<p>This adult coloring book is both stress reliever and art. Original photography has been transformed into black and white sketches ready to be colored in by you in whatever way you choose. Let loose with bold swaths of color, contemplate a world in which polar bears are green and ducks are fuchsia.And then if you want to see how your vision compares to the original artwork, each images comes with a URL and a QR code you can scan with your smart phone or tablet to see the original photography. Each picture also comes with a brief story of the photograph’s origin.We designed this coloring book to bring a little light, a little levity, and a burst of color to your day. Honestly, at the end of our days, we need something relaxing. Something that feels like playing, that lets our minds + our hearts roam free. A time to get back to our wild, to our soul, to our spirit and wander free before diving back into our lives and all our obligations.</p>

A Transforming Lens: Sketches from Photographs: An Adult Coloring Book

Ford, Tim

Religion & Spirituality

Possibilities Publishing Company

<p>Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a significant and valuable addition to the DBA's troubleshooting armory, laying bare previously unavailable information regarding the under-the-covers activity of your database sessions and transactions. Why, then, aren't all DBAs using them? Why do many DBAs continue to ignore them in favour of "tried and trusted" tools such as sp_who2, DBCC OPENTRAN, and so on, or make do with the "ready made" reports built into SSMS? Why do even those that do use the DMVs speak wistfully about "good old sysprocesses"? There seem to be two main factors at work. Firstly, some DBAs are simply unaware of the depth and breadth of the information that is available from the DMvs, or how it might help them troubleshoot common issues. This book investigates all of the DMVs that are most frequently useful to the DBA in investigating query execution, index usage, session and transaction activity, disk IO, and how SQL Server is using or abusing the operating system. Secondly, the DMVs have a reputation of being difficult to use. In the process of exposing as much useful data as possible, sysprocesses has been de-normalized, and many new views and columns have been added. This fact, coupled with the initially-baffling choices of what columns will be exposed where, has lead to some DBAs to liken querying DMVs to "collecting mystic spells". In fact, however, once you start to write your own scripts, you'll see the same tricks, and similar join patterns, being used time and again. As such, a relatively small core set of scripts can be readily adapted to suit any requirement. This book is here to de-mystify the process of collecting the information you need to troubleshoot SQL Server problems. It will highlight the core techniques and "patterns" that you need to master, and will provide a core set of scripts that you can use and adapt for your own systems, including how to: * Root out the queries that are causing memory or CPU pressure on your system * Investigate caching, and query plan reuse * Identify index usage patterns * Track fragmentation in clustered indexes and heaps * Get full details on blocking and blocked transactions, including the exact commands being executed, and by whom. * Find out where SQL Server is spending time waiting for resources to be released, before proceeding * Monitor usage and growth of tempdb The DMVs don't make existing, built-in, performance tools obsolete. On the contrary, they complement these tools, and offer a flexibility, richness and granularity that are simply not available elsewhere. Furthermore, you don't need to master a new GUI, or a new language in order to use them; it's all done in a language all DBAs know and mostly love: T-SQL.</p>

Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views (High Performance SQL Server)

Computers & Technology

Davidson, Louis

Programming Languages

Red gate books

Fool's Betrayal

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Pandamonium Publishing House

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