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T-SQL is a declarative programming language. This means that a T-SQL developer defines what (s)he wants the query to do, not how to do it. The secret sauce that turns the "what" into the "how" is a piece of software called the query optimiser and there are tomes dedicated to how one can make the query optimiser dance to their will. Generally the existence of a query optimiser is a good thing as in most cases it will do a better job of figuring out the "how" than a human being could*.
SSIS dataflows on the other hand are an imperative programming language**, the data integration developer dataflow builds a data pipeline to move data exactly as (s)he desires it to happen. In SSIS, There is no equivalent of the query optimiser.
I've often pondered whether there is an opportunity for someone to build a declarative data pipeline, that is, a method for a data integration developer to define what data should be moved rather than how to move it. Over the last few months I've come to the realisation that Power Query (formerly known as Data Explorer) actually fits that description pretty well. If you don't believe me go and read Matt Masson's blog post Filtering in Data Explorer in which he talks about query folding:
[Power Query] will automatically push filters directly to the source query Even though we selected the full table in the UI before hiding the columns certain columns, we can see the source query only contains the columns we want "filters" aren't the only type of query folding that Data Explorer can do. If you watch the queries, you'll see that other operations, such as column removal, renaming, joins, and type conversions are pushed as close to the source as possible.
[Power Query] will automatically push filters directly to the source query
Even though we selected the full table in the UI before hiding the columns certain columns, we can see the source query only contains the columns we want
"filters" aren't the only type of query folding that Data Explorer can do. If you watch the queries, you'll see that other operations, such as column removal, renaming, joins, and type conversions are pushed as close to the source as possible.
Let's not idly dismiss this. Query folding is very impressive and is (I think) analogous to predicate pushdown that is done by the query optimiser (for more on predicate pushdown read Nested Views, Performance, and Predicate Pushdown by Dave Wentzel). Does Power Query then have the equivalent of a query optimiser? I would say yes, it does although its more accurate to say that its the underlying query language called M for which this query optimiser exists!
So, we have a declarative data integration language which is surfaced in Power Query and hence can only (currently) push data into an Excel spreadsheet. Imagine if M were extended were extended into a fully-fledged data integration tool that could move data between any heterogeneous source, would that constitute "declarative ETL" and is there a need for such a tool?
I'll leave that one out there for you to ponder. Comments would be most welcome.
*OK, you might debate whether the query optimiser can do a better job than a human but let's save that for another day.
**We can debate whether or not SSIS dataflows are a programming language or not but again, let's save that for another day. For the purposes of this discussion just go with me, OK.
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I've come to have the idea the declarative programming is THE way for the future.
For example I'd love to be able, in the future, to ask to a tool/system to "Add a dimension x to the DWH y, using the source view z".
While this is somehow doable right now, it requires A LOT of effort in defining and maintain metadata, templates and custom-made tools.
I'm really dreaming of such world since it will make IT MUCH more appealing to the business!
Interesting idea Davide. Its a bit of a digression from the post above but...I'm kinda doing something similar on my current project. Every time a new table gets introduced into our DWH we (effectively) click a button and generate some stored procedures/views/functions that are required to load data from the staging table into that table in the warehouse.
We generate a stored proc to take care of surrogate key generation (for dimension tables), surrogate key lookup (for facts and snowflaked dimensions) and SCD management.
We generate a "transform" stored proc with a big comment block in it saying /*IMPLEMENT THE MAPPING HERE*/. The code for everything else (lookups, SCD management) is generated based on known metadata.
Its been a great success. I never want to not implement data warehouse ETL in this way ever again.
Is that the sort of thing you had in mind?
Yeah, exactly. We also did something very similar in-house (something has been also released to the public):
but of course is just a small piece of work. Maybe M can be the way since is, by all means, a metalanguage? Power Query is nice but very limited IMHO...a deep integration with SSIS would be a very nice surprise :)
"a deep integration with SSIS would be a very nice surprise"
Indeed it would. I hope the right people get to read this :)
This seems like a good idea to start something like an SSIS or even MDX query engine on top of Drill (or Hadoop for that matter).
Declarative ETL would certainly be nice.
You can sort of build it now yourself, but it requires indeed a lot of coding effort upfront. For example, we build a flat file loader, where you just had to enter a line into a table specifying name, location, type of flat file, and it would get loaded automatically into the database. Required a lot of coding first, but it will pay off in future projects, where we will be able to do the import of source data in one day, instead of a few weeks.
Jamie, the declarative ETL you are doing today via stored procedure would make a great blog post. I know you've talked about the merge statement and composable DML in past post so bringing it all together for a declarative ETL solution would be interesting. I'm doing something very similar to I'm eager to compare notes.


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Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?
Or do you prefer the more modern appellation, gay?
Most likely, the latter. While gays and lesbians have adopted and discarded many names over the years — "uranian " becomes a historical footnote, while "queer " undergoes a progressive retrofitting — most homosexuals have come to agree that one of the last things they want to be called is "homosexual. "
So when Rick Rosendall of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) submitted a letter to the Washington Times criticizing another writer's linking of male homosexuality to pedophilia, he definitely meant to use the word "gay. "
"I simply treat 'gay' as a synonym for homosexual, " Rosendall says. "[H]omosexual just sounds clinical, and the more common usage for a long time has been 'gay.' "
But when his letter appeared in the January 8 Times, "gay " had been changed to "homosexual. " When he protested that the change fundamentally altered his meaning, letters editor Matthew Rarey responded in e-mail, "Per The Times' policy against Orwellian abuse of the English language, the euphemism 'gay' is not used to describe the homosexual lifestyle. "
Rosendall, who says that as recently at 2001 a letter of his ran in the Times without the word "gay " being changed, doesn't understand why the Times would want to make such a change in a letter.
"It makes the Times look petty and silly and desperate, " he says. "They should be confident enough that they don't have to twist my words, since they have all the space they want. "
Rarey maintains that the change was simply part of the newspaper's editorial policy.
"Because the Washington Times uses only sturdy English, " Rarey says via e-mail, "this paper avoids using what Mencken described as 'greasy, meaningless words.' Thus, the word gay — which, according to the OED, has meant mirthful since Middle English — is not used as a euphemistic synonym for homosexuals or homosexuality, except in quote marks. "
It is the policy of the Washington Times to use the term "homosexual " in news stories except for when "gay " is part of a direct quote, according to managing editor Francis Coombs of the paper's news division.
Coombs says that while he can't comment on the contents of the editorial and commentary pages, the style guide in the news division is based on the idea of "preservation of the language " from faddish changes that come and go, and not because of any bias against gays and lesbians.
"If people think bias is [the reason], I can't help that, " Coombs says. "We've certainly had gay and lesbian staffers here. [Bias is] not where we're coming from. "
Editorial page editor Tony Blankley declined to comment.
Even with the presence of gay and lesbian reporters, as well as friendly editors over the years, Cathy Renna of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) says that the Times remains "a newspaper with a long, long history of not just unfair coverage, but defamatory editorial policy on gays and lesbians. "
The Times commentary pages have provided a regular and welcoming home for such famously anti-gay columnists as Pat Buchanan, Cal Thomas and Maggie Gallagher. But it also runs pieces by gay writer Andrew Sullivan, whose defense of gay men from blanket charges of pedophilia from the anti-gay right was the original impetus of the current round of letters.
"They run excepts from my blog each week, " says Sullivan. "I've not yet seen any changes of that sort. "
Sullivan says he uses both "homosexual " and "gay " interchangeably, depending on the context and readability, but doesn't understand the reluctance to use "gay. "
"I think objecting to the term 'gay' is bizarre, " he says. "It's not a fad. It's been around for years and years. The key is linguistic honesty and simplicity. "
Most large papers have changed their style guides to allow the use of "gay " in place or along with "homosexual. " The Associated Press Stylebook accepts the use of "gay " as a "popular synonym for both male and female homosexuals. " The Washington Post further delineates the usage in its style guide, encouraging the use of "gay " in many situations.
"Gay is generally preferred to homosexual, " says the Post guide. "Homosexual should be reserved for a clinical or biological context. Be wary of using homosexual as a noun. In certain contexts, it can be seen as a slur. "
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"You choose your battles, " says Renna. "But the sad reality is that the Washington Times is a newspaper that's not going to change any time soon. "
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According to WebMD, approximately 45 million Americans suffer from chronic headaches, and of them, 28 million suffer from migraines.(1) A migraine headache is a neurologic disorder characterized by reduced cerebral blood flow. They are marked by periodic, usually one-sided pulsing headaches with or without aura and light and noise sensitivity or nausea.(1)
A 2003 medical study testing migraine sufferers for celiac disease showed that 4.4% had the disorder.(2) That would equate to more than 1.2 million migraine sufferers in the US having celiac disease. A study screening neurologic disorders in children and young adults with celiac disease demonstrated that 35.5% of migraine patients had classical early infantile enteropathic celiac disease and 64.5% presented with late-onset symptoms, showing malabsorption did not play a significant role in the pathogenesis.(2)
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American Enterprise Institute scholar and former White House counsel Peter Wallison says JPMorgan's $2 billion trading blunder is not a reason to break up large banks.
In the immediate aftermath of last week's $2 billion trading loss, both conservative and liberal voices have been heard calling for tighter regulation, but Wallison, in an interview with AdvisorOne and in a recent blog post, is swimming upstream amid the clamor to implement the Volcker Rule.
The Volcker Rule, a controversial part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul that is to take effect beginning in July, bans proprietary trading by commercial banks. But Wallison, who served as general counsel to the U.S. Treasury in the 1980s, says the JPMorgan incident "demonstrates that the Volcker rule is unworkable because you can't tell the difference between a hedging strategy [which the Volcker Rule allows] and proprietary trading."
The Obama administration today called for tighter, though unspecified, regulation of banks, and Wallison's AEI colleague John Makin, in a separate blog post, said the JPMorgan trade indicated the necessity of implementing the Volcker Rule. (Makin could not be reached by AdvisorOne.) Former FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, told the Wall Street Journal Friday that regulators drafting Volcker Rule regulations should tighten the definition of hedging.
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In his blog, he added: "If the answer cannot be determined except by knowing all the circumstances surrounding a trade, and what was in the mind of the trader when the trade was put on, it is not suitable for a regulation." Wallison also noted in his blog that the failed JPMorgan trade was apparently a hedging trade explicitly allowed by the Volcker Rule rather than a speculative trade.
Apart from the Volcker Rule issue, Wallison did not see the JP Morgan trading blunder as reason to break up large banks.
He acknowledged that large banks "have competitive advantages over small banks because people believe they are too big to fail" as a result of which they "will get preferential funding" and "swallow up the small banks." But, he added, "what we don't know is what size banks have to be so that they are no longer considered by the regulators as too big to fail. If a $2 trillion bank is too big to fail, would a $1 trillion bank not be too big to fail?" he asked.
"I don't believe that just because a bank is large it is unmanageable," he added.
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Guillermo del Toro is getting his kaiju on once again, and we'll see the results in a few years—Pacific Rim 2 is coming in 2017.
April 7, 2017, to be specific. Del Toro is also working on an animated Pacific Rim series to be released before then.
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Up until now, I have only used the straight loom knitter for a simple scarf or two and as I wanted to do a lot more experimenting with my newly discovered wooly craft, I thought a project on a round loom would be just the thing to get me started. These little leg warmers were an experiment from the start, but I love how they turned out, and in the process I've now mastered a couple of new stitches and learnt a few tricks along the way.
As the leg warmers were to be used for an exercise/dance class for a child, I didn't want to have the yarn too thick, so chose a baby weight 4ply wool, which has the added bonus of being available in the soft pastel colours that are so prevelant in ballet class leotards. I used 4 x 50g balls of Bella Baby 50% Merino Superwash and chose 2 in lilac and 2 in baby pink and the 24 pin loom/knifty knitter. The leg warmers are knitted with two strands of wool at a time.
I wanted to start with rib stitch and found the instructions on youtube (which were actually for the brim of a hat, but worked very well for the leg warmers). The video is a series of 2 and takes you from casting on through to forming the actual rib stitch and although Dawn is demonstrating a knit 2, purl 2 rib, it perfectly shows how to do each stitch and is easily amended for a knit 1, purl 1 rib.
Using 2 strands of colour 1, work 10 cm (approx 4 inches) of knit 1, purl 1 rib stitch
When I first started what would eventually be 10cm of rib stitch, I was quite dismayed at the amount of time it took to complete just one row. The purl stitch in particular is quite time consuming on the loom and I was tempted to put the loom away and get out my trusty old knitting needles instead. Once I saw the result though, I completely changed my mind. The rib stitch combined with the soft 4ply wool gave a wonderful "shabby chic" look that I simply adore. In fact , I'm thinking my next project will be done entirely in rib - I just can't seem to get enough of it. One thing I found useful is to always make the first peg to the right (or left if you are right handed) of the small stick out peg on the rim, a knit stitch. I had to undo the rib twice as everytime I had a break and went back to work, I chose the wrong stitch to start on and ended up with something that didn't look anything like rib!!
Once you have completed the rib, pull the initial "cast on" stitches over the loom pegs (ensuring the the rib rows line up) and work as per a normal knit row by pulling the lower stitch over the upper stitch.
I wanted the bottom rib of the leg warmers to form a cuff, as the dancer they are being made for has
Using colour 1, purl one row
Knitting the purl row first ensures that the item is knitted inside out on the loom. When changing colours for stripes, it's then a simple matter of looping the 4 strands (two different colourways) over each other, as shown, to produce a neat finish.
Using colour 1, knit one row (using e-wrap stitch as shown in video)
I chose garter stitch (one row purl, one row knit) to give the main body of the leg warmers a bit of texture and bulk.
*Using Colour 2 - purl 1 row, knit 1 row
Using Colour 1 - purl 1 row, knit 1 row, purl 1 row, knit 1 row*
Continue pattern from * to * until work contains 8 pink stripes
Using colour 1 - Purl 1 row, Knit 1 row
Work 10 cm (approx 4 inches) of knit 1, purl 1 rib stitch
Cast off.
I didn't make the top rib into a cuff, but left it as a 10cm piece of rib so that the dancer can fold it, or not, as she pleases. Our leg warmers have a total length of 45cm (approx 18 inches) but can be made shorter or longer depending on how many stripes you include in the main garter stitch section. To cast off, I found this video particularly helpful.
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Pizza Obsessives: James W. Schulman (aka 'jamesws')
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With frequent My Pie Monday submissions, you've most likely already seen some of the pies from jamesws. Now meet the Slice regular behind the home pizza-making magic.—MS
Name: James Wieselman Schulman
Location: Evanston (Chicago)
Occupation: Strategist
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What type of pizza do you prefer?
Well-made ones. I am a thin crust guy, even though I live in Chicago. I agree with the Great One (Ed) that deep-dish pizza isn't pizza...it's a casserole.
The Pizza Cognition Theory states that "the first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes ... becomes, for him, pizza." Do you remember your first slice? Where was it from, is the place still around, and if so, does it hold up? On that note, has your taste in pizza evolved over time?
I'm the youngest of three boys, so my childhood was basically forgotten. However, the story goes that one day, when I was still a baby, my mom was driving home with a takeout pizza next to me and I kept reaching for it. So she said, "Well, it won't kill him." That was my first solid food and I've been hooked ever since.
Though I don't know exactly where it was from, I'm sure it was thin, New York style. I grew up outside of Boston, in Wellesley. At the time, there were about a dozen pizza places—half of them Greek and the rest New York style. I was always a fan of Danny's (New York style). Unfortunately, it no longer exists.
I have always been a thin crust guy. I have a long-standing argument with my mother-in-law—she thinks Malnati's makes the best pizza (besides mine), while I wouldn't waste the calories on their deep-dish pies.
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The Rosa (red onion, Parmigiano, and pistachios) at Bianco was fabulous. I make a lot of white pies with garlic and hot peppers, which is always a crowd-pleaser.
Where do you go for pizza in your area?
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Oh we've definitely seen some of your amazing pizzas. So what are you working with recipe-wise at home these days?
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So what do you think should NEVER go on a pizza?
We don't eat meat, so that's out for us, but I have no issue with it. I think shrimp is a little weird with cheese, but anything is possible if done right.
Weirdest pizza you've ever eaten?
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Yikes! That sounds prickly. Did you get stung?
I did get a couple stings before putting on gloves.
What is the farthest you've traveled for pizza?
We lived in Madrid a few years ago, and on our way to Tucson to visit family, we stopped over in Boston. Directly upon landing from London, we met friends at the original Pizzeria Regina in the North End.
That certainly speaks to where your loyalties lie in the Santarpio's/Regina's divide. What is it that you like most about Regina's?
I was never much of a Santarpio's fan. As for Regina's, I think it's just one of those balance things. Its not too sweet, cheesy, charred, or salty. It has that New York style bend, but it is its own thing. It's made with love, passion, and great ingredients and it's simple but comes together to balance the flavors in a way few places can pull off for years.
What do your friends and family think of your pizza madness?
Oh, they love it! So much so that my in-laws put in a pizza oven so that I, I mean they, can make pies more easily.
Whoa, if only all son-in-laws were so lucky! Who would you like to see interviewed next?
Nick Lessins from Great Lake in Chicago.
Yeah, I should probably go in person for that one. Good call! Thanks, James, for taking the time to tell us a little bit more about yourself. Can't wait to see what you pull out of the oven next!
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SOATEST - How to assert on blank values
I am using SOATest (9.9) and in my JSON response I am asserting on an element (status) which can have a value or null value. I am trying to assert this against my datasource column 'status'.
I added the below assertions in this case and did the below:
1) Added a Value Assertion for the element 'status' and parameterized it to refer to the data source spreadsheet column.
2) Added another Fixed Value Assertion for the element 'status' and added value as blank and saved it.
3)Added a Conditional assertion and added the Assertion #2 to my "If Assertion" section and then Assertion #1 to "Then Assertion" section and saved it.
When I run the test its ignoring this above assertion and passing my test everytime no matter what I give in the status column in my datacolumn spreadsheet.
Am I doing something wrong here ?
Hi Testuser,
Does an empty element represent a null value or no element in the response? If no element in the response in the response represents a null value, you want to use Occurrence Assertion. If no value in the element represents a null value, you want to use Has Content Assertion. Please let me know if this helps.1
In my response the element comes back with no value against it . Something like as below:
"clientTypeCode": "ORG",
"status": ""
I used 'Has Content Assertion' and parameterized it to refer to the data source spreadsheet column 'status' and after running it gives me an error as below:
Has Content Assertion../status could not be located or did not contain text content.
This is the error I was getting when I was using value Assertion too.0
jakubiak Posts: 684 admin
Hmm that's strange. I'm able to use the Has Content Assertion parameterized against a column that has the values true or false, and it does what I expect.0
Hi Testuser,
What is your build id and full version?
To get version and build id:0
Build id # 2016-06-01-2046
Version : 18.104.22.168606010
Hi jakubiak,
My datasource column 'status' has a valid (non null) value for first row/ scenario.
For the second row/scenation the column has blank value. This is where SOATEST is failing with "Has Content Assertion../status could not be located or did not contain text content."0
Just to clarify I am getting the error "Has Content Assertion../status could not be located or did not contain text content." whenever the response looks like this:
"clientTypeCode": "ORG",
"status": ""
Whenever the response has a valid value for 'status' element like as below,then my assertion is not an issue.:
"clientTypeCode": "ORG",
"status": "PEND"
I want to know which assertion to use to assert for blank/null values in the response .0
Does anyone has any update on my question? Appreciate your help!0
Hi Testuser,
could you post your Xpath from JSON Assertor?
I have tested it with Parasoft Virtualize and SOAtest and I see expected behavior with your example:
{ "clientTypeCode": "ORG", "status": "" }
gives me:
Has Content Assertion: Element "../status" was expected to have content
Could you also publish your tst file?
Just attach it to this thread.1
Hi Ireneusz,
My scenario is I am expecting blank value for 'status' element for one of my scenario and I expect my test not to fail if it returns blank value and how do I handle through assertion? So I am asserting my 'status' element in the response against 'status' column in my datasource sheet and this datasource sheet has 2 rows/scenarios. For the first scenario, 'status' (expected value for 'status element) column has a value 'PEND' and when SOATest runs this scenario then the test passes as the 'status' element comes back with 'PEND" value . For the second scenario,'status' column has no value in the datasource sheet and when SOATest runs this scenario then the test fails saying '"Has Content Assertion../status did not contain text content." because the response had blank value for 'status' element. How can I have an assertion against an element which will work for both null/blank and non blank values ?0
Could you check if following assertion works for one of your cases?
Do not parametrize it at the beginning.
Has Content assertion expects to get true or false, so in your data source you have to add column which contains true or false for particular case, and then parametrize it in JSON Assertor.0
I tried it so , now it shows the below error for both the scenarios
DataSource: Models (row 1): Has Content Assertion1: Element "../status" was expected to be empty
DataSource: Models (row 2): Has Content Assertion1: Element "../status" was expected to be empty
My response was as below for row 1 and row 2 respectively:
Response for row1:
Response for row2:
If you want to create assertion to check content and also validate the content itself, you have to add Compound Assertion.
i.e. check if status is not empty AND you have expected string/value0
Well this compound assertion will work for my my first scenario where my element has a non blank value but it will fail for the second scenario where my element doesn't have a content/ or comes back blank.0
Then use Conditional Assertion.0
I used Conditional Assertion in the first place. Below are the steps I followed (am copy pasting the steps from my initial question in this thread):
1) Added a Value Assertion for the element 'status' and parameterized it to refer to the data source spreadsheet column.
2) Added another Fixed Value Assertion for the element 'status' and added value as blank and saved it.
3)Added a Conditional assertion and added the Assertion #2 to my "If Assertion" section and then Assertion #1 to "Then Assertion" section and saved it.
When I run the test its ignoring this above assertion and passing my test everytime no matter what I give in the status column in my datacolumn spreadsheet.0
But I think you have to check Has Content assertion in IF then check the value.
Has Content should be set with data source as true or false.
The column which you want to use in parametrization in Has Content should contain true/false.
Could you please attach your tst in this thread?0
Conditional assertion doesn't work for me as its simply ignoring the Then and is always passing my test, which is what I have said in my intial question.0
I think its a bug with Conditional Assertion in SOATEST where its passing the assertion always without looking at the Set if and Then Clause.0
According to documentation
Conditional Assertion: Enforce an assertion only if a condition is met (where
the condition is a combination of previously-defined assertions).
I have simple test with JSON Assertor:
and used data source
Works as expected.
See attached tst ( unzip it first and then import into SOAtest v9.9.5)1
Thanks Ireneusz. I had already tried this approach but the problem here is , its not actually asserting for non blank values properly. So in your example, for the value of test column 'My' if response has 'xyz' then also my test is passing , which shouldn't be the case. I agree Conditional assertion is taking care of not failing when its coming across blank values for 'status' in the response but at the same time its not truely asserting on the right value . For ex: if you change value of 'test' column for row#1 to '123444' and then run the test it will still pass. I hope am not confusing you.0
OmarR Posts: 227 admin
Hellooo Testuser,
It would extremely helpful if you could provide a sample .tst file to demonstrate where your current hurdle lies. Please attach a sample .tst file so that we can reproduce the behavior and give you some additional insight. Save the traffic in the traffic viewer!1
Hi Testuser,
I have changed row#1 and have expected result:
DataSource: Values (row 1): Conditional Assertion: For element "../status", actual value: My,
should equal expected value: 123444 with case sensitivity enforced
As OmaR said, please share tst and we will help you with your case.0
I have posted my comment but it says it will appear after its approved. Dont know what does that mean0
Attaching the tst file0
The only reason I was hesitant to share the tst file was because I had framed the scenario/question in simplistic way than what actually the real tst file is doing.
Anyways I've attached the sample tst file and the excel sheet which its using in the Data source .
Also in my tst file, I am trying to assert on 'statusCode' element(referred to Status in the earlier contexts) for different values of 'ExpectedIPList' column(maps to 'name' element in the response) .Also I have Status column as suggested by you which has 'true' value.
Just to make it clear In my Data sheet my row#1 has 'ExpectedStatus' column value as '123' and in the response its coming back as 'PEND' as below but still it passes:
Response looks like as below:
{"clientTypeCode":"IP","statusCode":"PEND","statusName":"Pending Approval","id":0,"name":"Auto_OZ_IP"}.
For row#2, 'ExpectedStatus' column value as '' value and in the response 'statusCode' is coming back as '' as below and response looks like as below:
Hope this helps to understand my problem better.0
Sorry about the multiple posts with the same thing . I was getting approval messages when I was submitting my initial post and submitted multiple times without knowing it did submit multiple times. Please excuse me0
Thomas Moore Posts: 77 admin
Hi Testuser,
No problem I approved the original post, but when I saw that you added in the stuff in two separate posts, I deleted the original. No harm done!1
Hi Testuser,
I have attached slightly changed tst.
I have changed xpath used to extract values from response.
It works in my environment as I'm using column requestUrl to iterate over your datasource.
I think that we have misunderstanding in this case as I think you expecting to use assertion with parametrization for any request ( let's say without order).
In my example I expecting that when I execute test I will get two requests with response order like this:
{"clientTypeCode":"IP","statusCode":"PEND","statusName":"Pending Approval","id":0,"name":"Auto_OZ_IP"}
So the only change you did in your attached zip file was to change the xpath query. I followed the same and did that change to remove parameterization from my Xpath (like you did ) and then ran and still it passed instead of failing for ExpectedStatus value as '123'. Also I anyways have to use parameterization to assert for the statusCode for a particular ExpectedIPList column value. I am not sure where am going wrong.0
In Traffic Viewer you should have a response from server with JSON for both request.
Compare that responses with Xpath.
I have examples working. If you have valid service contract ask for help on [email protected]0
Thanks, I created a case # 00061565 in the support site.0
Ramiro Martinez Posts: 53 admin
Hi guys,
Please make sure that the XPath for "has content" assertions point to an element and not to the value of the element.
Would return 123
Would return the entire element "a"
Has Content assertion expects an element not a value.1
dlab Posts: 1 ✭
Did you got a proper response to your problem? I am trying to do the same.
How can we assert against a datasource blank value and make sure the response has a blank value?
The provided solution only assert a value if it is not blank but does not confirm that that expected value is blank.0
dgoedh Posts: 36 ✭
Hi, I wonder if the problem in this discussion thread has already been solved in SOAtest 9.10.x, since I am currently validating a CSV file, which also contains some empty elements. I get the following error when an empty value is encountered:
Error Message:
DataSource: CSV Datasource (row 17): Has Content Assertion Value 13: Element "../value[13]" couldnot be located or did not contain text content
Additional Details:
Element "../value[13]" could not be located or did not contain text content,
Thus even with the "Has Content Assertion" expected outcome set to 'false'.
I also tried to create a custom assertion, to skip empty fields, but that does not work either yet.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
benken_parasoft Posts: 911 ✭✭✭
In the next release, default xpaths generated from the UI are now appended with /string() instead of /text() when creating Value Assertions, String Comparison Assertions and Regular Expression Assertions, so that empty string values would be supported out of the box. The Assertor tools were also updated to handle XPaths that return a string and not a Node. When the XPath ends with "text()" the XPath will fail to match anything if the element does not have a text node (an empty element). In contrast, the string() function will return an empty string in that case.
In the current release, you could consider manually adjusting XPaths used in extractions to use the string() function. Using string() function in Assertor tools won't work until next release.0


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Barclays offered an apology for its part in the scandal in a statement that came as the bank posted first-half profits beating analysts' estimates. In the statement, Chairman Marcus Agius said in part, "We are sorry for what has happened. However, our leadership continues to focus on the delivery of our financial performance targets."
According to the statement, the bank's pretax profits, excluding one-time charges, increased 13% to 4.23 billion pounds ($6.6 billion). In a Bloomberg analyst survey, profits were expected to come in at a median estimate of 3.9 billion pounds. Distancing itself from the scandal could be difficult, since the bank also revealed that it is the target of additional class-action suits in the U.S. focused on LIBOR rigging.
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The teen's body was found about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday — dumped down a steep embankment near the Fraser River in Chilliwack — and police say the social media websites she frequented may be key to finding her killer.
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"Rachel ... had a laugh like no other that could brighten anyone's mood," said her friend Rachel Allard.
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SANDY, Utah –The Real Salt Lake Reserves (2-1-2, 8 points, West #1) played USL Pro side Phoenix FC to a wild scoreless draw in front of a great crowd of 8,263 at Rio Tinto Stadium in MLS Reserve League play on Monday night.
Three players – Phoenix FC GK Andrew Weber and DF Renan Boueflour and Real Salt Lake DF Kwame Watson-Siriboe – were shown straight red cards and ejected from the game in first half stoppage time for their role in a melee. The scrum started just outside the Phoenix box following a RSL set play and involved numerous players from both sides.
RSL put Phoenix FC under siege following the ejections, holding a huge possession advantage and registering 24 total shots against the nine-man minor-league club. Despite that, the Claret-and-Cobalt couldn't tally a winner, struggling to find any openings near goal against the bunkered-in Phoenix defense.
"It's disappointing," RSL Reserves Head Coach Jeff Cassar said after the match. "You get the fan support that we had – and we wanted it to be a special night – and we just didn't come out with the energy we needed. [Phoenix FC] wanted it, their players all want our players' jobs and they played hungrier than we did and that's sad because we had a great crowd out there and we wanted to put on a good performance for them."
Real Salt Lake did come close to scoring on several occasions. MF Khari Stephenson had a good look in the first half, ripping a 40-yard free kick toward the bottom right corner that Weber blocked in the 27th minute. Substitute MF David Viana had a decent chance almost immediately after coming on in the 65th, driving a low shot from 25 yards just wide of the left post.
RSL's best look came in the 67th minute, when DF Carlos Salcedo collected a ball left of center and let fly from 20 yards, rocketing his driven shot inches over the crossbar at the top right corner. Viana had another long-range shot go wide in the 68th and Stephenson had a booming drive tipped out for a corner by substitute GK Sheldon Parkinson in the 79th. RSL pushed hard for a goal in the closing minutes of the match, but couldn't quite find the elusive winner.
Monday's game was a part of the groundbreaking partnership announced by MLS and USL Pro earlier this year. As part of the partnership, each MLS side that isn't directly affiliated with a USL Pro club will play a home-and-home Reserve League series against a team from the third-division league. The RSL Reserves will travel to Arizona for this series' return leg at Phoenix FC on June 15 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.
The Claret-and-Cobalt will return to MLS regular season action this Saturday, when it will host Western Conference rival L.A. Galaxy at 7:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium. A limited number of tickets are still available to Saturday's match and can be purchased at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office, online at www.RealSaltLake.com/Tickets or over the phone at 801-727-2700.
The RSL Reserves' next game is on Sunday against the L.A. Galaxy Reserves. Sunday's Reserve League match will kickoff at 11:00 a.m. MT at America First Field in Sandy and will be free to the public.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 0 0
Phoenix FC 0 0 0
Scoring Summary:
No goals
Misconduct Summary:
PHX – Renan Boueflour (Straight Red; Fighting) – 45+'
PHX – Andrew Weber (Straight Red; Fighting) – 45+'
RSL – Kwame Watson-Siriboe (Straight Red; Fighting) – 45+'
PHX – Travis Bowen (Foul) – 64'
PHX – Diego Faria (Dissent) – 81'
Match Stats:
Shots: Real Salt Lake 24-4 Phoenix FC
Shots on Goal: Real Salt Lake 4-2 Phoenix FC
Saves: Real Salt Lake 2-4 Phoenix FC
Fouls: Real Salt Lake 7-10 Phoenix FC
Corners: Real Salt Lake 10-0 Phoenix FC
Offside: Real Salt Lake 1-1 Phoenix FC
Real Salt Lake Reserves (4-1-2-1-2) – Lalo Fernandez (Jeff Attinella, 46'); Abdoulie Mansally (Rich Balchan, 69'), Kwame Watson-Siriboe (Ejected), Carlos Salcedo, Chris Wingert (C); Enzo Martinez (Aaron Maund, 41'); John Stertzer, Khari Stephenson; Sebastian Velasquez; Robbie Findley (Devon Sandoval, 46'), Joao Plata (David Viana, 65')
Substitutes Not Used: Josh Saunders (GK)
Phoenix FC (4-4-2) – Andrew Weber (C) (Ejected); Netinho (Reid Schmitt, 77'), Renan Boufleur (Ejected), Cyprian Hendrick, Donny Toia; Anthony Obodai, Scott Morrison, Jose Ramos (Sheldon Parkinson – GK – 45+), Diego Faria; Travis Bowen (Thomas Ramos, 86'), Aaron King (Elliot Weber, 39'; Peabo Doue, 68')
Substitutes Not Used: Bradley Keller, Cameron Vickers
Referee: Tyler Ploeger
Assistant Referees: Colin Arblaster, Brad Jensen
Fourth Official: Mitch Lillywhite
Attendance: 8,263


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Car Talk and Narcolepsy
Dear Tom and Ray:
I've been listening to your show for 15 years. I've learned a lot about cars, and even went on a blind date through your show. But that's another letter!
I'm married now, and my wife can always tell when I'm listening to Car Talk by my rather loud snoring. I listen to the show online, in my home office. Usually, I listen to it in the evening when I'm tired from a long day at work. It helps me to relax...well, maybe too much!
It doesn't matter if I'm lying on a bean bag on the floor, or sitting at my desk...I always seem to fall asleep and saw logs. It's not unusual for me to have to play the show three or four times (starting from the last thing I remember) to hear the whole thing.
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has this problem. If possible, could you please play a loud sound effect of an alarm clock going off before each call? That way I'll be able to spend less time playing the show over and over, and have more time to watch reruns of "Knight Rider." Thanks, guys!!
Sincerely Yours,
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Cosart happy to have brothers close this spring
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Astros pitcher Jarred Cosart got a little help from teammate Brett Oberholtzer to send both of his younger brothers to college in Florida.
At the suggestion of Oberholtzer, Jake and Jansen Cosart are both enrolled and playing this spring at Seminole State College in Sanford, which is about 50 miles north of Kissimmee. Oberholtzer pitched at Seminole State before getting drafted by the Braves in 2008.
Last year, Cosart and his father went with Oberholtzer to eat, and Oberholtzer asked about Cosart's brothers. Jake was a freshman pitcher at Duke who was looking to transfer, and Jansen was an infielder and senior at Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas.
"They went through a staff change at Duke and I said, 'Well, the junior college I went to is always looking for guys like this to transfer,'" Oberholtzer said. "The weather and facilities are amazing, and it's 40 miles down the road. I basically told his dad, 'Hey, if they're serious about looking into a junior college, there really is no better place than Florida.'"
Both of Cosart's brothers flew to Florida to work out at the college, and they eventually enrolled.
"They flew out there for a visit the next week and loved it," Cosart said. "It's pretty cool how it worked out. My family and I were really thankful, especially that they're enjoying it so much and, obviously, the opportunity for them was huge."
Now his brothers are so close, the Cosart boys hope to spend some time together this spring.
"It will be easier when we get the game schedule going and I know when I'm going to be throwing," Cosart said. "It's great they're at this school. They can always call me and they talk to Obie and [pitcher Josh] Zeid and some of the other guys I'm close with. It's great for them. They'll be out here at some point this spring, because that's their ultimate goal -- to play in the big leagues."


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With MLS Rivalry Week on the horizon, Dynamo fans can once again get excited about another #TexasDerby with FC Dallas. Although the rivalry has diminished in recent years with Houston's move to the Eastern Conference in 2011, Sunday's match is one that fans and players have marked on their calendars since the schedule was released in January.
So with that said, we take a look at the seven players who have seen both sides of the rivalry, having doned both the Dynamo orange and the hoops of Dallas during their playing careers.
Brad Davis
OK, so he played for the Dallas Burn before the Earthquakes picked up and moved to Houston, but the Dynamo's all-time leader in games played, games started and assists has been a pivotal member of the rivalry over the past seven years. Davis played 55 MLS games for Dallas and tallied eight goals and seven assists before heading to San Jose and eventually Houston.
With the Dynamo, Davis has won two MLS Cup titles and has played in 241 games in all competitions with 88 career assists. Davis has also been a menace against his former club, tallying five regular season assists as well as the final goal of Houston's 4-1 playoff victory over Dallas on Nov. 2, 2007.
Richard Mulrooney
Few players can match Mulrooney when it comes to consistency in MLS. The veteran mifielder, with 285 regular season games to his name, spent two seasons with Dallas and four with the Dynamo during his 12-year career. During his stints with the Earthquakes and Dynamo, Mulrooney was a force against Dallas, tallying one goal and nine assists
Adrian Serioux
The Canadian defender turned broadcaster makes history as the only player to have played for Houston, gone to Dallas and then come back to Houston. After helping the Dynamo to the MLS Cup in 2006, Serioux was selected by Toronto FC in the MLS expansion draft and quickly traded to FC Dallas. The 6-foot defender spent two years on the Dallas back line before heading back to Toronto and making his way back to Houston for his final season in MLS.
Ronald Cerritos
Along with Davis, Cerritos is one of the most accomplished players to don both uniforms after he finished his MLS career with 71 goals and 57 assists. The Salvadoran striker spent 2002 and 2003 with the Dallas Burn, tallying seven goals and seven assists before finishing his MLS career with the Dynamo in 2006. Cerritos lasted only half a season in orange before he was released in August 2006.
Dominic Oduro
Without a doubt the fastest man on this list, the Ghanaian speedster broke into MLS up I-45, playing 70 MLS games over three seasons with FC Dallas. After a brief stint with the New York Red Bulls, Oduro found his way to Houston and spent two season (plus one game) in orange. With seven goals and 12 assists in 44 regular season games in Houston, Oduro was a critical member of the Dynamo squad that advanced to the 2009 Western Conference Championship.
Je-Vaughn Watson
Watson gets the honor of being the only player in history to be involved in a trade between the Dynamo and FC Dallas. The Jamaican international played more than 40 games in Houston before the Dynamo traded the midfielder to Dallas prior to the 2013 season. Watson's role in the battle for El Capitan is TBD.
Abe Thompson
Can you really include a player who only appeared once for Houston? Sure you can. Thompson spent four seasons in Dallas before a mid-season trade in 2008 brought him to Kansas City. After 16 games in Kansas City, Thompson was sent to the Dynamo in exchange for striker Kei Kamara. Thompson makes history as the only player on this list to score for Dallas against the Dynamo, tallying one goal and one assist in seven career games.


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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby
This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
Rosetta passed over the ocean, just South of the Indonesian island of Java, at exactly 08:45:40 CET, at a speed of 13.34 km/s with respect to Earth at an altitude of 2481 km. The swingby was pre-planned and fully automated, and the spacecraft was in direct communication with Earth at the time, via the ESA New Norcia Station.
The successful swingby was confirmed at 09:05 CET when mission controllers re-established contact with Rosetta via ESA's Maspalomas station in Spain. Although a detailed analyses is in progress, spacecraft operators have confirmed that the swingby provided a boost of 3.6 km/s.
Europe's comet chaser has now flown a little over 4500 million km of its 7100 million km journey to its destination comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This was Rosetta's fourth planetary swingby and the third and final swingby of Earth.
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Some of Rosetta's instruments have been on since early November, performing imaging, magnetospheric, and atmospheric observations, as well as looking for water on the Moon. The first round of images and data recorded just before and during the swingby will be downloaded later today.
Rosetta is now departing Earth to meet asteroid (21) Lutetia in July 2010. It has gained sufficient orbital energy to achieve its final goal: a rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. The spacecraft is scheduled to enter deep-space hibernation by mid 2011 for the coldest leg of her journey to receive a wake up call only in spring 2014.
For additional details on today's swingby access the Rosetta Blog (esa.int/blog)
For more information:
Andrea Accomazzo, ESA Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager
Email: Andrea.Accomazzo @ esa.int
Gerhard Schwehm, ESA Rosetta Mission Manager
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|July 08, 2013
Link between beetle kill and forest fires draws closer look
|Colorado's 4.3 million acres of beetle-decimated forests represent a catastrophe in the making during another devastating wildfire season.
Or do they?
That is the conventional wisdom as another summer unfolds with destructive blazes that have left skies along the Front Range choked with smoke, but the reality is not so simple.
"The issue is not will beetle-kill forests burn -- they certainly will," said Monica Turner, a University of Wisconsin professor who has done extensive research of wildfires in the West. "The question is, are they burning worse -- more severely -- than if the forest was green?"
And the answer to that question is a matter of ongoing scientific debate, wrapped in factors that include the amount of time that has passed since the beetles did their damage, the number of trees that survived the infestation, other species of plants in the area and weather patterns.
"This is a field of study that we just don't have all the answers for," said Matt Jolly, a researcher at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Montana whose work has looked extensively at the way plants burn in wildfires.
Once-green hills, now painted red
Anyone who has spent any time in the Colorado high country has seen the damage done by mountain pine beetles -- vast swaths of formerly green forested hills painted red, or gray, by dying and dead trees.
The most recent count by the Colorado State Forest Service showed 3.35 million acres affected by the mountain pine beetle and 924,000 acres attacked by a different bug, the spruce beetle.
An I-News examination of state maps found that hundreds of thousands of those acres are in the so-called "red zones" -- the high-fire danger areas primarily along Colorado's Front Range and up the Interstate 70 corridor. State officials use a number of factors to determine what constitutes a red zone, including development (primarily homes), the type of vegetation in the area and the slope of the land.
So as the West Fork Complex fires continue to burn in the beetle-kill pocked forests of southwest Colorado, and as the state reels from blazes like the ones that destroyed 511 homes in the Black Forest, it's tempting to look at all the dying, dead and decaying trees attacked by beetles and conclude that massive wildfires pose a real threat to all affected areas sooner or later.
Not so fast, according to some of those who have dedicated years to studying the ways that trees and other vegetation burn in wildfires.
Today's forests are vastly different than those of previous centuries. A century of aggressive firefighting efforts have left many areas overgrown and choked with downed and dead trees. Added to that, development has left many forested areas peppered with homes and parts of the West are experiencing prolonged, even historic drought. So the propensity for big, destructive fires is a near constant. Those conditions fuel blazes known as "crown fires," which burn through the tops of the trees as if they were torches, spreading rapidly and generating tremendous heat.
Those massive, fast-moving fires -- like the Black Forest blaze last month north of Colorado Springs, where some beetle-kill trees were present -- make for mesmerizing television and are the subject of extensive research.
Turner and researcher Jesse Logan, a former U.S. Forest Service scientist and college professor, are among those who believe that beetle-kill forests go through a predictable cycle -- one in which they are at times much less-volatile than green forests. It starts with a beetle infestation, and it will take three or four years for the bugs to inflict all the damage they will on a section of forest. The trees in that stage turn red -- and there's little dispute those needles are highly combustible. But over the next couple years, the needles fall to the ground and begin to decompose.
"The overall trend would be that immediately after trees are killed and they still have all those fine fuels, needles in particular, on the tree, then it's highly flammable, probably more flammable than a green forest," Logan said. "But after those needles fall and that can be, like in lodgepole, a couple years after the tree is killed, then the standing forest is actually less likely to lead to a crown fire than a green forest."
The reason? Green needles contain oils that are highly flammable.
But that strange juxtaposition -- that green, seemingly healthy forests might burn with more fury than dead ones -- is difficult for many people to comprehend.
"I think that one of the reasons that this seems counter-intuitive to people in terms of its affect on fire is that when we burn a fire in our fireplace, we put dead logs in there -- we don't put green branches," Turner said. "But in a forest fire it's those green needles that are extremely flammable, and that's what gives you the amounts of fuel up in the canopy in the forest and its conductivity."
Forces of nature we can't control
One of the difficulties in getting answers is that it has been difficult to build realistic fire models to examine the effect of beetle-kill trees. At the same time, studies that have looked at actual fires in beetle-kill areas are still in the review process, and the results have not been made public.
Still, Jolly, the Montana researcher, cautioned against assuming that a forest will be less burnable six years after being hit by beetles because the trees no longer have their needles. His research has shown that dead, red needles burn faster and hotter than green ones -- but that's only part of the reason for being circumspect.
"It's just not that simple," he said. "A standing gray tree, particularly one like a spruce, will have a lot of really, really fine dead branches. It may not have needles, but it will have those fine branches that will also burn and support a crown fire."
In addition, even areas with heavy beetle-kill have some trees that survive, and many have other kinds of trees mixed in among those that die.
And then there's another huge factor: the combination of weather and climate.
Logan pointed to the massive Yellowstone fires of 1988, which took down every kind of forest -- beetle-kill and green alike.
"It all burned, just because conditions were so volatile," he said. "In any situation, what's driving it is fuel -- you've got to have fuel. And the fuel can be green, red, gray, or gray on the ground, and if the weather conditions are right, and you get a lightning strike or some idiot with a match, it's going to go. And if the weather conditions are like they've been in Colorado these past few years, or like they were in '88, it's going to go big, regardless of what anybody can do.
"As humans, we have this idea that we can control nature, and we often can -- we turn on the air conditioner and things like that. But these are forces of nature you're not going to control."


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