Coffee rules!
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chela Robles
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:01 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Really technical
Scott I'll try not to be too technical I guess that is what you get
when you took nothing related to SQL and only barely got by with Java
and BlueJ in the first year of college in 2006, and you definitely made
my day, lol, had to add it to my facebook profile, as a Bookshare
Volunteer Quote Of The Day sort of thing, definitely will play trumpet
more grin! Chuckle Chela is going to have some coffee first though.
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"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated,
but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
then I think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in
the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of
the performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
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Chela Robles
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Skype: jazzytrumpet
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On 8/7/2010 10:42 AM, Scott Rains wrote:
LOL! Chela, I promise you and all volunteers, nobody is going to need
to become a CIO, and SQL-whiz, a DB Admin, or a jazz trumpet virtouso
to continue to volunteer.
Kim, in a car a dashboard is a bit of attractively molded plastic that
hides the tangle of wires and the spots of grease behind it. Online
it's a an attractively designed page that hides lots of thought, and
an alphabet soup of jargon, about how to make the user's job as simple
as possible.
Andy nailed it earlier, "Sign into bookshare, go to the My Account
link and you have a simple basic dashboard."
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:26 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Really technical
SQL is
Abbreviation of structured query language, and pronounced either
see-kwell or as separate letters. SQL is a standardized query
language<query_language.html> for requesting information from a
database<database.html>. The original version called SEQUEL
(structured English query language) was designed by an IBM<IBM.html>
research center in 1974 and 1975. SQL was first introduced as a
commercial database system<database_management_system_DBMS.html> in
1979 by Oracle Corporation.
Historically, SQL has been the favorite query language for database
management systems running on minicomputers<minicomputer.html> and
mainframes<mainframe.html>. Increasingly, however, SQL is being
supported<support.html> by PC<PC.html> database systems because it
supports distributed databases<distributed_database.html> (databases
that are spread out over several computer
systems<computer_system.html>). This enables several users<user.html>
on a local-area network<local_area_network_LAN.html> to
access<access.html> the same database simultaneously.
Although there are different dialects of SQL, it is nevertheless the
closest thing to a standard<standard.html> query language that
currently exists. In 1986, ANSI<ANSI.html> approved a rudimentary
version of SQL as the official standard, but most versions of SQL
since then have included many extensions<extension.html> to the ANSI
standard. In 1991, ANSI updated the standard. The new standard is
known as SAG SQL.
DBA is
Short for database administrator is is the title given to the person
responsible for managing many aspects of a database<database.html>
including archiving, performance, security, testing, and other tasks.
CIO is
Short for Chief Information Officer, CIO is a job title given to
someone within an enterprise<enterprise.html> who heads, at the
executive board level, information technology within an organization.
The CIO is largely responsible for the computer systems and the
information technology (IT<IT.html>) that support the organization,
and works within the organization's budget to oversee the IT
implementation, often reporting to the organization's CFO (Chief
Financial Officer). Within the organization, the job of a CIO is to
overall derive greater demonstrable business value from IT spent. CIO
is a job title that is most commonly used in the military, enterprise
and larger business organizations.
And CEO is loike what President and founder Jim Fructerman is to
Bookshare if that makes sense.-- "To me, music that breaks your heart
is the music that stays with you forever. It's one thing to be
melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated, but when you get the two
of them together in a way people can relate to, then I think you're on
to something. You want the sophistication to lie in the purity of the
sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of the
performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
--
Chela Robles
AIM and E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
Skype: jazzytrumpet
WindowsLive Messenger:
cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I Volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to find
out more go to: http://www.bookshare.org
--
On 8/7/2010 6:13 AM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Chela, in your explanation, you mention SQL, DBA, CIO, CEO ... I have
no idea what these acronyms stand for. The explanation is getting very
complicated. Regards, Kim Friedman. P.S.: Your writing to someone who
doesn't understand this stuff. K.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Really technical
In information technology, a dashboard is a user interface that, somewhat
resembling an automobile's dashboard, organizes and presents information in
a way that is easy to read. However, a computer dashboard is more likely to
be interactive than an automobile dashboard (unless it is also
computer-based). To some extent, most graphical user interfaces
(GUI<http://searchWinDevelopment.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci21398
9,00.html><http://searchWinDevelopment.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gc
i213989,00.html>s) resemble a dashboard. However, some product developers
consciously employ this metaphor (and sometimes the term) so that the user
instantly recognizes the similarity.a product might obtain information from
the local operating system in a computer, from one or more applications that
may be running, and from one or more remote sites on the Web and present it
as though it all came from the same source. Hewlett Packard developed the
first such product, which began
as a tool for customizing Windows desktops. Called /Dashboard/, the
HP product was subsequently acquired by Borland and then a company
called Starfish. Microsoft's /Digital Dashboard/ tool incorporates
Web-based elements (such as news, stock quotes, and so on) and
corporate elements (such as e-mail, applications, and so on) into
Outlook. Dashboards may be customized in a multitude of ways and named
accordingly, generally, for example as a general /corporate/ or
enterprise<http://searchWinIT.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci21
2065,00.html><http://searchWinIT.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gc
i212065,00.html> dashboard, or more specifically, as a
CIO<http://searchCIO.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci213620,00
.html><http://searchCIO.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci213620
,00.html> or
CEO<http://searchCIO.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci1271045,0
0.html><http://searchCIO.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci12710
45,00.html> dashboard.
A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network
devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges
and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard.
What is the SQL Server DBA Dashboard?
The SQL Server DBA dashboard tool is both a DBA and a TSQL programmer
tool. The main goal of this tool is to allow DBAs and programmers to
quickly identify performance, SQL Agent and disk space issues
associated with a single instance of SQL Server. The dashboard tool
can be installed and run against any SQL Server 2005 SP2 or SQL Server
2008 instance.
The dashboard provides 39 different performance and disk space related
reports with a single click from the main dashboard page. These
different reports provided information in the following areas:
* Identifies the worst performing TSQL Statement and Stored
Procedures, based on different criteria like CPU, I/O and elapsed time
* Performance counter measurements
* Shows summarized and detailed SQL Server Agent Job failures
* Displays CPU consumption overtime
* Reports on Index Fragmentation
* I/O usage by database<#>
* Tracks backup history
* Tables without indexes
* Unused and missing Indexes
There are two different dashboards within the SQL Server DBA<#>
Dashboard. There is one dashboard for DBAs and another one with a
subset of reports targeted for SQL Server programmers/developers<#>.
The main reason for having two different dashboards has to do with
permission. The programmer/developer dashboard only requires "VIEW
SERVER STATE" permissions; where as the SQL Server DBA Dashboard
requires "sysadmin" permissions.
Architecture/Components that make up the SQL Server DBA
Dashboard:
The dashboard is made up of a single DLL, a database
(SS_DBA_Dashboard), a SQL Server Agent job and a series of Reporting
Services RDL files. As already stated the SQL Server DBA Dashboard
contains two different dashboards, one for DBAs and another for
programmers.
The DLL file contains most of the code used to obtain the information
displayed in the dashboard reports. The DLL assembly is used to create
external stored procedures in the SS_DBA_Dashboard database. In
additions to SPs being created in this database there are a couple of
tables to hold a small number of statistical records. This database
should grow very little, if any after the first use of the dashboard.
The DLL and database needs to be installed on each SQL Server instance
you want to monitor with the dashboard tool. The RDL files can be
stored in a single location or multiple locations. The RDL files are
designed to only to be executed from within SQL Server Management
Studio. In fact, only two RDL files "DBA_Dashboard_Main.rdl" and
"Programmer_Dashboard_Main.rdl" files should be referenced when
bringing up a Custom Report from within SSMS. These two RDL files pass
parameters to the other RDL files, so if you try to invoke the other
RDL files directly from SSMS they will fail.
Any instance where the DLL and SS_DBA_Dashboard have been installed
can be monitored using the two dashboards. The two main RDL files
mentioned above can be rendered on any client computer that has SSMS
installed. The only requirement is that the client computer be running
SQL Server SP2, the user/computer can access the RDL files, a valid
registration can be made between the client computer and the server
being monitored with SSMS, and the user using the dashboard has the
permission to execute the SPs in the SS_DBA_Dashboard database.
**
--
"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be
sophisticated, but when you get the two of them together in a way
people can relate to, then I think you're on to something. You want
the sophistication to lie in the purity of the sound, the beauty of
the arrangements, and the quality of the performances."-Trumpeter
Chris Botti
--
Chela Robles
AIM and E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
Skype: jazzytrumpet
WindowsLive Messenger:
cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I Volunteer for a non-profit organization called Bookshare, to find
out more go to: http://www.bookshare.org
--
On 8/6/2010 1:44 PM, Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi,
I read this message about dashboards (the computer ones, not the
ones in
cars), and I haven't the faintest idea what one is supposed
to do when
encountering a dashboard. I'm afraid I think: "huh? What
is that for?
Why do they call it a dashboard?" In short, this is
beyond my purview
and I'm stumped. Can someone explain this dashboard
thing to me in
simple terms and show me what you'd do if you came
across one? I'm
willing to learn. Regards, a confused Kim Friedman.
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