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Christmas Throws and Afghans
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Christmas Throws and Afghans
- Holiday Snowflake Afghan - Warm up in this cozy afghan while you wait for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve! This knit afghan pattern has delightful snowman and snowflake detail that makes it extra special around the holidays.
- Christmas Star Afghan - This festive knit afghan brings holiday cheer to any living room! Try this free knit afghan pattern for all skill levels.
- Noel Afghan - Small and large granny squares come together in this fun Christmas afghan crochet pattern. The holiday yarn colors in this Noel afghan are festive yet refined, perfect for any decor.
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- Red and Green Fair Isles Knit Sweater - For experienced knitters, try this knit sweater using a fair isles design! It'll keep you warm and cozy throughout the cold seasons.
- Holly Slippers - These cozy crochet slippers are a must-have for the holidays this year. These beautiful crochet slippers have holly berry details and look best in festive colors for your loved ones!
- Festive Dog Coat - Celebrate Christmas with your puppy and knit him or her an adorable and festive coat. Your dog will feel warm when the winter gets cold if it's wearing a warm knit dog coat.
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- Harlequin Knit Stocking - This Christmas stocking is fun and festive for the holiday season. Your loved ones will appreciate a homemade stocking with a little jingle! For intermediate skill level.
- Crochet Snowman Family - This little snowman family is the perfect addition to your home this holiday season. These cute crochet amigurumi style figures are easy and fun to make!
- Crochet Angel Ornament - My favorite of our free crochet angel patterns, this crochet angel comes complete with glitter halo and button face.
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- Crochet Ornaments- These cute lights will look great hanging from your Christmas tree!
- NEW! Santa Ornament- This cute Santa ornament is great for giving! Attach it to a gift for a special surprise!
- NEW! Crochet Candy Cane Ornaments- Wanna crochet some easy gifts for friends and family this year? These ornaments are just the thing. They sparkle and shine and everyone is sure to love them!
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www.aplusbabycrochet.com will have over 60 new crochet patterns, and more baby info in a few days. Love the crochet patterns here. Thanks and GOD bless you!!!!
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Dec 18, 2012
These are great Ideas Thanks a bunch and MERRY CHRISTMAS to yal of ya
Nov 28, 2011
I would like to know if it is possible if you could tell me what name of the yarn you use for the patterns! I would like to crochet the Blue Rose Ripple but I am having trouble finding the colors..... blue ombre, and dusty rose. I don't know what other colors to use. thank you other wise I love this site!!
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Iwould like to find an old crochet pattern for a christmas stocking that the cuff and heel are granny squares. the rest is just crochet. thanks!
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I could not open anything today. All I got was ads from Favecrafts. I tried over and over. I really wanted the anel pattern andd the Christmas ebook.
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I would like a crochet pattern for a Christmas tree THANKS, mOUNTAINGAL
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I am so thrilled about finding this site..and from Canada too. I live in Lethbridge Alberta.I must say that this is one of my favorite sites.So many creative and unusual projects.Keep them coming. Joan
Aug 27, 2010
when i made the Christmas ball, it turned out to be quite oblong, and not round! what did i do wrong? i did use a row marker & counted, it still looks ok, but funky.
Jan 02, 2010
These are some very good ideas, for the holidays, and special occassions. I am a very creative mother, grandmother,and sister, and believe me I will transform these ideas thru out the new year. Thanks, Ruth J.
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'The Sing-Off' recap: rock hits and guilty pleasures? Yes, please
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December 13, 2010
Jeanna de Waal will replace original cast member Mary Faber as Heather in the Broadway production of American Idiot, at the St. James Theatre, beginning with tonight's performance, December 14. Faber, who will soon appear as Smitty in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, played her final performance on Sunday, December 12.
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Gwen Stefani
- 1986
Just a Girl
Artsy high school senior Stefani dreams of being a homemaker like her mother, but when older brother Eric forms a band, No Doubt, with fellow Dairy Queen workers, she agrees to join as second vocalist. In December 1987, the band's lead singer, John Spence, takes his own life at age 18. At her brother's urging, Stefani takes over lead vocals. "All I wanted to ever do was get married and have babies, have a house," she tells the Washington Post a decade later. "So it's weird that I'm in a rock group."
- 1991
Sign Us Already
No Doubt's brand of pop-ska fusion is a hit on the Orange County club circuit, but L.A. radio station KROQ refuses to play their 1991 demo. Despite the rejection, No Doubt continues performing and catches the attention of Interscope executive Jimmy Iovine. Unfortunately, No Doubt's 1992 debut album is a flop, and Interscope backs off.
- 1993
Hanging in There
Stefani's seven-year relationship with No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal ends and the band is on the brink of breakup, but Stefani keeps them on track by throwing herself into songwriting to work through her pain. The result is Tragic Kingdom.
- 1995
Kingdom Reigns Charts
No Doubt releases Tragic Kingdom after Interscope gives the band a second shot on its Trauma label. The disc becomes No Doubt's most successful album, selling more than 15 million copies worldwide and spending nine weeks at the No. 1 position on the Billboard Top 200 chart, spurred on by hit singles "Don't Speak," "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl." The videos feature frenetic performances by Stefani, decked out in platinum-blonde hair, belly-baring midriff shirts and her most striking feature, vermilion lips. She is featured on several magazine covers.
- 1996
Long-Distance Love
No Doubt returns from a 27-month worldwide tour, during which Stefani meets London-based singer-songwriter Gavin Rossdale while opening for his grunge band Bush – the pair begins a commuter relationship.
- 1997
No Doubt Wins VMA
At the MTV Video Music Awards, No Doubt's video "Don't Speak" wins Best Group Video, their first award. No Doubt goes on to win two more VMAs in 2002. Stefani, wearing one of her own creations, wins Diddy's best-dressed award at the 2005 VMAs.
- 2001
A Winning Duet
Stefani teams up with rapper Eve for the duet "Let me Blow Ya Mind." "I had never worked with a girl before – let alone a rapper," she tells Teen People, "but Eve's fantastic." So is the duet, which wins Stefani her first Grammy.
- 2002
Wedded Bliss
After asking her father's permission, Rossdale proposes to Stefani. That September, with 150 guests and two Hungarian sheepdogs as witnesses, Stefani weds Rossdale in a 17th-century churchyard in London. She wears a white-and-pink Dior gown by John Galliano. The couple has two other nuptials – including one for the Stefani clan in L.A. and another for their friends.
Grammy Time
No Doubt finally wins a Grammy for the hip-hop-infused track "Hey Baby." In 2003, they win a second Grammy for the pop-reggae ballad "Underneath It All," from their Rock Steady album.
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L.A.M.B. Chops
After being tapped by director Martin Scorsese to play 1930s starlet Jean Harlow opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, Stefani launches her handbag line L.A.M.B. for LeSportsac (Love Angel Music Baby). It's a fast seller, and is expanded into a full line of clothing, sneakers and even digital cameras. "I'm literally designing for myself," she tells PEOPLE. "I get to wear the clothes and enjoy my little dream come true."
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Naggiar Vineyard and Winery announced its 2013 live music line-up and special events this week, along with details of an enhancement to its entertainment venue.
The South Nevada County winery joined forces with a new partner this winter and is investing some of the new capital back into an expanded outdoor entertainment area, including a larger, reconfigured stage that creates more of an amphitheater-like environment for live music. They have also teamed up with Jim Eckardt of JimE's Catering of Club 141 to offer a new and varying menu of appetizers and small plates for the larger events.
"In the long-term I'd like to imagine that this place will be known for not just great wine, but great food and great music," said co-owner and founder Mike Naggiar.
For Eckardt, the new adventure wasn't one he could pass up.
"I'm excited for this new venture in a beautiful location," he said.
Eckardt's weekend menus will feature some of Club 141's most popular tapas with some new small plate additions, all of which will compliment Naggiar's wide variety of wine. There will also be special menus for the tribute series and special events.
Naggiar's signature Tribute Series has proved popular. Last year all five shows sold out, prompting Naggiar to consider an expansion, he said.
This year, the tribute shows will feature a double bill. For example, the May 25 show will be a Tribute to Lynyrd Skynryd, featuring Skynnyn Lynnyrd and a Tribute to Journey featuring Journey Unauthorized. Each band will perform for a 75-minute set, with a break in between acts.
The tribute concerts will begin at 5:30 p.m. — with access to seating opening at 4 p.m. and run until 9 p.m.
Tickets for the tribute series will be $40 for Naggiar Wine Club members and $45 for non-members. The wine club will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets at the April release party. The general public can purchase tickets beginning April 22. People will be able to purchase tickets for all shows at once, or pick and choose which they want. They are on sale through the winery.
In addition to the tribute series, the winery will also host five special events with live music. That includes their May 11 Release Party featuring the Regulators, a Memorial Day Party with a Tribute to Santana featuring Chameleon, an Independence Day Party with a Tribute to Johnny Cash featuring James Garner, a Harvest Celebration with Fun and Company and a Halloween Party with Stone's Throw.
The winery will also continue their Friday and Saturday evening live music performances on the patio when one of the larger events isn't taking place, Naggiar said.
In all, there will be 58 nights of live music between May 11 and the end of October, he added.
More detailed information about the individual tribute series and special events will be in Prospector before each show.
The expansion to the outdoor entertaining area includes additional table and chairs seating under a shaded area. Up closer to the stage will be lawn area where people can sit with blankets and low-back chairs. All patrons will be able to overlook the grapevines that stretch over the rolling hills of South County.
For information about Naggiar Vineyards and Winery, or its upcoming live music series, visit their website or call 530-268-9059.
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Anti-Doping booth at UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup (Photo: Nenad Dikic for UIAA)Editor's Note: Dr Nenad Dikic and Dr Marija Andjelkovic of the UIAA Anti-Doping Commission update us significant changes between to the World Anti-Doping Code, with the new code becoming effective on 1 January 2015:
The World Anti -Doping Code ("the Code") is the core document that provides the framework for harmonized anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within sports organizations and among public authorities. The ultimate goal is for all athletes to benefit from the same anti-doping procedures and protections, no matter the sport, the nationality, or the country where tested, so that all athletes may participate in competition that is both safe and fair.The World Anti-Doping Code was first adopted in 2003, became effective in 2004, and was then amended, effective January 1, 2009. The 2015 Draft Code, version 4.0, incorporates revisions to the Code that were approved by the World Anti-Doping Agency Executive Committee on September 11, 2013.The 2015 Draft Code was presented to WADA's Foundation Board in Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2013 for approval and it will come into effect on January 1, 2015.The purpose of revising the Code is to leverage WADA's and stakeholders' experience garnered through several years of practical implementation of the Code in order to strengthen the global harmonized fight against doping in sport. The Revised Code is the result of an intensive review process of the 2009 Code and associated International Standards that lasted approximately 18 months.
This is overview of mayor changes organized into seven general themes, including the key changes related to each theme.
Theme One: The 2015 Code amendments provide for longer periods of Ineligibility for real cheats, and more flexibility in sanctioning in other specific circumstances.
There was a strong consensus among stakeholders, and in particular, athletes, that intentional cheaters should be ineligible for a period of four years. That is one of the mayor changes in 2015 Code.
Theme 2: Consideration of the Principles of Proportionality and Human Rights.
A number of stakeholders suggested that the applicability of the principles of proportionality and human rights should be expressly stated in the Code. Several Code provisions have been modified to better take those principles into account.
Theme Three: The 2015 Code amendments support the increasing importance of investigations and use of intelligence in the fight against doping.
There is a strong consensus among the stakeholders that the role of investigations in the fight against doping should be highlighted in the Code and that cooperation of governments and all stakeholders in anti-doping rule violation investigations is important.
Theme Four: Amendments to the 2015 Code have been included to better reach Athlete Support Personnel who are involved in doping.
Doping frequently involves coaches, trainers, or other Athlete Support Personnel. Additionally, in many cases, those Athlete Support Personnel are outside the jurisdiction of anti-doping authorities. There was widespread support among the stakeholders to revise the Code to better address the problem of the role of Athlete Support Personnel in doping.
Theme Five: The 2015 Code amendments place additional emphasis on the concepts of smart test distribution planning, and smart menus for Sample analysis.
The 2015 Code amendments address this problem by providing that WADA, in consultation with International Federations and other Anti-Doping Organizations, will adopt a Technical Document that identifies those Prohibited Substances or Prohibited Methods that are most likely to be abused in particular sports and sport disciplines. That document will be used by Anti-Doping organizations in test distribution planning and by laboratories in the analysis of Samples.
Theme Six: The 2015 Code amendments attempt to be both more clear and fair in balancing the interests of International Federations and National Anti- Doping Organizations.
International Federations and National Anti-Doping Organizations both play a critical role in the fight against doping. The efforts of both should be collaborative and coordinated. If they are not, the system is less effective and in many cases it is the clean Athletes who suffer.Theme Seven: Making the Code clearer and shorter.The stakeholders want the Code to be clear and to address the many different types of situations which may arise so that there are no loopholes and so that the application of the Code is harmonious. On the other hand, everyone wishes that the Code could be a shorter and less technical document. It was not uncommon in the submissions for a stakeholder to express a desire that the Code should be made shorter and then to suggest a number of technical additions, which although useful in making the Code more clear, would also add to its length.
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A witness said he saw a group of five or six teens walking east on Doat when another group of teens, hiding in the bushes, ambushed the first group.
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Longtime Mount Pleasant newspaper and magazine icon Hassie Holmes was taken in by Charleston County EMS on Sunday ,Oct. 20. Mount Pleasant Police, Fire department and several local residents responded and helped Holmes get some help he needed, according to eye-witness Mark Smith.
Hassie Holmes is getting "wonderful care" at East Cooper Regional Medical Center, he told Smith. He stated, "I got hit by a vehicle last Friday on my bike going to work and my health started failing afterwards." He was glad that he was "strongly encouraged" to get some help and "get checked out. I'm not sure when I will get out but I'm thankful that the sun came up today," he told Smith and then he sang a line from the musical Annie 'The sun will come up tomorrow.'
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'SQL Everywhere Edition' - What. How. Why.
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SQL Server Everywhere is a relational store and does not have the file system integration like WinFS did. Yes, it does enable some of the WinFS scenarios. BTW, you can store data from multiple applications in the same .sdf file if they are created by the
same user. That is, you can run multiple applications accessing the same .sdf file. The difference is the database (dlls) are embedded in the apps.
Yes, we are exploring XML support. Do you want to just store XML docs or do you also want to query (e.g. using XPath, XQuery)?
This is very cool !!
Several scenarios that I thought were possible through WinFS can be done using this edition. Well, I cannot use data of other applications but persistence and query processor by themselves give lot of power to an application and cuts down lot of custom code. Above all it is free.
Do you have any plans to support XML data type?
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Yes, we are exploring XML support. Do you want to just store XML docs or do you also want to query (e.g. using XPath, XQuery)?
I think arguing about suporting stored procedures in SQL/e based only on where to put your business logic is pointless, since wheter placing the BL on the data base or not, you're going to end up some other large SQL sentence like queries or complex CRUD
methods that are worth placing on your data base out of pure "well-formedness" of your code.
One of the other, reasons why not to support SP, is that the SDF is an pure data format, hence safe to send over, say, e-mail. This arguement comes from the usage of Extendes Stored Procedures that can execute external programs becoming a source of attacks.
However, simply do not support Extended stored procedures. But leave regular Stored Procedures. I don't see how security of your box are going to be afected by store procedures that can only access/modify the data within the file.
SP are required to have a really painless upgrade to a fully fledged SQL Server product. I'd even dare to say that leave the excution plan part of SP and just store the SQL sentence to allow it be executed SP-style, in order to keep SQL/e lean and mean (something a really love about it, I most say)
PS: Anyway, You guys are really in the right direction with SQL/e. Having tried the CTP, I just love it.
You mail and questions touch on multiple aspects: partitioning, sync, and stored proc. Let me express my thoughts on the first two in this response. I will cover stored procs in a separate replay, as it has wider interest and broader impact.
Richard, I think your thoughts on partitioning are consistent with distributed applications but SQL Server 2005 partitioning is too low level and at a physical abstraction. Besides table partitioning in commercial DBMS is primarily provided to support high availability and scalability. Most DBMSs provide a single table abstraction and seldom support direct operations on partition (the exception is in Tandem's NonStop SQL, which provided partition level autonomy). Except for some physical admin operations, most of operations are at the table level. Therefore, such partioning does not really help build SOA (service oridented architecture) apps.
However, the general idea of partitioning data and the logic is a scalable way to build large applications.
As for sync, data sync is critical in building distributed apps. BTW, I distinguish between synchronization and replication. Synchronization is between any data sources -- i.e the participating data sources can be heterogeneous. Replication is homogeneous synchronization -- i.e. the participating data sources are same (or subsets). While data sync is is practical, logic sync is complex and not pragmatic. That is, synchronizing the logic, whenever data is synchronized, that is associated with data. While logic associated with data can be propogated when the data is synchronized, it is realistic in a highly controlled and homogeneous environments. This is fundamentally contradictory to loosely connected, distributed, SOA based applications. Most loosely coupled and disconnected applications do not requie symmetic logic and synchronization of locig. Since SSEv (SQL Server Everywhere Edition) focus is "edge" apps in the loosely couple application architecture, SSEv does not pursue logic synchronization.
Now let's get to the crux of Richards mail -- "To sproc or Not To sproc." This I want to continue in a separate mail
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Today we have a know issue with SqlCeDataReader::Dispose(bool). Currently developers cannot access this function due to its protection level. We have written a KB article regarding this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912432
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BryanF wrote:I think having SQL Everywhere databases be data-only is the right decision. Binding executable code to the format, even if done in a safe manner, could undermine the compentized model due to additional coupling. For instance, it might be harder to keep the storage engine and query analyzer separate. The ability to pick and choose, as Anil mentioned, is definitely one of the strengths of this product.
raptor3676 wrote:
Store them in: the "Storage Engine"
Analyze them in: the "Query Analyzer"
Which means, Storage Engine without the Query analyzer (or the other way around): No stored procedures, Period!! at least as we know'em.
The point is, offer the option.
PS: I'd like to know who wants to use SQL/e with out the Query Analyzer and the T-SQL subset it provides, which really the single MOST important feature of it.
I have been meaning to post a reply on store procedures but did not get around to doing it. I think the discussion on Stored Procedures (sprocs) is somewhat "religious." I am sure there are some who want to use sprocs for most of their application logic and there is also huge trend where much of the logic is outside the database (so use sprocs in a specialized way). Here are some of my personal thoughts.
Prior to Microsoft, I have done both database server development and as well as multi-tier application development. My views on application logic development have evolved over time.
Stored procedures really came into play during the Client – Server days. Sybase is probably the first one to introduce T-SQL procedures in late 80s. Oracle followed it with PL/SQL and DB2 with DB2 Stored Procedures. The main purpose was to push logic into the database - -in fact, that was the only place you could place it because clients were not rich clients. This happened after the TP monitor-era. As the DBMSs got rich in functionality, most of the TP monitor capabilities were subsumed by the DBMS. Until Oracle Applications Release 10.7 (even may be Release 11), most of the application logic is coded as PL/SQL code running in the Oracle RDBMS.
Application logic cab partitioned into:
1. Data-centric logic (including constraints, validations, aggregations, etc),
2. Business process logic,
3. Presentation logic.
How much of the different types of logic is hosted in stored procs (in the database) depended on the specific database system and the application. For example, earlier Oracle applications placed all the logic (data, business process, and presentation) in stored procedures. The database server was the hosting server for apps; there is probably couple million lines of PL/SQL code running in the database server. Even the forms were generated in the DBMS (like HTML pages being generated in the web servers). Oracle workflow engine ran in the DBMS and modeled and interpreted the business processes. Note that not necessarily all the logic was related to data. This is partly due to the richness of the PL/SQL language itself (it is pretty much a full-fledged modern block-structured programming language). Such 2-tier architecture, while my look simpler, has its limitations both in application scalability and in application portability. As the applications got complex and the number of users increased, DBMSs had to be installed on bigger and expensive boxes. Also porting the apps to other databases became a problem; of course this was not a consideration for Oracle applications. BTW packaged applications like SAP, which ran on multiple DBMSs, coded most of the business process and presentation logic in ABAP and hosted it in the mid-tier. SAP wanted to be database agnostic; therefore, used very little of the vendor-specific capabilities. However, for performance reasons, SAP does host large number of stored procedures in the DBMS.
Early to mid 90s saw the emergence of the browser, application server and multi (3) –tier applications. By late 90s, Java and .NET application server became very common. In the 3 –tier app stack, the business process and presentation logic moved to the app server tier. Database hosted the data and the really data-centric logic (as stored procedures) and the browser provided client interaction via HTML. Note that the HTML pages were still generated in the application/web server using ASP/JSP technologies. The key take away is some of the stored procedure logic moved to the mid-tier. In fact, even Oracle apps (11 and 11i) started moving to 3-tier architecture – starting with presentation logic in the mid-tier to more business process logic in the application server.
What followed the app server era is the web services and application integration era. Web services allowed data and business processes to be composed into richer and flexible applications. This led to the generalization of the application stack to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), where data and the data-centric logic could be hosted in different service boundaries. Data as the authoritative source resided in some back-end database or application but caches (or copies) of the same data could reside in other service tiers, as reference data. For example, consider a Product Catalog browsing application, where Product data may be coming from one or more backend apps but the integrated product data could be cached in the mid-tier for performance and scalability reasons. With large amounts of cached data, applications demanded rich data processing on the cached data – like key based access, filtering, reporting etc. In was unacceptable and inefficient to push the data into a traditional relational database, just to query data or to run stored procedure logic. In such architectures, even the data-centric logic could not be locked inside the DBMS. These applications require rich data access and management capabilities on the data that is part of the application (physically in the same process). This has lead to the emergence of in-memory/embedded DBMSs. An interesting and relevant question is whether stored procedures make sense in these embedded/in-memory DB environments, where data co-resides with the application logic. The applications can write even the data-centric logic in an abstraction that is close to the host programming environment (e.g. Linq) and run on the data residing in the application. This is no longer needs to be stored procedure logic.
More recent phenomenon is the emergence of Web 2.0, where even some of the rich presentation (generation) and web service integration (mash-ups) is occurring in the browser. The trend is to move logic, therefore data, even closer to the client. This fits-in with SOA apps, where the clients (e.g. browser) become "edge" applications. As these edges can be anywhere (e.g. on the desktops, devices), the need for disconnected and occasionally connected "edge" applications is increasing. Every app wants to become like an Outlook app with Cached mode, where users interact with the application the same way whether the app is connected to or disconnected from the backend data sources. This requires rich data processing capabilities in the clients now. Again, what does it mean to have stored procedures in these clients?
I have described the structure of the multi-tiered application logic and the role of stored procedures in such environments. I happened to believe that stored procedures would be scoped primarily to the database servers, capturing data-centric logic for performance reasons. A class of such stored procedures includes specialized user-defined functions (UDFs) and user-defined aggregates (UDAs). It should be noted that embedded and in-memory DBs also need to provide some mechanisms to support user-defined aggregates. This could be achieved by registering application defined aggregates with the database so that they can be invoked on a per row basis.
Another reason why people want stored procedures is to provides encapsulation for some application logic and require the same encapsulation to run on all tiers. For example, the desire to run the same T-SQL stored procedures (app logic) on SQL Server on the backend as well as in SQL Server Everywhere in the mid and client tiers. This is the down-sizing requirement – that is, requirement to run the server-side logic on the client tiers. I am nor sure how practical this is but I believe this by far the most compelling argument in favor of stored procedures in SQL Server Everywhere and in all tiers. For SQL Server Everywhere, we have to weigh this requirement (it benefits) with the negative impact it will have on the footprint and the complexity of SQL Server Everywhere. Some replies here suggested compiling all DB logic to some IL and supporting such IL on all tiers. This is an interesting thought and requires further investigation.
In summary,
• I believe stored procedures are definitely useful and will continue to be critical for data-centric logic in DB servers.
• Multi-tiered architectures will host more logic outside the database; the benefits of stored procedures outside the back-end database tiers is not very clear
• Currently the requirements for small footprint and the embedded-ness of SQL Server Everywhere outweigh the stored procedure support requirement.
crifo wrote:Hi Anil,
I think that you can help me in this field to you congenial.
I must to realize a database application for an Automation system consisting of a Industrial PC with Operative System microsoft windows embedded.
1° question: Is Microsoft sql server 2005 everywere compatible for Microsoft windows embedded?
(I ask this because in specific of its is not clear)
2° question: In the case that it's compatible, if I instal it in a industrial Pc can it to act by database server or necessity of a remote server?
crifo wrote:yes Anil and sorry for my poor language,
I'm asking do:
run SQL Server Everywhere Edition on Windows XP Eembedded platforms?
runs it as a server(database_server)?
Anil,thanks for posting your thoughts about Stored Procedures and, more specifically, their history – it's good to see that at least some of the "folk-lore" of Stored Procedures that I have heard, do have some basis in fact. It also, perhaps, explains the
"enthusiasm" of some the responses (sensitivity to Ba$tardisations of the past).
So what was I raving on about ?
As I stated up front, I do not have an in-depth understanding SQL, and more specifically, SQL Server. I see, now, that some of the things that I referred to as "Business Logic", fall into the category of "Validation", and can be achieved without the use of (user-defined) "Stored Procedures". Though, I suspect, these functionalities would actually be specialisations of Stored Procedures, behind the scenes.
It's with this naivety that lead me to propose ways of working-around things that have already been side-stepped via this Data-centric logic: "Appropriate Synchronisation" (between SQL Server and SQL EveryWhere) being achievable via Code-Analysis and/or Code-Attribution of Stored Procedures.
So thanks for taking the time to point this out. Though in hindsight, it is a little embarrassing, on my part – I knew that, sort of thing…
Anyway, I had a sense of deja-vou when you talked about memory-based databases.
I've been pretty much a low-level, bits'n'Bytes developer for a couple of decades, now. And the reason why I just recently had to start using SQL was due a sub-contracting job where they were building an Account Reporting (read-only) application that needed to have Query responses in tenths of a second. The problem was that the "Database solution" was quoted as requiring a dozen or more Servers, and a similar number of Administrators !?. Well to me, this sounds like someone wants to buy a new house, or another agenda is at work. But, they're the experts, I suppose.
Anyway, I was asked to (re)write a pilot of memory-based data-storage engine, on the cheap, and I decided to start from scratch, but without all nice, flexible stuff such as being able to define the structure of the data, instead opting to hard-code this – the existing RecordSet/DataSet stuff I looked at being far too slow – less than 10K fine. Some were OK to ~100K, but forget a Million or more. So, the end result was a COM object that has no trouble storing (caching) 3.5 Million records in ~200MB of RAM, and it's methods being able to return results (hard-coded queries) in the low tenths of a second – 25 Test clients continually hitting the COM server, 6 threads (usually). Onsite, I estimate they're loading between 6 and 9 Million records – at least in the stress testing. 4GB RAM in the Server.
This seems to have been successful, and now I need to evolve this. One of the things they'd like, is to be able to use SQL in their queries: "Yeah, OK. And for my next magic trick …". So now the question (yay !!):
Would there be a way to cherry-pick features out of SQL EveryWhere, so I could, for example, use the Query Engine ? And better still, be able to "pre-compile" queries, in place of stored procedures ? - the aim, obviously, being able to replace my existing hard-coded "storage engine".
PS to Site developers: My paragraph formatting is being lost. I hope it isn't lost when I post this edit (again)...
Anil Nori wrote:
crifo wrote: Hi Anil,
I think that you can help me in this field to you congenial.
I must to realize a database application for an Automation system consisting of a Industrial PC with Operative System microsoft windows embedded.
1° question: Is Microsoft sql server 2005 everywere compatible for Microsoft windows embedded?
(I ask this because in specific of its is not clear)
2° question: In the case that it's compatible, if I instal it in a industrial Pc can it to act by database server or necessity of a remote server?
I guess you are asking does SQL Server Everywhere Edition run on Windows Eembedded platforms?
1. I believe SQL Server Everywhere runs on embedded platforms, for example on XP/Embedded. However, currently it is not certified on the embedded platforms. That mean, currently it is not supported on embedded platforms officially
2. I did not quite understand the 2nd question. Are you asking if it runs as a server -- the answer is no.
Can you clarify your questions?
Hello Anil,
I am tech lead on an unmanaged C++ project. I hope you might be able to answer these questions on SSEv:
1.) Can I use unmanaged C++ to work with SSEv; must I use Visual C++ for Devices?
2.) Can I use an ISAM interface?
2.a.) If so, can you comment on the ISAM performance relative to going through the query engine?
2.b.) Where can I find good detailed information on using the ISAM interface?
3.) Is it possible to use OLEDB from unmanaged C++ in order to create my own schema?
3.a.) Can I do this with ISAM?
4.) I have heard that there is a 128 MB limit on the DB file size by default. Also, I have heard that setting the connection string to the 4 GB limit does not work from unmanaged code. Please comment.
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ALBANY – A member of the Thruway Authority board from Buffalo accused her agency Tuesday of acting under a cloak of secrecy, even with its board of directors, and trying to push through a controversial toll hike plan that may not be needed.
"I'm beginning to think that if the 45 percent [toll hike] is needed, why are we playing games with it? I'm beginning to think that 45 percent is not a figure we need,'' said an angry Donna Luh, vice chairwoman of the Thruway Authority board, in an interview with The Buffalo News.
The rare criticism during the Cuomo era of a state board directed from within came after Thruway officials – again without reason and with only hours' notice – postponed for the second time in four days a board meeting when a toll increase up to 45 percent was set to be considered.
"I'm feeling totally frustrated,'' said Luh, a Depew resident nominated to the board in 2008 by then-Gov. David A. Paterson.
Thruway Authority Executive Director Thomas J. Madison, although not directly addressing Luh's complaints, said more time was need to evaluate the toll hike proposal.
"The proposed toll increase for trucks is a complex issue that requires more evaluation before it is presented to the board to consider," he said. "The Thruway is looking at a number of options and doing extensive research, and it will continue to do this due diligence work before another meeting is called and a recommendation is made."
Luh said the staff of the agency, as well as Chairman Howard Milstein, has declined to share any details about whether the agency is sticking with its first proposal to raise tolls on trucks by 45 percent or if authority officials have found an alternative plan. The 45 percent plan has been sharply opposed by business groups as a $90 million-a-year tax hit on highway commerce – a cost they say will be passed on to consumers during a time of a recovering economy and high unemployment in New York.
If there's been a change in the original 45 percent plan, Luh said, "that has not been shared'' with the board.
Luh also joined critics who say the agency has mishandled not just the broader toll issue but basic transparency, such as failing to post the board's agenda on the Thruway's website. Some, but not all, state agencies release details in advance of board meetings about items to be considered during policy sessions. She characterized as "terrible'' the practice of the Thruway's not posting detailed information about its board meetings.
The toll hike proposal has two purposes: to raise $90 million in additional money for the agency and also to convince future bond investors that the agency is financially healthy and should get good bond ratings from Wall Street firms when it borrows money for a $5 billion downstate bridge project that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is pushing.
"I can only speak for myself, but I'm feeling totally frustrated,'' Luh said Tuesday of the postponed meetings.
She said a fellow board member reached out to Milstein on Monday morning to confirm Tuesday's session was still on. The plug was not pulled on the meeting until after 9 p.m. Monday. "I thought, 'Are you kidding?' What are they doing? If things are not in line [with the toll plan], why keep scheduling meetings when everything is not resolved?'' Luh said.
Does she share the public's frustration with the toll rate process?
"Absolutely," Luh said. "How do you defend something like this?"
Luh said the board chairman has final say over when meetings are held or postponed and what items go on the agenda.
A frustrated Luh suggested officials may be taking some Thruway board members for granted.
"They can maybe decide the agenda, the date and the location, but it still takes a majority of the board to pass something. You still need our votes,'' said Luh, who owns a consulting firm and served for seven years as airport project coordinator at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.
Critics have pushed the board to consider cutting agency expenses before going to consumers for a toll increase.
Business groups – from the New York State Motor Truck Association to Unshackle Upstate – have accused the agency of ignoring their ideas.
Luh said she did not know if the ideas have been ignored because information about any alternative plans has not been provided to board members.
"If we're wavering so much and meetings are on and off, how serious are we, and how can we defend that figure?'' Luh said of the 45 percent toll hike that was roundly condemned in public hearings, including in Buffalo, over the summer.
Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, said the decision to postpone two board meetings since Friday "has clearly demonstrated the lack of transparency and accountability that has plagued the authority for decades.''
"How are we to believe that the Thruway Authority is ready to act in the best interest of toll-payers when they can't even conduct a standard board meeting?'' Sampson said in calling for a forensic audit of the agency.
The proposed toll hike on large trucks was unveiled in May. It has been criticized by trucking companies – who say some members, such as furniture and dairy operations, will face increased tolls of as much as $18,000 a month – and by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, as well as lawmakers in both parties.
The toll hike plan has reopened old wounds: Critics say it again shines a light on the need to get rid of expensive non-Thruway operations – a free expressway in Westchester County and the state's 500-mile canal system – that the agency was forced to pick up during an early 1990s budget-balancing maneuver by then-Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Thruway tolls in 2005 were raised 25 percent on passenger vehicles and 35 percent for commercial users. Cash tolls went up 10 percent in 2008. Two annual 5 percent hikes were imposed in 2009 and 2010.
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The 5 Worst Things You See While Working in Fast Food
When I asked her to sign the slip of paper indicating that I planned to drop out of college, my English professor told me, "Whatever you do in life, make sure it involves writing." And with that, I moved to Wisconsin and embarked upon a four-year stint working in fast food restaurants.
If you've ever earned your keep by flipping burgers, you already know what kind of horrifying sights await anyone brave enough to venture into the greasy back room of a fast food restaurant. As for the rest of you, let me assure you, it's much worse than you can imagine back there.
Here are five awful things I've seen while working in fast food restaurants.
#5. The Five-Second Rule
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I'm assuming you all know what the five-second rule is, but just in case, it goes something like this: If food that's fallen on the floor is picked up within five seconds, it's perfectly fine to eat. People joke about it all the time at home, where the floors (ideally) are relatively clean and free from the rigors of heavy foot traffic. That's not what a fast food floor is like, though, especially not in the back where the food is made. So you might be horrified to know that not only is the five-second rule in constant use in fast food restaurants, but the "five second" part is nothing more than an often ignored suggestion.
One particularly harrowing case from my fast food days happened at a sub shop I worked at for a few months. They sold a ton of those gigantic 6-foot subs, which, if you've ever had to handle one, you know are unwieldy to the point of being impossible to carry by yourself. To add an extra layer of danger to their offerings, this place would also deliver your huge sandwich. It was on one of these deliveries that I saw something that would have put me off the idea of vegetarianism for life if the delicious taste of steak hadn't already done that so many years before.
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We've been together ever since.
While I was warming up the restaurant's windowless white van, which looked exactly like the kind that park in front of your house when you're being investigated by the FBI, a co-worker who I'll refer to only as "Mike" because I don't remember that idiot's real name exited the back door of the restaurant with all 6 feet of food in his hands.
Even without the delicious meat that normal people add to a sandwich of this nature, we're still talking about 6 feet and maybe 10 to 15 pounds of cumbersome bread and toppings precariously placed on a surprisingly flimsy sandwich board.
The good news is that "Mike" made it into the van without incident. The bad news is that the first foot of the sandwich did not, instead choosing to break free from its plastic binding and spilling its contents onto the disgusting floor of the van. Granted, this was a veggie sandwich, so it didn't matter much because that's barely real food, but there was a bigger problem. We only had 10 minutes to make the delivery.
Remaking the part of the sandwich that now lay on the floor of the company rape van was out of the question, as that would take at least an hour. With no alternative other than to just give them 5 feet of sandwich instead of the six they'd paid for (we're no animals), "Mike" decided to scoop up the mounds of lettuce and pickles and cheese that had spilled onto that nasty, rusty van floor and put them back on the sandwich.
And with that, we were off to make our delivery. As far as I know, there were never any complaints. I'm assuming that's because people just naturally expect a sandwich with no meat to be terrible and taste like dirt.
#4. Spit in Food
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You've heard the warnings before: Be nice to people who serve you food, or else they'll spit in it. Well, guess what? The warnings are true! There is at least one employee in any restaurant, fast food or otherwise, who will totally spit in your food if given sufficient provocation.
Unlike the sandwich dropper from the previous story, I definitely remember the name of the premier food spit specialist from my fast food days. His name was Greg. He stole a case of ground beef patties and a jar of Maraschino cherries from the stock room on New Year's Eve once. He was suspended for three days after he huffed the contents of a whipped cream canister while working. He was that kind of employee. The kind who is almost incapable of not being a dick to people who give him orders.
And, disastrously, at some point during his time as my co-worker, he was moved from the relative safety of the dish room to the very front of the store, where he could make food, interact with customers, and just generally be driven into a blind rage at the thought of having to wait on people on a daily basis. His protests toward customers began as a simple flipping of the bird to anyone who made too much fuss for the person working the drive-through window.
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This bird.
But when hand gestures nobody could see no longer became enough to quell the need for vengeance that burned inside this man (I should add that we're talking about a 45-year-old man who behaved this way), he decided to make a drastic change in tactics.
Upon arriving to work on what was going to be a busy Saturday night, Greg pulled me aside and said, "Check this out," before arranging a bun on the prep table in front of him. With only the slightest parting of his lips and a movement that was practically unnoticeable, Greg fired an expertly aimed stream of saliva onto the bun, and then proceeded to do it five more times, each one with military-like precision and accuracy.
When I lied and said I wasn't sure what was going on here, he explained it to me. "I can spit in someone's food and make it look like I'm just working as normal. You can barely see me do it! I've been practicing that shit, dude."
It didn't take long for Greg to put his new skills to use, either. Later in that shift, I eyed him spitting in the food of a particularly unruly drive-through customer. I didn't say anything, because I was 17 and Greg was old and huge and probably a convicted felon. So, all night long, I had to live with the guilt of knowing that, by a conservative estimate, every fifth or sixth sandwich Greg handed over that night came with a horrifying extra ingredient.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure he spit in my food from time to time also. He was really into it.
#3. Drug Dealing
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You know what fast food restaurants are excellent for? Committing crimes. The fast-paced environment and constant traffic make for the perfect cover for all sorts of illicit activities. And no crime runs more rampant in the fast food restaurants of America than drug dealing.
In fact, I don't think I've ever worked at a restaurant that didn't also have an unofficial drug dealer on staff. I promise you it happens everywhere, but I also promise you I'm not going to give you details and names because, no matter how long ago it was, we're still talking about drug dealers, and I'm absolutely terrible about keeping up with old acquaintances. For all I know, one of these people could be today's answer to Pablo Escobar or something. No thanks, I'll keep the stories anonymous this go 'round.
If you think drug dealing at fast food restaurants isn't a thing, just Google that shit. The phrase "drug arrest at fast food restaurant" has 78.8 million results, and there are stories about it from pretty much any part of the country you can name. A recent example happened in Slidell, Louisiana, when 14 french-fry-scented co-conspirators were arrested as part of a heroin-dealing ring that operated, at least in part, from the back of a very much open for business fast food restaurant, allegedly without the knowledge of a single other employee or manager.
To be fair, they probably lack knowledge of a lot of things.
You know, besides those who like heroin. You can bet every single one of them knew.
When the employees aren't selling drugs, you can usually count on a transaction of some sort to be going down in the parking lot or, even worse, the bathroom. Fast food parking lots, for their part, have long been a favorite location for drug dealers to connect with their customers who've yet to hit rock bottom and therefore still have transportation with which to travel to pick up their fix.
Personally, I've always assumed that a Walmart parking lot, which is going to have way more cars and activity, makes a better choice. But I also just say no to drugs, so I've never had to find out. There are plenty of stories of people getting arrested after conducting a drug deal from the comfort of their car in a fast food parking lot (some of them even have guns!), so the mainstream media assures us it does happen, even if you're unwilling to take my word for it.
What's the big deal, though? Drugs should be legal and all that, right? Well, sure, but for right now, they aren't, which means selling them in public is illegal. And any illegal activity is going to draw some shady elements to your establishment. That's exactly what happened in Dallas last year when a drug deal in the parking lot of a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell went horribly awry, leaving one man dead of a gunshot wound before the tacos even had a chance to kill him with heart disease.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you can buy drugs at every fast food restaurant. That's absurd. I'm just saying that, while I haven't checked them all, I'm pretty sure you can buy drugs at any fast food restaurant.