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H.R.2115, the House of Representatives' "Vision 100–Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act," was combined with S.842, the Senate's "Aviation and Investment Act," and was more commonly known as the FAA reauthorization bill. The bill made its tortuous way through the House and a joint conference committee, and it was finally approved by the Senate in late November. President Bush signed it on December 16.
In its findings, Congress stated that the total effect of civil aviation on the U.S. economy exceeds $900 billion annually and accounts for 9 percent of the gross national product and 11 million jobs in the national workforce. Civil aviation products and services generate a significant surplus for U.S. trade accounts and contribute substantially to the number of the nation's highly skilled, technologically qualified workforce.
The bill contains numerous provisions, covers a broad range of programs and activities and will provide the FAA with $59 billion for the next four years. For complete text of the bill, log on to http://thomas.loc.gov/ and search for "H.R.2115."
A recap of the more pertinent sections of H.R.2115, which covers fiscal years 2004 to 2007, follows:
• Sec. 101: Airport planning and development and noise-compatibility planning and programs–Authorizes $3.4 billion for FY 2004 and increases annually to reach $3.7 billion for FY 2007.
• Sec. 102: Air Navigation facilities and equipment–Provides $3.1 billion for FY 2004 and FY 2007, with slightly lower amounts for FY 2005 and FY 2006.
• Sec. 103: FAA operations–For salaries, operations and maintenance of the Administration, $7.9 billion is provided for FY 2004, increasing annually to $8 billion in FY 2007. The Aviation Safety Reporting System will receive such sums as may be necessary.
• Sec. 106: Insurance–Provides war-risk insurance to aircraft manufacturers and extends the FAA's authority to provide aviation insurance or reinsurance until March 30, 2008.
• Secs. 141 to 159: AIP modifications–Makes a number of changes regarding Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding; apportionments to private and cargo airports; criteria for discretionary grants; flexibility in noise compatibility; the military airport program; aviation-safety data collection; and various other pilot programs.
• Sec. 185: Civil penalty for permanent closure of an airport without providing sufficient notice–Known as the "Meigs clause" this section states that a public agency cannot permanently close an airport listed in the national plan of integrated airport systems without providing the FAA Administrator with written notice at least 30 days before the date of closure. A public agency violating this section shall be liable for a civil penalty of $10,000 for each day that the airport remains closed without having given the required written notice.
• Sec. 186: Midway Island Airport–Congress found that the continued operation of Midway Island Airport is critical to the safety of commercial, military and general aviation in the mid-Pacific Ocean region. The maximum funding obligation is $2.5 million for each fiscal year.
• Secs. 201 and 202: Management advisory committee and air traffic services subcommittee–These sections make changes to the FAA management advisory committee and reorganize the air traffic services subcommittee.
• Sec. 229: Overflight fees–This addresses the overflight-fee dispute between foreign carriers and the FAA. It states that the FAA Administrator shall defer collecting fees until the Administrator reports to Congress responding to the issues raised by the court in Air Transport Association of Canada v. Federal Aviation Administration, and consults with users and other interested parties regarding the consistency of the fees established under such section with the international obligations of the U.S.
• Secs. 303 to 309: Environmental process–This deals with aviation capacity enhancement, aviation project streamlining and so on. The Department of Transportation is designated as the lead agency for the environmental review process on major capacity projects and thus has broad powers to streamline these reviews.
• Sec. 323: Overflights of national parks–States that the Secretary of Transportation shall issue a final rule, no later than January 2005, to establish standards for quiet technology that are reasonably achievable at Grand Canyon National Park.
• Sec. 325: Implementation of noise standards–Requires that the DOT Secretary issue final regulations to implement Stage 4 noise standards consistent with the recent recommendations adopted by ICAO.
• Sec. 426: Definition of commuter aircraft–For the purpose of aircraft operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport under Part 93 Subpart K, "commuters" means aircraft having a certified maximum seating capacity of 76 or fewer.
• Sec. 501: Counterfeit or fraudulently represented parts violations–Requires the FAA to deny a certificate to a person whose certificate was previously revoked for involvement in an activity relating to counterfeit or fraudulent aviation parts.
• Sec. 503: Civil penalties–Sets all civil penalties at $25,000 and limits administrative imposition of penalties to $400,000.
• Sec. 504: Improvement of curriculum standards for aviation maintenance technicians–Requires the FAA Administrator to ensure that the training standards for A&P technicians are updated and revised and that the Administrator may update and revise training standards by formal rulemaking or by issuing an advisory circular.
• Sec. 506: FAA inspector training–States that the comptroller general shall conduct a study of the FAA aviation safety inspectors to include an analysis of the type of training provided; and the amount of travel required of FAA inspectors in receiving training.
• Sec. 601: Certificate actions in response to a security threat–Requires the FAA Administrator to issue an order amending, modifying, suspending or revoking any part of a certificate when notified by the Department of Homeland Security that the certificate holder poses or is suspected of posing the risk of air piracy or terrorism or a threat to airline or passenger safety.
• Sec. 602: Justification for air defense identification zone–If an ADIZ is established in the Washington, D.C. area, the FAA is required to explain the need for the ADIZ to Congress.
• Sec. 609: Arming cargo pilots against terrorism–It is the sense of Congress that crewmembers of cargo aircraft should be armed with a firearm or taser to defend against any terrorist attacks on their aircraft.
• Sec. 611: Foreign repair stations–Requires the FAA Administrator to transmit to Congress within 90 days a plan containing an implementation schedule to ensure that foreign repair stations certified under Part 145 are subject to an equivalent level of safety, oversight and quality control as those located in the U.S.
• Sec. 612: Flight training–Sets out the requirements for a flight instructor, pilot school or aviation training center to train aliens in aircraft with an mtow of more than 12,500 pounds. Those entities must first notify the Secretary of Homeland Security that the alien has requested such training and furnish detailed information on the training applicant. The bill includes a 30-day waiting period and exempts recurrent training from the notification requirements.
• Sec. 814: Flight attendant certification–States that no person may serve as an air-carrier flight attendant (defined as an individual working as a flight attendant in the cabin of an aircraft that has 20 or more seats) unless that person holds a certificate of demonstrated proficiency issued by the FAA.
• Sec. 817: Reimbursement for losses incurred by general aviation entities–Authorizes the DOT Secretary to disburse $100 million to the following general aviation entities for the security costs and revenue foregone as a result of imposed federal government restrictions following 9/11: general aviation entities at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA); airports and general aviation entities located within 15 miles of DCA; general aviation entities that were affected by Section 44939 of tile 49, United States Code, or certain FAA notams; and sightseeing operations that were not authorized to resume in enhanced Class B airspace.
• Sec. 823: General aviation flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport–Requires the Department of Homeland Security Secretary to implement a security plan to permit general aviation aircraft to take off and land at the airport. The FAA Administrator shall allow general aviation aircraft that comply with the requirements of the security plan to take off and land at the airport, except during any period that the President suspends the plan.


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The sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities Dynamic Management Function returns a result set of all objects that are being referenced as part of the definition of the object that you reference within the function argument section. You can pass in either a Server trigger, database trigger, or any object such as a table or view. To better illustrate how this function works lets look at a stored procedure and a view in the AdventureWorks2012 database.
If we script out the uspGetEmployeeManagers stored procedure we will see the code in the screenshot below.
If we needed to know all of the tables, columns, views, functions, etc. that are referenced in this stored procedure, we could easily just read through the code since its not too long. But what if the code was 1000 lines worth of complex code? It would be difficult to gather a list of all dependent objects without running the risk of missing something. This is where the sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities function comes in handy. If we run a quick query against this function, we can immediately see the benefit:
SELECT referenced_schema_name, referenced_entity_name, referenced_minor_name, referenced_class_desc, is_ambiguous, is_selected, is_updated, is_select_all FROM sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities ('dbo.uspGetEmployeeManagers', 'OBJECT')
As we see from the result set, this function returned all of the objects that are referenced in the stored procedure. From the first 3 columns that I am selecting from this function, we can see the Schema name, Object name, and column name fields. The next column is the referenced class description which can either be an OBJECT OR COLUMN, TYPE, XML SCHEMA COLLECTION, or a PARTITION FUNCTION. The next column, is_ambiguous, describes whether or not the referenced object is ambiguous and can resolve to multiple different objects during run-time. The is_updated column describes whether or not this object is updated as part of the stored procedure. Lastly, the is_select_all column refers to whether or not a particular column is included as part of a select * statement.
This DMV is very helpful when you need to identify all objects that are being referenced as part of another object.
For more information about this DMV, see the below Books Online link:
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The sys.dm_os_volume_stats Dynamic Management Function is used to return information about disk volumes that contain your database files. This is a function so you have to pass in a database_id and a file_id. To better illustrate this function, I will run the below query on my TRAINING instance.
SELECT db_name(vs.database_id) AS DatabaseName, vs.file_id, vs.volume_mount_point, vs.volume_id, vs.logical_volume_name, vs.file_system_type, (vs.total_bytes/1024/1024/1024) AS [TotalSize(GB)], (vs.available_bytes/1024/1024/1024) AS [AvailableSize(GB)], vs.supports_compression, vs.supports_alternate_streams, vs.supports_sparse_files, vs.is_read_only, vs.is_compressed FROM sys.master_files mf CROSS APPLY sys.dm_os_volume_stats(mf.database_id, mf.file_id) vs WHERE db_name(vs.database_id) like 'Adventure%'
In the query above, I used the information from sys.master_files and then used the CROSS APPLY with my sys.dm_os_volume_stats function to return the shown result sets. In addition to this, I filtered the results so we only se information for the 'AdventureWorks2012' and 'AdventureWorksDW2012' databases.
The first column returned by this function displays the Database Name. The second column displays the file id which in my case is the data file and transaction log file. The volume_mount_point column represents the the mount point that the volume is rooted to. Next we have the id for the specific volume and a name for the volume. The file_system_type column signifies whether you are using NTFS, FAT, RAW, etc system file types. The next columns represent the size of my volume and how much of that volume is still available for use. The next three columns of this function are self explanatory for the most part, signifying whether or not compression, alternate streams, or sparse files are supported. Lastly, we have have columns displaying whether or not the volume is read only or if the volume is compressed.
Many DBA's tend to rely on the extended stored procedure xp_fixeddrives when needing to see free size information about the various drives on a particular server. The problem with disk drive letters is that you are limited by the number of letters in the alphabet. If your database servers use mount points instead of drive letters, then xp_fixeddrives becomes useless to you at that point. This is when I find a Dynamic Management Function like this one to be extremely useful. There are other ways to get mount point information such as using powershell and WMI, but for a SQL Server solution, this DMF provides one of the best solutions available.
For more information about this Dynamic Management Function, see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_os_cluster_nodes DMV has been around since the 2005 version of SQL Server, but its result set was very limited up until 2012. In SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008R2, the DMV simply returns the Node Names for all of the servers that are part of a cluster. This one column in the only thing returned.
In SQL Server 2012, the DMV has been expanded to include status and status_description columns, which tells us whether a particular node is "up", "down", "paused", "joining", or "unknown". In addition, the 2012 version of this DMV also includes an 'is_current_owner' column to indicate which node is the current owner of the SQL Server cluster resource.
This is a very simplistic DMV but returns useful information about the nodes making up your cluster and their current status.
For more information about this DMV, please see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_os_windows_info DMV is probably the most simplistic DMV that I will show you during this whole 31 days of DMV's series. Generally I would not post something this short but lets be honest, it's the weekend and I'm sure you all have better things to do than sit around and read my blog! :)
So with that being said, lets get into this. The sys.dm_os_windows_info DMV provides you basic information about the version of Windows that you SQL Server instance is currently running on. Lets run this query so we can see the results returned.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_windows_info
As you can see, only 4 columns are returned from this DMV. The columns are self-explanatory for the most part but just so we can say we went through them, the first column, 'windows_release', represents the Windows Operating System version number. Then second column 'windows_service_pack_level' is the current Windows Service Pack level that is installed on the server. The third column is the windows sku number and the fourth column is the identifier for the language of the operating system.
This is a very basic DMV to return Operating System information.
For more information on this DMV, see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_os_performance_counters DMV returns information about SQL Server performance counters that are being collected on the server. The performance counters that you will find in this DMV are the SQL Server performance counters that you would normally find using Windows Performance Monitor.
Lets have a quick look at this DMV to view the columns that are returned from this DMV.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_Performance_counters
The first column returned is the 'object_name' column which represents the category that the particular counter belongs to. The second column, 'counter_name', is the actual name of the counter. The third column, 'instance_name', is usually the database name that the counter is coming from, but sometimes can represent a more another category group name for certain performance counters that are instance scoped as opposed to database scope. The fourth column in the result set is 'cntr_value' which is the current value for a specific counter. The 'cntr_type' column is used to define the type of counter according to the Windows performance architecture. For many of the performance counters, this cntr_type column is necessary to properly calculate the value of a counter.
This DMV provides useful information about practically every SQL Server performance counter out there. I use it occasionally for very specific counters I am interested in such as Logins/Sec, Page Reads/Sec, or Memory Grants Pending but for most of my performance counter needs, I will still rely on the Windows Performance Monitor tool. I am in no way implying that you should not use this DMV, me personally, I just find the Windows Performance monitor tool a little easier to work with for my needs. Once I become more skilled with how to properly use the 'cntr_type' column to properly calculate by counter value, then this DMV will probably be more beneficial to me.
However, this is still a powerful and useful DMV that I felt you should at least know its out there.
The sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV collects instance wide aggregations of all waits that have occurred on your SQL Instance since the last time the DMV statistics were reset. This DMV is useful when needed to determine the top waits that are occurring on your server so that you know where you should focus your tuning efforts.
To help illustrate this DMV, let run a quick query against it:
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_wait_stats WHERE waiting_tasks_count > 0
The first column, wait_type, displays each wait type that has occurred on your instance since the last time the DMV statistics were reset. The second column, waiting_tasks_count, give you the number of times that a particular wait type has occurred. The wait_time_ms column gives you the total time in milliseconds that a particular wait type has consumed. The max_wait_time_ms column gives you the maximum time in milliseconds that a wait type has waited for out of the X number of times it has waited. The final column returned by this DMV is the signal_wait_time_ms. This column represents the amount of time that a thread has spent on the Runnable queue. To help illustrate what this column represents, when a thread is executing, its status is listed as 'Running' and it is currently on a CPU executing. If the thread needs a resource that it cannot access yet, it will move to the Suspended Queue and have a status of 'Suspended'. Once the thread acquires the resources it needs it moves to the Runnable queue and has a status of Runnable. This is when the signal_wait_time counter begins. The thread has all of the resources it needs and is simply waiting for its turn to get back onto the CPU. Once it moves back to the CPU, the status will change to 'Running'.
**Note: Threads can also come off of the CPU even if they are not lacking any needed resources. This happens when there are other threads in a 'Runnable' state waiting to get on the CPU. In this case the thread currently on the CPU will yield so that other Runnable processes are not constantly waiting for their chance on the CPU. This is generally represented by a SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait type and can often indicate CPU pressure. When threads yield, they go directly to the 'Runnable' queue.
As stated earlier, this DMV is very useful for tracking down the top waits on your server so you can formulate a plan for improving the server performance.
The sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks DMV is a very powerful DMV and one of my favorites. How many times have you been approached by a user saying "My query is taking too long to run, can you see what the problem is"? Or maybe you have heard the famous question "The server seems to be moving very slow today compared to normal, can you see what's going on?" As a DBA, these are all very common questions and one of the first places I will generally check is the sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks DMV. This DMV provides information about tasks that are currently "waiting" on something within SQL and information about the type of resource that is being "waited" for.
Lets have a quick look at this DMV to help illustrate the type of information it returns and how it can be used.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks
The first column presented is the waiting_task_address which represents the internal memory address for the task that is waiting. Next in the result set is the session_id (SPID) and the exec_context_id. Assuming that no explanation is needed for the session_id, I will go directly to the exec_context_id which represents the ID of the thread from the session_id whenever you have parallelism taking place. If a particular session_id is not running in parallel then you will always see a 0 for the exec_context_id field. The next field is the wait_duration_ms which gives you the time in milliseconds that a particular SPID has been waiting.
The next field is the crown jewel of this DMV which is the actual wait type. Looking at the screenshot above we see various wait types. For example we see 'LAZYWRITER_SLEEP' which is a background process in SQL Server that occurs when the lazy writer is waiting for more work. We see the wait type 'CXPACKET' wait which simply means that this session is running in parallel and the current session_id/exec_context_id is waiting for some of the other threads to complete their work. One of the more common wait types, although not displayed in the screen shot above, is the 'LCK_M_%' wait type. This wait type indicates that the current session is currently waiting on a lock and based on the type and mode of the lock it is waiting for, the wait type will be changed accordingly. For example, the 'LCK_M_IS' wait type indicates an Intent Shared lock is being waiting on. The 'LCK_M_X' indicates that an Exclusive lock is being waited for.
I wont go into detail about what every single wait type is, but Tom Davidson created a great white paper on SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues which I highly recommend. Although the white paper was written for SQL Server 2005, the information within it still applies for current version. You can find the white paper at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2F4%2F7%2Fa%2F47a548b9-249e-484c-abd7-29f31282b04d%2FPerformance_Tuning_Waits_Queues.doc&ei=SD3cUfv0KYvI9gS5ooHgDQ&usg=AFQjCNFRIebSlMLnry8gH99CQklhdmokJw&bvm=bv.48705608,d.eWU
This DMV also returns information about the session_id that may be causing blocking and its resource addresses for that particular blocking session.
All in all, this is a very powerful DMV, and as I said before, one of my favorites. I would highly recommend that you play around with this DMV, get familiar with some of the more common wait types, and add this tool to your troubleshooting toolkit.
If you have been keeping up with this Dynamic Management Object series, you will have noticed that all of the previous DMO's we have reviewed have come from the 'exec' namespace. Well today we are going to begin learning about some of the DMO's in the 'os' namespace. The first one we will review is the sys.dm_os_sys_info DMV. This DMV returns information about the Operating System (OS) that SQL Server is running on and the resources that are available to SQL.
To help illustrate the power of this DMV, I will execute it against my Training instance containing my AdventureWorks2012 database.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info
As you can see, there is a wealth of OS level information that is returned by this DMV. Since there are so many columns returned, I wont go into detail about each and every one of them, but I will touch on a few of them briefly.
Two columns I find useful when I am trying learn more about my SQL Server systems, maybe after taking over a new system or starting a new job, is the CPU_Count and Hyperthread_Ratio columns. These columns represent the number of logical CPU's on the system and the ratio of logical/physical cores per processor respectively.
The next columns I find to be very useful are the physical_memory_kb, virtual_memory_kb, committed_kb, and committed_target_kb. These columns are beneficial when you are analyzing your memory consumption or memory requirements for SQL Server.
For those of your that are into the Internals of SQL Server, you may find some benefit in the max_workers_count and scheduler_count columns. I have some DMV's scheduled for a future day in this series that will deal with these Internals in more detail, so i wont go into detail about these now.
Lastly the sqlserver_start_time column is a quick and easy way to view the last time that SQL Server was started. Have a look at this DMV for yourself against your systems and view the OS information that is returned.
For more information about this Dynamic Management View, please see the below Books Online link:
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The sys.dm_exec_trigger_stats Dynamic Management View is very similar to the sys.dm_exec_procedure stats Dynamic Management View that we viewed on yesterday (Day 7). This DMV is used to return performance statistics about triggers that have been cached on your SQL Server Instance. To illustrate the usage of this DMV, we will run a query against our AdventureWorks2012 database and view the result set.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_trigger_stats WHERE database_id = db_id('AdventureWorks2012')
By looking at the results of this DMV, the first thing we notice, if you have been keeping up with this DMV series, is that it returns the exam same columns as the sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats DMV, except for triggers. As a result the same useful information can be gathered from this DMV about your trigger performance.
From a performance perspective, we are able to view statistics about the min, max, last, and total worker time a trigger used, which represents the amount of CPU time in microseconds that this trigger consumed.
We are able to see min, max, last, and total statistics for logical reads/writes and physical reads/writes. The duration that the trigger took to execute is also presented in the result set of this DMV represented as the min, max, last, and total elapsed times.
When you need to analyze the performance of a trigger on your system, this is a good place to begin your analysis.
For more information abut this Dynamic Management View, please see the below Books Online link:
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The sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats is one of my favorite DMV's that I will use when I am looking into the performance of a stored procedure. This DMV returns information about the performance of a cached stored procedures. The information within this DMV is aggregated since the last time that the DMV statistics were reset. To better illustrate the benefits of this DMV, let run a quick query against my AdventureWorks2012 database.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats WHERE database_id = db_id('AdventureWorks2012')
By looking at the results returned by this DMV, we can gather a wealth of knowledge about how a stored procedure may be performing. We can easily obtain the name of the stored procedure by using the OBJECT_NAME function. This query also returns the sql_handle and plan_handle and if you have been keeping up with this month long series on Dynamic Management Objects, then you know how we can use these two columns to obtain the actual sql text and the execution plan for these stored procedures. We are also able to see when the stored procedure was added to the cache and the last time it executed as well as how many times it has executed.
From a performance perspective, we are able to view statistics about the min, max, last, and total worker time a stored procedure used, which represents the amount of CPU time in microseconds that this stored procedure consumed.
We are able to see min, max, last, and total statistics for logical reads/writes and physical reads/writes. The duration that the stored procedure took to execute is also presented in the result set of this DMV represented as the min, max, last, and total elapsed times.
When looking for stored procedures that may need optimizations, this is an excellent place to start. Especially when you are needing a historical view and not necessarily a look at currently executing stored procedures. This is definitely one of my favorites!!
For more information of this Dynamic Management View, please see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_exec_cached_plans DMV can be used whenever you want to get a quick look at each query plan that is currently being cached without your SQL Server instance. Using this DMV you are able to determine the amount of space that a particular query plan is consuming, how many objects are referencing a particular plan, and how many times a particular plan has been used.
To further illustrate this DMV, lets run a quick query against it and review the results.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans
The bucketid column represents the hash bucket that contains the cached plan. The refcounts column represents the number of cache objects that are referening this particular plan. The usecounts column represent the number of times that this plan has been looked up.
This DMV can also be used with a CROSS APPLY of the sys.dm_exec_sql_text function to return the batch text for these cached plans.
SELECT cp.refcounts, cp.usecounts, cp.size_in_bytes, cp.objtype, st.text FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans cp CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(cp.plan_handle) st
If you are doing some detailed analysis of memory consumption or query plan usage, this DMV can prove very beneficial to you.
For more information on this Dynamic Management View, please see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_exec_query_plan Dynamic Management Function is very similar to the sys.dm_exec_sql_text function that we reviewed on yesterday, except this function is used to return execution plans. To be exact, it returns either the cached or currently executing plan in Showplan XML format. Instead of passing in a 'sql_handle' as we did for sys.dm_exec_sql_text function, we will pass in a 'plan_handle' which can also be obtained by using the sys.dm_exec_requests DMV that we reviewed on Day 1.
To illustrate how this function works, I will first need to capture a plan_handle. **NOTE: I have a SQL Statement running in a loop in a separate window against the AdventureWorks2012 database.
SELECT session_id, command, sql_handle, plan_handle FROM sys.dm_exec_requests WHERE session_id >= 50 AND session_id != @@SPID
Now that I have a plan_handle to work with, I can either call the sys.dm_exec_query_plan function directly and pass in the plan_handle, or I can run a query against my sys.dm_exec_requests DMV and use a CROSS APPLY with the sys.dm_exec_query_plan function.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_query_plan(0x06000500F96E970BB00FB9FC0200000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
From running the above query, you will see that we get similar results as we did when using sys.dm_exec_sql_text, so I will not go into detail about what these columns represent. But the last column in our result set (query_plan) provides us with an XML link. (Note: The query I had executing was not the most efficient query, but I wanted to provide an execution plan with several different operators listed)
If we click on the link, we will see the following:
As I mentioned earlier, you can also use the CROSS APPLY to use this sys.dm_exec_query_plan function against every row returned from your call to sys.dm_exec_requests:
SELECT er.session_id, er.status, er.command, er.plan_handle, qp.query_plan FROM sys.dm_exec_requests er CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(er.plan_handle) qp
This is a very fast and efficient way of finding execution plans for queries that are currently executing on your server. In a future post, we will review how to pull execution plans that may not be currently running, but exist in the cache.
For more information on this Dynamic Management Function, please see the below Books Online link:
The sys.dm_exec_sql_text Dynamic Management Object is the first Function that we will review. This function is used to return sql text from a batch by passing in the sql_handle. If we recall one of the DMV's that we have previously reviewed (sys.dm_exec_requests), this DMV provided a sql_handle column for each of the requests that were executing on the server. If we take that sql_handle and pass it into the sys.dm_exec_sql_text function, we are able to extract the actual T-SQL statements that are being executed.
To illustrate how this function works, I will first need to capture sql_handle. **NOTE: I have a SQL Statement running in a loop in a separate window against the AdventureWorks2012 Database.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_requests WHERE session_id > 50 and session_id <> @@SPID
Now that I have a sql_handle to work with, I can either call the sys.dm_exec_sql_text function directly and pass in the sql_handle, or I can run a query against my sys.dm_exec_requests DMV and use a CROSS APPLY with the sys.dm_exec_sql_text function.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_sql_text(0x0200000059598407105BDB167364C21EC3C2568FC10FF80A0000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
As we can see if the text column, the actual SQL text that I had running in a separate window is displayed here. Additionally you see columns for the Database ID and Object ID. These columns return NULL values whenever you are running ad hoc or perpared SQL Statements, which explains why they are NULL now. The 'number' columns refers to numbered stored procedures and the encrypted column represents whether or not the SQL text is encrypted or not.
Optionally we could have queried the sys.dm_exec_requests DMV and used a CROSS APPLY as you see below.
SELECT er.session_id, er.status, er.command, db_name(er.database_id) [Database], st.text FROM sys.dm_exec_requests er CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle) st WHERE er.session_id > 50 and session_id <> @@SPID
This function is very useful when you need to extract the actual text that is being executed on a server. Many DBA's tend to use DBCC INPUTBUFFER() but for extremely long SQL statements, the text output can be truncated when using DBCC INPUTBUFFER(). This Dynamic Management Function will never truncate your text.
For more information on this DMF, please see the below Books Online link:
The third DMV we will review is the sys.dm_exec_connections DMV. This DMV is Server-Scoped and displays information about each and every current connection on your SQL Server Instance. Lets take a look at some information that this DMV returns.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_connections
After reviewing this DMV, in my opinion, its not a whole lot of useful information returned from this DMV from a monitoring or troubleshooting standpoint. The primary use case I have for this DMV is when I need to get a quick count of how many connections I have on one of my SQL Server boxes. For this purpose a quick SELECT COUNT(*) satisfies my need. However, for those who need it, there is other information such as what type of authentication a specific connection is using, network packet size, and client/local TCP ports being used. This information can come in handy for specific scenarios but you probably wont need it very much for your day to day monitoring/troubleshooting needs. However, this is still an important DMV that you should be aware of in the event that you need it.
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This sys.dm_exec_sessions DMV is another Server-Scoped DMV which returns information for each authenticated session that is running on your SQL Server box. Lets take a look at some of the information that this DMV returns.
SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
This DMV is very similar to the DMV we reviewed yesterday, sys.dm_exec_requests, and returns some of the same information such as reads, writes, and status for a given session_id (SPID). But this DMV returns additional information such as the Host name of the machine that owns the SPID, the program that is being used to connect to SQL Server, and the Client interface name. In addition to this information, this DMV also provides useful information on session level settings that may be on or off such as quoted identifier, arithabort, ansi padding, ansi nulls, etc. This DMV will also provide information about what specific isolation level the session is executing under and if the default deadlock priority for your SPID has been changed from the default. Lastly, this DMV provides you with an Original Login Name, which comes in handy whenever you have some type of context switching taking place due to an 'EXECUTE AS' statement being used and you need to identify the original login that started a session.

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I have one missing tooth on the lower and uper teeth, when i get braces will that gap help in getting my teeth straighten faster?
Will Missing Teeth Help Braces Work Faster?
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Will missing teeth help speed tx?
unfortunately, probably not as missing teeth on just one side makes keeping the dental midlines centered on your facial midline much more difficult (usually anyway!
MIssing teeth: speed up braces?
The answer to your question is: it depends! Often missing one tooth in the back can complicate treatment. Missing an upper front tooth may also make treatment with braces take longer if you've had a lot of tooth drifting. TOn the other hand there are cases where missing one tooth in the lower front could actually speed up treatment. Orthodontics can be a bit complicated and often the best solution to a patient's problem is a unique treatment plan designed just for them, taking into account the unique attributes of their case.
Will missing teeth make braces go faster
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital with a blood clot following a concussion, a source close to the Clintons said Sunday night.
She is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to the source the same hospital where Bill Clinton had his heart surgery.
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First-round Masters leader Bill Haas following in fine family tradition
American's great uncle won in 1968, and his father competed 22 times - and the only family connections to Augusta don't end there
For Bill Haas, a round at Augusta National brings back warm family memories and on Thursday he made a new one with a four-under-par 68 that gave him the opening round lead at the Masters.
Haas, 31, first played the fabled layout when he was in high school, his great uncle Bob Goalby won the 1968 title and his father Jay Haas, a former Ryder Cup player and nine-time PGA Tour winner, played in 22 Masters with five top-10 finishes.
Following in the family business, Haas has won five times on the PGA Tour and won at some memorable venues, including Riviera, Congressional and at the Tour Championship in 2011 on his way to winning the FedExCup and its US$10 million prize.
A resilient Haas, looking to notch his first major victory, began with a bogey at the first but bounced back with a birdie at number two before reaching the turn in two under.
After a bogey at the 17th, he came right back again with a birdie at 18 to seize a one-shot lead.
"A stat out here on tour is the bounceback stat, and it's there for a reason," said Haas. "It's one of the most important stats we have, I think. Just to not compound your problems with another bogey."
No problem for Haas, who feels right at home in Augusta.
"My great uncle, my dad's uncle, Bob Goalby, won the Masters in 1968, and I think it's been a special place in our family since then," he said, recalling trips to watch his dad play.
"We came down here most of the years. I remember like it was yesterday, he said it was 20 years ago he finished third [in 1995] and it does not seem that long ago. I remember a lot of the shots he hit coming down the stretch," Haas said.
There are even more family connections.
"My uncle Jerry [Haas, his father's brother], has competed in a couple Masters, and my uncle Dillard Pruitt," said Haas, referring to his mother's brother, a PGA Tour winner who tied for 13th in the 1992 Masters.
His brother, Jay Haas Jr, is also a former PGA Tour player.
Haas recalled the first time he played Augusta.
"A member here, Johnny Harris, is a friend of my dad's," he said. "I think I was in high school, [and] he had me and my dad and my brother down and we all four played.
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By Kerry Sheridan, AFP Thursday, April 4, 2013, 12:03 am TWN
WASHINGTON--A new strategy for ending polio worldwide aims to boost security for violence-plagued vaccine workers and halt polio outbreaks by the end of next year, global health authorities said Tuesday.
The latest plan to eradicate polio, endorsed by the World Health Organization, is designed to capitalize on momentum against the crippling disease and formally declare all parts of the world polio-free by 2018.
But threats against vaccine workers in Nigeria and Pakistan remain a key concern, as does raising the US$5.5 billion needed for the next six years of work, said experts.
"We want it funded up front," said John Sever, vice chair of the International PolioPlus Committee at Rotary International, explaining that funding gaps have interrupted vaccination efforts in the past.
Polio, once a worldwide scourge, is endemic in just three countries now, and those that remain — Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan — are "on a trajectory to interrupt transmission by the end of 2014," the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said in a statement.
"This will hold true if trends continue and current security challenges do not cause a prolonged or increased impact on operations."
Despite recent lethal attacks on vaccine stations in Nigeria and Pakistan, those two countries and Afghanistan all made progress in vaccinating more people and reducing polio cases to their lowest level ever in 2012.
Last year there were just 223 polio cases worldwide compared to 650 in 2011.
Hamid Jafari, director of polio operations and research at the World Health Organization, said experts prefer to bring an end to polio, rather than limit the number of cases each year.
"We have learned the hard way many times over it is not something that can be controlled easily. The cost of control at 223 cases a year would then indefinitely be about a billion dollars a year."
World health officials first set out to tackle polio in 1988, when endemic wild poliovirus afflicted more than 125 countries and more than 350,000 children were paralyzed for life by it every year.
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Pipelines, utilities, storage facilities and other systems operating within state boundaries are required to post natural gas flow and capacity data
EVERGREEN, CO (September 1, 2010) – On October 1, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is scheduled to implement Order 720, requiring many intrastate pipelines, storage operators, local distribution companies and utilities to post natural gas flow and capacity data at the most significant points within those systems. According to analysts at BENTEK Energy, the addition of intrastate information will provide an unprecedented and crucial level of visibility into natural gas market supply and demand dynamics across North America.
"Interstate pipelines have posted natural gas flow and capacity data for many years," noted E. Russell (Rusty) Braziel, Managing Director of BENTEK Energy. "Although this data has provided a highly accurate depiction of the flow of natural gas across North America, without intrastate information, the whole picture of gas movement has remained incomplete. Now that we'll have the missing puzzle piece, our industry will see a much more comprehensive view of the natural gas market."
Additional rules of Order 720 include the posting of what is known as "No-Notice" data by interstate pipelines. No-Notice services give shippers on certain pipeline systems the ability to receive natural gas without the necessity of scheduling (nominating) the gas. The requirement under Order 720 for interstate pipelines to post No-Notice data has been in effect for several months, and approximately 30 interstate pipelines are providing the information.
"Utilization of the new intrastate and No-Notice data sources will significantly improve the quality of market participants' analytical research," Braziel said. "As a result, energy traders, market makers, supply managers and investors will be able to step up the accuracy of their decision making in the natural gas arena."
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Love the larger sized tub. The lid can be used as a wet paint saver palette or watercolor paint sections. Versatile and a great size. Shipping from Blick's was fast too.
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I already had the round one. Now I use both. Fewer runs to the sink. I love the size and shape of this one.
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I love this tub for keeping paint brushes clean and soft.
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We have looked all over for 1 of these these paint tubs. Blick had them at a fair price.
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It is a heavy duty item. It really help when I am using it to soak my brush. With the divider on the bottom it help in cleaning the bush without touching it.
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this brush tub has it all in one.
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I just love this brush tub because of all the extras that come with it. You can keep some paints in the lid and mix them as well and use the brush holder,and the double tub to keep dirty water from clean. it has it all,and the cover securely keeps your paints fresh. I love it. Very useful and compact.
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OMG! This is the best idea since sliced bread. Tub is roomy enough to hold reasonable amount of water in both sides. Great "fins" on bottom of one tank really do clean your brushes! My work table stays neat with slots to hold brushes in current use. I like to keep a large wet sponge handy to swipe brush tips I'm using from time to time...clean off fingers, whatever..And the lid to this (which was intended for a mixing tray) is the perfect size...no more wet table! Whole unit perfect for plain air. I'm in love! I bought two...one for acrylic painting, the other goes wherever my watercolors travel.
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Bought this for cleaning brushes. The segmented bottom did a good job of separating the bristles and the holes around the edge are great for holding the brushes while letting them dry. I even liked the little storage space inside the lid for oil paints. The seal on the inside of the lid is not air-tight so oil paints can last a day or two realistically. I left mineral spirits in the tub overnight without issue plenty of times. However after leaving the mineral spirits in the tub for a few weeks (hiatus from painting) when I came back to it the lid was completely deformed and no longer fit the container. The bottom tub that held the mineral spirits though was still fine but whatever the plastic was at the top was not meant for prolonged contact with vapor.
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Steven KosakKosak's investigations have provided evidence that genomes are spatially organized according to nuclear functions, in particular the expression of genes.
Kosak's work indicates that the arrangement of the human genome varies according to cell type; for example, the genomic organization of a blood cell may be distinguishable from a muscle cell. His group is working to fully characterize the role self-organization -- a process in which localized gene networks yield an emergent order that feeds back and strengthens the original network -- plays during the differentiation of human stem cells. Kosak is currently focused on adapting these ideas to the development of next-generation diagnostic tools to facilitate the identification of cells involved in pathologies ranging from cancer to aging.
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We have two branches AI1.0 & AI2.0(2.0 is cascaded on AI1.0)
dev team is going to make some exclusive changes on AI2.0, we want to implement a trigger if the same element is changed between now & prod release on AI1.0, when the dev tries to checkin new changes on 2.0 it shud warn him telling there is a newer version on 1.0...so take care of merging those changes on 2.0
can some one please suggest a better procedure or the trigger that wud help me in this case.
Thanks in advance,
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Re: parallel development - trigger to warn if they are newer changes on old brh2012-12-02T06:55:52ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.Sudheer,
You may write a trigger that monitors the changes in a file-level resolution, but I'd like to suggest another approach that could be better since it monitors the changes in streams resolution and gives you a rich report and the flexibility to monitor any streams you have.
Do you know R&D Reporter for ClearCase ?
It's an add-on tool for ClearCase that helps you track and report changes in your development environments, including projects, streams, baselines, files and code-lines.
One of the reports it provides is "two streams comparison" report which enables you to select any two streams and get a legible and fully-detailed comparison report, including their change-sets, and it can be sent into your email. You can automate this report for a certain time or launch it when any event occurs in system (e.g. a new check-in or new delivery to AI1.0 stream). Herein an example: http://gomidjets.com/counter/click.php?id=411
One of the new features we're considering to develop for the next version is an alerting capability that sends email if it finds that some files in this report have to be merged (trivial or non-trivial). I think it answers your needs, so if you find it interesting, please contact our RFE team (email to: rfe at gomidjets dot com) and ask for a Beta version when it comes true.
I also provide two links of the latest information we released over the last week:
Getting Started video: http://gomidjets.com/counter/click.php?id=410
What's New in latest version (3.0): http://www.gomidjets.com/blog/?p=1361
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Re: parallel development - trigger to warn if they are newer changes on old brh2012-12-06T17:08:29ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.Sudheer,
This can be done by trigger.. Infact ClearTrigger does this out of the box with a functionality bit.
either on:
checkout: Link: http://www.abs-consulting.com/products_cd/cleartrigger_distribution/dilbert/cleartrigger/help/key_functionality_bit14.html
checkin: Link: http://www.abs-consulting.com/products_cd/cleartrigger_distribution/dilbert/cleartrigger/help/key_functionality_bit15.html
You can read on ClearTrigger here: Link: http://www.abs-consulting.com/_products/products_cleartrigger.shtml
If you wish to write the trigger you would just check to see if the parent branch has performed any checckins on the parent branch that have not been merged to your current branch and warn if so.
Hope this helps
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Along with the official unveiling of the Nike KD VI today, Kevin Durant provides us with our first look at the lifestyle version.
Presumably inspired by D.C.'s Nike Boot culture, the KD VI NSW Lifestyle features canvas construction, a high-cut, double tongue, medal d-ring eyelets, perforated forefoot Swoosh branding and a solid rubber KD VI outsole.
What are your early thoughts on this lifestyle make-up of the KD VI? Will you consider picking up a pair? Perhaps in a different colorway?
No release information for the KD VI NSW Lifestyle at the moment, but stick with Sole Collector for updates.
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Discussion in 'English Only' started by andri, Feb 27, 2006.
Does 'last year' mean exactly the same as 'past year'?
Please provide context for your query.
"Last year" was 2005.
Any year from 2005 backwards is in the past, is a "past year",
... but "past year" sounds really strange.
Does sentence below sound ok?:
'Jason Kottke has tried full-time blogging for the past year. '
Yes - that sounds fine.
Now I understand what you mean
Today is almost the end of February 2006.
Last year was January to December 2005.
The past year, in your sentence, means (approximately) March 2005 until now.
Wow, thanks for the profound explanation!
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KARACHI, May 21: Opener Hasan Mahmood struck a fine century and spinner Israr-ul-Haq grabbed a five-wicket haul as Al-Noor Gymkhana annihilated Young Society CC by 268 runs in the NBP-KCCA Zone-I Inter-club cricket tournament match at the Student Club Ground in Liaquatabad here the other day.
Hasan blasted 125 from 85 balls with the aid of 14 boundaries and one six to help Al-Noor Gymkhana amass 358-6 in their allotted 40 overs. Umar Imtiaz also batted well to score a 51-ball 77 with seven fours and three sixes, while helping Hasan put on 142 for the second wicket.
Young Society CC, in reply, crashed to 90 all out in 14.3 overs. The wrecker-in-chief was leg-spinner Israr who returned remarkable analysis of five for three runs in three overs.
Summarised scores: AL-NOOR GYMKHANA 358-6 in 40 overs (Hasan Mahmood 125, Umar Imtiaz 77, Faraz Feroze 45, Farrukh Rizvi 25; Ayaz Ahmed 3-43, Tahir Afridi 2-82); YOUNG SOCIETY CC 90 in 14.3 overs (Khurram 20; Israr-ul-Haq 5-3. Sajjad Mirza 2-10).


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This section of the Long, Long Trail will be helpful for anyone wishing to find out about the fighting in the ill-fated campaign at Gallipoli.
British forces involved at Gallipoli
(Mediterranean Expeditionary Force)
- 29th Division (landed 25 April 1915)
- Australian and New Zealand Corps (landed 25 April 1915)
- Royal Naval Division (landed 25 April 1915)
- 42nd (East Lancashire) Division (landed May 1915)
- 52nd (Lowland) Division (landed June 1915)
- 13th (Western) Division (landed 6-16 July 1915)
- 10th (Irish) Division (landed 6-7 August 1915)
- 11th (Northern) Division (landed 6-7 August 1915)
- 53rd (Welsh) Division (landed 9 August 1915)
- 54th (East Anglian) Division (landed 10 August 1915)
Battles and engagements
Gallipoli is the most frequently used name for the peninsula to the west of the Dardenelles Straits, and the fighting that took place there between British and French troops of the Allies against Turkish troops between April 1915 and January 1916. Most famously, it was where the soldiers of the first ANZAC - the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - went first into action during the Great War.
Once the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders settled into siege warfare that defied attempts by both sides to break through, some British politicians became entranced by the idea of attacking Germany 'by the back door'. Despite pre-war Naval planning that suggested a passage of the Dardanelles Straits was impossible, the lure of an easier route to the defeat of Germany became irresistible. The pro-'Westerners' in the high Army command were overruled and eventually acquiesced.
The Gallipoli peninsula lies in Turkey, forming one land side of the Dardanelles Straits, an historic waterway that links the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. The peninsula is only 10 miles at the widest point and is about 45 miles long. Cape Helles lies at the southernmost tip. The terrain is inhospitable: it is a rocky, scrub-covered area with little water. The hills are steep-sided and are cut into deep gulleys and ravines. Among the hills which lie along the spine of the Peninsula, there are many peaks and valleys. The most important heights are the summits of Achi Baba (709 feet), which overlooks all of Cape Helles; and Sari Bair (971 feet) from which can be seen ANZAC beach and the Asian side of the Straits. At the southernmost (Aegean) tip are a number of small sandy beaches, and there are some small stretches of beach on the Western side too. There are no such beaches on eastern (Straits) side. To the North-West is a flat area surrounding a salt lake. There are no towns on the peninsula (although today holiday houses are being built around the coast). There are a number of small settlements, of which Krithia in the south and Bulair in the north are the most important.
Now quiet again, the landing beaches of Gallipoli. This view of part of Anzac is couresty of kale1915 at Panoramio, with thanks
The planning of the Gallipoli operations was makeshift to say the least, but it was based on land operations only being required in support of a naval breakthrough of the Dardanelles Straits.
The naval attempt to bombard the Turkish guns and forts failed, as did a half-hearted attempt to push through the Straits minefields. The Royal Navy now called on the army to capture the guns from the land side, and the door was thus opened to disaster.
- The Naval bombardment of the Straits Forts (9 February - 16 March)
- The Naval attempt to force the Straits (18 March)
- The Landings at Cape Helles and ANZAC Cove (25 April)
- The First Battle of Krithia (28 April)
- The Turkish night counter-attack (2 May)
- The Second Battle of Krithia (6 May)
- The Third Battle of Krithia (4 June)
- The Battle of Gully Ravine (28 June)
- The Landings at Suvla Bay and the ANZAC attack on Chunuk Bair (6 - 9 August)
- The Battle of Scimitar Hill and attack on Hill 60 (21 August)
- Evacuation of ANZAC bridgehead and Suvla Bay (10 - 19 December)
- Evacuation of Cape Helles bridgehead (10 December 1915 - 9 January 1916)
It is easy to forget, given the quite proper place that Gallipoli has in Australian and New Zealand legend, that Gallipoli was by no means purely an ANZAC affair; in fact, both the rest of the British, and the French army contingents on Gallipoli outnumbered the ANZACs in terms of men deployed and casualties lost.
It has proven to be very difficult to determine the losses of both sides in this most appalling and costly theatre: perhaps the most realistic estimates are that the Turkish army suffered 300,000 casualties (including the many sick) and the Allies, 265,000. The consequent effect of diverting troops and supplies sorely needed on the Western Front, particularly for the assault at Loos, is impossible to quantify.
Conditions on Gallipoli defy description. The terrain and close fighting did not allow for the dead to be buried. Flies and other vermin flourished in the heat, which caused epidemic sickness. In October 1915, winter storms caused much damage and human hardship, and in December, a great blizzard - followed by cataclysmic thaw - caused casualties of 10% (15,000 men) throughout the British contingent, and no doubt something similar on the Turkish side. Of the 213,000 British casualties on Gallipoli, 145,000 were due to sickness; chief causes being dysentery, diarrhoea, and enteric fever.
Other useful information
Australian Official History Volume I (Australian War Memorial, downloadable full copy)
Australian Official History Volume II (Australian War Memorial, downloadable full copy)
General conclusions of the Dardenelles Commission 1917 (National Archives)
Gallipoli diary Volume I (Sir Ian Hamilton, free download of full book)
Gallipoli diary Volume II (Sir Ian Hamilton, free download of full book)
The Dardanelles (with maps) (Sir Charles Callwell, free download of full book)
Gallipoli (John Masefield, free download of full book)
The New Zealanders at Gallipoli (Frederick Waite, free download of full book)
The 10th (Irish) Division at Gallipoli (Bryan Cooper, free download of full book)


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Just so everyone knows what they're getting, does the Build 32.1 download found here: http://nightly.exynos.co/aokp/fascinate/ have our bash fix in it?
Edit: well, I suppose I can grab it and find out....
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April 21, 2002, 07:25 PM
Just out of curiosity, will a GPS reciever work on an airliner? Does the metal skin interfere with its ability to track satelite signals?
April 21, 2002, 07:30 PM
worked for me
Christopher II
April 22, 2002, 09:31 AM
Yup, and nope. My Dad's Garmin GPSIII works great on airplanes. Some commercial pilots buy handheld GPS units to back up the equipment on the aircraft.
- Chris
April 22, 2002, 04:47 PM
My Garmin 12XL and E-map both work just fine on commercial aircraft. Its slick reading the airspeed and direction off the data page along with the estimated time of arrival.
April 22, 2002, 09:59 PM
The greater the altitude of the receiver the more satellites it can track due to less obstructions including the horizon. The greater number of satellites being tracked as well as increased signal stregnth due to lack ground clutter will increase the reception exponentially. This explains why the receiver works better in an aluminium aicraft than it does in the aluminium tool shed in your back yard.
May 5, 2002, 05:00 PM
I was recently on a Southwest flight; one of the forbidden electronic devices on an airplane (along with cell phones and radios) was a GPS receiver.
May 5, 2002, 08:50 PM
query: forbidden to have turned on during certain portions of the flight, or forbidden period? I haven't had a reason to fly since 9/11, but that will be changing shortly.
May 6, 2002, 12:34 AM
It was classified with cell phones and other such devices - you can bring them on but they must be turned off during the duration of the flight (according to the safety manual in the seat pocket). Before the plane pulls away from the gate and after it arrives at the new gate they are ok to have on.
May 6, 2002, 06:27 PM
May 9, 2002, 04:27 AM
The Reason that GPS is not allowed on civil flights like all cell phones is the possibility of electrical interference (sp?) with the flight insturments and Electronics.......
I have used mine in Both Helicopters and Fixed Wing Light Planes and it works great, Garmin 12xl
May 9, 2002, 05:14 AM
I have used my civilian GPS and issue GPS (PLGR) in the back of Marine helicopters on numerous occasions, the accuracy goes down when you go inside the bird, because the skin of the aircraft can block the signal and cause multipath errors, if used in aircraft it is recommended you use the external antenna if you don't have a LOS of the sky through say a canopy.
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A cyclist took part in the world's largest timed cycle race to raise money for a charity close to his heart.
Tom Gillon, 51, chairman of rugby at Ilkley Rugby Club, was one of 34,000 cyclists who took part in the Cape Argus bike race in Cape Town, South Africa, on March 9. He completed the 110k (68 miles) in five hours, 29 minutes and eight seconds.
By completing the challenge, Mr Gillon has raised more than £1,100 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
He said: "It was by far and away the most scenic race I've ever done. The stunning views took away the pain of the hill climbs, and the tens of thousands of people who turned out for the day to cheer us on made such a difference.
"I started off with a couple of friends, but left them behind after a couple of kilometres as I didn't fancy going that slowly. It was nice to have the solitude to take it all in during the race."
Mr Gillon can still be sponsored at justgiving.com/Tom-GILLON1