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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Lampworked blue glass beads with sparkling embedded foil contrast with earthy raku ceramic beads to jazz up a nicely-weighted wine bottle stopper.
Wine bottles deserve adornment, too! Pair this lovely stopper with a great vintage or one of my recycled wine bottle serving trays for an unforgettable hostess gift. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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A lampworked blue glass heart with sparkling embedded foil, striped furnace glass, and a glowing resin bead jazz up a nicely-weighted wine bottle stopper.
Wine bottles deserve adornment, too! Pair this lovely stopper with a great vintage or one of my recycled wine bottle serving trays for an unforgettable hostess gift. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Monday, January 28, 2008
You might expect that you could add full-text search to an existing SQL Server instance by firing up the install media. You'd be wrong. You must go into the Control Panel, into Add/Remove programs, click the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 component, and click its Change button. Don't forget to re-apply your service packs!Labels: SQL Server
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Dr. Seuss illustrations for your ears! Half-inch round lampworked glass beads are covered in bumpy protrusions that look like little striped volcanoes. Two sizes of chain swing in varied lengths below. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own them!
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
If not otherwise specified, these numbers are from a Microsoft webcast.
SQL Server: Buffer Manager
- Page life expectancy should be > 300
- If Page lookup/sec / Batch Requests / sec is > 100, then you're doing too much I/O.
- Lazy writes/sec should be 0. > 20 is bad, indicates memory pressure.
- Free pages should be >= 640.
Memory manager
- Memory grants pending should be 0
Latches
- Avg Latch Wait Time(ms) should be less than 10
Locks
- Total wait time (ms) > 60,000 ms is bad.
SQL Server Statistics
- Compilations/sec should be less than 20% of batch requests.
- Recompiles should be less than 10% of batch requests.
Threads
Labels: SQL Server, SQL Server - Diagnostics
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Friday, January 18, 2008
This shallow glass dish is a rich aqua striated with wisps of ethereal white. I'm calling it a soap dish, and it comes with a bar of Cotton Blossom scented Al Fresco Olive Oil Soap from Spa Therapy Works. Other folks have picked it up and exclaimed what a great candle handler it would be. The dish is 5 inches square and ¼" deep, fired twice in my kiln, then slowly annealed for strength and long life. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Blossoms of vintage Lucite, rescued from a factory in Rhode Island that closed in the 1960s, dangle below rondelles of red, yellow, and orange furnace glass and a ring of yellow shell. Warm and festive -- a spring-time circus for your ear lobes! Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Irregular chips of tumbled and polished red coral dangle from silver earwires. These elegant earrings have an Asian look to them. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Festive blue lampworked glass beads are capped by smaller orange beads with a metallic splash! Flowery spacer beads add an antiqued contrast. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Foil-wrapped square gold glass beads sparkle with lime green rounds and a brassy spiral. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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A collection of stone chips and glass beads dangles on a chain from a polymer clay focal bead with a stained glass pattern. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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These sparkly purple and silver glass beads have embedded foil for extra shine and fins for extra fun! Flanked by shiny hematite, these are a delight! Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Brown ceramic raku discs and gold glass beads with painted streamers make for a warm, inviting earring. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Warm ceramic raku discs are flanked by stately silver and pewter findings and topped by gold glass for an elegant dangle. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Warm brown ceramic raku discs are paired with rainbow glass beads sparkling with an undercoating of foil. Delicate pewter leaves dangle below. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Large silvery leaves sparkle at your earlobes. Elegant simplicity! The leaves are approximately 1 inch long. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Coins of turquoise and tumbled quartz chips dangle and sparkle. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Autumnal colors grace this rhomboid glass pendant. Fired in a kiln for glossy, rounded edges, this pendant can be worn by itself or combined with other components as the focal bead for a necklace. The pendant is 1.5 inches long and comes on a silver bail. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Wow! This necklace is a riot of red and pink beads. Pressed glass, lampworked, painted, and wired-wrapped beads combine for a fun and funky piece of jewelry. Two dangling pewter charms reading "love much" and "follow your heart" complete the sentiment. Go forth and be joyful! The necklace is 19 inches long and clasps with a large, ornate hook. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Intertwining strands of chunky red squares and darker red lampworked beads in various shapes disappear into pewter cones and pop out the other end as filmy organza ribbon. Fun and funky! The necklace is 16 inches long and clasps with a large, ornate hook. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Start off with a double row of tumbled turquoise pebbles and larger turquoise coins, accented with pewter beads and dangling pewter spirals. Add a large capiz shell pendant. Fabulous! This necklace clasps with a large lobster claw and features an extension chain that allows you to adjust its length between 13 and 16 inches simply by varying which link in the chain you hook the lobster claw through. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Pewter charms exalting you to love much, laugh much (on the reverse of "love much"), be yourself and follow your heart dangle with beads and spirals from a large turquoise donut. The pendant hangs on a double strand of black satin cord. The necklace is 18 inches long, and the pendant dangles 5 inches from the top of the turquoise donut. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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This shallow glass dish is a rich aqua striated with wisps of ethereal white. The dish is 4 inches square and ¼" deep, fired twice in my kiln, then slowly annealed for strength and long life. It comfortably holds a candle of up to 3 inches in diameter (not included). Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Say "I love you" with art glass and chocolate! Treat yourself, a friend, or a loved one with a beautiful draped glass vase full of truffles. This piece is fired twice -- first to 1350 degrees to melt small chunks of brilliant red glass into a clear base, then to 1200 degrees to gently drape it like a crystalline blanket. After each firing, the glass is slowly cooled to anneal it for strength and long life. The vase is about 7 inches wide and a hair over 4 inches tall. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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A ghostly Kokopelli summons the wind in this wee dish made of paper suspended between layers of glass. The paper is specially formulated to withstand the steamy 1350 degrees inside a glass kiln. The food-safe bowl is 4.5 inches wide and 1 inch deep, perfect for sauces, spices, jewelry, and small soaps. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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Green and brown discs of shell dance under golden glass beads embedded with sparking foil. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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A spill of clear crystalline beads cascades from a spiral-capped amethyst pendant. Amethyst is associated with nobility and spiritual awareness. Since amethyst is a natural stone, the pendant shape and hue will vary slightly. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own it!
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This evening's creation! Wood and hematite beads on twisted wires dangle from richly-hued wooden rings. Visit Jellybug Artworks for more pictures and a chance to own them!
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
In case I haven't talked your ear off about it, I've given up stained glass in favor of a hobby with less taping and icky fluids. Jellybug is now sporting kiln-formed dishware and bobbi pins, and I'm developing a line of Valentine's Day creations. My remaining stock of stained glass is still available, but I'm hoping not to make any more!
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The BOL rather unhelpfully doesn't give an example of how to pass multiple parameters to sp_executesql, leaving one to wonder whether it's
EXEC sp_executesql @sql, N'@start DATETIME', @start, N'@finish DATETIME', @finish
or possibly
EXEC sp_executesql @sql, N'@start DATETIME, @finish DATETIME', @start, @finish
(That N is important by the way -- the documentation also doesn't mention that the SQL statement and the parameter definitions must be NVARCHARs, not VARCHARs, and the error message that sp_executesql returns is only vaguely helpful.)
It turns out that #2 is the correct syntax, though you wouldn't know it from the intelligible error returned by sp_executesql. Thanks again, Google!Labels: SQL Server, SQL Server - Scripts
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