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Q: Understanding documentation of "Row-Overflow Data Exceeding 8 KB" The SQL Server Documentation on Storage and Row Size limit of 8060 Bytes says

The length of individual columns must still fall within the limit of 8,000 bytes for varchar, nvarchar, varbinary, sql_variant, and CLR user-defined type columns. Only their combined lengths can exceed the 8,060-byte row limit of a table.

Please someone explain and help me understand:

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*"length of individual columns must still fall.." - Is the Length referred here is represented by LEN() OR DATALENGTH()?

*How can be the largest size allowed by VARCHAR(MAX) be less than 8060 Bytes?

*"Only their combined lengths can exceed" - does it mean sum of Sizes of all VARCHAR(MAX) columns in the table, even if filled to the full of DataType capacity, are allowed without Error - "Msg 511 Cannot create a row of size XXXX which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060".

A: The length restriction must refer to the data length, and not the actual text length.  For different encodings, two strings of the same length may have a different size.
For VARCHAR and the other types mentioned (not including NVARCHAR(MAX)), each column is limited to 8060 bytes, but the sum of several such columns may still exceed 8060 bytes.
Regarding the apparent contradiction for NVARCHAR(MAX), the link you gave goes on to add a note:

This restriction does not apply to varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max), text, image, or xml columns. For more information about the storage of these columns, see Using Large-Value Data Types, Using text and image Data, and Using XML Data.

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Dressing by diamond blade, diamond wheel or diamond profile roll → large batch sizes.
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Dressing by diamond profile roll → large batch sizes, close tolerances.


'Vote for Apps' End of Round 3: Did Your Favorite Make It?
The third round of the voting series "Vote for Apps" in the Univention App Catalog is over. It ran from April 13 to May 13.
Thank you guys very much for participating.
Enterprise wikis are about technology and features – but also about the main principle of sharing.
Wikis were a small cultural revolution. The idea behind it: Different people join online to collaboratively write texts, review them, discuss changes, improve, supplement, link and categorize them. And through this work and combined knowledge of many people a powerful central knowledge base is created in which you almost always find what you need to know.
Wikipedia has consistently thought through the model of openly exchanging knowledge and made it popular. For 17 years Wikipedia has been the place to go for knowledge on the Web while the use of wikis has been spreading in companies, too. The open source software TWiki (1998) or the proprietary Confluence (2004) paved the way for the triumphant march of wiki technology in companies. Of course, the Wikipedia software MediaWiki (2002) also plays a part in the story about wikis in companies. But more on that in a moment.
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Anonymous sources are not anonymous to us reporters
Posted by John Reed on Sep 12, 2015
Copyright 2011 by John T. Reed
I am an investigative journalist
I am a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association and I have attended a number of their training programs. I am a journalist and specifically in the category of what is called "the working press" in the business. That means I make my full-time income from non-fiction writing, frequently about current events or particular individuals who do not want the story in question written about them.
I have described investigative journalism as being to other types of journalism what target shooting is to combat. In investigative journalism alone, the target often shoots back, often with a bankrupt-you and ruin-your-life lawsuit.
Such return fire tends to make witnesses reluctant to be identified.
Thus the "anonymous source."
Worthless or fraudulent?
Targets of "anonymous sources" go into high dudgeon about "anonymous sources." They would have you believe that "anonymous source" means no source or that the "anonymous source" is a nobody who knows nothing and whom no one would believe if they knew his or her identity.
Supporters of the investigative targets echo the innuendo of the target with regard to the value of "anonymous sources."
No such thing as an 'anonymous source'
First off, there is no such thing as an "anonymous source." If I quote what you call an "anonymous source," that source is not anonymous to me. If I got a tip or accusation from a truly anonymous source—like a letter with no signature or identifying information about the source—which I have—I would ignore it.
Or in one case, I sent it to the person being accused. He investigated it. It was a credit report on him. The entity that requested the credit report had been redacted. But the date and time had not. The credit bureau thereby instantly identified the entity that requested the report. It was real estate guru Bill Bronchick. He denies having sent it to me or that he knows how whoever sent it to me got it. He was associated with a woman who was feuding with the man whose credit report it was.
I don't use it most of the time
Why do I not use information I get anonymously? I do not want to get sued successfully. Also, I do not want to falsely accuse anyone because it is wrong. Also, I do not want to look like a fool.
Now, I will use it if the source tells me where to find corroboration. That's another matter. For example, an anonymous source might tell me to look at a particular document that I can get from a court or recorders office. In that case, my source when I write the story is not the person who told me that. It is the document itself.
I have, on occasion, encouraged people who want to help me in an investigation to tell me where to look if they do not want to disclose their identity to me. But I explain that I have to get a reliable piece of evidence or there will be no story. Probably most of the people who bring me dirt on someone decline to be identified and as a result, I never do the story. In the case of Robert Allen, author of the book Nothing Down, I repeatedly got tips from people who wanted me to tell the world negative news about him. But they would neither go on the record nor could they tell me where to look.
'Where's the proof?'
Finally, one of them did tell me where to look: in the Utah County Court House in Provo, Utah. I then got the documents, wrote the story, and it was picked up by other outlets all over the U.S. including the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Those outlets went with the story because I cited chapter and verse of the documents and I had given Allen a chance to respond. I removed parts of the story because Allen said they were not what they seemed.
I checked and confirmed that he was right. Sometimes, solid evidence like recorders office documents, can nevertheless be misleading. For example, one of the creditor suits against Allen did not really relate to him. He had simply been named because he was in the chain of title on some property. The lawyer who filed that suit agreed on the phone that Allen ultimately was not legitimately a defendant in that suit. I took it out.
Note that in the Allen case, the original "anonymous sources" who contacted me had been right all along. But they were sloppy by journalistic standards. They knew the truth of what they were saying, but they did not think like lawyers or journalists about the need for proof.
Okay if they are reliable
On other occasions, I quote sources who do not want to be identified. In those cases, I know who they are and have, by whatever means, confirmed that they are reliable. That is not foolproof, but it meets the moral and legal standard. [New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)] Like other investigative journalists, I identify them as well as I can to the readers—like "an executive of ABC Corporation"—without revealing their identity.
Indeed, we journalists generally do not use the phrase "anonymous source." Rather, we identify the person as narrowly as we can without exposing him or her. The people who sneeringly use the phrase "anonymous source" are almost always the accused and his or her supporters.
Unlike a lot of journalists, I do not go to jail to protect the identity of a source and tell people that when they talk to me. I will keep your identity secret until a judge orders me to disclose it. I was ordered to reveal the name of an attorney that way once. Tellingly, the lawyer who demanded that and railed against the anonymity for months beforehand, instantly dropped the matter when he learned the name of the lawyer. "Oh, I know him," was his response. His litigating stance had been that the "anonymous" lawyer I was quoting must not exist or must be a moron or a liar. When I revealed the name, of a respected, Harvard Law School graduate Manhattan attorney, poof went all the bullshit about "anonymous" sources being not only worthless, but a fraud.
'Deep throat'
Who is the most famous "anonymous" source ever? "Deep throat." And for how many years did the allies of President Nixon mock the anonymous sources of Woodward and Bernstein?
A bunch of Nixon people want to jail. Nixon himself needed, got, and accepted a presidential pardon from President Gerald Ford. And who was the "anonymous source"—who was never anonymous to Bob Woodward? FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, the number two guy at the FBI. As in my experience, all the dismissal of the "anonymous source" was instantly vaporized by the revelation of who it was.
An army of heroes
I wish someone would Google all the "anonymous source" stories of the past 40 years or so and see how they ended up. My impression is that they were almost all true. The truth is "anonymous sources" have been key sources in thousands of investigative stories and subsequent remedial actions that were extremely important to the nation. Generally, the "anonymous sources" and the reporters who quoted them have turned out to be heroes who exposed important scandals.
Look at the journalist, not the source ID
You cannot evaluate the validity of an "anonymous source" story from just the phrase "anonymous source" as supporters of the accused imply. You measure the validity of the "anonymous source" story by the reputation of the journalist in question. If it is Bob Woodward, or another respected journalist, it is a reliable source. If it is some guy hiding behind a handle at an Internet chat group, it is not reliable.
A recent "anonymous source" hot story was the Hermain Cain sexual harassment accusation. The right has, in my opinion, made fools out of themselves going way out of their way to give Cain every benefit of every doubt—apparently solely because they and Cain are Republican conservatives.
My impression listening to the accusations and to Herman's denials is that the accusations were valid. The evidence seems thin, but that is always the nature of such cases. Cain changed his story repeatedly, the accusers, as far as I can tell, did not.
Today, 11/3/11, Cain, and his yellow dog supporters like Sean Hannity, have said there was no settlement. It was a "severance."
Are you kidding me!? Since when is a generous (one year's pay) severance pursuant to an accusation of sexual harassment anything but a settlement? A settlement is an agreement. There was an agreement in this case, as evidenced by the fact that all agree it had a confidentiality provision.
The correct journalistic stance on the Cain story is to separate the "wheat from the chaff" in the various stories. What evidence do they really have? Then you decide is this a story at all. A number of liberal media went with some obviously he-said-she-said bogus story on John McCain for a while in the 2008 election. They ended up looking like fools. It was evident in the first reports that it was too thin to go with.
It there is enough "wheat" to go with the story at all, you report the "wheat" and do not even mention the "chaff" or spin surrounding it at various liberal and conservative media outlets.
No matter what the truth is, if these women come out of hiding now, they will be heroes to the left and pariahs to the right. Can you blame them for not coming out? As I understand it, the women in question have not been the accusers. Rather, the accusers are third-parties who risk nothing personally by outing the confidential agreement.
Some may wonder why the women who signed the confidentiality agreement couldn't get reimbursed by the National Enquirer, the Democrat Party, the Republican opponents of Cain, or some other dirt purveyor for the severance money they would have to went public in violation of the confidentiality agreement. Paying someone to violate a contract probably breaks a law called tortious interference with a contractual relationship.
I have already written before this story that Cain's instinct appears to be to bluff and bluster his way through embarrassing personal failures. I cited a study that said his 9-9-9 plan was going to raise taxes on lower and middle income people. He got a big laugh and applause at a debate by responding to that accusation by saying in the most unequivocal terms, "That study is wrong!"
But the study is not wrong. Herman Cain is. And his notion that professional journalists can be intimidated by the force of his voice is either insanity or evidence that Cain has very little experience with big-time media and big-time scrutiny.
If and when Cain is discovered to be covering up even a minor sexual harassment incident, he may be toast. As even laymen know, it is not the behavior that gets you into trouble. It is the cover-up. Martha Stewart did not go to jail for trading on inside information. She went to jail for lying to investigators about it.
At worst, the accusations against Cain seem rather mild. For example, it's not Juanita Broaddrick claiming he raped her. But he may have turned an unimportant molehill into a fatal mountain by looking the American people in the eye and saying, with the same conviction that he said the "study was wrong," that nothing happened when something did happen.
Cain keeps saying he's a businessman, not a politician and that he's a problem solver.
Bull! He used to be an appointed executive of various household name corporations. But he has not been that since 1996 when he left Godfather's Pizza. Since then, he has been in politics at the National Restaurant Association, advisor to Dole's 1996 campaign, Republican presidential candidate in 2000 (you missed that?), candidate for senate in 2004, employee of Koch family in Americans for Prosperity in 2005, voice-over announcer for Republican ads targeted toward black voters in 2006, and candidate for president now.
Furthermore, he is not an especially competent politician, in spite of all those years of experience. This scandal and his handling of it is one example. The fact that he has almost no staff and is wandering around the U.S. collecting applause, like Obama, rather than working the living rooms in Iowa and New Hampshire has caused many political experts to think he is just in this to sell books or become vice-president. Or that he just has no clue about how one runs a presidential campaign.
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Q: How to detect if view's parent activity is being destroyed I want to do some cleanup in a view when the activity is being destroyed. Is there any way to get a callback in the View when the activity is being destroyed? I tried using onDetachedFromWindow, but I'm not sure whether it is correct thing to do.

A: If you want to get a callback without having to overload the View.onDetachedFromWindow() method, you may use the View.addOnAttachStateChangeListener() method, which takes a callback listener as a single parameter.

A: With the understanding that onDestroy is not guaranteed to be called, you can just callback into your view in the activities onDestroy method.
Edit in response to comment:
You can get any view by giving it an id in the layout and calling findViewById.  Here's an example:
Layout.xml (only showing the bare minimum)
<LinearLayout>
  <com.example.superwidget.DropDownTouchEnabledListView
    android:id="@+id/special_list_view" />
</LinearLayout>

MyActivity.java (again, bare minimal and assuming proper imports)
@Override
void onDestroy() {
    DownTouchEnabledListView v = (DownTouchEnabledListView)findViewById(R.id.special_list_view);
    v.doCallback(with, parameters);
}

A: Since View contains Context, I use LocalBroadcastManager for this. So far, I haven't encountered any issues.
The View is listening to destroy event filter. The Activity then just need to broadcast destroy event.
// On View `setup` function
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(context).registerReceiver(receiver, filter)

// On Activity
override fun onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy()
    LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).sendBroadcast(intent)
}

Don't forget to unregister the event filter once the destroy event is triggered.
presenter.destroy() // Your clean-up code here
LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(this).unregisterReceiver(receiver)

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Q: android Get file name and path from Download directory I'm trying to copy a file from download folder to another directory.
i used this code to get the file path
 int PICKFILE_RESULT_CODE=1;
        Intent chooseFile = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
        chooseFile.setType("*/*");
        chooseFile = Intent.createChooser(chooseFile, "Choose a file");
        startActivityForResult( chooseFile,PICKFILE_RESULT_CODE);

I also used
 @Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
                             Intent returnIntent) {
    // If the selection didn't work
    if (resultCode != RESULT_OK) {
        // Exit without doing anything else
        return;
    } else {
        returnUri = returnIntent.getData();
        String src = returnUri.getPath();
        Toast.makeText(this, src, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    }
}

The code works fine if the file is outside the download directory, when in it the path which i get is in the form of number not the actual name of the file like:
/document/2399
this gives an error of file not found
while the path from the root is:
/storage/emulated/0/myDB.db3
this works fine
pls help me to fix this

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The code works fine if the file is outside the download directory

No, it does not. It works fine if the scheme of the Uri happens to be file. Most of the time, it will be content.

I'm trying to copy a file from download folder to another directory.

Use openInputStream() on a ContentResolver to get an InputStream on the content identified by the Uri. This works for both file and content schemes. Then, use standard Java I/O to copy the content from the InputStream to your desired location.

A: Here is the new code:
    int PICKFILE_RESULT_CODE=1;
    Intent chooseFile = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
    chooseFile.setType("*/*");
    chooseFile = Intent.createChooser(chooseFile, "Choose a file");
    startActivityForResult( chooseFile,PICKFILE_RESULT_CODE);

And used:
@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
                             Intent returnIntent) {
        InputStream is = null;
    // If the selection didn't work
    if (resultCode != RESULT_OK) {
        // Exit without doing anything else
        return;
    } else {
        // Get the file's content URI from the incoming Intent
        Uri returnUri = returnIntent.getData();
        try {
            is = getContentResolver().openInputStream(returnUri);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        try {
            BackUpHelper.importDB(is);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

public static void importDB(InputStream is) throws IOException {

    OutputStream os = null;

    try {
    String currentDBPath =  DataBaseHelper2.DB_PATH+DataBaseHelper2.DB_NAME;
    File outPut = new File(currentDBPath);

        os = new FileOutputStream(outPut);

        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

        while (is.read(buffer) > 0) {

            os.write(buffer);

        }
        Toast.makeText(context, R.string.export_successful,
                Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Toast.makeText(context, R.string.export_failed, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                .show();
    }finally {
        os.flush();
        os.close();
        is.close();
    }

}


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Celonis is a software company based in Munich and New York. Its Intelligent Business System is based on the groundbreaking process mining technology. As the market leader in process mining, Celonis supports companies in understanding and improving operational processes. Companies such as Siemens, GM, 3M, Bayer, Airbus and Vodafone worldwide rely on Celonis technology to develop new, automated business processes with the potential to save millions and offer their customers improved services.
Founded in 2011, Celonis has quickly established itself as a pioneer in process mining. The company has grown by 5,000 per cent in the last four years and by 300 per cent last year. Since opening an office in New York in September 2016, Celonis has quickly gained customers such as Merck, Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil and Uber- The USA is the fastest growing region for Celonis, and sales here will soon account for over 50 per cent of total sales. The company is also developing very positively in its core market DACH and in other European regions and has convinced customers such as Deutsche Telekom, Shell, AstraZeneca, Swisscom and Andritz.
For companies of all sizes, the development towards an intelligent organization has the highest strategic relevance. With Celonis Process Mining (CPM), the entire process chain is reconstructed and visualized in real time from the data produced by the company for all SAP systems (and possibly other IT systems). In this way, each step within a process can be precisely traced and evaluated and improved without predefined key figures.
CPM offers an explorative approach for finding weak points in processes: Using a slider on the user interface, the user changes the visualized process complexity and selects, for example, the most frequent process sequence or the complete visualization of all currently running processes. If required, the user can call up all associated individual documents or transactions.
Different filters help to track the progress of individual invoices, components or suppliers, for example. In this way, it is possible to delve deeper and deeper into the process variants until a source of error or optimization potential has been identified. Let's have a look at a customer example.
According to Celonis, CPM optimized the ordering process and production planning at a wholesaler for customized mountain bikes in order to improve delivery times. The problem was that components such as seat tubes, handles or fork heads were ordered too late by the purchasing department and too much time seemed to be lost during production and delivery. As a result, agreed delivery dates could not be met more and more frequently.
An analysis with CPM showed that largely inefficient release processes led to an average of seven days elapsing before purchasing received approval from the specialist department to order the required components from the supplier. As a result, the company simplified the approval process and gave it higher priority in the departments.
Furthermore, it was determined that far too often time-consuming interventions had to be made in the ordering process. The reason: incorrect master data entries and manual price changes. Many suppliers had not sent the wholesaler any current price lists after price changes at the beginning of the year. The company updated its master data and price lists, reducing process times by a further 15 per cent and improving overall production planning and delivery.
Summing up, Celoni's Intelligent Business System replaces and revolutionizes the previously manual, time-consuming and costly consulting-intensive approach to transformation initiatives. Based on its process mining technology, Celonis offers insight into existing process flows, a detailed analysis of process metrics and an intelligent framework for process improvements. Companies are increasingly turning to Celonis because it enables them to immediately increase their sales and profits.
"We were particularly impressed by the added value that Celoni's organizations bring to their transformation right from the start," said Laurel Bowden, Partner at 83North. "We knew the market was huge. Customers need this product that can be quickly deployed for quantifiable business benefits. The team will continue to focus on rapid growth because the more people know about Celonis, the more influence they can have on the transformation of their industries.


The first tests have been completed and we are very positive, there's a future for this!
You first create a route via MyRoute-app WEB for PCs, laptops, notebooks and tablets. Watch out; Sygic can only process up to 47 route points! The created route can be opened in MyRoute-app for Android smartphones. Now you must choose 'Start new track' before you see the navigation symbol. We will change that in the next update, the navigation symbol should be visible directly when you've opened a route. Click on the navigation symbol, then a window shows up in which you can click on 'Sygic'. Sygic is opened and the coordinates of the route points will be removed from our server and converted directly. This will take some time depending on how long the route is and how many route points you have placed. Then the route will be shown on the Sygic map, now you can still adjust the route if you want. If you touch a route point with your finger and hold it for a moment, you'll see a cross which you can use to delete the route point. If you hold the route point for a bit longer, you can move the route point around. If you like the itinerary, you can click 'Start' and go for a ride. While writing this text, there is still a bug in the system, in one way or another the last route point always gets removed. We do not yet know why, but it will be solved as soon as possible. The workaround is quite simple; put another route point ten meters before your goal in MyRoute-app WEB, the last route point will be removed, but the penultimate route point remains.
When purchasing, you can choose between several maps, after the purchase you can use Settings> Manage Maps to decide which maps you want to download, only download the country where you want to drive, because you can still download more later. The downloaded maps are available offline!
Choose horizontal or vertical screen, and then switch off 'Screen rotation', then Sygic won't switch between horizontal and vertical when there are vibrations.
That's it for this time, now I'm going to buy a smartphone holder for my motorbike and drive a really long route, to be continued!


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The Strange Case Of The Missing Dimension
by Kate Melville
Scientists at Los Alamos have uncovered an intriguing quantum mechanical phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate (a 2,500-year-old pigment known as Han purple). When newly grown crystals of the pigment were exposed to very high magnetic fields at very low temperatures; they entered a rarely observed state of matter. At the threshold of that matter state - known as a quantum critical point - the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern.
Detailing their work in Nature, the researchers describe how they discovered that at high magnetic fields (above 23 Tesla) and at temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Kelvin, the magnetic waves in Han purple crystals "exist" in a unique state of matter called a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC). In this state, magnetic waves propagate simultaneously in all of three directions (up-down, forward-backward and left-right). But at the quantum critical point, the waves stop propagating in the up-down dimension, causing the magnetic ripples to exist in only two dimensions, much the same way as ripples are confined to the surface of a pond.
Los Alamos physicist Neil Harrison said that the reduced dimensionality was a complete surprise. Harrison and the other team members believe that the lost dimension phenomenon is caused by the strange nature of atomic behavior in quantum states. In the higher temperatures of the BEC state, the individual waves - which are associated with magnetism from pairs of copper atoms in the Han Purple pigment - lose their identities and condense into one giant wave of undulating magnetism. As the temperature is lowered, this magnetic wave becomes more sensitive to the vertical arrangement of individual copper layers in the pigment - which are shifted relative to each other - in a phenomenon called "geometrical frustration". This makes it difficult for the magnetic waves to propagate in the third up-down dimension, which leads to its two-dimensionality.
Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory