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Perfect companion to any SQL Server 2008 book, providing fast, accurate answers on the spot for millions of IT professionals System and database administrators, IT consultants, and database application developers often need quick answers and practical solutions for SQL Server issues. This convenient guide offers you quick referencing for the product and database topics you need most. If you''re an IT administrator looking for the essentials in the day-to-day tasks of administering SQL Server 2008, you''ll appreciate this book''s design for providing quick and easy look up of solutions and tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions for answers on the spot. SQL Server 2008 Instant Administration Reference is a guide that you want to keep within reach. SQL Server is Microsoft''s bestselling database manager; the 2008 version offers enhanced security and high availability, encouraging users to upgrade Features thumb tabs, secondary and tertiary tables of contents, and special heading treatments to provide quick and easy lookup, as well as quick-reference tables and lists to provide answers on the spot Covers installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining SQL Server; optimizing server performance; and troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 Administration Instant Reference answers the questions you encounter most often in your daily work.

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, A COMPREHENSIVE AND FASCINATING CRITIQUE OF MOVIES ABOUT VIETNAM! Heroic. Brave. Daring. Until the 1960s, movies about war were good box office. That all changed with Vietnam. Since the war was unpopular and confusing -- lacking clear objectives and easily identified enemies --movie-makers, like many Americans, transferred their dislike for the conflict onto the soldier. Consequently, Hollywood produced pictures that can now be recognizes as misleading, distorted, sensationalistic, or just plain dishonest. In Vietnam at the Movies, Vietnam vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the genesis of the "war movie" from the Spanish American War all the way up to Vietnam, taking Tinseltown to task for its treatment of the Viet vet--painstakingly separating fact from the fiction, and reviewing the quality and accuracy of more than 380 films and TV movies, including: Air America * The Big Chill * Birdy * Born on the Fourth of July * Casualties of War * Coming Home * The Deer Hunter * Dogfight * Easy Rider * First Blood * For the Boys * Friendly Fire * Full Metal Jacket * Good Morning Vietnam * Hair * In Country * JFK * The Killing Fields * Lethal Weapon * Nashville * Platoon * Running On Empty * Slaughterhouse-Five * Streamers * Suspect * Swimming to Cambodia * Taxi Driver * Tender Mercies * Top Gun * Year of the Dragon * And many more! Alphabetically organized for quick and easy access, this comprehensive volume gives film audiences and VCR viewers the opportunity to understand exactly what they are watching when they see Vietnam at the movies.

As Microsoft’s bestselling database manager, SQL Server is highly flexible and customizable, and has excellent support—the 2008 version offers several significant new capabilities. This book offers accurate and expert coverage on the updates to SQL Server 2008 such as its enhanced security; the ability to encrypt an entire database, data files, and log files without the need for application changes; a scalable infrastructure that can manage reports and analysis of any size and complexity; and its extensive performance data collection.

In 1980 during his senior year at Wallace High School, Michael Strong was the starting point guard on the varsity basketball team and voted "Most Talented and Best All Around." But when Strong left his Bennettsville hometown for The Air Force after graduation, he had no idea that during the next 20 years he''d get married, father two children, travel to five of the world''s seven continents - and become a drug addict. Strong, who lives in Baltimore and works a program manager for a facility for homeless veterans, chronicles his life in Strong Getting Stronger, a no holds barred autobiography that doesn''t sugarcoat addiction but instead provides readers with a firsthand account of its destruction.

In his collection Vacationland, Michael Bross takes the audience on a tour that spans decades, recalling memories such as his daughter mimicking animals or his father''s physical decline. After all, seated in a "beached boat at world''s end," what else is there to do but look back? Bross demonstrates the importance of this reflection, even when-perhaps, especially when-it hurts like hell. Having seen this book in several iterations, I''m excited to soon see it out in the world! -Michelle Greco, author of Field Guide to Fire "So let''s pretend this all happened". Let''s pretend our father had AIDS in Disneyland. Let''s pretend our Rush mixtape is playing in the 90s while our child "needed to touch everything" in Liberty Science Center and "my autopsy''s in the sand without witness". And maybe we don''t need to pretend. Michael Bross brings us there, let''s us into his memory and his family and his fantasies not hiding the hurt or the fear. Vacationland is a powerful work that opens up over and over seeking a way or a place to be a family the right way. -Fletch Fletcher, author of Existing Science Michael Bross''s Vacationland collects memories of family vacations and excavates how these trips, swept "clean into picture frames," are evidence of vacated life. Vacationland maps mourning in multiple layers: mourning a father lost to AIDS and then to death, mourning that "dying ... is what we do / on vacation," mourning how "answers murder the boundaries / of ourselves inch by inch into smaller universes," mourning a boyhood lost to the apparent invulnerability of photographs. In some ways, Vacationland is an exploration of the lie of invulnerability and, by extension, the poison of toxic masculinity. But Bross also offers us a subtle counternarrative of hope, found in a deeply connected marriage to his spouse Adrienne, a profound and tender love for his daughter Ariadne, and a comfort, however hard won, that though "paradise is a race run in circles," as he writes in the book''s opening poem, healing can be found in looking closely at the lies in our lives to find essential truths: even in snapshots, and definitely through poetry. -Darla Himeles, author of Cleave

Greetings in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ! I trust that upon reading this page you are ready to be reminded of, or to learn and be taught the strong meat of the word of righteousness. For, he that attempts to study this work must be of an humble mind and teachable spirit. This work possesses many statements and scriptures sure to cause great controversy for babes in Christ and the carnal Christian alike. This work began through a prophecy from the Lord, to the writer, through another preacher, prophet. It has been through the obedience of the writer and his being taught directly by revelation of the Holy Ghost, that this work has proceeded this far. The writer declares to know nothing except what the Spirit of Christ has taught him and led him to place upon paper. This work is intended to help, remind, reprove, instruct, correct and provide a roadmap for those who dare to approach the way called Holiness.

The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blinds—and the years have done little to comb out the knots. Now a drunken encounter with the midnight train has left brash, much-married Jo-Nell near death, compelling agoraphobic Eleanor to summon marine biologist Freddie home from California—where she fled after being expelled from med school following a daring gall bladder heist. At last the McBroom sisters are together again, to face old fears and new catastrophes as they cheerfully deflect every flaming arrow that outrageous fortune fires their way. With wit and loving compassion, Michael Lee West introduces us to an indomitable family of eccentric survivors in an unforgettable novel of cruel fate, bad luck, and unassailable resiliency.

Are You an "Unconscious Racist"? Stop Asian Hate with this Concise Exercise Handbook✓ In the world we live in, it is so easy to get caught up in ourselves and our own identities. People around us, however, are going through just as much as us and something more. The privileges we have can make or break our lives as human beings and citizens. As we move toward becoming a progressive society, making changes to our behavior and mentalities toward other people will aid the process. We all have biases against other people; it''s human nature. However, human nature is not an excuse for making assumptions about people that may hurt them in ways we don''t see. Everyone has an identity and parts of who they are as people. Identifying who we are and understanding what makes us important individuals will help us understand other people and what makes them individuals as well. Sample Excerpt in "Stop Asian Hate Concise Handbook: Quiz: What is your identity? First: Make a list of the parts of your identity that matter to you. Whether it is race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. Create an extremely detailed list, then use it to reflect on these questions: 1. What identity trait do you think people first notice about you? 2. What identity trait are you most comfortable sharing with other people? 3. Wha identity trait are you least comfortable sharing with other people? 4. What identity trait are you most proud of? 5. What piece of your identity did you struggle the most with growing up? 6. What piece of your identity is the most important to you, and what you want others to see about you? 7. What part of your identity is least important to you, and what you want others to know about you? 8. What part of other people''s identities do you take note of first? 9. What part of your identity do you feel you face oppression for most often? 10. What part of your identity do you think you receive privilege for most often? This workbook is meant to help you assess who you are as a person and your hand in racism that minorities may face today. It''s important to be truthful throughout the activities in this workbook in order to make legitimate progress. As you read, think carefully about the experiences that the people mentioned may have gone through. Challenge your own thoughts and what you''ve been told your entire life. Change starts with you!

''Having escaped the lions'' den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat.'' Justice Michael Lee with an introduction by Chanel Contos On 15 April 2024 Justice Michael Lee delivered his judgment in Lehrmann v Network 10. The case, which centred on proceedings brought by Bruce Lehrmann against journalist Lisa Wilkinson and Network 10 for her 2021 interview with Brittany Higgins, alleged that Wilkinson had defamed Lehrmann by accusing him of raping Higgins at Parliament House in 2019. It was a singular case, and the controversy has become a cause c�l�bre, described by the judge himself as an ''omnishambles''. In his decision, Justice Lee laid out his reasoning in painstaking detail, and presented his close-grained reading of the evidence based on its subtleties. Critically for future sexual assault matters, his was a trauma-informed judgment that understood that the recollections of an assault victim can be inconsistent, affected by the attempted memory corrections of a traumatised person. The findings are notable for their valuable insights into future defamation and sexual assault prosecutions and for judicial education and the media. A masterclass of legal dissection, the narrative shows what civil courts can sometimes achieve in a way that criminal courts cannot.

Hello everyone, Michael Lee Kilmartin here with a very special Halloween edition. Yes, there are are three stories to this children''s picture and story book. Now you can have some with your children with three stories that you can read to them and show them how happy Halloween can make them in what Halloween is all about. It is a time of fun, friends, and family that get together to dress up in their very special costumes that everyone will fun with this very special evening. So everyone explain to your children what Halloween is, and not just a scary night to go out and scare everyone to get a bag full of candy and many treats. Happy Halloween and Trick or Treat to everyone.

The unbelievable insider stories of how they ''got the shot''! Cinematic Immunity tells the story of New York City''s movie industry from the crew members who created the sets, lit the scenes, and shot the film. Focused on the golden age of New York filmmaking, Cinematic Immunity covers On the Waterfront through The Sopranos. The East Coast film industry, thousands of miles from the Los Angeles executives, existed by its own rules and with little oversight. It was a close-knit and freewheeling community of movie technicians that took on the most outrageous challenges to get every shot perfect. Behind-the-scenes documentaries and books feature "above the line" talent--actors, producers, directors, and writers. For the first time, readers will hear the unvarnished truth of the New York movie industry--tales about union politics, labor strikes, movie families, dangerous locations, difficult shots, volatile directors, anecdotes about actors, pranks, friendships, rivalries, generational shifts, substance use and abuse, technical feats, and more. Readers will hear never heard before stories about classic (and not so classic) films and television shows including: Midnight Cowboy, The Warriors, The French Connection, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Wiz, The Taking of Pelham 123, Annie Hall, Cruising, Do The Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Home Alone 2, Carlito''s Way, The Sopranos, and Law and Order. Expect to discover secrets about how your favorite scenes were shot and the outrageous characters with outsized talents whose personalities sometimes dwarfed actors and directors. Tales of their exploits, what they saw (and did) on these sets was previously only passed among themselves as showbiz lore but now, readers learn of Marlon Brando''s pranks on the set of The Godfather, how crews kept William Friedkin from killing them, the actors, and himself, and how consummate New Yorker Sidney Lumet was the angel to Friedkin''s demons. Author Michael Lee Nirenberg has worked as a scenic artist in New York since 2006, and in many cases, alongside many of the people featured in the book. This book is a labor of love comprised of over 150 interviews and hundreds of hours of recordings. Cinematic Immunity includes hundreds of behind-the-scenes images from studio archives and from the technicians who were there. Expect to discover secrets about how your favorite scenes were shot and the outrageous characters with outsized talents whose personalities sometimes dwarfed actors and directors. Tales of their exploits, what they saw (and did) on these sets was previously only passed among themselves as showbiz lore but now, readers learn of Marlon Brando''s pranks on the set of The Godfather, how crews kept William Friedkin from killing them, the actors, and himself, and how consummate New Yorker Sidney Lumet was the angel to Friedkin''s demons. Author Michael Lee Nirenberg has worked as a scenic artist in New York since 2006, and in many cases, alongside many of the people featured in the book. This book is a labor of love comprised of over 150 interviews and hundreds of hours of recordings. Cinematic Immunity includes hundreds of behind-the-scenes images from studio archives and from the technicians who were there.

In a large cavern, hidden inside a mountain, sits a prehistoric world. Dinosaurs roam freely in the closed ecosystem. A flash of light appears high overhead as a falling helicopter emerges from one of the many hidden entries. Jason grasps his seatbelt, to brace for impact."No, it can''t end like this," he mumbles."Don''t worry, sir, I will do my best to land us safely," assures his pilot. Jason looks out the window as they hurl toward the jungle below. He sees the dinosaurs in the distance, grazing on the tall grass. He had found this place a few years ago and spent millions building structures and studying the dinosaurs. His most difficult challenge was keeping it a secret. He closed his eyes thinking of his wife and son. His hand went to his neck, fondling the flash drive that contained the location and plans for the technology to keep them safe."It''s up to you now, Son." The helicopter crashed into the treetops and then plummeted groundward.Will Jason and his crew survive the crash?Will Jason''s son be their savior?Will the prehistoric creatures he set out to study and save be their end?Find out in this fast-paced adventure. Run, hide, and be scared

Hi Kids, it is Tommy back with another comic book called Kids In Space. This new comic book is a joke book and also a reader book for the five to twelve-year-old readers who are learning to write the English language. Not only that it is a really cool comic book with many of my friends and cool aliens and spaceships. 5+ although for all children and adults.

Hello everyone Michael Lee Kilmartin here with another action packed Federal Government story in the Michael Kilmartin Assignment Series. This next story will be with Katherine a newly appointed assistant FBI Director. Originally with the SBA department and Rodger the Director of the FBI in my last novel The Phoenix Assignment. This new story will be about them going to the city of New York where they will investigate a company that is in the distribution of arms worldwide. This story is a fast paced story with plenty of action from beginning to end. 14+ in age group although for all adults.

This book provides an overview of the high availability and enterprise replication features of Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Version 10, which can simplify and automate enterprise database deployment. Version 10 offers patent-pending technology that virtually eliminates downtime and automates many of the tasks associated with deploying mission-critical enterprise systems. The high availability capability can reduce or eliminate costly downtime through, as examples, the introduction of online index rebuild, the capability to create and drop indexes online without locking tables, and point-in-time table-level restore. Enhanced enterprise replication provides solutions for those customers requiring reliable and quick dissemination of data across a global organization. The replicated data can also participate in the high availability environment with capabilities such as seamless online resynchronization of enterprise replication nodes at startup, for example. There is also enhanced capability for high-availability disaster recovery customers in the form of the ability to resend primary server indexes to HDR secondary servers without requiring a rebuild of the index on the primary server. These significant and powerful capabilities can enable you to intelligently replicate (distribute) your enterprise data to improve the availability of that data to better service the requirements of your enterprise.

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Child protective services begin with an intake (screening) decision to accept or reject maltreatment reports. This crucial decision may lead to significant positive or negative outcomes for children and families. Little is known about characteristics that intake decision-makers share or factors that influence the decision-making process. Racially-biased intake practices have been blamed for contributing to African American children''s disproportionate overrepresentation in the child welfare system. Concerns have emerged that social workers may hold negative stereotypes about African Americans and parents who use drugs. Stereotypical biases may influence decisions in reports alleging parental drug use and/or involving African American families. This study was conducted to examine the influence of race and parental drug-use allegations on intake decision-making. It was also conducted to identify factors that influence decision-making and to determine whether concepts drawn from naturalistic decision theory and attribution theory are relevant to intake decision-making. A conceptual model for describing decision-making was proposed and tested. Equivalent materials design was employed. Respondents completed an on-line questionnaire that included 24 vignettes describing hypothetical maltreatment concerns. Race and drug use were manipulated between two instrument versions. Respondents completed a 45-item scale measuring racial and parental drug use bias. They also described their application of policy to decision-making and the degree to which they engaged in different types of mental simulation (a naturalistic decision theory strategy) in making decisions. Eighty-seven child protective services intake decision-makers in Virginia participated (67% response rate). The findings suggest that respondents'' decisions were not influenced by racial bias but were influenced by parental drug use bias. Respondents'' parental drug use bias scores were higher than their racial bias scores. Social workers'' racial bias scores were higher than other respondents'' scores. A set of nine primary decision-factors used frequently in decision-making was identified. Finally, respondents reported using their discretion in adhering to CPS policy depending upon their concern for children''s safety. The research contributes to understanding the intake decision-making process. Findings related to worker characteristics, relevant decision-factors, and decision-making behaviors may influence practice and future research. Findings also suggest that naturalistic decision theory concepts warrant further attention and study.