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Networking can be especially overwhelming for small business teams, who usually do not have a safety net of colleagues at networking events — or a big company name in their back pockets. Yet networking has clear benefits that can help your company and career. Not only does it expand your network of contacts, it introduces you to new opportunities, advice and opinions. Put in a little practice, and networking makes you more visible and even helps boost your self confidence.

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Spoiler: They all said they do not.

Rep. Cicilline said House Judiciary will publish a report on the Antitrust Subcommittees finding, which will propose solutions. but his hearing has made one fact clear to me: These companies as they exist today have monopoly power. Some need to be broken up. All need to be properly regulated and held accountable, he concluded.




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Remember when CGI was just CGI and not A.I.?

Or maybe the Hives are just really good dancers. It’s possible. Things are very groovy in Sweden and the people are very healthy and nimble. So you never know.

(Journalistic integrity spoiler: You, in fact, do know. The actual dancers — Alex Brown, Tom Hardiman, Connor Pearson, Reece Woodier, and Jacob Whawell — are credited in the video.)

I’ve seen the Hives in concert several times and their natural moves are impressive enough. Do they really need to employ deepfake technology to impress us even more? Maybe they do, because this video is fun and hilarious. And of course the song is great too.

But, like with all computer generated imagery, you find yourself looking for the glitches and cruising down the uncanny valley. It’s real looking enough, but not totally convincing, which makes it a little creepy. And, unsurprisingly, that creepiness factor works with the song’s lyrics.

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Caroline Says is Caroline Sallee and she’s moved around a lot. She was raised in Alabama. She moved to Austin. Then back to Alabama. And now she’s based in Brooklyn. That much moving, more than anything, reveals that you can’t go home again.

The house where you don’t live no more
When I drive by I still call it yours.

Nothing’s ever the same as how you left it.

When I said goodbye and said I’d see you soon
And how I keep you in my head just dies when I see you.

Sallee says, “Relationships are, first and foremost, ideas. That’s what allows relationships to persist even when we’re apart. We may yearn for an old friend or lover, especially one from our teenage years and our hometown. But there is a bittersweetness to any reunion. They may shatter the memory we’ve made of them.”

Shatter? Come on. What kind of fragile-ass memories do you have? People change.

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Full disclosure–hell, this whole article is a full disclosure–Tiny Jackets is a project fronted by Kelly Simmons, who I played with in the band Daystar.

Some time ago I moved from Portland back to my hometown in Michigan and while we kept Daystar alive through those years (including through the pandemic lockdown), Kelly naturally got restless and started a new project called Tiny Jackets. 

Now, here’s the thing: Tiny Jackets is exactly the band I would have loved to be in. They have big hooks, big harmonies, occasionally jangly guitars, and clever lyrics. That sounds like me, right? 

Well, Tiny Jackets has a new single out called “My Own Dark Age” and it has all of the above plus a nifty outro that would sound natural on a banger from Waxwings (another band I wish I was in!).

Tiny Jackets Release Party

The Fixin’ To in Portland, Oregon

6:00 pm

Pre-order “My Own Dark Age”

Photo credit: Sarah Almedia

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Inverted tables: an alternative to relational structures

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The inverted table format can deliver fast and flexible query capabilities, but is not widely used. ADABAS is probably the most successful implementation, but how often do you see that nowadays? Following is a description of how to implement inverted structures within a relational database. All code run on Oracle Database 12c, release 12.1.0.1.

Consider this table and a few rows, that describe the contents of my larder:

create table food(id number,capacity varchar2(10),container varchar2(10),item varchar2(10));
insert into food values(1,'large','bag','potatoes');
insert into food values(2,'small','box','carrots');
insert into food values(3,'medium','tin','peas');
insert into food values(4,'large','box','potatoes');
insert into food values(5,'small','tin','carrots');
insert into food values(6,'medium','bag','peas');
insert into food values(7,'large','tin','potatoes');
insert into food values(8,'small','bag','carrots');
insert into food values(9,'medium','box','peas');

The queries I run against the table might be "how many large boxes have I?" or "give me all the potatoes, I don't care about how they are packed". The idea is that I do not know in advance what columns I will be using in my predicate: it could be any combination. This is a common issue in a data warehouse.
So how do I index the table to satisfy any possible query? Two obvious possibilities:
First, build an index on each column, and the optimizer can perform an index_combine operation on whatever columns happen to be listed in the predicate. But that means indexing every column - and the table might have hundreds of columns. No way can I do that.
Second, build a concatenated index across all the columns: in effect, use an IOT. That will give me range scan access if any of the predicated columns are in the leading edge of the index key followed by filtering on the rest of the predicate. Or if the predicate does not include the leading column(s), I can get skip scan access and filter. But this is pretty useless, too: there will be wildly divergent performance depending on the predicate.
The answer is to invert the table:
create table inverted(colname varchar2(10),colvalue varchar2(10),id number);
insert into inverted select 'capacity',capacity,id from food;
insert into inverted select 'container',container,id from food;
insert into inverted select 'item',item,id from food;

Now just one index on each table can satisfy all queries:
create index food_i on food(id);
create index inverted_i on inverted(colname,colvalue);

To retrieve all the large boxes:
orclz> set autotrace on explain
orclz> select * from food where id in
  2  (select id from inverted where colname='capacity' and colvalue='large'
  3  intersect
  4  select id from inverted where colname='container' and colvalue='box');

        ID CAPACITY   CONTAINER  ITEM
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
         4 large      box        potatoes


Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 1945359172

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                                | Name       | Rows  | Bytes | C
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                         |            |     3 |   141 |
|   1 |  MERGE JOIN                              |            |     3 |   141 |
|   2 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID            | FOOD       |     9 |   306 |
|   3 |    INDEX FULL SCAN                       | FOOD_I     |     9 |       |
|*  4 |   SORT JOIN                              |            |     3 |    39 |
|   5 |    VIEW                                  | VW_NSO_1   |     3 |    39 |
|   6 |     INTERSECTION                         |            |       |       |
|   7 |      SORT UNIQUE                         |            |     3 |    81 |
|   8 |       TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED| INVERTED   |     3 |    81 |
|*  9 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN                  | INVERTED_I |     3 |       |
|  10 |      SORT UNIQUE                         |            |     3 |    81 |
|  11 |       TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED| INVERTED   |     3 |    81 |
|* 12 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN                  | INVERTED_I |     3 |       |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   4 - access("ID"="ID")
       filter("ID"="ID")
   9 - access("COLNAME"='capacity' AND "COLVALUE"='large')
  12 - access("COLNAME"='container' AND "COLVALUE"='box')

Note
-----
   - dynamic statistics used: dynamic sampling (level=2)

orclz>

Or all the potatoes:
orclz> select * from food where id in
  2  (select id from inverted where colname='item' and colvalue='potatoes');

        ID CAPACITY   CONTAINER  ITEM
---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
         1 large      bag        potatoes
         4 large      box        potatoes
         7 large      tin        potatoes


Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 762525239

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                              | Name       | Rows  | Bytes | Cos
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                       |            |     3 |   183 |
|   1 |  NESTED LOOPS                          |            |       |       |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                         |            |     3 |   183 |
|   3 |    SORT UNIQUE                         |            |     3 |    81 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED| INVERTED   |     3 |    81 |
|*  5 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN                  | INVERTED_I |     3 |       |
|*  6 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN                    | FOOD_I     |     1 |       |
|   7 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID          | FOOD       |     1 |    34 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   5 - access("COLNAME"='item' AND "COLVALUE"='potatoes')
   6 - access("ID"="ID")

Note
-----
   - dynamic statistics used: dynamic sampling (level=2)
   - this is an adaptive plan

orclz>

Of course, consideration needs to be given to handling more complex boolean expressions; maintaining the inversion is going to take resources; and a query generator has to construct the inversion code and re-write the queries. But In principle, this structure can deliver indexed access for unpredictable predicates of any number of any columns, with no separate filtering operation. Can you do that with a normalized star schema? I don't think so.
I hope this little thought experiment has stimulated the little grey cells, and made the point that relational structures are not always optimal for all problems.
--
John Watson
Oracle Certified Master DBA
http://skillbuilders.com




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