's performance. It can get slowed down by CPU or memory issues, or just by other activity happening on that same file share. This means we have to capture Perfmon data on that remote file server, including the physical disk counters. I don't see this as a drawback – after all, I need to do this same level of performance monitoring on my SAN, too.
Use Cases for Databases on NAS
When I first read about this SQL Server feature, I had the same reaction you're probably having: nobody in their right mind should use this, right? As it turns out, though, I keep using it to make my life easier.
Low log file space emergency? Add a file on a NAS. With a few mouse clicks, disaster is averted. Let your transactions continue (albeit slowly), then go back later to remove that extra log file.
Need to restore a database fast? Attach it from anywhere. I've often needed to restore just one table from a big database backup, but I haven't had the room to restore the entire database in production. No problem – just restore the database on another server (like development), but use a network share name like \\MyFileServer\TempFolder\DatabaseName.mdf as the target. All of the disk-intensive and network-intensive work happens on the dev server. When the restore finishes, detach the database in development, and the production server can attach the database while it sits on the network share. Copy out the tables you need, detach the database, and you're off.
Hate drive sizing hassles? Use NFS. I run a lot of SQL Servers in virtualization, and I move databases around from server to server. Rather than worrying about whether a server has enough free drive space, I've just created a file share on my NAS, and all my SQL Server 2012 instances attach their databases from that share. I can manage free space as a pool, and I never have to worry about an individual server running out of free space again.
Should You Run Databases Over the Network?
The amateur question is, "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
The professional question is, "Do the performance and reliability of your network file shares match up with the performance and reliability needs of the database?"
When I've asked myself the professional question, I've been surprised at some of my answers. Network storage probably shouldn't be your first default choice for new databases and files, but give it a chance.
The key to success is getting everybody to agree on both the capabilities of the NAS and the requirements of the database.
Want to learn more? We've got video training. Our VMware, SANs, and Hardware for SQL Server DBAs Training Video is a 5-hour training video series explaining how to buy the right hardware, configure it, and set up SQL Server for the best performance and reliability. Here's a preview:
The Art of the Execution Plan
There's beauty everywhere – even in SQL Server. I was just staring at this plan when I was struck by its beauty:
Oh, sure, it's ugly, and I recoiled in horror at first, but when you get over that reaction, there's an amazing amount of stuff there. Someone – probably many someones – poured every waking moment of their life into building a query that does a staggering amount of stuff. Then under that, SQL Server had to churn away to interpret all that text, look at the database, and decide how to execute this work. All of that isn't just man-hour – it's man-decades, all distilled into one giant array of elbow lines. One screen doesn't even begin to capture it. Let's look at another view of that same plan:
It's like a Mark Bradford piece, one of his giant collage mashups of aerial maps – you just can't appreciate it until you see the plan in life size, scrolling around in all its sprawl. Once I saw execution plans as art, I went looking for pleasing patterns, and they were everywhere.
Repeated rows of parallel parallelism become little armies marching in formation. Who cares if the work looks redundant? Why tune the query? Praise the developer for their artful design.
Lines of loops become fishermen casting their lines into the bottom of the execution plan, dragging up data from the deep. The execution plan turns into a statement about religion: these fishers of data work diligently, raising up information to the highest power – the end user.
Familiar enemies come to life as villains, bringing conflict to the art. Curses, cursors!
Everyone wants a fresh start. The artist tells of wiping the slate clean before starting anew, but thanks to the foreshadowing lines to the left, we all know how this will end – badly. The strife begins again with each call of the query, struggling against itself.
Artists love to make prints, don't they? Some queries fancy themselves as artists, printing their own works of mysterious art. What do they produce? Why are the lines so long? Seeing the plan through this small frozen window leaves the viewer wanting to know more. Sometimes, though, you take one look at a plan and you don't want to know any more whatsoever:
Even SSMS can't handle the zoom-out feature on this particular work of art. It cries out for mercy with a blood-red X, signifying that it's been wounded. Everything is mortal, even software. Ain't art grand?
Learn More in Our Execution Plan Training
Our How to Read Execution Plans Training explains how to get an execution plan, how to read the operators, and learn solutions to common query problems.
A DBA's Guide to ORMs Webcast
Developers often use tools, like Entity Framework or NHibernate, to make it easier to work with the database. These tools sometimes cause problems for developers and DBAs alike. In this talk, we'll talk about the terminology and techniques used with an ORM. We'll also uncover ways to help DBAs work with developers, detect problematic queries, and improve performance in both the database and the application.
This 30 minute session is for DBAs who are unfamiliar with ORMs and who aren't sure where to start.
Using ORMs with Stored Procedures
Most ORMs can use stored procedures instead of writing their own SQL. This is important when data is more complex than a single object to table mapping.
- Using NHibernate with Stored Procedures
- Entity Framework – How to Define a Model with a Stored Procedure
The n+1 Selects problem
The n+1 selects problem frequently occurs when displaying a list of items to a user. This can happen through a combination of looping in application code and lazy loading (only loading data when it's explicitly needed). The ORM will generate multiple calls to the database, one for each object that's used. Solving this problem depends on the particulars of the ORM that you're using.
Query Cache Pollution
ORMs can cause the same problems that ad hoc SQL can cause – many plans will be generated and consume SQL Server's memory. Grant Fritchey (blog | twitter) documented how this problem appears in NHibernate and how to detect it in NHibernate Recompiles and Execution Plans. Solutions abound and there's an excellent write up of the history of this problem in NHibernate Parameter Sizes Controversy.
General ORM Links
- How to Fail at ORM
- Ted Neward's essay The Vietnam of Computer Science
- Jeff Atwood's follow up to Neward's essay: Object-Relation Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
- The Active Record Design Pattern – This pattern is used in most ORM frameworks
Links to Common ORM Tools
- NHibernate – a commonly used .NET ORM that is based on Hibernate
- Hibernate – the grandaddy of Java ORMs and the inspiration for many others.
- LLBLGen Pro – this is the Cadillac of ORMs. If there's something you wished an ORM could do, odds are LLBLGen Pro can do it. It even provides tools to generate code for other ORMs.
- NHibernate Profiler – it's a profiler that developers can locally to grab only their own queries to the database.
- Ruby on Rails – Ruby on Rails uses an ORM named ActiveRecord to do the heavy lifting.
Notes on Scalability
We all hope that we're going to succeed beyond our wildest expectations. Startups long for multi-billion dollar IPOs or scaling to hundreds, or even thousands, of servers. Every hosting provider is touting how their new cloud offering will help us scale up to unheard of heights. I've built things up and torn them down a few times over my career
Build it to Break
Everything you make is going to break, plan for it.
Whenever possible, design the individual layers of an application to operate independently and redundantly. Start with two of everything – web servers, application servers, even database servers. Once you realize that everything can and will fail, you'll be a lot happier with your environment, especially when something goes wrong. Well designed applications are built to fail. Architects accept that failure is inevitable. It's not something that we want to consider, but it's something that we have to consider.
Distributed architecture patterns help move workloads out across many autonomous servers. Load balancers and web farms help us manage failure at the application server level. In the database world, we can manage failure with clustering, mirroring, and read-only replicas. Everything computer doesn't have to be duplicated, but we have to be aware of what can fail and how we respond.
Everything is a Feature
As Jeff Atwood has famously said, performance is a feature. The main thrust of Jeff's article is that making an application fast is a decision that you make during development. Along the same lines, it's a conscious decision to make an application fault tolerant.
Every decision that has a trade off. Viewing the entire application as a series of trade offs leads to a better understanding about how the application will function in the real world. The difference between being able to scale up and being able to scale out can often come down to understanding key decisions that were made early on.
Scale Out, Not Up
This isn't as axiomatic as it sounds. Consider this: cloud computing like Azure and AWS is at its most flexible when we can dynamically add servers in response to demand. To effectively scale out means that we need also to be able to scale back in.
Adding additional capacity is usually in the application tier; just add more servers. What happens when we need to scale the database? The current trend is to buy a faster server with faster disks and more memory. This process keeps repeating itself. Hopefully your demand for new servers will continue at a pace that is less than or equal to the pace of innovation. There are other problems with scaling up. As performance increases, hardware gets more expensive for smaller and smaller gains. The difference in cost between the fastest CPU and second fastest CPU is much larger than the performance gained – scaling up often comes at a tremendous cost.
The flip side to scaling up is scaling out. In a scale out environment, extra commodity servers are added to handle additional capacity. One of the easiest ways to manage scaling out the database is to use read-only replica servers to provide scale out reads. Writes are handled on a master server because scaling out writes can get painful. But what if you need to scale out writes? Thankfully, there are many techniques available to horizontally scaling the database layer – features can be broken into distinct data silos, metadata is replicated between all servers while line of business data is sharded, or automated techniques like SQL Azure's federations can be used.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that it's just as important to be able to contract as it is to expand. As a business grows it's easiest to keep purchasing additional servers in response to load. Purchasing more hardware is faster and usually cheaper than tuning code. Once the application reaches a maturity level, it's important to tune the application to run on fewer resources. Less hardware equates to less maintenance. Less hardware means less cost. Nobody wants to face the other possibility, too – the business may shrink. A user base may erode. A business's ability to respond to changing costs can be the difference between a successful medium size business and a failed large business.
Buy More Storage
In addition to scaling out your servers, scale out your storage. If you have the opportunity to buy a few huge disks or a large number of small, fast disks give serious thought to buying the small, fast disks. A large number of small, fast drives is going to be able to rapidly respond to I/O requests. More disks working in concert means that less data will need to be read off of each disk.
The trick here is that modern databases are capable of spreading a workload across multiple database files and multiple disks. If multiple files/disks/spindles/logical drives are involved in a query, then it's possible to read data from disk even faster than if only one very large disk were involved. The principle of scaling out vs. scaling up applies even at the level of scaling your storage – more disks are typically going to be faster than large disks.
You're Going to Do It Wrong
No matter how smart or experienced your team is, be prepared to make mistakes. There are very few hard and fast implementation guidelines about scaling the business. Be prepared to rapidly iterate through multiple ideas before finding the right mix of techniques and technologies that work well. You may get it right on the first try. It may take a number of attempts to get it right. But, in every case, be prepared to revisit ideas.
On that note, be prepared to re-write the core of your application as you scale. Twitter was originally built with Ruby on Rails. Over time they implemented different parts of the application with different tools. Twitter's willingness to re-write core components of their infrastructure led them to their current levels of success.
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Groupon chief Andrew Mason responded Wednesday to reports that the board is meeting to discuss his future, saying it would be "weird" for the company not to question his leadership amid a precipitous decline in stock price.
"If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself," Mason said onstage at Business Insider's conference Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal and others reported that Groupon's board is expected to meet Thursday and plans to discuss whether to begin a search for a new chief executive. In the 30-minute conversation, Mason later said, when pressed about whether he wanted to stay CEO, "I want to do what's best for Groupon."
Mason said he wouldn't be surprised that the board was looking into finding a new CEO for Groupon, whose stock has fallen about 80% since an IPO price of $20.
"Here's a news flash: our stock is down about 80%, it would be weird if the board wasn't discussing whether I'm the right guy to do the job, it's their chief responsibility to ask that question," Mason said.
Still, after his presentation on stage, Groupon's shares rose slightly. The stock is up about 3% in trading to $4.07 this afternoon — possibly on his comments about Groupon's future business. For Mason, Groupon is basically a tale of two businesses, he said: while the domestic business is doing well, Groupon's international business has slowed — growing just 3% year-over-year in the third quarter this year.
"We have a North American business that's growing… that's really the model for what Groupon can be," Mason said. "Because of our strategy to grow quickly (in Europe) and capture market share, we didn't invest in technology like we did in North America… we're paying for that now. We now have the playbook, it's the playbook for North America."
Then there is Groupon Goods, which has been a bright spot for Groupon, Mason said. Groupon Goods has reached an annual run rate of nearly $1.5 billion in global billings and nearly $500 million in revenues shortly after its one-year anniversary, the company announced during its most recent earnings report.
"Goods has taken us by surprise and in order to serve customer demand, we give more of our Daily Deal real estate to Goods deals and not just local deals," Mason said. "Goods deals are today lower margin, still healthy margins, but it has a short-term impact on the profitability of the business. We're a growth company. We're focused on doing the right thing for customers, margins are something we can optimize over the long term."
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Do We Really, Really Want The Spice Girls at the London Olympics?
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want: some long overdue respect for the Spice Girls.
True, Britain's Fab Five, who will be reuniting for tonight's closing ceremonies at the London Summer Games, don't exactly lack fans. Their albums have sold in the tens of millions (75 million, to be exact). Their catalog is so beloved that they're the next big act in line for the jukebox-musical treatment (the Spice-themed "Viva Forever" is being developed for London's West End by Judy Craymer, the same theatrical producer who put together a little show called "Mamma Mia").
But a huge fan base is one thing. An actual nod of approval is another. At best, the Girls were accorded a begrudging acceptance from the critical establishment – a damn-with-faint-praise level of appreciation that acknowledged the group's obvious appeal, but stopped short of anything resembling the enthusiasm reserved for Important British Artists pre or post-Spice Girls, from Oasis to Coldplay. As a pop music critic (for another publication) who tracked the group in its heyday during the late '90s, I lost count of how many reviews I read that included the line (or some variant thereof): "But you can't deny the fact the songs are catchy."
Yes, the Spice Girls' "crime" was that they were catchy – undeniably so. But I'd argue that their appeal went much deeper than a few good hooks and slick production values of the sort found on "Wannabe," their breakthrough single with that unforgettable call-and-response opening ("I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want," "So tell me what you want, what you really, really want?").
Begin with the message of empowerment – specifically, that statement of "Girl Power" at the core of the Spice ethos. It's not that pop music hadn't heard statements of pride before – from Marvin Gaye to the Lilith Fair school. But the Girls were different: They weren't a "serious" group – they were a manufactured affair akin to the Monkees (or their contemporaries, the Backstreet Boys), a musical act created, first and foremost, as an effective delivery system for the drug known as bubble-gum pop.
And so, their brand of feminism wasn't heavy-handed or angry – it was girl pride wrapped in Day-Glo colors (or, more to the point, in the Union Jack dress favored by Geri Halliwell – aka Ginger Spice). But perhaps that's what made it all the more striking – and all the more effective. Like a latter-day Cyndi Lauper, the Spices preached feminine fun as feminine pride, but they did so on a much more massive scale – a global stage that seemed almost Beatles-esque for a few memorable years. The Spices felt new and different precisely because they were new and different. Who had tried this before? Certainly, not the girl groups of the '60s – you didn't exactly find any messages in a Ronettes song. And certainly not the power-pop faves of the mid '80s – namely, The Bangles. The message was – pardon the pun – an allspice creation.
Let's also go back to the Beatles analogy. No, Ginger, Baby, Sporty, Scary and Posh weren't the musical equivalents of John, Paul, George and Ringo, but they shared a common heritage of cheekiness and goofiness that seems inherent in the classic British pop formula. (Don't believe me? Just watch the straight-out-of-"A Hard Day's Night"-school of cinematic irreverence that is "Spice World," the Girls' only major film – and one that unfortunately got the same snob-crit treatment as the Girls' music.) The problem is that until the Girls came along, the world had almost forgotten just how amusing those Brits could be. For that matter, the Brits almost forgot it themselves. What was British pop in the '90s before the Spice Girls? It was the Britpop of Oasis and Blur – musically fueled by raging guitars, but hardly as giddy and flat-out fun.
Oh, and yes, the music: Here's where I, too, can take my turn talking about those "catchy" songs in a pejorative manner. Because we all know that "Wannabe" is quite a bouncy little tune, but, really, who writes a song built around a line like this: "I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha"? And did you listen to those voices? Take Scary and Sporty out of the Spice mix, and you've practically got no spice in the singing department.
So be it. The Spices worked because pop craftsmanship is a strange animal. The songs don't always rely upon smart lyrics (listen to any ABBA lately?). And the voices don't always have to be so strong, especially in the musical blend that is, by definition, a group. I'd argue the Spices indeed worked because of terrific hooks — and terrific production (a case in point: listen to how the horns give a bauble of a song like "Stop" an incredible vibrancy). But I'd also argue they worked because the Girls were so vested in their concept – and so open and receptive to a world that could always use a smile or a laugh.
Does that make the Spices a legend that will live on – and perhaps be accorded the proper respect one day? I certainly hope so. But if nothing else, we can now say the Girls meet the Olympic standard.


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Infants with Tay-Sachs disease appear to develop normally for the first few months of life. Then, as nerve cells become distended with fatty material, a relentless deterioration of mental and physical abilities occurs. The child becomes blind, deaf, and unable to swallow. Muscles begin to atrophy and paralysis sets in. Other neurological symptoms include dementia, seizures, and an increased startle reflex to noise. A much rarer form of the disorder occurs in patients in their twenties and early thirties and is characterized by an unsteady gait and progressive neurological deterioration. Persons with Tay-Sachs also have "cherry-red" spots in their eyes. The incidence of Tay-Sachs is particularly high among people of Eastern European and Askhenazi Jewish descent. Patients and carriers of Tay-Sachs disease can be identified by a simple blood test that measures beta-hexosaminidase A activity.
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Great price for the pegboard hooks- they come in real handy for hanging anything in my workshop! I shopped other places for them,didn't find them or they were priced much higher.The service is always great too especially at check out,friendly and knowledgeable!
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Ken Livingstone Defends Saying Tories 'Riddled With Gays'
Thursday 9th February 2012
Ken Livingstone says he stands by his claim that the Conservative party is "riddled with homosexuals".
Tory MPs want Ed Miliband to intervene after the remarks in an interview with the New Statesman.
But the Labour Mayoral candidate has told LBC 97.3 the comments were meant to suggest attitudes in the Conservative party have changed.
He said: "When I, 10 years ago, introduced civil partnerships at City Hall, Boris Johnson wrote saying that he couldn't see the difference between a man marrying a man and a man marrying a dog.
"A bit over the top, a bit offensive – but not one of those MPs complained.
Mr Livingstone, who is the Labour candidate for the London Mayoral Election in May, said in his New Statesman article that the public "should be allowed to know everything, except the nature of private relationships. Unless there is hypocrisy, like some Tory MP denouncing homosexuality while they are indulging in it.
"The Labour ones have all come out. As soon as Blair got in, if you came out as lesbian or gay you immediately got a job. It was wonderful.
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Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP). Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern-day London, followed closely by Garrick.
In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a 19-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.
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Yes, I loved Artemis but it is done and it was time for his to start something new and this is every bit as good a series. Riley is a plucky young man who although shifted to the 21st century from the 19th, he handles it well despite the obvious confusion from such a time shift. Chevron is not Holly but she is a smart teen who just happens to be working for the government. I can't wait for book 2.
"Fun story with some quality voices."
I'm a big Eoin Colfer fan, and his combination of humor and action is well represented here. The characters are unique and interesting with their own personal issues and motivations.
Maxwell Caulfield does a great job of balancing the many different accents throughout, including the strange case of mixing two distinct character voices at times to imply the struggle for control.
The villian, Garrick is absolutely the best reason to pick this one up. Already one of the smartest, if vilest, men in Victorian London, the technology of time travel gives him familiarity with the technology of today. His self-confidence comes to the surface in a delightfully "Bond villian" style where he feels completely unthreatened by Riley and Chevie.
"Agent Orange" was my second favorite, and favorite supporting character.
I listen on my commute, primarily, and at first this wasn't a hard one to stop when I got to work and home. As the story moved back to the past in the last act, howeve,r it grew ever more compelling to listen to. By this time in the tale, the listener shares the belief that there's really nothing they can do to stop or even escape from Garrick, and you need to keep listening just to find out how they might pull it off.
The one sticking point was Agent Chevron Savano's voice. Always a challenge for a grown man to pull off a young female character, but there seemed to be a lot of variation in her speech patterns. At times, the over articulation reminded me of Joe Mantegna from Criminal Minds.
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"the voice for the female lead was aweful"
otherwise it was ok. the story felt a little rough, but it all came together nicely as an introduction to the series.
Sci-fi, detective, cozy. Only give 5s to those books I think stand above the rest. 4 is a good solid book. 3 is average, nothing special.
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Good universe, interesting characters, fleshed out backgrounds, well paced, overall good story telling. Yes, it's aimed at YA, but it's fun for all.
Children's book illustrator & toy designer living in Los Angeles. Addicted to audio books.
"Was expecting better"
The characters seemed to have potential, but the writing- just seemed to not be up to par. It was like someone else wrote it and Eoin Colfer's name put on it. The villain had potential, but never seemed to grow - just kind of bla "here I am the bad guy come to ruin your day" without much motivation or menace other than the boy being afraid of him.
Probably not.
This was just missing something- no flair or spark. Not much humor. Did not like the girl character's inside voice monologs. They were eye rolling bad. She was a bland character for what was supposed to be a secret agent type. everything was just safe and bland and not that interesting.
"fun sci fi time travel."
the narrator was great with so many accents and voices. nice to hear someone with a range in both the English and American accents.
"This is not in the same league with Artemis Fowl"
Dialog is too juvenile for adults and there is too much graphic violence for kids. Colfer has the ability to craft clever stories that appeal to both as exemplified by the Artemis Fowl series. I'm not sure what happened with the WARP series but it doesn't meet the standards I expect from Colfer.
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I can't believe that this was by the author of the Artemis Fowl books. Didn't care for the narrator either. Won't be bothering with the next book in the series
"Enjoyed immensely"
Colfer does it again with a new cast of characters. I found this to have a lot of the Artemis Fowl series fantasy flair, but to be far more grounded. The narrator was excellent. He had very distinct voicing that was consistent throughout.
"Just didnt like it"
I thought that it would be more sci-fi than it turned out to be.
I really like his books that are funny and way out there with the fantasy and sci-fi together.
I thought that he did a good job narrating this novel
I did not listen to the entire book, so I would not be able to answer this effectively.
This book just wasn't my cup of tea
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Defensemen Dean Arsene, Brennan Evans along with forwards Adam Cracknell, Graham Mink, Ryan Reaves, Brett Sonne and David Spina were assigned to the Blues' American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen.
The Blues will play their final two home preseason games, Thursday, Sept. 30 vs. Chicago and Saturday, Oct. 2 vs. Dallas. St. Louis will then conclude their preseason Sunday, Oct. 3 in Chicago prior to returning home to open their regular season schedule Saturday, Oct. 9 against the defending Eastern Conference Champion Philadelphia Flyers at Scottrade Center.
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More than a hundred people crammed into a Catholic Charities office last week to ask detailed questions about how to benefit from an unprecedented plan to give work permits to certain young illegal immigrants.
Among the advice: Stay in school, graduate and keep all school documents.
President Barack Obama announced the measure June 15, and it may cover up to 1.4 million young people who were brought into the country illegally by their parents, according to analysis from two nongovernmental research centers. Tens of thousands of those young immigrants live in Texas.
Members of this population identify themselves as "dreamers" — high school and college students and graduates who would have benefited from unsuccessful federal legislation to grant a pathway to citizenship if they came to the U.S. innocently but unlawfully with their parents.
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text: Chandan said that nudity is not shown in a proper way in the Indian movies as the director are scared of the authorities exercising a control over what can be shown on screen. He also added that he was not against censoring of movies as in a country like India without censoring a lot of vulgar movies would be churned out. Whatever may be the outcome of the movie Chanda's female fans will definitely have a treat for their eyes when the movie releases!


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|Hovering all around Crowne Plaza hotel. Penn. dir. John Ventre told me to put it on Mufon blog. I have three witnesses this past Friday, July 18 with their contact info of sighting a UFO fleet that follows me around the world. I live in NYC and have witne
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I went to Crowne Plaza Hotel symposium 2014 Mufon conference. I've been telling Linda Moulton Howe of how really incredible I am for years of having a fleet of Ufos following me around the world. I ask her at this Mufon conference if she would like to go outside and witness this fleet of Ufos. She said that she was busy with other people. So I ask others at that Mufon conference if they wanted to see a UFO. I have three guests contact info that confirm of seeing Ufos hovering all around that Crowne Plaza Hotel Friday night July 18 around nine P.M. The three were so enthusiast that they all said that they never ever saw a UFO before until that night there at the Crowne Plaza Hotel within the surrounding perimeter that we walked outside of that hotel. When we first sighted these alien star ships It was partial clearing at first and then it became mostly cloudy skies and I couldn't grab more witnesses to introduce them to my star ships. The very next Saturday night July 19th it call for mostly cloudy skies and I could not be able to show anyone my star ships. The three witnesses from Friday night Cherry Hill, New Jersey conference went around that Crowne Plaza Ballroom where the Mufon conference took place were non stop telling everyone of my disclosure of seeing these star ships constantly moving around the sky hovering around this Crowne Plaza Hotel that Friday night July 18th, 2014 around nine P.M. I will be leaving next month for the contact on the desert to see if I can have Linda Moultan Howe tell the world that I'm her most incredible guy in the world if I ask her again to witness these star ships of August 8-11, 2014 in Joshua Tree. I met John Ventre Pennsylvania Mufon director for years and he told me to put it on the Mufon blog this past weekend of my permanent sightings of having this fleet of Ufos following me around the world. I have the contact information of these three people. I also have witnesses in the NYC area of where I come from with the contact information of these other witnesses of seeing Ufos here in the New York City area. These crafts of Ufos can be seen on any clear night skies any where in the world wherever I'm present with the naked eye. I want to introduce our world to their world and not have these Ufos groups not show any mundane about not stopping our world from really knowing the truth from too many pages hidden in our past history books of mankind and women kind history and her story of what really took place beyond the bible and many other books from ancient times throughout barriers of time, space and beyond. Julio Mariano Barriere
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