They should be back by now.” Egwene fluttered the painted silk fan vigorously, glad the nights were at least a little cooler than the days. Tairen women carried the fans all the time—the nobles, at least, and the wealthy—but as far as she could see they did no good at all except when the sun was down, and not much then. Even the lamps, great golden, mirrored things on silvered wall brackets, seemed to add to the heat. “What can be keeping them?” An hour, Moiraine had promised them, for the first time in days, and then she had left without explanation after a bare five minutes. “Did she give any hint of why they wanted her, Aviendha? Or who wanted her, for that matter?”
Seated cross-legged on the floor beside the door, large green eyes startling in her dark tanned face, the Aiel woman shrugged. In coat and breeches and soft boots, shoufa looped about her neck, she appeared unarmed. “Careen whispered her message to Moiraine Sedai. It would not have been proper to listen. I am sorry, Aes Sedai.”
Guiltily, Egwene fingered the Great Serpent ring on her right hand, the golden serpent biting its own tail. As an Accepted, she should have been wearing it on the third finger of her left hand, but letting the High Lords believe that they had four full Aes Sedai inside the Stone kept them on their best manners, or what passed for manners among Tairen nobles. Moiraine did not lie, of course; she never said they were more than Accepted. But she never said they were Accepted, either, and let everyone think what they wanted to think, believe what they thought they saw. Moiraine could not lie, but she could make truth dance a fine jig.
It was not the first time Egwene and the others had pretended to full sisterhood since leaving the Tower, but more and more she felt uncomfortable deceiving Aviendha. She liked the Aiel woman, thought they could be friends if they could ever come to know one another; but that hardly seemed possible as long as Aviendha thought Egwene was Aes Sedai. The Aiel woman was there only at Moiraine’s order, issued for unspoken purposes of her own. Egwene suspected it was to give them an Aiel bodyguard, as if they had not learned to protect themselves. Still, even if she and Aviendha did become friends, she could not tell her the truth. The best way to keep a secret was to make sure no one knew who did not absolutely have to know. Another point Moiraine had made. Sometimes Egwene found herself wishing the Aes Sedai could be wrong, glaring wrong, just once. In a way that would not mean disaster, of course. That was the rub.
“Tanchico,” Nynaeve muttered. Her dark, wrist-thick braid hung down her back to her waist as she stared out of one of the narrow windows, casements swung out in the hope of catching a night breeze. On the broad River Erinin below bobbed the lanterns of a few fishing boats that had not ventured down river, but Egwene doubted she saw them. “There is nothing for it but to go to Tanchico, it seems.” Nynaeve gave an unconscious hitch to her green dress, with its wide neck that bared her shoulders; she did that a good deal. She would have denied wearing the dress for Lan, Moiraine’s Warder—she would have if Egwene had dared make the suggestion—but green, blue and white seemed to be Lan’s favorite colors on women, and every dress that was not green, blue or white had vanished from Nynaeve’s wardrobe. “Nothing for it.” She did not sound happy.
Egwene caught herself giving an upward tug to her own dress. They felt odd, these dresses that just clung to the shoulders. On the other hand, she did not believe she could bear to be more covered. Light as it was, the pale red linen felt like wool. She wished she could bring herself to wear the filmy gowns Berelain wore. Not that they were suitable for public eyes, but they certainly did appear to be cool.
Stop fretting over comfort, she told herself sternly. Keep your mind on the business at hand. “Perhaps,” she said aloud. “Myself, I am not convinced.”
A long, narrow table, polished till it glistened, ran down the middle of the room. A tall chair stood at the end near Egwene, lightly carved and touched here and there with gilt, quite plain for Tear, while the sidechairs had progressively lower backs, until those at the far end seemed little more than benches. Egwene had no idea what purpose the Tairens had put the room to. She and the others used it for questioning two prisoners taken when the Stone fell.
She could not force herself to go into the dungeons, though Rand had ordered all of the implements that had decorated the guardroom walls melted or burned. Neither Nynaeve nor Elayne had been eager to return, either. Besides, this brightly lit room, with its clean-swept green tile floor and its wall panels carved with the Three Crescents of Tear, was a sharp contrast to the grim, gray stone of the cells, all dim and dank and dirty. That had to have some softening effect on the two women in prisoners’ rough-woven woolens.
Only that drab brown dress, however, would have told most people that Joiya Byir, standing beyond the table with her back turned, was a prisoner at all. She had been Gray Ajah, and had lost none of the Grays’ cool self-possession on shifting her allegiance to the Black. Every line of her proclaimed that she stared rigidly at the far wall of her own choice, and for no other reason. Only a woman who could channel would have seen the thumb-thick flows of Air that held Joiya’s arms to her sides and lashed her ankles together. A cage woven of Air kept her eyes straight ahead. Even her ears were stopped up, so she could not hear what anyone said until they wanted her to.
Once again Egwene checked the shield woven from Spirit that blocked Joiya from touching the True Source. It held, as she knew it must. She herself had woven all the flows around Joiya and tied them to maintain themselves, but she could not be easy in the same room with a Darkfriend who had the ability to channel, even if it was blocked. Worse than just a Darkfriend. Black Ajah. Murder was the least of Joiya’s crimes. She should have been bowed down under her weight of broken oaths, blasted lives and blighted souls.
Joiya’s fellow prisoner, her sister in the Black Ajah, lacked her strength. Standing stoop-shouldered at the far end of the table, head down, Amico Nagoyin seemed to sink in on herself under Egwene’s gaze. There was no need to shield her. Amico had been stilled during her capture. Still able to sense the True Source, she would never again touch it, never again channel. The desire to, the need to, would remain, as sharp as the need to breathe, and her loss would be there for as long as she lived, saidar forever out of reach. Egwene wished she could find in herself even a shred of pity. But she did not wish for it very hard.
Amico murmured something at the tabletop.
“What?” Nynaeve demanded. “Speak up.”
Amico raised her face humbly on its slender neck. She was still a beautiful woman, with large, dark eyes, but there was something different about her that Egwene could not quite put her finger on. Not the fear that made her clutch her coarse prisoner’s dress with both hands. Something else.
Swallowing, Amico said, “You should go to Tanchico.”
“You’ve told us that twenty times,” Nynaeve said roughly. “Fifty times. Tell us something new. Name names we do not already know. Who still in the White Tower is Black Ajah?”
“I do not know. You must believe me.” Amico sounded tired, utterly beaten. Not at all the way she had sounded when they were the prisoners and she the gaoler. “Before we left the Tower, I knew only Liandrin, Chesmal and Rianna. No one knew more than two or three others, I think. Except Liandrin.  It still stunned her, how easily she could say that now. Her stomach still clenched, and icy fingers still crawled her spine, but she no longer wanted to scream, or run weeping. It was possible to become used to anything.
“I overheard Liandrin that once, talking to Temaile,” Amico said wearily, starting a tale she had told them many times. In the first days of her captivity she had tried to improve her story, but the more she elaborated the more she had tangled herself in her own lies. Now she almost always told it the same way, word for word. “If you could have seen Liandrin’s face when she saw me . . . She would have murdered me on the spot had she thought I had heard anything. And Temaile likes to hurt people. She enjoys it. I only heard a little before they saw me. Liandrin said there was something in Tanchico, something dangerous to . . . to him.” She meant Rand. She could not say his name, and a mention of the Dragon Reborn was enough to send her into tears. “Liandrin said it was dangerous to whoever used it, too. Almost as dangerous as to . . . him. That is why she had not already gone after it. And she said being able to channel would not protect him. She said, ‘When we find it, his filthy ability will bind him for us.’ ” Sweat ran down her face, but she shivered almost uncontrollably.
Not a word had changed.
Egwene opened her mouth, but Nynaeve spoke first. “I’ve heard enough of this. Let us see if the other has anything new to say.”
Egwene glared at her, and Nynaeve stared back just as hard, neither blinking. Sometimes she thinks she’s still the Wisdom, Egwene thought grimly, and I’m still the village girl to teach about herbs. She had better realize things are different now. Nynaeve was strong in the Power, stronger than Egwene, but only when she could actually manage to channel; unless angry, Nynaeve could not channel at all.
Elayne usually smoothed things over when it came to this, as it did more often than it should. By the time Egwene thought of smoothing matters herself, she had almost always dug in her heels and flared back, and trying to be soothing then would only be backing down. That was how Nynaeve would see it, she was sure. She could not remember Nynaeve ever making any move to back down, so why should she? This time Elayne was not there; Moiraine had summoned the Daughter-Heir with a word and a gesture to follow the Maiden who had come for the Aes Sedai. Without her, the tension stretched, each of the Accepted waiting for the other to blink first. Aviendha barely breathed; she kept herself strictly out of their confrontations. No doubt she considered it simple wisdom to stand clear.
Strangely, it was Amico who broke the impasse this time, though likely all she meant to do was demonstrate her cooperation. She turned to face the far wall, waiting patiently to be bound.
The foolishness of it struck Egwene suddenly. She was the only woman in the room who could channel—unless Nynaeve grew angry, or Joiya’s shield failed; she tested the weave of Spirit again without thinking—and she indulged in a staring match while Amico waited to accept her bonds. At another time she might have laughed at herself aloud. Instead, she opened herself to saidar, that never-seen, ever-felt glowing warmth that seemed always to be just beyond the corner of her eye. The One Power filled her, like joyous life itself redoubled, and she wove the flows around Amico.
Nynaeve merely grunted; it was doubtful she was mad enough to sense what Egwene was doing—she could not, without her temper up—yet she could see Amico stiffen as the flows of Air touched her, then slump, half supported by the flows, as if to show how little she was resisting.
Aviendha shuddered, the way she had taken to doing whenever she knew the Power was being channeled near her.
Egwene wove blocks for Amico’s ears—questioning them one at a time did little good if they could hear each other’s stories—and turned to Joiya. She shifted her fan from hand to hand so she could wipe them on her dress, and stopped with a grimace of distaste. Her sweaty palms had nothing to do with the temperature.
“Her face,” Aviendha said abruptly. And surprisingly; she almost never spoke unless addressed by Moiraine or one of the others. “Amico’s face. She does not have the look she did, as if the years had passed her by. Not as much as she did. Is that because she was . . . because she was stilled?” she finished in a breathless rush. She had picked up a few habits being so much around them. No woman of the Tower could speak of stilling without a chill.
Egwene moved down the table, to where she could see Amico’s face from the side and yet stay out of Joiya’s vision. Joiya’s eyes always turned her stomach to a lump of ice.
Aviendha was right; that was the difference she herself had noticed and not understood. Amico looked young, perhaps younger than her years, but it was not quite the agelessness of Aes Sedai who had worked years with the One Power. “You have sharp eyes, Aviendha, but I don’t know if this has anything to do with stilling. It must, though, I suppose. I don’t know what else could cause it.”
She realized that did not sound very much like an Aes Sedai, who generally spoke as if they knew everything; when an Aes Sedai said she did not know, she usually managed to make her denial appear to cloak volumes of knowledge. While she was racking her brain for something properly portentous, Nynaeve came to her rescue.
“Relatively few Aes Sedai have ever been burned out, Aviendha, and far fewer stilled.”
“Burned out” was what it was called when it happened by accident; officially, stilling resulted from trial and sentence. Egwene could not see the point of it, really; it was like having two words for falling down the stairs, depending on whether you tripped or were pushed. For that, most Aes Sedai seemed to see it the same, except when teaching novices or Accepted. Three words, actually. Men were “gentled,” must be gentled, before they went mad. Only now there was Rand, and the Tower did not dare gentle him.
Nynaeve had put on a lecturing tone, no doubt trying to sound Aes Sedai. She was doing an imitation of Sheriam before a class, Egwene realized, hands clasped at her waist, smiling slightly as if it were all so simple when you applied yourself.
“Stilling is not a thing anyone would choose to study, you understand,” Nynaeve continued. “It is generally accepted to be irreversible. What makes a woman able to channel cannot be replaced once it is removed, any more than a hand that has been cut off can be Healed back into existence.” At least, no one had ever been able to Heal stilling. There had been attempts. What Nynaeve said was generally true, yet some sisters of the Brown Ajah would study almost anything if given the chance, and some Yellow sisters, the best Healers, would try to learn to Heal anything. But even a hint of success at Healing a woman who had been stilled was nonexistent. “Aside from that one hard fact, little is known. Women who are stilled seldom live more than a few years. They seem to stop wanting to live; they give up. As I said, it is an unpleasant subject.”
Aviendha shifted uncomfortably. “I only thought that might be it,” she said in a low voice.
Egwene thought it might be, too. She resolved to ask Moiraine. If she ever saw her without Aviendha there as well. It seemed to her that their deceit got in the way almost as much as it helped.
“Let us see if Joiya still tells the same tale, too.” Even so, she had to take herself in hand before she could unravel the flows of Air woven around the Darkfriend.
Joiya must have been stiff from standing so still for so long, but she turned smoothly to face them. The sweat beading her forehead could not diminish her dignity and presence, any more than her drab, rough dress lessened the sense of her being there by choice. She was a handsome woman with something motherly about her face despite its ageless smoothness, something comforting. But the dark eyes set in that face made a hawk’s look kind. She smiled at them, a smile that never reached those eyes. “The Light illumine you. May the hand of the Creator shelter you.”
“I will not hear that out of you.” Nynaeve’s voice was quiet and calm, but she tossed her braid over her shoulder and gripped the end in her fist, the way she did when angry or uneasy. Egwene did not think she was uneasy; Joiya did not seem to make Nynaeve’s skin crawl as she did Egwene’s.
“I have repented my sins,” Joiya said smoothly. “The Dragon is Reborn, and he holds Callandor. The Prophecies are fulfilled. The Dark One must fail. I can see that, now. My repentance is real. No one can walk so long in the Shadow that she cannot come again to the Light.”
Nynaeve’s face had grown darker by the word. Egwene was sure she was furious enough to channel now, but if she did it would probably be to strangle Joiya. Egwene did not believe Joiya’s repentance any more than Nynaeve, of course, but the woman’s information might be real. Joiya was quite capable of a cold decision to go over to what she believed would be the winning side. Or she might only be buying time, lying in hope of rescue.
Lies should not have been possible for an Aes Sedai, even one who had lost all right to the name, not outright lies. The very first of the Three Oaths, taken with the Oath Rod in hand, should have seen to that. But whatever oaths to the Dark One were sworn on joining the Black Ajah, they seemed to sever all Three Oaths.
Well. The Amyrlin had sent them out to hunt the Black Ajah, to hunt Liandrin and the other twelve who had done murder and fled the Tower. And all they had to go on now was what these two could, or would, tell them.
“Give us your tale again,” Egwene commanded. “Use different words, this time. I am tired of listening to memorized stories.” If she was lying, there was more chance she would trip herself up telling it differently. “We will hear you out.” That was for Nynaeve’s benefit; she gave a loud sniff, then a curt nod.
Joiya shrugged. “As you wish. Let me see. Different words. The false Dragon, Mazrim Taim, who was captured in Saldaea, can channel with incredible strength. Perhaps as much as Rand al’Thor, or nearly so, if the reports can be believed. Before he can be brought to Tar Valon and gentled, Liandrin means to break him free. He will be proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn, his name given as Rand al’Thor, and then he will be set to destruction on such a scale as the world has not seen since the War of the Hundred Years.”
“That is impossible,” Nynaeve broke in. “The Pattern will not accept a false Dragon, not now that Rand has proclaimed himself.”
Egwene sighed. They had had this out before, but Nynaeve always argued the point. She was not sure Nynaeve really believed that Rand was the Dragon Reborn, no matter what she said, no matter the Prophecies and Callandor and the fall of the Stone. Nynaeve was just enough older than he to have looked after him when he was a child, just as she had after Egwene. He was an Emond’s Fielder, and Nynaeve still saw her first duty as protecting the people of Emond’s Field.
“Is that what Moiraine told you?” Joiya asked with a touch of contempt. “Moiraine has spent little time in the Tower since she was raised, and not much more with her sisters anywhere. I suppose she knows the workings of village life, perhaps even something of the politics between nations, but she does claim certainty about matters learned only through study and discussion with those who know. Still, she might be correct. Mazrim Taim might well find it impossible to proclaim himself. But if others do it for him, is there a difference that matters?”
Egwene wished Moiraine would come back. The woman would not speak so confidently if Moiraine were there. Joiya knew very well that she and Nynaeve were only Accepted. It made a difference.
“Go on,” Egwene said, almost as harshly as Nynaeve. “And remember, different words.”
“Of course,” Joiya replied, as though responding to a gracious invitation, but her eyes glittered like chips of black glass. “You can see the obvious result. Rand al’Thor will be blamed for the depredations of . . . Rand al’Thor. Even proof that they are not the same man may well be dismissed. After all, who can say what tricks the Dragon Reborn can play? Perhaps put himself in two places at once. Even the sort who have always rallied to a false Dragon will hesitate in the face of the indiscriminate slaughter and worse laid at his feet. Those who do not shrink at such butchery will seek out the Rand al’Thor who seems to revel in blood. The nations will unite as they did in the Aiel War . . . ” She gave Aviendha an apologetic smile, incongruous beneath those merciless eyes. “ . . . but no doubt much more quickly. Even the Dragon Reborn cannot stand against that, not forever. He will be crushed before the Last Battle even begins, by the very ones he was meant to save. The Dark One will break free, the day of Tarmon Gai’don will come, and the Shadow will cover the earth and remake the Pattern for all time. That is Liandrin’s plan.” There was not a hint of satisfaction in her voice, but no horror, either.
It was a plausible story, more plausible than Amico’s tale of a few eavesdropped sentences, but Egwene believed Amico and not Joiya. Perhaps because she wanted to. A vague threat in Tanchico was easier to face than this fully fleshed plan to turn every hand against Rand. No, she thought. Joiya is lying. I am sure she is. Yet they could not afford to ignore either story. But they could not chase after both, not with any hope of success.
The door banged open, and Moiraine strode in, with Elayne following. The Daughter-Heir was frowning at the floor in front of her toes, lost in dark thoughts, but Moiraine . . . For once the Aes Sedai’s serenity had vanished; fury painted her face.


captoinfo 1m
captoinfo(1m) captoinfo(1m)
NAME
captoinfo - convert a termcap description into a terminfo
description
SYNOPSIS
captoinfo [-vn width] [-V] [-1] [-w width] file . . .
DESCRIPTION
captoinfo looks in file for termcap descriptions. For
each one found, an equivalent terminfo description is
written to standard output. Termcap tc capabilities are
translated directly to terminfo use capabilities.
If no file is given, then the environment variable TERMCAP
is used for the filename or entry. If TERMCAP is a full
pathname to a file, only the terminal whose name is speci-
fied in the environment variable TERM is extracted from
that file. If the environment variable TERMCAP is not
set, then the file /usr/share/terminfo is read.
-v print out tracing information on standard error as
the program runs.
-V print out the version of the program in use on stan-
dard error and exit.
-1 cause the fields to print out one to a line. Other-
wise, the fields will be printed several to a line to
a maximum width of 60 characters.
-w change the output to width characters.
FILES
/usr/share/terminfo Compiled terminal description
database.
TRANSLATIONS FROM NONSTANDARD CAPABILITIES
Some obsolete nonstandard capabilities will automatically
be translated into standard (SVr4/XSI Curses) terminfo
capabilities by captoinfo. Whenever one of these auto-
matic translations is done, the program will issue an
notification to stderr, inviting the user to check that it
has not mistakenly translated a completely unknown and
random capability and/or syntax error.
Nonstd Std From Terminfo
name name capability
-----------------------------------------------
BO mr AT&T enter_reverse_mode
CI vi AT&T cursor_invisible
CV ve AT&T cursor_normal
DS mh AT&T enter_dim_mode
EE me AT&T exit_attribute_mode
FE LF AT&T label_on
FL LO AT&T label_off
XS mk AT&T enter_secure_mode
EN @7 XENIX key_end
GE ae XENIX exit_alt_charset_mode
GS as XENIX enter_alt_charset_mode
HM kh XENIX key_home
LD kL XENIX key_dl
PD kN XENIX key_npage
PN po XENIX prtr_off
PS pf XENIX prtr_on
PU kP XENIX key_ppage
RT @8 XENIX kent
UP ku XENIX kcuu1
KA k; Tek key_f10
KB F1 Tek key_f11
KC F2 Tek key_f12
KD F3 Tek key_f13
KE F4 Tek key_f14
KF F5 Tek key_f15
BC Sb Tek set_background
FC Sf Tek set_foreground
HS mh Iris enter_dim_mode
XENIX termcap also used to have a set of extension capa-
bilities for forms drawing, designed to take advantage of
the IBM PC high-half graphics. They were as follows:
Cap Graphic
-----------------------------
G2 upper left
G3 lower left
G1 upper right
G4 lower right
GR pointing right
GL pointing left
GU pointing up
GD pointing down
GH horizontal line
GV vertical line
GC intersection
G6 upper left
G7 lower left
G5 upper right
G8 lower right
Gr tee pointing right
Gr tee pointing left
Gu tee pointing up
Gd tee pointing down
Gh horizontal line
Gv vertical line
Gc intersection
GG acs magic cookie count
If the single-line capabilities occur in an entry, they
will automatically be composed into an acsc string. The
double-line capabilities and GG are discarded with a warn-
ing message.
IBM's AIX has a terminfo facility descended from SVr1 ter-
minfo but incompatible with the SVr4 format. The following
AIX extensions are automatically translated:
IBM XSI
-------------
ksel kslt
kbtab kcbt
font0 s0ds
font1 s1ds
font2 s2ds
font3 s3ds
Additionally, the AIX box1 capability will be automati-
cally translated to an acsc string.
Hewlett-Packard's terminfo library supports two nonstan-
dard terminfo capabilities meml (memory lock) and memu
(memory unlock). These will be discarded with a warning
message.
NOTES
This utility is actually a link to tic(1m), running in -I
mode. You can use other tic options such as -f and -x.
The trace option isn't identical to SVr4's. Under SVr4,
instead of following the -v with a trace level n, you
repeat it n times.
SEE ALSO
curses(3x), infocmp(1m), terminfo(5)
AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond<EMAIL_ADDRESS>captoinfo(1m)
Man(1) output converted with
man2html


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See reference for details on this parameter. The patient parameter can be used two ways:
This SHALL be supported for all endpoint provider systems.
id
is the logical id of the patient on the server which can be obtained by a Patient resource query.
GET [baseUrl]/{{include.content}}?patient=42
Return all {{include.content}} resources for Patients with a logical id of 42
This SHALL be supported for all endpoint provider systems.
system
is a uniform resource identifier which defines which CodeSystem the identifer belongs to. For NHS Number this would be https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number
and code
would be the NHS Number.
GET [baseUrl]/{{include.content}}?patient.identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number|9876543210
Return all {{include.content}} resources for Patients with a NHS Number of<PHONE_NUMBER>


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[caex#1831]
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Event Location:
The Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Extension
702 Langdon Street
Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract:
Virtualizing your top-tier production SQL Servers is not as easy as P2V’ing it. Sometimes allocating more resources to the VM is the wrong approach, and getting it wrong will silently hurt performance. What is the most effective method for determining the ‘right’ amount of resources to allocate? What happens if the workload changes a month from now? The methods for understanding the performance of your mission-critical SQL Servers gathered over the past ten years of SQL Server virtualization will be addressed, and valuable processes for performance statistic collection and analysis will be displayed. Come learn how to properly ‘right-size’ the resources allocated to a VM, improve the performance of your SQL Servers, and keep it maximized well into the future.
Speaker(s): David Klee,
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You’re a DBA at your company, and you’re in charge of keeping the production SQL servers humming. You know how to maintain and troubleshoot those instances for top performance. But now your boss has given you a new task: find out why the company reports are running so slowly and why the server itself seems unresponsive at times. In this session we’ll talk about how to get the best performance from your SQL reporting server. We will discuss how to administer a SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) instance; how to install and configure the service for best performance, how to see what reports are currently running, and find which reports are bogging down the server. This session will not cover report design scaling out, or SSRS for SharePoint.
Speaker(s): John Pertell,
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It is no accident the term “Business Intelligence” starts with “Business.” Any Business Intelligence initiative should, likewise, start with the needs of the Business. For many years, BI was seen as a technology project. This is one reason why so many BI initiatives fail. Rather than a Technology Project, BI is a Business Program. It must grow and evolve as the Business grows an evolves. In this session, we will discuss the following: -- Why BI is a worthwhile investment (using case study examples) -- What criteria to use in determining the success of a BI initiative -- Several reasons why BI initiatives fail -- Critical Success Factors for BI So much of the success for BI happens before the requirements are even gathered. Come learn how you can set yourself up for success with Business Intelligence.
Speaker(s): Mark Vaillancourt,
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Do you develop SSIS packages, SSRS reports or SSAS models (multidimensional or tabular)? Then this session is for you! We'll cover the capabilities this free tool provides as well as address some of the grating little quirks of BIDS/SSDT. Learn how to get a roles report or printer-friendly dimension usage from Analysis Services Multidimensional. Regain missing functionality in SSAS Tabular such as drillthrough actions, display folders, and HideMemberIf. Delete dataset cache files in SSRS to work around an annoying “feature”. Extend your SSIS capabilities: deploy packages from BIDS/SSDT, identify items with configuration/expressions, create packages based on templates, and find differences between packages. Learn about this perfect combination from Meagan Longoria and Bill Fellows and you'll never want to have your BIDS without the Helper again.
Speaker(s): Meagan Longoria,
Abstract:
Two of the of the most under-utilized management features of SQL Server are the Central Management Server and the SQL Agent Multi-Server Administration tools. The CMS is a powerful little tool creates a catalog of servers that allows you to execute any query or script against multiple servers at the same time. The SQL Agent Multi-Server Administration (MSX) tool allows you to create a SQL Agent job on one server and then deploy it to multiple servers instantly. When used in conjunction with each other, you have a powerful set of features that make managing your enterprise a lot simpler. SQL Server MVP Mike Hillwig will show you how to to deploy these two powerful features right out of the box without writing a single line of new code.
Speaker(s): Mike Hillwig,
Abstract:
ETL Developers have being doing chemistry with data for years in tools like SQL Server Integration Services. These tools require training, experience, and time that few business users have. But in the age of self-service BI, those business users need a way to shape data to support their analysis. This session will show how Power Query can be easily used to take advantage of data's properties to drive the change we need to support our goals. We will discuss/demonstrate: -- The simple process of accessing a wide variety of data sources -- The ease with which simple transformations can be achieved using the Power Query Ribbon -- Power Query's fantastic ability to travel through time to see every step taken with the data -- The foundations of the Power Query Formula Language, informally known as "M" -- Using "M" to take Power Query WAY beyond what the Ribbon has to offer. Come learn about what may well be the most exciting member of the Power BI family.
Speaker(s): Mark Vaillancourt,
Abstract:
You know you’ve done it. Maybe it was the lucky number 7. Maybe it was an enigmatic X. Maybe you smooshed some words together in ALLCAPS. That should be easier to spot, right? Because some day you might need to change it—in every stored procedure, function, and view. Magic numbers, codes, identifiers, constants, enumerations. Whatever you call them, all applications have them. Sure it’s quick and easy to sprinkle the values throughout your code, but that breeds mistakes, rigidity, and obfuscation. There has to be a better way! Other languages give us real constants and enums—with IntelliSense and compilation-level enforcement. Well guess what-- SQL Server does too, sort of. Join us and learn to write clearer, easier to maintain code without sacrificing performance.
Speaker(s): Riley Major,
Abstract:
Do you have multiple databases with distinct workloads running on a single SQL Server Enterprise Edition instance? Have you ever had a runaway process or bad query from one system bring an entire instance to its knees, impacting a wide range of end users? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then come learn about Resource Governor for SQL Server. We’ll spend the first part of this introductory session going over the concepts you will need to know in order to implement Resource Governor successfully. Once we've covered the basics, we’ll spend the rest of the session working through a number of demos, reviewing exciting enhancements to Resource Governor in SQL Server 2014, and discussing scenarios in which you can use Resource Governor in your environment right away.  Learn how you can control them effectively in a multitenant environment, ensuring they are assigned where they need to be.
Speaker(s): Paul Timmerman,
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Whether it's because you inherited the code from the "last guy," or your stored procedures haven't been looked at since the database was created in 2001, there will come a time when you need to rewrite old code. When you start this project you may ask yourself, how did I get here? And you may ask yourself, how do I work this? This is not my beautiful database. This is not my beautiful T-SQL. Letting the data go by, information flowing to the end users is the goal. Refactoring old code can be tedious, but necessary. Sometimes it isn't just about identifying the worst queries in your application, but figuring out how to rewrite everything to introduce the best practices that the last guy didn't know about five years ago. This session will cover ways to quickly find old T-SQL antipatterns, tools that can help make things easier to update code, and deprecated features that can't be used in modern versions of SQL Server. Don't leave your old T-SQL the same as it ever was.
Speaker(s): MIKE DONNELLY,
Abstract:
Do you need a high availability and disaster recovery solution for your mission critical databases? SQL Server AlwaysOn can help, but with Windows Clustering, Failover Cluster Instances, and Availability Groups it gets confusing and complicated fast. I'll clear up all the confusion by explaining the various components and exposing all the gotchas. There are different levels of protection and you will learn how to choose the right one for your environment. You will walk away with the knowledge and confidence to pick the right solution to give your critical databases a solid high availability and disaster recovery plan.
Speaker(s): Ryan Adams,
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Here is your chance to STAND OUT, MAKE A DIFFERENCE, and BE A ROCK STAR! Avastone, in conjunction with Qlik, will show you how to leverage tools specifically targeted at data quality, data visualization, and turning your data into the corporate asset that will propel you, the company you work for, and your individual skill set forward. This presentation will focus on data as a corporate asset, ways to ensure that data maintains a high level of quality, and being able to visualize the data in a way that a company is able to make educated decisions. The two systems we will focus on during this presentation are SQL Server Data Quality Services and QlikSense. Managing data has taken on a heightened level of importance as companies strive to be more customer-centric in a bid to compete on a global level.
Speaker(s): Ted Krueger,
Abstract:
Ever encounter a table consisting only of BIGINT, CHAR(255), and NVARCHAR(MAX) columns? Did your gut tell you that this is bad, but you had difficulty explaining why? Did you know that these data type choices can be a real performance killer? Attend this session to learn how database records are stored within SQL Server, and why all data types are not created equal. Armed with that knowledge, we will then explore several performance scenarios that may be impacting your systems right now! When you leave, you will be able to explain to your colleagues why data type choices matter, assess your own systems, and implement some best practices to mitigate these performance killers.
Speaker(s): Andy Yun,
Abstract:
Your boss comes up to you and asks you why the system is slow, unless you know how your system is supposed to respond you are stuck scrambling to answer those questions. With a few free quires and some SSIS magic you can capture a Baseline of your systems. With this you will be able to know exactly where to look and what might be amiss. Before you can say what is wrong with your system you need to know how it reacts under normal circumstances. This session will provide the tools you need to start collection of your systems baselines and give you a great deal of information.
Speaker(s): Jim Dorame,
Abstract:
If you've never queried an XML column you definitely want to attend. While targeted to beginners this isn't a "Just do this" session. After this hour I'd like you to truly understand even subtle nuances of basic query syntax. Seasoned veterans stand a fair chance of learning something new.
Speaker(s): Rick Bielawski,
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This session is designed for you, the experienced SSIS developer who's been hearing about Biml but hasn't taken the plunge. We will cover what Biml is and walk through some examples from Hello World equivalent to a fully baked truncate and reload pattern. You will leave this session armed with the knowledge of how Biml can help you achieve a consistent and reproducible approach for the creation of SSIS solutions.
Speaker(s): Bill Fellows,
Abstract:
This introduction will provide a brief history of machine learning and its practical uses. We will then dive into Microsoft's Azure ML offering and demonstrate how you can build a real-world use case using Azure ML Studio with a free trial account. If you have been curious about machine learning, this session will show you what you need to get started.
Speaker(s): Scott Hietpas,
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Tired of clicking through all those setup screens and entering the same information over and over again? I know I am, so I'm doing something about it...I'm automating my installs! From base SQL Server installs to Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and even Client Tools for DBA's and Developers, I'll show you ways to automate your installs using SQL Server FineBuild (CodePlex Project). We'll cover many of the scenarios you may encounter and you'll walk away with some pre-built install scripts to help get you started.
Speaker(s): Brian Davis,
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This session will cover real world functions that are used for real DBA work. There will be a few slides but mostly demos with actual scripts to help you do your job. I will also introduce some SQLPSX to assist as well. Things like Reading/Changing the following: Permissions, DB Owner maintenance and database space management. We all could use a few standard things in our DBA world of ever changing roles and "I have to have it now" stuff, that Management Studio can get in the way of getting it done faster. Join me for a fun PowerShell hour.
Speaker(s): Ben Miller,
Abstract:
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is full of time-saving, quality-improving gems that many users have yet to discover. Join Jes Borland and Russ Thomas in a no-holds-barred SSMS tips and tricks showdown. In the tradition of the classic wizard's duel, each will present, in turn, a secret SSMS feature from their personal bag of tricks.  The ultimate winner is sure to be the attendee, who will leave with the set of tricks guaranteed to improve efficiency and overall quality of work.
Speaker(s): Russ Thomas,
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The transaction log is one of the most critical, yet often mis-understood components of SQL Server. From out of control log growth to very long startup times, problems with the transaction log can cause a lot of pain. In this session, we'll look at how the transaction log works and how to optimize it's performance. You'll learn how to determine the right settings for maximum throughput, and what to do when things get out of control.
Speaker(s): David Maxwell,
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Administering production SQL Servers can be a complex job. How does this task change when the environment you’re supporting will be used as part of a development or testing environment? And what can the DBA do to best support development teams? This session will discuss the unique challenges that are part of servicing these special systems and highlight ways that a DBA can help development teams produce better code.
Speaker(s): Omni Resources Speaker Panel,
Abstract:
When asked about new features in the SQL Server 2014 Database Engine, people tend to only think of one thing: In-Memory OLTP, commonly known by its code-name "Hekaton." While In-Memory OLTP is a great improvement, many other features may prove more helpful for day-to-day database activity. This session will investigate the other new features offered in 2014, including delayed durability, buffer pool extension, enhancements to backups, partitioning, statistics, columnstore indexes, security, and much more!
Speaker(s): Bob Pusateri,
Abstract:
AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, Availability Groups and Windows Server Clustering...this is an overview of these features in SQL 2012 and 2014 for D/R, overlaying Windows OS features. We'll discuss what you need to use when and why. We'll discuss options on how you can achieve a D/R strategy with all the features you have in Windows and SQL Server to best meet your needs. Review key architectural considerations to making sure you have a successful recovery after a disaster.
Speaker(s): Michael Steineke,
Abstract:
There are two kinds of DBAs in the world -- those who have experienced corruption, and those who will. Join me for this session to learn what corruption is, how it can occur, and how to check if your data is corrupt. And if you do find corruption, I will show you how to identify what data is affected using DBCC CHECKDB and DBCC PAGE.
Speaker(s): Frank Gill,
Abstract:
Building out an Enterprise Data Warehouse can be extremely time consuming when developing the initial ETL building blocks. Using a Data Repository and BIML to centralize enterprise data can decrease Data Warehouse development time. It can be used as a central repository for ad-hoc reporting, and keep an audit trail of source system changes. This session will look at the benefits of centralizing data in its original format and how to automate the collection and auditing using BIML.
Speaker(s): Rob Long,
Abstract:
We’ve all seen the recent news stories about companies whose data has been stolen by hackers. What was once a rare event has become all too common, and companies large and small are at risk. While it isn’t always possible to prevent intrusions, you can reduce the risk by encrypting your data. In this presentation, I’ll show you the four ways that SQL Server provides to encrypt data: hashes, cell-level encryption, database-level encryption (also known as transparent data encryption), and backup encryption. We’ll also discuss the keys required for each type of encryption and discuss how to protect the keys themselves.
Speaker(s): Ed Leighton-Dick,
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You have a million rows you need to move into a table. Because of constraints, this import process is very slow. In this session I will show you how you can speed up this process greatly by partitioning the table and moving partitions from one table to another.
Speaker(s): Gill Rowley,
Abstract:
Are you curious about Facts, Dimensions, and type 2 slowly changing dimensions that those Data Warehouse people talk about? This session will provide an introduction to the different architectures proposed by the two Data Warehouse proponents, Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball. We will present the theory and key concepts of Dimensional modeling and review why Dimensional modeling is important and the functionality a Data Warehouse can deliver that a normalized database cannot. We will also present some more advanced topics like heriarchies, snowflakes, recursive relationships, and bridge tables.
Speaker(s): Terry Bunio,
Abstract:
Analysis Services Tabular is an in memory analytics engine introduced in SQL Server 2012. It has shown to be a quick and effective way to transform your organization with modern analytics. Join Phillip and learn how easy it is to create a tabular solution and provide valuable insight into your organization's data.
Speaker(s): Phillip Labry,
Abstract:
Many people have never heard of a Contained Database let alone know why they would use a Contained Database. In this session, I will go into the WHAT is a Contained Database, the HOW a Contained Database works, and the WHY I would use a Contained Database. We will use, both successfully and unsuccessfully, a Contained Database through Management Studio, Integration Services, Reporting Services, and a Web Application (Visual Studio MVC).
Speaker(s): Patrick Brewer,
Abstract:
In this session, we will discuss the changes that are coming and the new features that are provided with the Power BI Designer as Microsoft continues its roadmap with self-service BI. If you haven't seen this yet, Power BI features are now available in a standalone application outside of Excel! You will see with the new designer that you will be able to easily integrate data, create stunning and interactive visualizations, and even create cloud based Power BI dashboards to share and it is even Free!!
Speaker(s): Dan English,
Abstract:
The traditional monolithic data warehouse and supporting ETL can be difficult to design, tedious to develop and expensive if running in Microsoft Azure. What happens when your source systems can replicate as new customers come online, and they demand their data be available in a warehouse for reporting with minimal intervention? In this session, we will walk through a real world project using SQL Server and SSIS running in Microsoft Azure. Attendees can expect to learn some different techniques for use in their own ETL and warehousing projects as well as some of the pitfalls of building a data warehouse stored in SQL Azure.
Speaker(s): Zach Mattson,
Abstract:
Learn how to use integration services to create a fast, reliable, repeatable ETL structure that's designed to insert or update your destination from nearly any source.
Speaker(s): Zane Brunette,
Abstract:
This is a introductory session on how a DBA and developers can use Execution plans to find performance bottlenecks. This will cover the fundamentals and cover some of the basic techniques that can be used to find hidden performance problems.
Speaker(s): Dave Bland,
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Issue a "SELECT {data} FROM {myTable}" statement and users need to trust the data returned is accurate. What happens when multiple processes access the same data? What happens further if one of those process is an UPDATE or even a DELETE statement? How about if both processes will be updating that data? Understanding Isolation in SQL Server is paramount in ensuring data integrity in your system. We will cover the different levels of isolation and how they impact what a user views when accessing the data at a given point-in-time.
Speaker(s): Wendy Pastrick,
Abstract:
This session will utilize SQL tools and techniques to manage Cloud and DataCenters Environments. Learn to use some of the latest SQL technologies to automate and manage your datacenter! Topics include: -Scheduling SQL Service Integration Services with System Center Orchestrator and Service Management Automation (SMA) -Install and Configure and manage SQL environments using PowerShell DSC -Monitoring and Reporting of Datacenter Operational Performance using Power BI -Lots of other cool stuff!
Speaker(s): Lee Berg,
Abstract:
So you know the difference between a clustered and a nonclustered index. I won't review it again - I promise. This session will focus on expanding your understanding of indexes and what you can use them for. We will look at the internals of how they are structured, included columns, filtered indexes and indexed views. We will explore how to use indexes to enforce contraints beyond just simple uniqueness. Earn your SQL Black belt with this fun and informative session.
Speaker(s): Michael DeFehr,
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The key to becoming a great DBA is time. The best way to regain some time is by spending less time doing the daily mundane work. Let this mundane effort work autonomously. We will introduce the basics in monitoring and maintenance. The how and why certain things should be done at a minimum and what things can be done to help improve the quality of life in larger dynamic environments.
Speaker(s): Warren Sifre,
Abstract:
Interested in SQL Server Integration Services, but aren't sure where to start? Do you already use SSIS, but aren't sure if you're getting the most out of it? Are you looking for ways to increase the performance of your SSIS packages? Then join Brian Davis and Adam Belebczuk as they pull best practices and performance tuning tips and tricks from their SSIS Grab Bag.
Speaker(s): Adam Belebczuk,
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Want to learn the newest features of the SQL Server product, ask questions directly to Microsoft, come to this session. This unique session is designed to help the DBA/DBA Manager/Business Analyst to better understand and be able to ask questions around the SQL Server 2014 mission critical, cloud and performance capabilities in the product, to gain the knowledge needed to leverage in their SQL Server solutions. Additionally, we will cover the new Power BI enhancements in preview that transform the way business insights are delivered by leveraging the capabilities build-in SQL Server 2014.
Speaker(s): Ross LoForte,
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandavis78
Contact: http://blogs.sqlsentry.com
Brian Davis is a Product Integration Engineer at SentryOne and has over 15 years in the IT field in multiple areas including software development, support, user training, and as a DBA. He has been working with SQL Server since 2003 and has hands-on experience with SQL Server 2000 through 2016. Brian is also a PASS Regional Mentor and an active member and leader of the Ohio North SQL Server User Group.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wsifre
Contact: http://www.broadstrokeconsulting.com/blog/, http://www.allegient.com
Warren Sifre has been in the IT community since 1998 and has worked in a variety of industries deploying solutions utilizing MS SQL Server in one capacity or another. In 2003, he decided to make SQL Server his mastery and has since developed skills in most defined disciplines of MS SQL. Currently he is a Principal Consultant and Technology Leader with Moser Consulting. He is responsible for BI Solution Architecture and the mentorship of team members. He has been a SQLSaturday Speaker since 2012, Azure Global Bootcamp, and many user groups in 2015 alone. He has a passion for knowledge transfer and solutions architecture, with a keen interested in Info Security.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/meaganlongoria/
Contact: http://datasavvy.me
Meagan Longoria is a business intelligence consultant with Denny Cherry Associates, and lives in Denver, Colorado. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Meagan spends a lot of time thinking about how to use data integration, DAX, and data visualization techniques to make data useful for people. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experiences at conferences and user group meetings, as well as through her blog (DataSavvy.me).
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markvsql/
Contact: http://markvsql.com
Mark is a Data Solutions Architect for Microsoft, helping organizations design data solutions in Azure. He has been working with Microsoft data technologies since 2007. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Business Intelligence consultant and two-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP. With a background in Theater and Improvised Comedy, Mark makes sure that his presentations are both informative and fun.
LinkedIn: http://http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22766305amp;trk=tab_pro
Contact: http://skreebydba.com/
Frank Gill is a Senior Data Engineer at Concurrency With 21 years of IT experience, the first 8 as a mainframe programmer, he has developed a love of all things internal. Over the past several years, he has worked extensively with SQL Server solution in Azure, including Managed Instance. When not administering databases or geeking out on internals, Frank volunteers at the Art Institute of Chicago and reads voraciously.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billinkc
Contact: http://blog.billfellows.net
Bill Fellows is a SQL Server MVP and has been a database developer for most of his career, with the past 15 years focused on ETL. He is the organizer of Kansas City's eight SQLSaturdays and a speaker at many other SQLSaturdays, User Groups and the PASS Summit. Bill is the owner of Sterling Data Consulting where he gets to solve interesting data problems.
Contact: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/author/mndba/
Paul is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and the Lead SQL Server DBA at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Paul has fifteen years of experience in database administration and currently the Chapter Leader of the Minnesota SQL Server User Group, PASSMN. Paul is an active member of the PASS community and routinely speaks at user group meetings and SQLSaturday conferences.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlbek
Contact: http://sqlbek.wordpress.com
Andy Yun is a SentryOne Principal Solutions Engineer and a former Microsoft MVP. He has been working with SQL Server for nearly 20 years as both a Database Developer and Administrator. Leveraging knowledge of SQL Server Internals and extensive experience in highly transactional environments, he strives to make T-SQL leaner and meaner. Andy is extremely passionate about passing knowledge onto others, regularly speaking at User Groups, SQLSaturdays, and PASS Summit. Andy is a co-founder of the Chicago SQL Association, co-Chapter Leader of the Chicago Suburban User Group, and part of the Chicago SQLSaturday Organizing Committee.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmmaxwell
Contact: https://dmmaxwell.wordpress.com/
David Maxwell has almost 20 years of experience with SQL Server, with a keen interest in performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting. He has experience in environments as diverse as health care institutions, auto manufacturers, and insurance companies. David has been a frequent presenter at SQLSaturday events around the United States since 2012, as well as a presenter for the DBA Fundamentals Virtual Group, the Performance Virtual Group, 24 Hours of PASS, and the annual PASS Summit. David participates in his local Columbus Ohio PASS Local Group, where he serves on the board of directors as SQLSaturday coordinator.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaklee
Contact: http://davidklee.net
David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise include cloud, virtualization, performance, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology related events, including PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQLSaturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsteineke
Contact: http://www.michaelsteineke.com
Michael Steineke is a Windows Server Platform expert with an industry-wide reputation as an innovator in the areas of Windows Server, storage and network architecture, disaster recovery, datacenter configuration, and SQL Server. He is a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP specializing in High Availability and has spoken on subjects like Windows Server, clustering, Storage, Hyper-V, SQL Server, and multi-site clusters at user groups and conferences of all sizes, including SQLSaturdays, SQL PASS Summit, Microsoft TechEd, and the Microsoft MVP Summit.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/melsar93
Contact: http://sqlmd.wordpress.com
Michael Donnelly has been working with SQL Server for 15+ years and holds the MCSE: Data Platform certification. He is an avid runner, blogger, and a wannabe gourmet chef. Currently living the SQL Life on the Jersey Shore.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardbielawski
Rick has 35 years experience as a systems, applications and database architect having designed major systems for such institutions as NASDAQ, Bank of America, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ecolab and Emperex. He holds multiple certifications including MCITP and MCSE in Business Intelligence and Data Platform. Rick currently designs database systems for custom software applications and likes speaking at local user groups and SQLSaturday events.
Contact: http://wendyverse.blogspot.com
Wendy Pastrick is from Chicago, IL, and for the past 15 years has served as a Database Administrator supporting both development and production environments. Her many years of involvement with PASS include WIT Virtual Chapter and the Chicago Suburban User Group, serving as Regional Mentor, and as a PASS Board member since 2013. Wendy has organized several highly successful SQLSaturday events in Chicago.
Contact: http://phillip.labry.com
Phillip Labry is a Senior BI Consultant and Trainer with over 20 years experience in SQL Server and over 30 in IT. He has been lucky enough to work on data projects spanning telecom, banking, retail, law enforcement, health care, insurance, financial services and energy sectors. As a national consultant he provides training and builds solutions utilizing the full MS BI stack. He is an active member of the Madison, WI PASS chapter and speaks at events in the USA and Canada.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markvsql/
Contact: http://markvsql.com
Mark is a Data Solutions Architect for Microsoft, helping organizations design data solutions in Azure. He has been working with Microsoft data technologies since 2007. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Business Intelligence consultant and two-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP. With a background in Theater and Improvised Comedy, Mark makes sure that his presentations are both informative and fun.
I live in Central Illinois where I was born, originally from Springfield, Illinois. I started working with SQL Server in 1996 with version 4.2.1 and quickly moved into SQL Server 6.5. I've been a jack of all trades developing windows applications and databases, and then moved to mainly developing database solutions with DTS, SSIS and SSRS. I've always said that I want to give my customers the tools to do their jobs. While I'm not working, I'm an avid sailboat racer in the Star Class. I've sailed all around the United States and competed in the 1999 Star Class World Championships in Punta Ala, Italy. Check out starclass.org. I've been sailing since I was 5 years old and taught sailing for 8 years.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dbaduck/
Contact: https://dbaduck.com
Ben has been a member of the SQL Server Community since 2000. He loves a challenge and has fixed many SQL Servers and helped hundreds of people get more out of their DBA jobs. He is a Data Platform MVP a SQL Server Certified Master (MCM). He has worked at various companies throughout the USA, as well as at Microsoft for 7 years. He is passionate about SQL Server Infrastructure, High Availability, Automation and Integration using SMO and PowerShell. He teaches DBAs how to use PowerShell to do their job and teaches SQL Server Internals. He is @DBAduck all around the web (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Blog) so let's catch up.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/itacb
Contact: http://www.sqldiablo.com/
Adam Belebczuk is the Owner amp; Principal Consultant at Belebczuk Consulting Services, LLC and has more than 10 years of experience in IT, ranging from customer service to server/network administration to software and database development and administration. Adam is the Chapter Leader for the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group, a frequent speaker and volunteer at PASS events, and specializes in SQL Server development, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Rob Long is Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Talavant. Rob is passionate about developing solutions that improve the delivery of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. He has a breadth of experience including development, network administration and database administration. For the last 8 years, Rob has focused his efforts on delivering solutions on the Microsoft BI stack. He is a proud father of four, a Certified Business Intelligence Professional, and enjoys spending time with family and keeping up with the ever changing data management industry.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ted-krueger-sql-server-mvp/2/183/b66
Contact: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/All/?disp=authdiramp;author=68
Ted Krueger is a SQL Server MVP and has been working in development and database administration for the better part of his career. Specialties range from High Availability and Disaster / Recovery design, implementation, testing methods and administration, down to custom assembly development for SQL Server Reporting Services.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/denglishbi
Contact: http://denglishbi.wordpress.com
Dan is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, author, technical editor, and community leader. He has been developing with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years, and over 15 years with Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and now using 2017 and in Azure. Dan is the chapter leader for the PASS Business Analytics virtual group and on the executive leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI user group.
Contact: http://widba.blogspot.com
Zach Mattson is a reformed DBA turned BI Developer for Trek Bicycle Company in Waterloo, WI. Zach has spoken at multiple community events and been published several times on using Powershell for SQL Server monitoring. He now works from home full time, guarded full time by his yellow labs while developing solutions utilizing the full BI stack of Microsoft tools.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobpusateri
Contact: http://www.BobPusateri.com
Bob Pusateri is a Microsoft Certified Master, DBA, and systems architect with over 10 years of experience on SQL Server. His interests involve internals, performance optimization, and cloud technologies. He is an active member of two Chicago-area PASS Local Groups, a community speaker, and maintains a web presence through both Twitter (@SQLBob) and his blog (bobpusateri.com).
Contact: http://leealanberg.com
Lee is a Consultant for Concurrency who specializes in Automation of Microsoft System Center. Recently awarded the Microsoft MVP award for "System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management", Lee is passionate about IT automation.
Ross LoForte is a Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago focused on SQL Server solutions. With more than 16 years of business development, project management, and SQL architecture solutions experience, he has been working with the Microsoft Technology Centers the past 10 years and has led architecture design and proof-of-concept engagements for Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers to design enterprise, mission-critical SQL Server solutions.
Tony Sebion is a Director at Omni Resources. Tony is a founder and current president of MADPASS, holds 21 Microsoft certifications, and has been working in IT for 20 years. Mike Acord has been developing on the SQL Server platform for over 12 years. He is currently a Senior Architect and Microsoft Practice Lead at Omni Resources where he designs and builds custom solutions using Microsoft technologies.
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/mdefehr
Contact: http://mikedefehr.com
Michael DeFehr is an independent SQL Server consultant based in Winnipeg, Canada. He is focused on database administration and development using Microsoft SQL Server. A SQL Server MVP, Professional Engineer and MCITP in both Database Development and Administration, Mike has spent the past 15 years producing and maintaining database solutions. Mike specializes in the relational and storage engines and his solutions emphasize performance and simplicity.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-pertell-2a2183b
Contact: http://www.pertell.com/sqlservings
I am an Accidental Database Administrator, working for the same healthcare company since 2000. I started using MS Access for report writing but started playing with SSRS 2000 and haven’t missed going back. In my spare time I enjoy reading, photography, and pretending I know how to golf.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-hietpas/2/119/189
Contact: http://www.skylinetechnologies.com/
Scott is a solution architect at Skyline Technologies with over 20 years of consulting experience helping organizations solve business problems with technology. He has architected on-premises and cloud-based data integration and data warehouse solutions as a foundation for data-driven decision making capabilities, and helped organizations adopt rich data visualization tools such as Power BI to turn data into insights.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehillwig
Contact: http://www.mikehillwig.com
Veteran DBA Mike Hillwig is a native Pittsburgher and resident of the Boston Suburbs. He’s a DBA Manager for a financial software company that’s owned by one of the world’s largest bank. Mike has been working with SQL Server since version 7 and has a background in infrastructure and network. Today, he manages a team of DBAs around the globe.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/russ-thomas/59/601/4b2/
Contact: http://www.sqljudo.com
Prior to focusing full time on IT Management and Database Administration in the Denver Colorado financial sector, Russ spent several years in law enforcement including four as a training Sergeant and Washington CJTC Instructor specializing in Emergency Vehicle Driving at Portland Intl Raceway. An experienced public speaker and trainer, Russ also has two decades of hands on IT work and leadership experience. Russ is a SQL Server Data Platform MCSE and is active in the SQLSaturday community.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eleightondick
Contact: http://www.edleightondick.com
Ed Leighton-Dick is a Microsoft MVP, SQL Server performance and architecture specialist, and Founder/Principal Consultant of Kingfisher Technologies. He is a frequent volunteer with PASS, including current roles as a Regional Mentor, co-leader of I-380 PASS local group, and co-leader of the HA/DR virtual group. He can often be found teaching sessions at local, regional, and national events, including user groups, SQLSaturday, and PASS Summit.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileymajor
Contact: http://www.Scribnasium.com/
Riley Major is an Enterprise Architect based in the Twin Cities, MN metro area who enjoys collaborating with business leaders to design technical solutions and working with technology professionals to build them. He's been programming and designing databases since he was a kid and doing so professionally for 20 years. He has a special place in his heart for T-SQL in SQL Server and loves to share that enthusiasm.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillrowley?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
Contact: http://gillrowley.wordpress.com
I#39;m a SQL Server DBA and Business Intelligence Consultant with over 10 years experience working with all versions of SQL Server dating back to SQL Server 7.0.
Contact: http://www.agilevoyageur.com
Terry started his career working with Adabas as a DBA., Over the next 20 years, Terry has worked with Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server as both a Data Modeler and DBA. Terry is a huge proponent of normalization and dimensional modeling. Terry has implemented Operational Data Stores, Data Warehouses, and ETL solutions for Investors Group, LPL Financial, Manitoba Blue Cross, and others. Terry has recently worked on integrating Agile practices into Database projects.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanjadams
Contact: http://www.ryanjadams.com
Ryan Adams is a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. He works directly with customers to help them realize their business potential and accelerate their digital transformation on premises and in the cloud. Previously, Ryan was a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and spent 19 years working for a fortune 100 company. His passion is the SQL Server Engine, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery. He also served on the Board of Directors for the North Texas SQL Server User Group, was President of the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter, was a PASS Regional Mentor, and served as a Director for the PASS organization.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdorame
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Jim Dorame has been working with SQL Server for over 20 years. Over those years he has learned a great deal from the SQL community. He has also given back to the community in the hopes that he may help someone in their career. He is always looking for something to learn and luckily Microsoft keeps adding to SQL Server.
Contact: http://sqlandcomics.com/
I#39;ve been working in SQL Server for 4 years. I specialize in SSIS development and query performance tuning.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-bland-sql-server
Contact: https://www.davebland.com
Over 20 years of SQL Server experience that includes being a DBA, BI development and Application development using VB.NET. Dave currently is the Manager of the DBA team at Stericycle. Dave is a Friend of Red-Gate for 2019. He is a frequent presenter at SQLSaturday events and user groups around the country. Has been teaching SQL Server since version 2000 and is the SQL Server instructor at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Current certifications include: • Microsoft Certified Trainer • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, BI Development and Maintenance • MCSA: SQL Server 2008 • MCSA: SQL Server 2016 • MCSE: SQL Server 2016 - BI • MCDBA: SQL Server 2000 • MCSD • MCSE: Data Management and Analytics
The following is a list of sponsors that helped fund the event.


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Char Boy needs to get to water, but is allergic to bug!
Use the keyboard arrows to lead Char Boy to the river.


Should render a 2x2 grid
Should render a 2x2 grid with the first row having a height of 50px
Start of crash tests
End of crash tests
Should render a 2x2 grid with columns 50px and 50%
Should render a full-width 4x4 grid with:
Should render 2 items with no grid formatting (one on top of the other)
Should render 2 items with no grid formatting (one on top of the other)
Basic minmax(): Should render 2 items side by side, each with a minimum width of 150px, If there is enough space, they will expand up to 300px each.
Since there is no vertical limit, the two rows should be 50px high each.
Since there is a height limit, the rows should be 25px high each.
3 columns with minimum 200px and maximum 100%.
Auto-fill of minimum 250px, max 1fr
Auto-fit of minimum 250px, max 1fr
Article layout: small margins on mobile, large on desktop. Centered column with 70ch width maximum
Named tracks there should be 4 grid items in a circle with a space in the middle
Should render a 2 columned grid
Should render 2 50px columns and 2 100px columns
Should render 2 50px columns and 2 100px columns, with grid-item 1 starting at column 2
Should render a 64px wide image
There should be a large (50px) column gap and small (10px) row gap
There should be a Z-shaped gap (with both vertical and horizontal gap)
There should be a column spanning 8 units, and then one spanning 4
There should be a column spanning 4 units, and then one spanning 8
There should be a row spanning 2 units, and then one spanning 3
There should be 1 column that starts at column 2 and spans until the end.
There should be 1 column that starts at column 2 and spans until the end.
The bottom row should take up half the width of the grid.
Grid template areas basics
There should be a left-aligned column taking up 1 / 3 of the grid
Column taking up 50% width
Left-aligned column taking up 25% width
Left-aligned column taking up 25% width
Min-content / Max-content / 1fr column widths
Bug with column gaps - grid items should have normal height


Bolivia: Morales says new elections can be held without him
Meanwhile, interim leader Anez says if Morales returns to Bolivia he'll have to 'answer to justice for electoral fraud'.
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales would like to return to Bolivia from Mexico but fresh elections could be held without him, he told Reuters news agency on Friday.
Morales resigned under pressure on Sunday after weeks of protests and violence following an October 20 election that awarded an outright win to him but was tarnished by widespread allegations of fraud. An Organization of American States (OAS) audit of the vote found widespread irregularities.
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Morales then fled to Mexico after being granted asylum. He told the Associated Press on Thursday that he could say he was still the president because his resignation was never accepted by Congress.
Earlier this week, Jeanine Anez declared herself interim president, saying every person in the line of succession ahead of her - all of them Morales backers - had resigned. The country's Constitutional Court issued a statement backing her claim that she didn't need to be confirmed by Congress, a body controlled by Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party.
'Answer to justice'
On Friday, Anez rejected Morales's claim that he resigned and left the country because of military pressure and threats of violence against his close collaborators.
"Evo Morales went on his own. Nobody kicked him out," she said at a news conference.
She said he is free to return, but has to "answer to justice for electoral fraud".
"Justice has to do its work without political pressures," she added.
On Thursday, Anez said she wants to mend bridges with MAS, and hold new elections. But she said that Morales would not be welcome as a candidate.
Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez speaks during a news conference at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia [Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters]
Some politicians from Morales's party and legislators from Anez's interim government had indicated that they had struck a political agreement to bring peace to the country and pave the road to a new vote in 90 days. But Anez said on Friday that the initial deal had failed, without giving details.
Morales told Reuters on Friday that he did not know who would be the MAS candidate. It would be for the people to decide, he said.
Morales supporters remain in the streets
Much of the opposition to Morales sprang from his refusal to accept a referendum that would have forbidden him from running for a fourth term.
Although some supporters became disenchanted by his insistence on holding on to power, Morales remains popular, especially among indigenous communities.
Since his resignation, Morales's supporters have marched in the streets, setting up blockades that forced closure of schools and caused petrol shortages in the capital.
A supporter of former Bolivian President Evo Morales takes part in a protest, in La Paz, Bolivia [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]
"Evo: Friend, the people are with you!" shouted largely indigenous protesters in the town of Sacaba on Friday.
Many protesters waved the national flag and the multicolour "Wiphala" flag that represents indigenous peoples. They said they did not accept Anez as interim president.


Types for specifying simulation settings.
More...
Types for specifying simulation settings.
◆ IPLSceneType
The ray tracer to use for scene representation and simulation.
Phonon lets you choose from multiple ray tracing implementations, each with different trade-offs. You can also choose to use your own ray tracing implementation.
| Enumerator |
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| IPL_SCENETYPE_PHONON | Phonon's built-in ray tracer which supports multi-threading.
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| IPL_SCENETYPE_EMBREE | The Intel Embree ray tracer.
This is a highly-optimized multi-threaded CPU implementation, and is likely to be faster than the Phonon ray tracer. However, Embree support requires a 64-bit CPU, and is not available on Android.
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| IPL_SCENETYPE_RADEONRAYS | The AMD Radeon Rays ray tracer.
This is an OpenCL implementation, and can use either the CPU or the GPU. If using the GPU, it is likely to be significantly faster than the Phonon ray tracer. However, on heavy real-time simulation workloads, it may impact the application's frame rate.
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| IPL_SCENETYPE_CUSTOM | Allows you to specify callbacks to your own ray tracer.
Useful if your application already uses a high-performance ray tracer. This option uses the least amount of memory at run-time, since it does not have to build any ray tracing data structures of its own.
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◆ IPLSimulationType
The type of simulation to perform.
All sound sources must use the same type of simulation; it is not currently possible to use real-time simulation for some sources and baked data for others.
| Enumerator |
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| IPL_SIMTYPE_REALTIME | Real-time simulation.
Sound propagation from all sound sources is constantly updated in a separate thread, as the player moves and interacts with the scene. This is a very performance-intensive approach, and requires the user to have a powerful PC for optimal results. This is also the type of simulation to choose when generating baked data.
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| IPL_SIMTYPE_BAKED | Simulation using baked data.
If baked data has been generated for the scene and sound sources, simulation will be carried out by looking up information from the baked data. This approach has much lower CPU usage than real-time simulation, but at the cost of increased memory usage.
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Your {{ data_source }} extraction has failed.
A pipeline for the data source {{ data_source }}
has failed.
You can take a look at the documentation for more informations about this extractor.
You can fix the configuration directly on your Meltano instance.


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Hey Alexander!
Bro!
Son!
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On your birthday today, we want to let you know that we love you and think you're doing great!
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Here's a few thoughts to see you through the tough moments!
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If you start doubting yourself, remember how far you've come. Remember everything you've faced and all the fears you've beaten...

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YOLO.
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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way
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Travel!
As much as you can
As far as you can
As long as you can
Life's not meant to be lived in one place...
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Don't be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else!
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You were born to do dis!
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We miss you!
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And we've realised it's not what we have in life but who we have in our lives that REALLY matters!
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Happy Birthday Alexander!
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We love you so so so so much! x y z


The Playlist Project is a list of themed playlists, shared by their creators for the enjoyment of anyone interested. Each playlist has been curated around a theme, with the length being around 60 minutes. Each month there is a new theme. To contribute, you can create a pull request. If you are unfamiliar with GitHub and would still like to contribute, you can submit a link to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Email submissions will be updated as time allows.
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LAR model of cellular complexes The external representation of a LAR model (necessarily geometrical, i.e. embedded in some En, in order to be possible to draw it) is a pair (geometry,topology), where geometry is the list of coordinates of vertices, i.e. a two-dimensional array of numbers, where vertices are given by row, and topology is a list of cells of fixed dimension d. When d = n the model is solid; otherwise the model is some emberdded d-skeleton (0 ≤ d < n).
Binary product of cellular complexes The larModelProduct function takes as input a pair of LAR models and returns the model of their Cartesian product. Since this is a pair (geometry, topology), its second element returns the topological product of the input topologies.
def larModelProduct(twoModels):
(V, cells1), (W, cells2) = twoModels
⟨Cartesian product of vertices 13b⟩
⟨Topological product of cells 13c⟩
model = [list(v) for v in vertices.keys()], cells
return model
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Macro referenced in 14b.
Cartesian product of argument vertices The following macro is used to generate a dictionary mapping between integer ids of new vertices and the sets V and W of vertices of the input complexes.
vertices = collections.OrderedDict(); k = 0
for v in V:
for w in W:
id = tuple(v+w)
if not vertices.has_key(id):
vertices[id] = k
k += 1 ◇
Macro referenced in 13a.
Topological product of argument vertices Another macro generates the cells of the topological product, represented as lists of new vertices.
cells = [ [vertices[tuple(V[v] + W[w])] for v in c1 for w in c2]
for c1 in cells1 for c2 in cells2] ◇
Macro referenced in 13a.
if __name__ == "__main__":
geom_0,topol_0 = [[0.],[1.],[2.],[3.],[4.]],[[0,1],[1,2],[2,3],[3,4]]
geom_1,topol_1 = [[0.],[1.],[2.]], [[0,1],[1,2]]
mod_0 = (geom_0,topol_0)
mod_1 = (geom_1,topol_1)
squares = larModelProduct([mod_0,mod_1])
VIEW(EXPLODE(1.2,1.2,1.2)(MKPOLS(squares)))
cubes = larModelProduct([squares,mod_0])
VIEW(EXPLODE(1.2,1.2,1.2)(MKPOLS(cubes)))
◇
Macro referenced in 14b.


BOUND A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1996 Scott Renshaw
(Gramercy) Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano. Screenplay: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski. Producers: Andrew Lazar, Stewart Boros. Directors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski. Running Time: 108 minutes.
It's always the same old story: There's a poor sap just out of the joint, just trying to make a buck to get by. Then along comes a dame, getting real friendly even though she's already mixed up with a guy, only she says the guy is bad news and she wants the poor sap to help her get out...and there's money as part of the bargain. Yep, it's the same old story...except that in BOUND, the poor sap is another woman. You might expect BOUND to try to cruise along on little more than its gender-bending premise, but you would be wrong. BOUND is a wickedly entertaining thriller with a gloriously manic performance by Joe Pantoliano, and it doesn't need gimmicks to succeed.
Our resident poor sap is Corky (Gina Gershon), a woman trying to walk the straight-and-narrow after serving five years for "re-distribution of wealth." She is doing maintenance work for a Chicago apartment building when she meets Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the beautiful, breathy lady living in the apartment next door to the one she is working on. Violet is the kept woman of a low-level mobster named Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), but it seems she also has eyes for Corky, and the feeling is mutual. Violet confides in Corky that she wants to leave Caesar, and hopes to take with her the $2 million Caesar is holding for his bosses while setting him up to take the fall. So Corky hatches a plan to steal the money and force Caesar to run...except that Caesar doesn't react quite according to plan.
The first act of BOUND sticks quite close to the standard film noir formula story line outlined above, complete with femme fatale Violet seducing Corky with drinks and double-entendre, Corky engaging in suspicious second-guessing, and a partnership in crime which seems less than entirely trustworthy.  The sex scene between Gershon and Tilly is utterly gratuitous after the much more effective seduction scene, however, and BOUND begins to raise red flags of turning into pure exploitation when heads begin smashing into toilets and severed fingers begin flying.
I also feared I saw danger signs of BOUND becoming a case of lesbian-chic meets plot-twist-chic once Violet and Corky get their hands on Caesar's money, that it would play itself out with the two women exchanging double-crosses until poetic justice was served. The reason that doesn't happen is that Andy and Larry Wachowski (ASSASSINS) have no intention of letting Caesar be little more than a plot device. As played by Joe Pantoliano, Caesar is a giddy display of sheer survival instinct as he thwarts the carefully-laid plans of Corky and Violet to set him up by taking on the people Violet expected him to run from. Pantoliano has some hilarious moments as he becomes ever more desperate, including a conversation with a corpse which is as comic as it is one-sided, and BOUND begins building merrily tense scene on top of merrily tense scene.
I suppose the thing that makes BOUND particularly satisfying is that it is simply a very good thriller -- suspenseful, unpredictable, well-acted and stylishly directed. On one level, I suppose you could argue that the lesbian angle is unnecessary, and that the Wachowskis include it simply for titillation value, but it is precisely because it is unnecessary that I think it is so noteworthy. BOUND would have been just as effective if Corky had been a man, or if Caesar had been a woman, or if all three main characters had been men. It was not all that long ago that film-makers began talking about "color-blind casting," choosing actors not because their race or ethnicity was intrinsic to the roles but because they were the best actors available for those roles. In BOUND, Gina Gershon makes a sharp little suspense thriller that much more intriguing by being perhaps the first example of "sexuality-blind casting." Here's to the poor saps of the world, whatever their gender.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 gender benders: 8.
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Little Heroes
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All children added to the game object with this script will be arranged into a table with rows and columns automatically adjusting their size to fit their content (think "table" tag in HTML). More...
Public Types | |
| enum | Direction { Direction.Down, Direction.Up } |
| enum | Sorting { Sorting.None, Sorting.Alphabetic, Sorting.Horizontal, Sorting.Vertical, Sorting.Custom } |
Public Member Functions | |
| delegate void | OnReposition () |
| List< Transform > | GetChildList () |
| Get the current list of the grid's children. More... | |
| virtual void | Reposition () |
| Recalculate the position of all elements within the table, sorting them alphabetically if necessary. More... | |
Public Attributes | |
| int | columns = 0 |
| How many columns there will be before a new line is started. More... | |
| Direction | direction = Direction.Down |
| Which way the new lines will be added. More... | |
| Sorting | sorting = Sorting.None |
| How to sort the grid's elements. More... | |
| UIWidget.Pivot | pivot = UIWidget.Pivot.TopLeft |
| Final pivot point for the table itself. More... | |
| UIWidget.Pivot | cellAlignment = UIWidget.Pivot.TopLeft |
| Final pivot point for the table's content. More... | |
| bool | hideInactive = true |
| Whether inactive children will be discarded from the table's calculations. More... | |
| bool | keepWithinPanel = false |
| Whether the parent container will be notified of the table's changes. More... | |
| Vector2 | padding = Vector2.zero |
| Padding around each entry, in pixels. More... | |
| OnReposition | onReposition |
| Delegate function that will be called when the table repositions its content. More... | |
| System.Comparison< Transform > | onCustomSort |
| Custom sort delegate, used when the sorting method is set to 'custom'. More... | |
Protected Member Functions | |
| virtual void | Sort (List< Transform > list) |
| Want your own custom sorting logic? Override this function. More... | |
| virtual void | Start () |
| Position the grid's contents when the script starts. More... | |
| virtual void | Init () |
| Find the necessary components. More... | |
| virtual void | LateUpdate () |
| Is it time to reposition? Do so now. More... | |
| void | RepositionVariableSize (List< Transform > children) |
| Positions the grid items, taking their own size into consideration. More... | |
Protected Attributes | |
| UIPanel | mPanel |
| bool | mInitDone = false |
| bool | mReposition = false |
Properties | |
| bool | repositionNow [set] |
| Reposition the children on the next Update(). More... | |
All children added to the game object with this script will be arranged into a table with rows and columns automatically adjusting their size to fit their content (think "table" tag in HTML).
| enum UITable.Direction |
| enum UITable.Sorting |
| List<Transform> UITable.GetChildList | ( | ) |
Get the current list of the grid's children.
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Find the necessary components.
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Is it time to reposition? Do so now.
| delegate void UITable.OnReposition | ( | ) |
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Recalculate the position of all elements within the table, sorting them alphabetically if necessary.
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Positions the grid items, taking their own size into consideration.
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Want your own custom sorting logic? Override this function.
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Position the grid's contents when the script starts.
| UIWidget.Pivot UITable.cellAlignment = UIWidget.Pivot.TopLeft |
Final pivot point for the table's content.
| int UITable.columns = 0 |
How many columns there will be before a new line is started.
0 means unlimited.
| Direction UITable.direction = Direction.Down |
Which way the new lines will be added.
| bool UITable.hideInactive = true |
Whether inactive children will be discarded from the table's calculations.
| bool UITable.keepWithinPanel = false |
Whether the parent container will be notified of the table's changes.
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| System.Comparison<Transform> UITable.onCustomSort |
Custom sort delegate, used when the sorting method is set to 'custom'.
| OnReposition UITable.onReposition |
Delegate function that will be called when the table repositions its content.
| Vector2 UITable.padding = Vector2.zero |
Padding around each entry, in pixels.
| UIWidget.Pivot UITable.pivot = UIWidget.Pivot.TopLeft |
Final pivot point for the table itself.
| Sorting UITable.sorting = Sorting.None |
How to sort the grid's elements.
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set |
Reposition the children on the next Update().