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B2B buyers are much more concerned about a company's values than the general public
B2B marketers take note: 72% of your buyers say they are more likely to buy from socially responsible businesses, according to a recent survey. That's 17 points higher than the general public.
Additionally, 48% of B2B buyers say they're "much more likely to" buy from these firms, compared to 29% of consumers. There's a big gender gap on this among the B2B population, but not the one you might expect: 57% of men are in the "much more likely" group, compared to 35% of women, according to the American Marketing Association-New York "Future of Marketing" study.
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These folks are more than willing to put the company's money behind this: 73% say they don't mind if it costs them more. We're not talking just a slight increase, either. Some 38% would pay prices more than 10% higher and 17% would be OK with an additional 25% or more. This is a considerable difference from the general public where the numbers are 23% and 10% respectively.
Furthermore, the bigger the purchase, the more buyers who respond strongly to brand purpose. Only 35% of those whose last purchase was under $10,000, are in the more likely to buy group. That group expands to 54% of those who spent between $10,000 and $100,000, and 62% of those whose last buy was over $100,000.
The most important issues for buyers:
Being a good employer (34%).
Corporate citizenship (27%).
Sustainability and environmental protection (24%).
Racial equality (23%).
Workplace diversity (23%).
Protecting voting and democracy (22%).
Women's rights (15%).
Criminal justice reform (13%).
LGBTQ+ issues (10%).
Workplace diversity is considerably more important to B2B buyers than the general public (23% to 15%).
While the current group of B2B buyers looks like it usually has, that's very likely to change. Right now the average corporate buyer is mostly under 40 (65%) and male (60%). However, women make up 53% of the under-30s (as well as 56% of the over-50s). They're also in the majority at companies with fewer than 50 workers (59%) and those with more than 5,000 (54%).
Why we care. The title of the study is "The new B2B: Omni-channel, tech-friendly and woke." However one cares to define that last word, it is not one usually associated with B2B. That's very important for focusing marketing and for the world at large. For marketers it means making sales and the C-suite understand that all of the business's actions have an impact on the bottom line. For the rest of us it means there's a powerful market force pushing for greater corporate responsibility.
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Constantine von Hoffman is managing editor of MarTech. A veteran journalist, Con has covered business, finance, marketing and tech for CBSNews.com, Brandweek, CMO, and Inc. He has been city editor of the Boston Herald, news producer at NPR, and has written for Harvard Business Review, Boston Magazine, Sierra, and many other publications. He has also been a professional stand-up comedian, given talks at anime and gaming conventions on everything from My Neighbor Totoro to the history of dice and boardgames, and is author of the magical realist novel John Henry the Revelator. He lives in Boston with his wife, Jennifer, and either too many or too few dogs.
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I just pressed send on the manuscript for my book to be released in September. It's called Content Marketing Strategy (snappy, eh?), and Kogan Page will publish it.
Last week, marketing professor Philip Kotler wrote the foreword. I won't spoil it, but he mentioned the need for a strategic approach to owned media.
He writes, "(T)he company doesn't carry an account of showing these marketing assets and their value. As a result, the company cannot show the CEO and company board members a return on owned assets or content."
Luckily, my upcoming book shows exactly how to do that. Funny how that works out.
In any event, all this struck me that now is an opportune time to look at where the beloved practice of content marketing stands today.
First, let's go back to 1999 when Kotler published Kotler On Marketing, one of his more than 70 books. The latter 1990s – a time of tumultuous change – fueled most of the thinking for the book. But he knew that it was merely the beginning.
Kotler concluded the book with a section called "Transformational Marketing." In the next decade, he wrote, "marketing will be re-engineered from A to Z. Marketing will need to rethink fundamentally the processes by which they identify, communicate, and deliver customer value."
Well, it's taken over two decades, but it's finally happening.
Consumers have changed, but marketing operations are just starting to
In case you didn't notice, almost every marketing conference these days starts with the same four or five requisite slides:
Digital technologies, such as search and social media, empower consumers today.
Consumers research, engage, buy, and stay loyal to brands in ways that have fundamentally changed.
First-party data and privacy are of the utmost importance.
Artificial intelligence begins to threaten the idea of the usefulness of search and pressure companies to deliver better and more personalized experiences.
You get it. Consumer expectations in the age of the social, mobile, and AI-driven web are different than they were.
However, the continuing challenge in 2023 is that content and/or marketing operations in enterprise companies are only beginning to evolve. Most marketing departments have remained as they were when Kotler wrote his book — they still work from mid- to late-20th century hierarchies, strategies, and processes.
Most marketing departments still work with mid- to late-20th-century hierarchies, strategies, and processes, says @Robert_Rose via @CMIContent. Click To Tweet
Content marketing isn't new, but a content marketing strategy is
For hundreds of years, businesses have used content to affect some kind of profitable outcome. But the reality is this: Whether it was John Deere's The Furrow from the 1800s, Michelin's guide to car maintenance in the early 1900s, or even Hasbro's GI-Joe partnership with Marvel in the 1980s, content was not — and is not for the most part now — a scalable, repeatable practice within the function of marketing. In short, companies almost always treat content marketing as a project, not a process.
That fundamental change will finally take hold in 2023. It could happen because of the digital disruption and ease by which you can now publish and distribute content to aggregate your own audiences. It could happen through the natural evolution that the ultimate outcome – more than the marketing – matters more.
As we roll through 2023 and beyond, content — and the exponentially increasing quantities of it produced by every organization — deeply affects not just your marketing strategy, but your business strategy. Content in marketing is now bigger than simply content marketing, and it should be dealt with as a component of that business strategy throughout the enterprise.
#Content in marketing is bigger than #ContentMarketing. Treat it as a component of the business strategy, says @Robert_Rose via @CMIContent. Click To Tweet
In 2023, the No. 1 focus of my consulting and advisory practice these days: help companies transform content into a repeatable, scalable, and measurable function that drives value through a multi-channel strategy. It's bigger than publishing a blog, creating a lead-generating resource center, or sending an email newsletter. Today's content marketing team is being absorbed into marketing because marketing and its various operations are fundamentally transforming into a content-producing machine.
It is not good enough to produce content "like a media company would." The goal must be to operate as a media company does. Your job is not to change content to fit new marketing goals. Rather, your job in 2023 is to change marketing to fit the new business content goals.
Your job in 2023 is to change #marketing to fit the new business #content goals, says @Robert_Rose via @CMIContent. Click To Tweet
The unaware builds a case for the aware
The term "content marketing" continues to evolve. Even today, I run across those who still call it "brand publishing," "custom content," or "inbound marketing."
My take matches with what Kotler described in 1999. I always thought the term "content marketing" would become part of "marketing" more broadly. In 2023, that happened. So, returning to the lexiconic debates of 2013, 2014, or 2015 doesn't seem terribly productive. Content marketing is just good marketing, and marketing is just good content marketing.
That said, two kinds of companies do well at the broader view of content marketing. Some of them, such as Cleveland Clinic, Red Bull, Arrow Electronics, HubSpot, and REI, have purposely devised content marketing strategies as differentiating approaches to their marketing. They are succeeding.
Others, like Amazon, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and Peloton, backed into a smart content marketing strategy. But executives at those companies probably don't recognize it as such. If asked (and some have been), they would say acquiring or launching a media company operation was just a smart business strategy to diversify their ability to reach their consumers consistently.
They're right, of course. Many have yet to read books about content marketing, been influenced by the Content Marketing Institute, or even recognize content marketing as a separate approach (as far as I know). And they are also succeeding.
Consider this proof: As I write this article, six companies have a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion. Four of the six wholly or partially use the business model of media creation to further marketing and business strategies. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon are all, in part, media companies that also sell products and services.
Why would you not avail yourself of that same model?
The future looks cloudy and bright
As for the overall state of enterprise content marketing, it's in transition, as all marketing is. As a focused project-based approach, working in ad-hoc ways across a business, content marketing appears to have proven its worth. Hundreds of entries every year to the Content Marketing Awards feature myriad case studies using content marketing techniques in strategic ways to profitably affect business results.
And yet, it remains to be seen whether you can make content marketing a scalable, repeatable, measurable function within marketing.
As to what the discipline's future holds? At last year's Content Marketing World, one of my favorite events, the Executive Forum gathered senior leaders from brands succeeding with content marketing. As we talked about the future, one participant said: "The only certainty is change. I can't tell you where or when, but I do know there will be change, and this is the principle we build on now."
As for my take, Kotler's idea of transforming the marketing function seems to have gotten lost along the digital road traveled by marketers. In so many cases, marketing – and especially content – remains just an on-demand service function within the business. Its sole job is to produce ever more voluminous amounts of content that describe the value of the brand (or its products or services) so that sales can sell more efficiently, customer support can serve more effectively, and all manner of customer interfaces are more beneficial to both sides.
However, and maybe because I need to rationalize now that my book is finished, I passionately believe it's finally time for marketing to reclaim its ability to create value — not just reflect it in the polished shine of your traditional products and services.
Almost 27 years ago today, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an essay called Content is King. In it, he said that "(C)ontent is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting."
It certainly was one of his more prescient moments. Nearly three decades later, his words have proven true. The essay title has become the rallying cry for thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs who now make their living on creating, managing, optimizing, and measuring content on the internet. (A Google search for "content is king" nets more than 1.7 million results.)
But it's the last line of his essay that I find the most visionary: "(T)hose who succeed will propel the Internet forward as a marketplace of ideas, experiences, and products – a marketplace of content."
That's what content marketing is for me in 2023. It's just marketing – optimizing the value of ideas, experiences, and products in a marketplace of content.
Time to get to work.
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Eddie has been in business a long time, starting his first company when he was 14. "A pretty minimal enterprise," he told one interviewer. "I had a tax ID number, a legal entity, and a company name. I even had the IRS coming after my dad for sales tax that I failed to report properly." Today he is CEO and revenue operations strategy consultant of Union Square Consulting. He publishes The RevOps Weekly Newsletter and the podcast RevOps Corner. Eddie's large LinkedIn following attests to the quality of the insights he shares there on sales, marketing, service, and admin roles.
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Mona ist ein weiblicher Vorname.

Bedeutung
Der Name Mona hat in verschiedenen Sprachen unterschiedliche Bedeutungen: im Arabischen Hoffnung, im Irischen edel. Das spanische Adjektiv mono (weiblich mona) bedeutet niedlich.

Der Name Mona kann auch die Kurzform der deutschen Vornamen Simona, Monika oder Ramona sein. Bei der Mona Lisa ist Mona die Kurzform des italienischen Madonna, es heißt also eigentlich Madonna Lisa.

Namensträgerinnen
 Mona Ameziane (* 1994), deutsche Moderatorin
 Mona Baptiste (1928–1993), Schlagersängerin
 Mona Barrie (1909 – 1964), US-amerikanische Schauspielerin
 Mona Barthel (* 1990), deutsche Tennisspielerin
 Mona von Bismarck (1897–1983), US-amerikanische Philanthropin
 Mona Bollerud (* 1968), norwegische Biathletin
 Mona Botros, deutsche Journalistin und Filmemacherin
 Mona Chollet (* 1973), Schweizer Autorin und Journalistin
 Mona Eltahawy (* 1967), ägyptisch-US-amerikanische Journalistin
 Mona Fagerås (* 1972), norwegische Politikerin
 Mona Freiberg (* 1950), deutsche Schauspielerin
 Mona Grudt (* 1971), norwegische Redakteurin, Moderatorin, Tänzerin und Schauspielerin
 Mona Hatoum (* 1952), britische Künstlerin
 Mona Hofland (1929–2010), norwegische Schauspielerin
 Mona Juul (* 1959), norwegische Diplomatin
 Mona Karff (1914–1998), US-amerikanische Schachspielerin
 Mona Kasten (* 1992), deutsche Schriftstellerin
 Mona Keijzer (* 1968), niederländische Politikerin
 Mona Khaled (* 1994), ägyptische Schachspielerin
 Mona Løseth (* 1991), norwegische Skirennläuferin
 Mona Mahmudnizhad (1965–1983), iranische Märtyrerin
 Mona Mitterwallner (* 2002),  österreichische Mountainbikerin
 Mona Parsons (1901–1976), kanadische Widerstandskämpferin
 Mona Rae Miracle (* 1939), US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin
 Mona Nemer (* 1957), libanesisch-kanadische Molekularbiologin
 Mona Nørgaard (* 1948), dänische Orientierungsläuferin
 Mona-Liisa Nousiainen (1983–2019), finnische Skilangläuferin
 Mona Ozouf (* 1931), französische Historikerin und Schriftstellerin
 Mona Pirzad (* 1984), deutsche Schauspielerin iranischer Herkunft
 Mona Røkke, geb. Scobie (1940–2013), norwegische Politikerin
 Mona Rüster (1901–1976), deutsche Tischtennisspielerin
 Mona Seefried (* 1957), österreichische Schauspielerin
 Mona Seilitz (1943–2008), schwedische Schauspielerin und Moderatorin
 Mona Simpson (geb. Mona Jandali; * 1957), US-amerikanische Romanautorin und Essayistin
 Mona Solheim (* 1979), norwegische Taekwondoin
 Mona Steigauf (* 1970), deutsche Leichtathletin
 Mona Vetsch (* 1975), Schweizer Moderatorin
 Mona Wales (* 1985), US-amerikanische Pornodarstellerin
 Mona Washbourne (1903–1988), britische Schauspielerin
 Mona Yahia (* 1954), irakische Künstlerin und Schriftstellerin

Fiktive Figuren
 Mona Simpson, Figur der Zeichentrickserie Die Simpsons, siehe Simpsons-Familie #Mona Simpson
 Mona Vanderwaal, Figur aus der US-amerikanischen Mysterieserie Pretty Little Liars
 Mona, die kranke Zuhörerin des Vampirs in Das Licht und der Schatten von Adolf Muschg

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Osprey, Florida
Census-designated place in Florida, United States
Census-designated place
Location in Sarasota County and the state of Florida
Coordinates: 27°11′38″N 82°29′10″W / 27.19389°N 82.48611°W / 27.19389; -82.48611Coordinates: 27°11′38″N 82°29′10″W / 27.19389°N 82.48611°W / 27.19389; -82.48611[1]
6.1 sq mi (15.7 km2)
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Osprey is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,100 at the 2010 census.[4] It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.
2 Demographics
3 Sites of interest
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.1 square miles (16 km2), of which 5.5 square miles (14 km2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) is water.
Demographics[edit]
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 4,143 people, 1,965 households, and 1,383 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 759.5 people per square mile (293.0/km²). There were 2,267 housing units at an average density of 415.6/sq mi (160.3/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.59% White, 0.19% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.87% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 0.72% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.40% of the population.
In the CDP, the population was spread out with 14.0% under the age of 18, 3.2% from 18 to 24, 18.0% from 25 to 44, 33.3% from 45 to 64, and 31.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 54 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.4 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $55,761, and the median income for a family was $73,103. Males had a median income of $41,136 versus $25,909 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $49,862. About 3.1% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.1% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.
Sites of interest[edit]
Osprey is home to Historic Spanish Point, a 30-acre (12 ha) museum and environmental complex that includes a prehistoric shell mound, a turn-of-the-century pioneer homestead museum, a citrus packing house, chapel, boatyard, gardens and nature trails. Osprey is the mailing address for Oscar Scherer State Park and the new Scherer Thaxton Preserve, two of the few protected areas maintaining habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay. Osprey is also the location of the Blackburn Point Bridge, a one-lane bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Osprey is also the site of an unsolved 1959 family massacre.
^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Osprey CDP, Florida". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
Oscar Scherer State Park
Municipalities and communities of Sarasota County, Florida, United States
County seat: Sarasota
Longboat Key‡
Desoto Lakes
Englewood‡
Gulf Gate Estates
Lake Sarasota
North Sarasota
Ridge Wood Heights
Sarasota Springs
South Gate Ridge
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Venice Gardens
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Old Miakka
Verna‡
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Beaches of Sarasota County, Florida
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Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida
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We are a group of women who have gotten together to help women with advanced or metastatic cancer. We had family and friends who lost their battle with cancer while experiencing lack of resources, language barriers, and inadequate access to health care. We would like to do all in our power to help women diagnosed with advanced or metastatic cancer find all the resources and companionship they need during their journey with cancer.
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Is Wild GM Paul Fenton In Over His Head?
By CreaseAndAssist, April 24 in Minnesota Wild
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I think Zucker will be gone at the NHL draft on June 21st... I really hope LVK picks him up - but not sure there's enough $...
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IllaZilla 793
2 hours ago, Confrontational said:
I think that's almost a given (Zucker being traded) but the bigger problem is that Fenton has tried to trade Zucker to every team in the league. So every GM knows he wants to dump Zucker. Therefore none of those GM's are going to offer anything even close to what Zucker is worth. And not that Fenton would even ask for fair value in return (See Fiala for Granlund) because he would consider it a "hockey trade"...
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52 minutes ago, IllaZilla said:
For a guy who has 15+ years in an NHL team's front office, he seems to make a lot pretty basic mistakes.
6 hours ago, CreaseAndAssist said:
I read an article on him after the Wild hired him and everyone is saying how hard working and thorough he is and what a great judge of talent he is and everything he has done so far has flown in the face of that description. Trade Nino for Rask basically on a whim without even looking at Rask's stats or learning that the Canes were going to buy him out this summer? Trading Granlund, the top scorer on the team with a year left on his contract, for a single prospect? And not even Nashville's best one? Not trading Eric Staal for a prospect and a first round pick because Eric really likes it here? And then re-signing Staal even though he thinks the Wild need to get "younger and faster"? Trying to trade for Phil Kessel even after he found out the Wild were on his No Trade list? Doesn't sound like someone who is deliberate and thorough, sound to me like someone who is just flying by the seat of their pants and doing stuff to do stuff...
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I have had a few conversations of late with some people in the front office. I asked to speak to a few people prior to dumping my tickets. What I heard, I confirmed with some people in the MN hockey community. It is bad enough that I would not even consider re-upping my tickets in hopes of the future without a total facelift. What we see on the ice is the tip of the iceberg. The inside of the Wild organization is a four alarm fire - back stabbing, fear mongering, you-name-it. LIG and Russo are correct. The culture is malignant - all the way around. There are now 5 megalomaniacs in the organization - the owner, the GM, and the charter members of the Country Club. They are not going to get ANY informed players and agents to entertain playing for this dumpster fire unless it is a pure money-grab prior to retirement.
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I suspect he will settle for a prospect and flip of first round picks for Zucker. That moves us up to No. 10 maybe a pick with more upside ready to make an impact sooner....
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2 hours ago, Icechipper said:
Trading Zucker to move up two spots in the draft is beyond stupid so that pretty much sounds like a move the GM would make.
9 hours ago, EmptyShelf said:
I always felt it was a bad move when Leipold came out and said the new GM he hires wasn't going to blow up the team because Leipold felt the team was just a few tweaks away from the Stanley Cup. Why is the owner dictating what happens with the formation of the team? That's what GM's do: assemble the team. When owners get involved in personnel moves (beyond signing the check) it's never a good thing. See Al Davis, Jerry Jones, George Steinbrenner, etc.
And it isn't a good thing either when the GM starts telling the coach who to play (unless the GM is trying to showcase a guy for trade purposes). Or when veteran players dictate to the coach who their line mates are going to be or how long their shifts are going to be.
The only way the Wild are going to right this ship is if everyone stays in their lanes and stops trying to do everyone else's job...
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9 minutes ago, IllaZilla said:
I'm afraid the only way to right this ship is new ownership. At this point it doesn't look like that will happen for the foreseeable future, as CL sees NHL ownership as a viable business(or at least he did a year ago) and wants to keep it in the family.
Let's all stop going to the games and buying merchandise and try to make it happen. It may be the only way.
5 minutes ago, sweetshot said:
It is the ONLY way.
Fans can piss and moan on Facebook and the comment section in the Strib and on here all they want. That isn't going to matter two whoops and a hill of beans to the owner as long as they keep buying season tickets and merchandise. That's the only thing Leipold understands: money.
Take away his money stream and either he makes changes or sells the team. But I think he is too big an egomaniac to sell the team. He likes being part of an exclusive club...
I think you nailed it. Either way the outlook for this team, at least for the near future, is pretty grim.
On 6/6/2019 at 9:05 PM, EmptyShelf said:
Wow, and in my opinion its sad its gotten this toxic that you decided enough is enough and dropped your tickets. I am not saying your wrong, in fact, you're speaking to them by not re-upping and I hope you had the chance to tell them why. I haven't heard the backstabbing comments about the front office / locker room of this team. I'd be interested to hear more of what you've heard.
But responding to @IllaZilla, he's 100% right. Fenton is flying by the seat of his pants. As Russo reported, members of the organization urged him not to try to trade for Kessel but he did it anyway. Like you said before, he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Oh yea, Kessel doesn't want to come here? Let me call him, I'll persuade him. Damn, Kessel thinks our team isn't very good and its not worth coming here even after Suter tried to convince him to do so too? The level of delusion with this club is reaching critical levels and probably its only hope to rectify the situation is through the draft because all we're going to get is lame friends of the country club or has beens hoping to cash in.
Its pretty bleak around this organization...
Edited June 10 by CreaseAndAssist
On 6/7/2019 at 7:44 AM, IllaZilla said:
Although he hasn't gotten everything he has wanted. Despite the fact he's BFF's with Bettman, the Wild are not even close to ever bringing in a Winter Classic because the team is so boring and mediocre. For a guy that is usually in Top 10-15 in the Hockey News' 100 people of power and influence I am sure that drives him crazy. But he only has himself to blame. He's either helped create it or at the very least facilitated it.
I remember Bettman telling him at that draft we were at "Get a superstar and then we'll talk Winter Classic."
So rather than tank and draft a superstar, he goes and signs Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, neither of which are superstars, to lifetime contracts, which brings us to the state the team is in now...
20 hours ago, IllaZilla said:
But Tom Saggisor said they were so good?!?!?
6 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:
If his financial management is as good as his evaluation of hockey talent, I'm never investing with him...ever.
3 hours ago, IllaZilla said:
That Russo article that looked back at the deal, holy crap...Saggisor certainly wanted everyone to know he was the mastermind. And one Badger played on the love for another; and convinced ownership to make the deal happen. My only question is what did Sagissor get out of it. I don't think it was because he had any affinity for the Minnesota Wild unless he just loves Leipold.
Probably just an ego thing, so he can brag to his other hyper rich buddies how he masterminded the Parise/Suter deals while they're playing the back nine at the TPC or something like that...
1 hour ago, IllaZilla said:
That's probably true. I can see him yucking it up at some Country Club bar...like he's a big shot. Yea boys...two $98 million contracts boys, if I'm not there, none it happens. Seriously, i got this great Florida land deal in the works. Easy money, who wants in?!?!
Not sure how many more years BB has on his contract - but imagine the Wild having to bring back some no name coach to save some cash and cut his teeth on coaching his first NHL team...? Now that would get some fans riled up as well... Actually, my bet is the average fan doesn't much give a crap like people on here - the average fan probably just needs a reason to scream and yell Dooooobs a few times and they're good... If that's the case - my bet is they'll keep filling the seats and selling beer...
I imagine they'll hoist #9 to the rafters later next year and maybe get Mikko in a coaching position - so there's that to look forward to I guess... : )
Can't help but wonder how happy Charlie is tonight - to be out of all that - and now playing a game 7 for the cup... I personally would have traded him long ago - but, it's kinda funny know Sutter and Parise will be watching him as they kick up their golfing shoes at the local clubhouse and wonder about their decisions...
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On 6/3/2019 at 9:59 AM, Alexandron said:
I agree more and more with our fans opinion that the trades Nino-Granlund-Coyle to Rask-Fiala-Donato were not equal and made our team even weaker. So far I am impressed with Coyle performance at the Stanley Cup playoffs. He is having already 8 goals there which is, personally for me, comparable with 10 goals of a real scoring forward Tarasenko.
I'm not really that surprised with coyle in boston.
He's finaly being used right and always played better in the playoffs than regular season ( when healthy) which he is for the first time in 2 years.
This is Boudreau's last year on his contract. And Fenton refused to say if he was going to extend Boudreau. Russo asked him like three times in a row if he was going to extend Boudreau, and all Fenton would say is "Bruce is my coach next season". The only way Boudreau gets an extension is if he wins the Cup. Not happening with this crew. He's a lame duck coach now. If you thought the shenanigans with The Country Club were bad last season, wait til this season.
Parise and Suter couldn't give a crap about playing for the Cup. They got their money and control of the team and that's all that matters. Parise's always hurt, so even if the team made the Playoffs he'd most likely be out with something pulled or broken and Suter just coasts around the ice like he's out for a Sunday stroll...
Unless something amazing happens this Wild team will not make the playoffs. Not near enough scoring potential and going for 1-0 and 2-1 wins doesn't work anymore. What could happen is Koivu and Staal at the trade deadline waiving NTCs for a shot at the Cup with a contender. (Remember Boston mercifully sending Ray Bourque to the Avalanche?) Parise and Suter could exercise that option as well. Don't get me wrong, I like those four players. But the window for hoisting Stanley's Cup gets smaller each season.
Edited June 12 by Icechipper
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I think the team will be a better motivated to make a solid deep playoffs 2019-2020 season.And maybe to win the 1st place at Central Division(so far a dream only) during the regular season then. I just could not believe how fast is time running - 20 years of the 21 Century will be gone next year as well as we (fans and the Wild organization) should celebrate 20 years of the Wild team's existence, because still it is our team with all its pluses and minuses; with all its successes and problems. They better should make the nice playoffs next year, otherwise , I have feelings that both - coach and GM will be gone too with those 20 years of our team's existence.
10 hours ago, Icechipper said:
As far as any of those four waiving their NMC's, see Mats Sundin...
That's not all. Apparently everyone in the Wild organization told Fenton trading for Kessel when they didn't even know who was on his No Trade list was a bad idea and to not do it. But The Smartest Guy in the Room does it anyway, and then gets mad when Kessel tells him "Your team isn't even close to being a Cup contender. I'm not waiving it for you." And this was even after Suter talked to Kessel to try and get him to come to the Wild. Also, Fenton's apparently been shopping Zucker t
Over in the IIHF championships things have looked good for the Wild. Fiala with very good stats, Kunin motivated, Kaprizov playing in a line with the Russian big boys. It's only the IIHF, but hopefully that is some indication of good things to come. I still think Fenton was wrong with Fiala, but hope for the best anyways.
I read an article on him after the Wild hired him and everyone is saying how hard working and thorough he is and what a great judge of talent he is and everything he has done so far has flown in the face of that description. Trade Nino for Rask basically on a whim without even looking at Rask's stats or learning that the Canes were going to buy him out this summer? Trading Granlund, the top scorer on the team with a year left on his contract, for a single prospect? And not even Nashville's best
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Good article. To be fair, I think Fenton needs time. Not every move a GM makes is going to be a home run, or to his teams advantage. Sometimes trades just don't work out. However, many of his moves are curious to say the least. I get Nino/Rask deal. Sometimes a change of scenery is what a player needs. But like @CreaseAndAssist said, why trade for a guy that was going to be cut loose by his team this summer? You could have picked him up for far less than $4M/
Be interesting to see how many off the board picks this team makes. Russo thought they were going after Spencer Knight since Caulfield will be gone at 12. Not sure how I feel about that. Yeah, he's a great goalie, but to spend a first round pick on a goaltender, he better be the second coming of Jacques Plante...and it doesn't matter how great a goalie you have in nets IF THE TEAM CAN"T SCORE...


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Q: template class specialization : template-id does not match any template declaration I'm trying to use templates, but couldn't understand what is wrong with below code.
solve.h
#include "nlp.h"
#include "Ipopt_solve.h"

enum algo_type {IPOPT =1, SQP};

template<int ALG>
class solve
{
public:
    solve()
    {
    }
};

template<>
class solve<IPOPT>
{
public:
    solve(nlp*);

private:
    Ipopt_solve m_ipopt;

};

solve.cpp
template<>
solve<IPOPT>::solve(nlp* problem): m_ipopt(problem)
{
}

Ipopt_solve is a sub-class of an abstract class TNLP. Ipopt_solve is initialized with a reference to nlp class.
from main.cpp
nlp problem(&model);
solve<IPOPT> solution(&problem);

I'm getting the error like shown below.
error: template-id 'solve<>' for 'solve<1>::solve(nlp*)' does not match any template declaration
 solve::solve(nlp* problem): m_ipopt(problem)

A: This declaration in its original form
template<>
solve<IPOPT>::solve(nlp* problem): m_ipopt(problem)
{
}

is formally valid by itself. However, it is not doing what you think it is doing. This declaration declares an explicit specialization for a member of the main template
template<int ALG>
class solve
{
  ...

It has no relation to your explicit specialization
template<>
class solve<IPOPT>
{
  ...

The compiler is trying to specialize constructor solve<ALG>::solve(nlp* problem) of the main template. However, the main template has no such constructor. Hence the error message, that tells you exactly that: the compiler does not understand what constructor you are trying to specialize, it cannot find the matching member in the main template.
For example, you can use this syntax to explicitly specialize the default constructor of the main template
template<>
solve<SQP>::solve()
{
  // Specialized code for `solve<SQP>`'s default constructor
}

This will compile fine since the main template does indeed have such constructor. (Note that you don't have to explicitly specialize the whole class for that, you can just explicitly specialize the constructor.)
Your intent was, obviously, completely different: to provide definition for the constructor in the class template specialization
template<>
class solve<IPOPT>
{
  ...

The proper syntax for that should not mention template<>
solve<IPOPT>::solve(nlp* problem): m_ipopt(problem)
{
}

A: You should remove template<>, i.e.
// template <>
solve<IPOPT>::solve(nlp* problem): m_ipopt(problem)
{
}

template<> is used for template specialization (for a template); but you're just defining a non-template member function (of a class template specialization). (That's why the compiler complains that the template declaration can't be found.)

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Meal Tracking App Showdown: MyFitness Pal vs Lose It!
I'm almost certain I've written about these two apps before, but almost doesn't equal 100%. Plus, I've only just recently started comparing the two apps again, based on a post on /r/loseit over on Reddit. I'm pretty sure that the app and the subreddit are entirely unrelated. I'm going to try to keep this somewhat brief, and do a back-and-forth comparison of what each app offers.
Note that I'm focusing on the apps – and not the website versions.
LoseIt!: As soon as you launch the app, you're taken directly to your food diary page. All of the meals are visible, and when you start a new day you can see a breakdown of how many calories the app suggests you eat per meal.
At the bottom there are tabs pointing to "My Day", "Log" (the selected tab), "Social", "Goals", and "Me". There are options at the top to "Go Premium" and a breakdown of your calorie budget, calories consumed so far ("Food"), exercise calories, net calories, and how much you're over/under.
There's also a blue "+" button that lets you add food, exercise, or a weight update.
MyFitnessPal: The MFP app launches to your "Feed", which starts with a summary of your calories remaining – Your goal – food +/- exercise = remaining calories. This is followed immediately by an option to add a status update, and then either an ad or an MFP article. On my feed today, I had an article, an ad, and another article before one of my status updates from yesterday.
There are no tabs immediately visible, but there's a standard Android "Hamburger menu" with options to all of the app sections, and a similar "+" button to add a status, water, food, exercise, or weight update.
Winner: LoseIt! has a much better interface on startup. It takes me directly to the information I want – the food diary – and gives easily visible options for navigating the app. However that isn't to say that MFP is ugly or unusable. The difference between the two is basically a 4/5 for LoseIt and a 3.5/5 for MFP.
LoseIt!: The main focus of the app, the Food Diary as mentioned gives you a breakdown of your daily goal and how many calories you have left at the top. Further down, each meal is broken down to Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and exercise.
There's a calorie budget for each meal – for example, I have 649 calories available for lunch, 973 for dinner, etc. I believe that the app has a formula to give different a percentage of your daily goal to each meal, giving more weight to larger meals such as lunch and dinner. I'm not 100% sure how it works but it adjusts your meal budgets as you enter foods in other categories.
There are "+" buttons beside each meal to allow you to quickly add a food to the desired category.
MyFitnessPal: The layout for MFP is very similar to LoseIt!. MFP does not show a calorie budget per meal, but has quick options to add food next to each category. There's a "three dot" menu that lets you "Quick Add", letting you add an entry strictly for calories (and more, if you subscribe to premium MFP). There are buttons at the bottom to add notes, and also to a Nutrition pie chart which shows you how your calories are divided between meals.
Winner: It's a tie. The difference between the two apps is negligible and pretty much comes down to aesthetics. MFP might barely get the edge because you can customize your meals in the diary settings (I have a "Drinks" category in addition to the usual categories), but LoseIt! gains an edge for the suggested calories per meal being visible.
Spoiler: it's a tie! Let me explain.
Both apps seem to have comparable databases – so far, I haven't come across a food item that's been in one database and not the other. This was my previous knock against LoseIt! – it didn't have the same database as MFP. This doesn't seem to be the case here. There have been a few occasions where I couldn't find a specific food item, but it's been missing in both databases.
MFP gets the edge for customization. I've noticed that it's a lot easier to add food by specific weight (I use a food scale, so this is important). Most entries for MFP have an entry for "1 gram" or "1 mL" or something similar where I can enter 125 or something when I eat less (or more) than the suggested serving size.
On the other hand, LoseIt! has these options for some entries but not all. Most of the time your best bet is to play around with the measurements to get as close as you can. However, LoseIt! seems to have a better database for generic food items. Sometimes you don't have a barcode to scan – it's helpful to have a generic item to get a rough estimate.
At the end of the day, the true test is whether or not I'm tracking accurately. Here's a breakdown of my entries from Monday through Wednesday.
You can see that LoseIt! tends to be higher (in Tuesday's case, a LOT), but from what I've noticed, the difference between each individual entry is not significant. If I were forced to pick between the two databases, I'd probably go with LoseIt! – simply because it's better to overestimate calories than to underestimate.
Another tie. Both apps have a pretty good array of apps that can connect and interact with each service. Most importantly, both apps support FitBit. The only difference is that MFP can write data to FitBit, but LoseIt! cannot. This is not a big deal.
Both apps treat the FitBit data a bit differently. By default, LoseIt! will not add calories burned by FitBit until you get to a certain threshold. It figures out how many calories you should be burning to exist, and then only starts adding exercise calories once you're burning more than its formula determines.
MyFitnessPal does the same thing, but a bit differently. First, you need to enable negative calorie adjustments on the website. Otherwise, it will add ALL calories burned by FitBit, but this is inaccurate since it's counting calories you burn by existing (BMR). MFP's function is basically the same as LoseIt!, but depending on your overall activity, it either adds or subtracts exercise calories from your daily budget. So if you move less during the day, it will add calories; if you move more, it subtracts. You want to be on the subtraction side of things.
MFP gets a slight edge for having so many MORE services that connect to it, including Samsung Health. I don't think that LoseIt! can connect to this service yet. But MFP also has a suite of UnderArmour apps because MFP is owned by UnderArmour. Still, not enough to give it a win.
I really hate to do this, but I'm going to have to call a tie. I've only been using both together for 4 days now, and I haven't been able to choose a clear winner. If I were told I had to uninstall one app and fire it into the sun, I would probably drop LoseIt! But that's because I have a longer history with MFP.
But it's not that easy either, because LoseIt! has less intrusive ads. This makes a difference from time to time, because lately MFP has been serving some inappropriate ads (some high-calorie Starbucks drinks appear in some people's feeds).
If I were to recommend an app for someone just starting out, I think I would have to say LoseIt! I think that in the long run, the folks at LoseIt! have more vested interest in weight loss and providing useful information without hiding features in a premium version.
In the end, if you were thinking of changing apps – I say go with what works for you. I'm still giving both apps a good trial period before I finally decide, but I will definitely be thinking about my app showdown today before I do.
Posted bySteve May 18, 2017 January 30, 2019 Posted inTechnologyTags: app, diet, Fitness, Lose It!, LoseIt!, meal, meal tracking, meal tracking app, MFP, MyFitnessPal, review, tracking, weight, Weight Loss1 Comment on Meal Tracking App Showdown: MyFitnessPal vs Lose It!


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Q: Achieve hierarchy, Parent/Child Relationship in an effective and easy way I have a table like
create table site
(
site_Id int(5),
parent_Id int(5),
site_desc varchar2(100)
);

Significance of the fields:

*

*site_Id : Id of the sites

*parent_Id : Parent id of the site

*site_desc : though not relevant to the question but it has the description of the site

The requirement is that if I have a site_id as an input, and I need all the ids tagged below the site.
For Example:
                    A
                   / \
                  B   C
                / | \ /\
               D  E F G H
              /\
             I  J

All the nodes are the site_Id.
The table contains data like this:
Site_id  | Parent_ID  |  site_desc
_________|____________|___________
 A       |   -1       |
 B       |    A       |
 C       |    A       |
 D       |    B       |
 E       |    B       |
 F       |    B       |
 I       |    D       |
 J       |    D       |

......
A is the parent of B and C and so on.
If B is the input given then the query need to fetch D, E, I, F, J
It is currently achieved through multiple queries in a loop, but I was thinking to achieve this in a minimum number of queries.
What I am currently doing is::
down vote
The algorithm goes like this :

*

*Initially create a data set object which you will populate, by fetching data from the data base.

*Create a method which takes the parent id as parameter and returns its child nodes if present, and returns -1, if it doesnt have a child.

*Step1: Fetch all the rows, which doesn't have a parent(root) node.

*Step2: Iterate through this result. For example if prod1 and prod2 are the initial returned nodes, in the resultset.

*Iterating this RS we get prod1, and we insert a row in our DataSET obj.

*Then we send the id of prod1 to getCHILD method, to get its child, and then again we iterate the returned resultset, and again call the getCHILD method, till we dont get the lowest node.

I need the best optimized technique within my data model constraint.

A: Yesterday, I had answered this question which is exactly related to your problem you've described: Out of a given adjacency list, you want to get all child nodes of a particular parent - and perhaps in a one-dimensional array that you can easily iterate over.
You can do this using only one call to the database, but there's sort of a catch: you have to return all rows from the table. MySQL doesn't support recursive queries, so instead, you essentially have to do the SELECTing in the application code.
I'm simply going to reiterate my answer that I linked to above, but basically if you return a result-set (perhaps from PDOStatement->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC) or other methods) in the format of something like:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => A
        [parent_id] => -1
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [1] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => B
        [parent_id] => A
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [2] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => C
        [parent_id] => A
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [3] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => D
        [parent_id] => B
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [4] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => E
        [parent_id] => B
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [5] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => F
        [parent_id] => B
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [6] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => I
        [parent_id] => D
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
    [7] => Array
    (
        [site_id] => J
        [parent_id] => D
        [site_desc] => testtext
    )
)

You can retrieve all children/grandchildren/greatgrandchildren/so-on of any site_id (provided you know the id) using this recursive function:
function fetch_recursive($src_arr, $id, $parentfound = false, $cats = array())
{
    foreach($src_arr as $row)
    {
        if((!$parentfound && $row['site_id'] == $id) || $row['parent_id'] == $id)
        {
            $rowdata = array();
            foreach($row as $k => $v)
                $rowdata[$k] = $v;
            $cats[] = $rowdata;
            if($row['parent_id'] == $id)
                $cats = array_merge($cats, fetch_recursive($src_arr, $row['site_id'], true));
        }
    }
    return $cats;
}

For example, say you wanted to retrieve all children of site_id D, you would use the function like so:
$nodelist = fetch_recursive($pdostmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC), 'D');
print_r($nodelist);

Would output:
[0] => Array
(
    [site_id] => D
    [parent_id] => B
    [site_desc] => testtext
)
[1] => Array
(
    [site_id] => I
    [parent_id] => D
    [site_desc] => testtext
)
[2] => Array
(
    [site_id] => J
    [parent_id] => D
    [site_desc] => testtext
)

Notice we retain the information of the parent, along with its children, grandchildren, and so on (however deep the nesting goes).

A: Check out the nested set model, if you want to be able to do this in single queries: http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-in-mysql/
Another alternative is to include all relationships in a linking table. So every site would have a link to its parent, its grandparent, etc. Every relationship is explicit. Then you just query that linkage table to get all descendants.

A: To begin with, i would recommend a bit different method for storing a tree: Closure Table. If you want to know more about it, you could find SQL Antipatterns book quite interesting.
That said. The easiest way, in my opinion, to generate such structure is this: http://jsbin.com/omexix/3/edit#javascript
I hope you have no problems reading JavaScript code. I used it because creation of unclassified objects in JavaScript doesn't look so hack-ish. It is possible to implement same without relaying on object (or references) by using multidimensional array, but it kinda looks confusing.
Here is what algorithm does:

*

*we loop through the list of nodes, once

*if node's parent does not exits, placeholder is created in the array

*if node has no parent, it is place in list of root nodes

*if node has no placeholder in array, the placeholder is created

*values from node are assigned to placeholder

*node is registered to the parent, if it has a parent

This is about it. Basically you generate two lists: with all the nodes, and with only root node.

A: You might want to have a look at the closure table pattern. I found this site informative. As far as I have seen, ther are also several StackOverflow questions about this concept, e.g., here.

A: If you do not update your site table often you can use the following strategy:
create table site
(
site_Id int(5),
parent_Id int(5),
site_desc varchar2(100),
parents_path varchar(X)
);

parents_path equals path to selected node from root. For example, for leaf J it should be |A|B|D|.
Pros:
- you will need single query to get the result;
Cons:
- more query during updates (but you can do updates wisely);
Hope it helps

A: Others have already proposed how to do this with slight modifications to the table
structure.
If you do not want to modify the structure (even if this would be best), then you can do
like this:

*

*SELECT * FROM site ORDER BY Parent_ID, Site_id;

It can usually be safely assumed that once assigned, IDs do not change; if the IDs
do not get shuffled around, i.e., node C is not moved under node B, then it will be
true that child nodes have always higher IDs than their parents, and the sorting
above will guarantee that all parents gets fetched before their children.
So these are the hypotheses:
- we prefer not to change the table layout
- we never change the IDs once assigned
- we never reorder the tree, moving IDs around

Therefore, it becomes possible to create the tree in memory (and even reduce the query
itself adding a WHERE Site_ID >= B).
The first node to come through will be B's and will be put into the tree.
All subsequent nodes may be stored in their Parent_ID-th node, which has surely been
loaded before.
This would go quite well in Python (you directly modify the parent node).
The request "Get all descendants of B" may be answered in PHP like this:
$nodes  = array( $parent_id );

$cursor = SQLQuery("SELECT * FROM site WHERE Site_ID > ? "
        .  "ORDER BY Parent_ID, Site_Id ;", $parent_id);

while ($tuple = SQLFetchTuple($cursor))
    if (in_array($tuple['Parent_ID'], $nodes))
        $nodes[] = $tuple['Site_Id'];
SQLFree($cursor);

// The first node is the global parent, and may be array_shift'ed away
    // if desired.

Another way
quite brute force
Another possibility is to store the "descendant_of" relation recursively in another
table:
    TRUNCATE descendants;
    INSERT INTO descendants ( node, of ) VALUES ( -1, NULL );

    INSERT INTO descendants SELECT SiteId, ParentId FROM site JOIN
           descendants ON ( site.ParentId = descendants.of );

And repeat the INSERTs until number of inserted rows is equal to zero (or total number of
rows in descendants stops increasing; querying table size is very fast in most DBs).
At this point you will have stored all one-level relations. Now:
INSERT IGNORE INTO descendants SELECT s1.node, s2.of FROM
           descendants AS s1 JOIN descendants AS s2 ON (s1.of = s2.node);

...again until descendants stops increasing (it will require a number of inserts equal to
the maximum number of levels). Total number of JOINs will be twice the number of levels.
Now if you want to get all descendants of node 16, you simply query
SELECT node FROM descendants WHERE of = 16;

A: You can create a stored procedure for this.
Here is my implementation in mysql
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS SearchTree;
DELIMITER go

CREATE PROCEDURE SearchTree( IN root CHAR(1) )
BEGIN
  DECLARE rows SMALLINT DEFAULT 0;
  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS reached;
  CREATE TABLE reached (
    site_Id CHAR(1) PRIMARY KEY
  ) ENGINE=HEAP;
  INSERT INTO reached VALUES (root);
  SET rows = ROW_COUNT();
  WHILE rows > 0 DO
    INSERT IGNORE INTO reached
      SELECT DISTINCT s.site_Id
      FROM site AS s
      INNER JOIN reached AS r ON s.parent_Id = r.site_Id;
    SET rows = ROW_COUNT();
    DELETE FROM reached
      WHERE site_Id = root;
  END WHILE;
  SELECT * FROM reached;
  DROP TABLE reached;
END;
go
DELIMITER ;
CALL SearchTree('B');

It returns the expected result.

A: Based on your comments here I am assuming you are unwilling to change the existing data model because hundreds of applications are using that (and will break if you replace it with something else).
The root of the problem is that for any site, we only know it's direct parent, so we need to lookup the parent of that parent recursively until we found the root site.
If you can get away with a limit to the depth / level to which sites can be nested, you can write one great query that does all the work for you and probably isn't even that slow to boot. Most overhead from firing queries comes from setting up the connection, network bandwidth etc. MySQL can be very quick.
Firing multiple queries multiplies all the overhead, so we don't want that.
Doing a SELECT * and then computing in the application logic means you will fetch all data every time, maximizing network overhead, so we don't want that.
If a limit to the depth of the tree is acceptable, you can combine multiple queries into one huge query that does all the work and returns the exact resultset you need. As an example I used your data, but with A, B, C etc replaced with 1, 2, 3 (as your columns are int).
To get all direct children of the root node (with site_id = 1) do this:
select site_id from site where parent_id = 1

To get the grandchildren of the root node, do this:
select grandchild.site_id
from site grandchild, site child
where grandchild.parent_id = child.site_id
and child.parent_id = 1

To get the great-grandchildren of the root node, do this:
select greatgrandchild.site_id
from site greatgrandchild, site grandchild, site child
where greatgrandchild.parent_id = grandchild.site_id
and grandchild.parent_id = child.site_id
and child.parent_id = 1

To get all descendants of the root node, just combine the above queries into one huge query, like this:
select site_id
from site
where site_id in (
    select site_id
    from site
    where parent_id = 1
)
or site_id in (
    select grandchild.site_id
    from site grandchild, site child
    where grandchild.parent_id = child.site_id
    and child.parent_id = 1
)
or site_id in (
    select greatgrandchild.site_id
    from site greatgrandchild, site grandchild, site child
    where greatgrandchild.parent_id = grandchild.site_id
    and grandchild.parent_id = child.site_id
    and child.parent_id = 1
)

I think you see how this is working. For each extra level, create a query that finds the nodes which are that many levels away from the site you are searching descendants for and add that query to the super-query with an extra 'or site_id in ()'...
Now as you can see, just for three levels, this already becomes a big query. If you need to support, say, 10 levels, this query will become huge and all the OR's and IN's in it will slow it down... However, it still will probably be faster then just getting everything  or using multiple queries. If you need to support an arbitrary amount of possible levels than this query cannot help you. It would have to become infinitely large. In that case all that remains is to use a better way...
That said, and before you copy paste this and start coding, there is a way that avoids such huge queries, supporting arbitrary depths and without breaking backward compatibility. It does require a change to the data model but it's a small one that won't hurt the other programs using this data model. There is in short...
A BETTER WAY
Add an extra column parent_paths, using something like ravnur mentioned in his answer to encode the full path from each node all the way up to the root
Fill that column dynamically using triggers on insert, update and delete. You are now maintaining redundant data. It won't hurt other programs but can give a significant performance benefit for yours. Make sure your triggers are bullet-proof though (that's the hardest part probably) as the data in the extra column should always be in synch with the regular data in the table
Use a short and sweet query like the one ravnur showed that looks for the occurance of the site_id at any place in the parent_paths column to directly get all descendants of the site with that site_id without any recursion.

A: Unfortunately, if you can't change the data model, and you're using MySQL, you're stuck in a situation where you need recursive queries and you're using a DBMS that doesn't support recursive queries.
Quassnoi wrote an interesting series of blog articles, showing techniques for querying hierarchical data.  His solutions are quite clever, but very complex.
http://explainextended.com/2009/03/17/hierarchical-queries-in-mysql/
PostgreSQL is another open-source RDBMS, which does support recursive queries, so you could fetch a whole tree stored in the way you show.  But if you can't change the data model, I'd assume you can't switch to a different RDBMS.
There are several alternative data models that make it much easier to fetch arbitrarily-deep trees:

*

*Closure Table

*Nested Sets aka Modified Preorder Tree Traversal

*Path Enumeration aka Materialized Path

I cover these in my presentation Models for Hierarchical Data with SQL and PHP, and in my book SQL Antipatterns Volume 1: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming.
Finally, there's another solution that I've seen used in the code for Slashdot, for their comments hierarchies:  They store "parent_id" like in Adjacency List, but they also store a "root_id" column.  Every member of a given tree has the same value for root_id, which is the highest ancestor node in its tree.  Then it's easy to fetch a whole tree in one query:
SELECT * FROM site WHERE root_id = 123;

Then your application fetches all the nodes back from the database into an array, and you have to write the code to loop over this array, inserting the nodes into a tree data structure in memory.  This is a good solution if you have many separate trees, and each tree has relatively few entries.  It's good for Slashdot's case.

A: i also asked myself how to query relationships recursively, and my brain generated this solution (:
SELECT * FROM
(
    SELECT t2.* FROM table t1, table t2 where t2.parent = t1.id OR t2.parent 0 GROUP BY t2.id, t2.parent
) as all_relations
WHERE all_relations.parent >= '_the_id_'

# if you dont want a subtree use only the inner select

I am not 100% sure, but i think as long as the id is auto incremented and a child never has a smaller id as his parent (that should be the normal case), then this could be a solution?


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Eduard Hoffmann byl švýcarský typograf.

Eduard Hoffmann byl roku 1950 ředitelem Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry, písmolijna) v Münchensteinu ve Švýcarsku.

Písmolijna Haas se v 50. letech rozhodla inovovat písmo Akzidenz Grotesk. Eduard Hoffmann v roce 1957 pověřil Maxe Miedingera, bývalého zaměstnance a nezávislého designéra, a společně vytvořili písmo Neue Haas Grotesk, které bylo později v roce 1960 přejmenováno na Helvetiku. Stala se nejpoužívanějším písmem 60. a 70. let. Své označení získala vzhledem k zemi, kde vznikla.

Stempel a Linotype začal mezinárodně prodávat písmo v roce 1961.

Odkazy

Literatura
Zdeno Kolesár: Kapitoly z dejín grafického designu, Slovenské centrum dizajnu, 2006, Bratislava (slovenština)

Externí odkazy
 http://www.identifont.com/show?LXZ

Švýcarští typografové
Narození v roce 1892
Narození 26. května
Narození v Curychu
Úmrtí v roce 1980
Úmrtí 17. září
Úmrtí v Basileji
Muži


A PC version of "Grand Theft Auto V" will be released in "early 2014". A report from Eurogamer stated that a PC release for the record-breaking game is indeed in the pipeline, according to "multiple industry sources".
The open world game, which hit $1 billion sales in its first three days – the fastest in any entertainment property in history – is currently only available for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Earlier this year, NVIDIA revealed the presence of a PC version of GTA V at a financial call – which was later denied by the company.


A Fishwick man wanted in connection with the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in Preston has been found.
Preston police launched an appeal to find Richard Watkins, 25, in connection with the incident in Samuel Street, Fishwick, on Sunday 10 March.
Around 11.30pm a boy was slashed on his arm, hand, leg and ankle.
Watkins was arrested this morning (19 March) on suspicion of GBH with intent. He has now been bailed until 19 April.
Police arrested three men, aged 21, 22 and 24 on suspicion of GBH in connection with the attack.
The 21 year old has been bailed until 8 April pending further enquiries and the 22 and 24 year old have been released under investigation pending further enquiries.
Police undertook three nights of 'stop and search' powers in Fishwick in response to the attack.