I found CS5.X 3-way CC more functional than CS6's.... thoughts?

Maybe I'm missing something from the new interface, but in CS5.x I was able target and affect the Video input/output levels of Highlights, Shadows, Midtones separately. So if I wanted to stretch the blacks without affecting midtones or highlights, no problem. From what I can tell thus far, CS6's 3-way CC has only master Video input/output level adjustment, which seems like neutering to me.
So am I missing something? What I see doesn't seem like an improvement by any means.
And if I'm not, what would be the best GPU accelerated tool to accomplish the same thing?

That's the thing that bugs me about PPro color tools - too many disparate effects needed to get the job done. And since the RGB color corrector was broken a few months ago and still hasn't been fixed AFAIK, I've moved to Colorista II and could not be more pleased. I really think Adobe needs to clean up the color workflow in PPro so I can focus on the look and not keep shuttling between effects. In the meantime, I'll stick with Colorista.

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Yes
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I hope that helps!

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500 GB for $130.
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/173887-ssd-stress-testing-finds-intel-might -be-the-only-reliable-drive-manufacturer
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Query in timesten taking more time than query in oracle database

Hi,
Can anyone please explain me why query in timesten taking more time
than query in oracle database.
I am mentioning in detail what are my settings and what have I done
step by step.........
1.This is the table I created in Oracle datababase
(Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0)...
CREATE TABLE student (
id NUMBER(9) primary keY ,
first_name VARCHAR2(10),
last_name VARCHAR2(10)
2.THIS IS THE ANONYMOUS BLOCK I USE TO
POPULATE THE STUDENT TABLE(TOTAL 2599999 ROWS)...
declare
firstname varchar2(12);
lastname varchar2(12);
catt number(9);
begin
for cntr in 1..2599999 loop
firstname:=(cntr+8)||'f';
lastname:=(cntr+2)||'l';
if cntr like '%9999' then
dbms_output.put_line(cntr);
end if;
insert into student values(cntr,firstname, lastname);
end loop;
end;
3. MY DSN IS SET THE FOLLWING WAY..
DATA STORE PATH- G:\dipesh3repo\db
LOG DIRECTORY- G:\dipesh3repo\log
PERM DATA SIZE-1000
TEMP DATA SIZE-1000
MY TIMESTEN VERSION-
C:\Documents and Settings\dipesh>ttversion
TimesTen Release 7.0.3.0.0 (32 bit NT) (tt70_32:17000) 2007-09-19T16:04:16Z
Instance admin: dipesh
Instance home directory: G:\TimestTen\TT70_32
Daemon home directory: G:\TimestTen\TT70_32\srv\info
THEN I CONNECT TO THE TIMESTEN DATABASE
C:\Documents and Settings\dipesh> ttisql
command>connect "dsn=dipesh3;oraclepwd=tiger";
4. THEN I START THE AGENT
call ttCacheUidPwdSet('SCOTT','TIGER');
Command> CALL ttCacheStart();
5.THEN I CREATE THE READ ONLY CACHE GROUP AND LOAD IT
create readonly cache group rc_student autorefresh
interval 5 seconds from student
(id int not null primary key, first_name varchar2(10), last_name varchar2(10));
load cache group rc_student commit every 100 rows;
6.NOW I CAN ACCESS THE TABLES FROM TIMESTEN AND PERFORM THE QUERY
I SET THE TIMING..
command>TIMING 1;
consider this query now..
Command> select * from student where first_name='2155666f';
< 2155658, 2155666f, 2155660l >
1 row found.
Execution time (SQLExecute + Fetch Loop) = 0.668822 seconds.
another query-
Command> SELECT * FROM STUDENTS WHERE FIRST_NAME='2340009f';
2206: Table SCOTT.STUDENTS not found
Execution time (SQLPrepare) = 0.074964 seconds.
The command failed.
Command> SELECT * FROM STUDENT where first_name='2093434f';
< 2093426, 2093434f, 2093428l >
1 row found.
Execution time (SQLExecute + Fetch Loop) = 0.585897 seconds.
Command>
7.NOW I PERFORM THE SIMILAR QUERIES FROM SQLPLUS...
SQL> SELECT * FROM STUDENT WHERE FIRST_NAME='1498671f';
ID FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME
1498663 1498671f 1498665l
Elapsed: 00:00:00.15
Can anyone please explain me why query in timesten taking more time
that query in oracle database.
Message was edited by: Dipesh Majumdar
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TimesTen
Hardware: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64; 8 x Dual-core AMD 8216 2.41GHz processors; 32 GB RAM
Version: 7.0.4.0.0 64 bit
Schema:
create usermanaged cache group factCache from
MV_US_DATAMART
ORDER_DATE               DATE,
IF_SYSTEM               VARCHAR2(32) NOT NULL,
GROUPING_ID                TT_BIGINT,
TIME_DIM_ID               TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
BUSINESS_DIM_ID          TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
ACCOUNT_DIM_ID               TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
ORDERTYPE_DIM_ID          TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
INSTR_DIM_ID               TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
EXECUTION_DIM_ID          TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
EXEC_EXCHANGE_DIM_ID TT_INTEGER NOT NULL,
NO_ORDERS               TT_BIGINT,
FILLED_QUANTITY          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_FILLED_QUANTITY          TT_BIGINT,
QUANTITY               TT_BIGINT,
CNT_QUANTITY               TT_BIGINT,
COMMISSION               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_COMMISSION               TT_BIGINT,
FILLS_NUMBER               TT_BIGINT,
CNT_FILLS_NUMBER          TT_BIGINT,
AGGRESSIVE_FILLS          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_AGGRESSIVE_FILLS          TT_BIGINT,
NOTIONAL               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_NOTIONAL               TT_BIGINT,
TOTAL_PRICE               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_TOTAL_PRICE          TT_BIGINT,
CANCELLED_ORDERS_COUNT          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_CANCELLED_ORDERS_COUNT     TT_BIGINT,
ROUTED_ORDERS_NO          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_ROUTED_ORDERS_NO          TT_BIGINT,
ROUTED_LIQUIDITY_QTY          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_ROUTED_LIQUIDITY_QTY     TT_BIGINT,
REMOVED_LIQUIDITY_QTY          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_REMOVED_LIQUIDITY_QTY     TT_BIGINT,
ADDED_LIQUIDITY_QTY          TT_BIGINT,
CNT_ADDED_LIQUIDITY_QTY     TT_BIGINT,
AGENT_CHARGES               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_AGENT_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
CLEARING_CHARGES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLEARING_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
EXECUTION_CHARGES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_EXECUTION_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
TRANSACTION_CHARGES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_TRANSACTION_CHARGES     TT_BIGINT,
ORDER_MANAGEMENT          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_ORDER_MANAGEMENT          TT_BIGINT,
SETTLEMENT_CHARGES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_SETTLEMENT_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_AGENT          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_AGENT          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_CLEARING          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_CLEARING          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_EXECUTION          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_EXECUTION     TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_TRANSACTION          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_TRANSACTION     TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_ORD_MGT          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_ORD_MGT          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_SETTLEMENT          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_SETTLEMENT     TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_AGENT               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_AGENT          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_ORDER_MGT          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_ORDER_MGT          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_EXEC               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_EXEC          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_TRANS               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_TRANS          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_CLEARING          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_CLEARING          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_SETTLE               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_SETTLE          TT_BIGINT,
CHARGEABLE_TAXES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CHARGEABLE_TAXES          TT_BIGINT,
VENDOR_CHARGE               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_VENDOR_CHARGE          TT_BIGINT,
ROUTING_CHARGES          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_ROUTING_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_ROUTING          BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_ROUTING          TT_BIGINT,
CLIENT_ROUTING               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_CLIENT_ROUTING          TT_BIGINT,
TICKET_CHARGES               BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_TICKET_CHARGES          TT_BIGINT,
RECOVERED_TICKET_CHARGES     BINARY_FLOAT,
CNT_RECOVERED_TICKET_CHARGES     TT_BIGINT,
PRIMARY KEY(ORDER_DATE, TIME_DIM_ID, BUSINESS_DIM_ID, ACCOUNT_DIM_ID, ORDERTYPE_DIM_ID, INSTR_DIM_ID, EXECUTION_DIM_ID,EXEC_EXCHANGE_DIM_ID),
READONLY);
No of rows: 2228558
Config:
< CkptFrequency, 600 >
< CkptLogVolume, 0 >
< CkptRate, 0 >
< ConnectionCharacterSet, US7ASCII >
< ConnectionName, tt_us_dma >
< Connections, 64 >
< DataBaseCharacterSet, AL32UTF8 >
< DataStore, e:\andrew\datacache\usDMA >
< DurableCommits, 0 >
< GroupRestrict, <NULL> >
< LockLevel, 0 >
< LockWait, 10 >
< LogBuffSize, 65536 >
< LogDir, e:\andrew\datacache\ >
< LogFileSize, 64 >
< LogFlushMethod, 1 >
< LogPurge, 0 >
< Logging, 1 >
< MemoryLock, 0 >
< NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS, BYTE >
< NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP, 0 >
< NLS_SORT, BINARY >
< OracleID, NYCATP1 >
< PassThrough, 0 >
< PermSize, 4000 >
< PermWarnThreshold, 90 >
< PrivateCommands, 0 >
< Preallocate, 0 >
< QueryThreshold, 0 >
< RACCallback, 0 >
< SQLQueryTimeout, 0 >
< TempSize, 514 >
< TempWarnThreshold, 90 >
< Temporary, 1 >
< TransparentLoad, 0 >
< TypeMode, 0 >
< UID, OS_OWNER >
ORACLE:
Hardware: Sunos 5.10; 24x1.8Ghz (unsure of type); 82 GB RAM
Version 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Schema:
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW OS_OWNER.MV_US_DATAMART
TABLESPACE TS_OS
PARTITION BY RANGE (ORDER_DATE)
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_MINVAL VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-11-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_NOV_D1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-11-11 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_NOV_D2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-11-21 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_NOV_D3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-12-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_DEC_D1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-12-11 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_DEC_D2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2007-12-21 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_07_DEC_D3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2008-01-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_08_JAN_D1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2008-01-11 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_08_JAN_D2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2008-01-21 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_08_JAN_D3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2008-02-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS,
PARTITION MV_US_DATAMART_MAXVAL VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE)
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
TABLESPACE TS_OS
NOCACHE
NOCOMPRESS
NOPARALLEL
BUILD DEFERRED
USING INDEX
TABLESPACE TS_OS_INDEX
REFRESH FAST ON DEMAND
WITH PRIMARY KEY
ENABLE QUERY REWRITE
AS
SELECT order_date, if_system,
GROUPING_ID (order_date,
if_system,
business_dim_id,
time_dim_id,
account_dim_id,
ordertype_dim_id,
instr_dim_id,
execution_dim_id,
exec_exchange_dim_id
) GROUPING_ID,
/* ============ DIMENSIONS ============ */
time_dim_id, business_dim_id, account_dim_id, ordertype_dim_id,
instr_dim_id, execution_dim_id, exec_exchange_dim_id,
/* ============ MEASURES ============ */
-- o.FX_RATE /* FX_RATE */,
COUNT (*) no_orders,
-- SUM(NO_ORDERS) NO_ORDERS,
-- COUNT(NO_ORDERS) CNT_NO_ORDERS,
SUM (filled_quantity) filled_quantity,
COUNT (filled_quantity) cnt_filled_quantity, SUM (quantity) quantity,
COUNT (quantity) cnt_quantity, SUM (commission) commission,
COUNT (commission) cnt_commission, SUM (fills_number) fills_number,
COUNT (fills_number) cnt_fills_number,
SUM (aggressive_fills) aggressive_fills,
COUNT (aggressive_fills) cnt_aggressive_fills,
SUM (fx_rate * filled_quantity * average_price) notional,
COUNT (fx_rate * filled_quantity * average_price) cnt_notional,
SUM (fx_rate * fills_number * average_price) total_price,
COUNT (fx_rate * fills_number * average_price) cnt_total_price,
SUM (CASE
WHEN order_status = 'C'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END) cancelled_orders_count,
COUNT (CASE
WHEN order_status = 'C'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) cnt_cancelled_orders_count,
-- SUM(t.FX_RATE*t.NO_FILLS*t.AVG_PRICE) AVERAGE_PRICE,
-- SUM(FILLS_NUMBER*AVERAGE_PRICE) STAGING_AVERAGE_PRICE,
-- COUNT(FILLS_NUMBER*AVERAGE_PRICE) CNT_STAGING_AVERAGE_PRICE,
SUM (routed_orders_no) routed_orders_no,
COUNT (routed_orders_no) cnt_routed_orders_no,
SUM (routed_liquidity_qty) routed_liquidity_qty,
COUNT (routed_liquidity_qty) cnt_routed_liquidity_qty,
SUM (removed_liquidity_qty) removed_liquidity_qty,
COUNT (removed_liquidity_qty) cnt_removed_liquidity_qty,
SUM (added_liquidity_qty) added_liquidity_qty,
COUNT (added_liquidity_qty) cnt_added_liquidity_qty,
SUM (agent_charges) agent_charges,
COUNT (agent_charges) cnt_agent_charges,
SUM (clearing_charges) clearing_charges,
COUNT (clearing_charges) cnt_clearing_charges,
SUM (execution_charges) execution_charges,
COUNT (execution_charges) cnt_execution_charges,
SUM (transaction_charges) transaction_charges,
COUNT (transaction_charges) cnt_transaction_charges,
SUM (order_management) order_management,
COUNT (order_management) cnt_order_management,
SUM (settlement_charges) settlement_charges,
COUNT (settlement_charges) cnt_settlement_charges,
SUM (recovered_agent) recovered_agent,
COUNT (recovered_agent) cnt_recovered_agent,
SUM (recovered_clearing) recovered_clearing,
COUNT (recovered_clearing) cnt_recovered_clearing,
SUM (recovered_execution) recovered_execution,
COUNT (recovered_execution) cnt_recovered_execution,
SUM (recovered_transaction) recovered_transaction,
COUNT (recovered_transaction) cnt_recovered_transaction,
SUM (recovered_ord_mgt) recovered_ord_mgt,
COUNT (recovered_ord_mgt) cnt_recovered_ord_mgt,
SUM (recovered_settlement) recovered_settlement,
COUNT (recovered_settlement) cnt_recovered_settlement,
SUM (client_agent) client_agent,
COUNT (client_agent) cnt_client_agent,
SUM (client_order_mgt) client_order_mgt,
COUNT (client_order_mgt) cnt_client_order_mgt,
SUM (client_exec) client_exec, COUNT (client_exec) cnt_client_exec,
SUM (client_trans) client_trans,
COUNT (client_trans) cnt_client_trans,
SUM (client_clearing) client_clearing,
COUNT (client_clearing) cnt_client_clearing,
SUM (client_settle) client_settle,
COUNT (client_settle) cnt_client_settle,
SUM (chargeable_taxes) chargeable_taxes,
COUNT (chargeable_taxes) cnt_chargeable_taxes,
SUM (vendor_charge) vendor_charge,
COUNT (vendor_charge) cnt_vendor_charge,
SUM (routing_charges) routing_charges,
COUNT (routing_charges) cnt_routing_charges,
SUM (recovered_routing) recovered_routing,
COUNT (recovered_routing) cnt_recovered_routing,
SUM (client_routing) client_routing,
COUNT (client_routing) cnt_client_routing,
SUM (ticket_charges) ticket_charges,
COUNT (ticket_charges) cnt_ticket_charges,
SUM (recovered_ticket_charges) recovered_ticket_charges,
COUNT (recovered_ticket_charges) cnt_recovered_ticket_charges
FROM us_datamart_raw
GROUP BY order_date,
if_system,
business_dim_id,
time_dim_id,
account_dim_id,
ordertype_dim_id,
instr_dim_id,
execution_dim_id,
exec_exchange_dim_id;
-- Note: Index I_SNAP$_MV_US_DATAMART will be created automatically
-- by Oracle with the associated materialized view.
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX OS_OWNER.MV_US_DATAMART_UDX ON OS_OWNER.MV_US_DATAMART
(ORDER_DATE, TIME_DIM_ID, BUSINESS_DIM_ID, ACCOUNT_DIM_ID, ORDERTYPE_DIM_ID,
INSTR_DIM_ID, EXECUTION_DIM_ID, EXEC_EXCHANGE_DIM_ID)
NOLOGGING
NOPARALLEL
COMPRESS 7;
No of rows: 2228558
The query (taken Mondrian) I run against each of them is:
select sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."NOTIONAL") as "m0"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."FILLED_QUANTITY") as "m1"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."AGENT_CHARGES") as "m2"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."CLEARING_CHARGES") as "m3"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."EXECUTION_CHARGES") as "m4"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."TRANSACTION_CHARGES") as "m5"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."ROUTING_CHARGES") as "m6"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."ORDER_MANAGEMENT") as "m7"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."SETTLEMENT_CHARGES") as "m8"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."COMMISSION") as "m9"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_AGENT") as "m10"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_CLEARING") as "m11"
--,sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_EXECUTION") as "m12"
--,sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_TRANSACTION") as "m13"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_ROUTING") as "m14"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_ORD_MGT") as "m15"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_SETTLEMENT") as "m16"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."RECOVERED_TICKET_CHARGES") as "m17"
--,sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."TICKET_CHARGES") as "m18"
--, sum("MV_US_DATAMART"."VENDOR_CHARGE") as "m19"
          from "OS_OWNER"."MV_US_DATAMART" "MV_US_DATAMART"
where I uncomment a column at a time and rerun. I improved the TimesTen results since my first post, by retyping the NUMBER columns to BINARY_FLOAT. The results I got were:
No Columns     ORACLE     TimesTen
1     1.05     0.94
2     1.07     1.47
3     2.04     1.8
4     2.06     2.08
5     2.09     2.4
6     3.01     2.67
7     4.02     3.06
8     4.03     3.37
9     4.04     3.62
10     4.06     4.02
11     4.08     4.31
12     4.09     4.61
13     5.01     4.76
14     5.02     5.06
15     5.04     5.25
16     5.05     5.48
17     5.08     5.84
18     6     6.21
19     6.02     6.34
20     6.04     6.75

ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers

G'day:
I am reposting this from my blog ("ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers") at the suggestion of Adobe support:
@dacCfml @ColdFusion Can you post your queries at http://t.co/8UF4uCajTC for all cfclient and mobile queries.— Anit Kumar Panda (@anitkumar85) April 29, 2014
This particular question is not regarding <cfclient>, hence posting it on the regular forum, not on the mobile-specific one as Anit suggested. I have edited this in places to remove language that will be deemed inappropriate by the censors here. Changes I have made are in [square brackets]. The forums software here has broken some of the styling, but so be it.
G'day:
I've been wanting to write an article about the new custom serialiser one can have in ColdFusion 11, but having looked at it I have more questions than I have answers, so I have put it off. But, equally, I have no place to ask the questions, so I'm stymied. So I figured I'd write an article covering my initial questions. Maybe someone can answer then.
ColdFusion 11 has added the notion of a custom serialiser a website can have (docs: "Support for pluggable serializer and deserializer"). The idea is that whilst Adobe can dictate the serialisation rules for its own data types, it cannot sensibly infer how a CFC instance might get serialised: as each CFC represents a different data "schema", there is no "one size fits all" approach to handling it. So this is where the custom serialiser comes in. Kind of. If it wasn't a bit rubbish. Here's my exploration thusfar.
One can specify a custom serialiser by adding a setting to Application.cfc:
component { this.name = "serialiser01"; this.customSerializer="Serialiser"; }
In this case the value - Serialiser - is the name of a CFC, eg:
// Serialiser.cfccomponent { public function canSerialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function canDeserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function serialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "SERIALISED"; } public function deserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "DESERIALISED"; } private function logArgs(required struct args, required string from){ var dumpFile = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()) & "dump_#from#.html"; if (fileExists(dumpFile)){ fileDelete(dumpFile); } writeDump(var=args, label=from, output=dumpFile, format="html"); } }
This CFC needs to implement four methods:
canSerialize() - indicates whether something can be serialised by the serialiser;
canDeserialize() - indicates whether something can be deserialised by the serialiser;
serialize() - the function used to serialise something
deserialize() - the function used to deserialise something
I'm being purposely vague on those functions for a reason. I'll get to that.
The first [issue] in the implementation here is that for the custom serialisation to work, all four of those methods must be implemented in the serisalisation CFC. So common sense would dictate that a way to enforce that would be to require the CFC to implement an interface. That's what interfaces are for. Now I know people will argue the merit of having interfaces in CFML, but I don't really give a [monkey's] about that: CFML has interfaces, and this is what they're for. So when one specifies the serialiser in Application.cfc and it doesn't fulfil the interface requirement, it should error. Right then. When one specifies the inappropriate tool for the job. What instead happens is if the functions are omitted, one will get erratic behaviour in the application, through to outright errors when ColdFusion goes to call the functions and cannot find it. EG: if I have canSerialize() but no serialize() method, CF will error when it comes to serialise something:
JSON serialization failure: Unable to serialize to JSON.
Reason : The method serialize was not found in component C:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/Serialiser .cfc.
The error occurred inC:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/testBasic.c fm: line 4
2 : o = new Basic();
3 :
4 : serialised = serializeJson(o);5 : writeDump([serialised]);
6 :
Note that the error comes when I go to serialise something, not when ColdFusion is told about the serialiser in the first place. This is just lazy/thoughtless implementation on the part of Adobe. It invites bugs, and is just sloppy.
The second [issue] follows immediately on from this.
Given my sample serialiser above, I then run this test code to examine some stuff:
o = new Basic(); serialised = serializeJson(o); writeDump([serialised]); deserialised = deserializeJson(serialised); writeDump([deserialised]);
So all I'm doing is using (de)serializeJson() as a baseline to see how the functions work. here's Basic.cfc, btw:
component { }
And the test output:
array
1
SERIALISED
array
1
DESERIALISED
This is as one would expect. OK, so that "works". But now... you'll've noted I am logging the arguments each of the serialisation methods receives, as I got.
Here's the arguments passed to canSerialize():
canSerialize - struct
1
XML
My reaction to that is: "[WTH]?" Why is canSerialize() being passed the string "XML" when I'm trying to serialise an object of type Basic.cfc?
Here's the docs for canSerialize() (from the page I linked to earlier):
CanSerialize - Returns a boolean value and takes the "Accept Type" of the request as the argument. You can return true if you want the customserialzer to serialize the data to the passed argument type.
Again, back to "[WTH]?" What's the "Accept type" of the request? And what the hell has the request got to do with a call to serializeJson()? You might think that "Accept type" references some HTTP header or something, but there is no "Accept type" header in the HTTP spec (that I can find: "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1: 14 Header Field Definitions"). There's an "Accept" header (in this case: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"), and other ones like "Accept-Encoding", "Accept-Language"... but none of which contain a value of "XML". Even if there was... how would it be relevant to the question as to whether a Basic.cfc instance can be serialised? Raised as bug: 3750730.
serialize() gets more sensible arguments:
serialize - struct
1
https://www.blogger.com/nullserialize - component scribble.shared.git.blogExamples.coldfusion.CF11.customerserialiser.Basic
2
JSON
So the first is the object to serialise (which surely should be part of the question canSerialize() is supposed to ask, and the format to serialise to. Cool.
canDeserialize() is passed this:
canDeserialize - struct
1
JSON
I guess it's because it's being called from deserializeJson(), so it's legit to expect the input value is indeed JSON. Fair enough. (Note: I'm not actually passing it JSON, but that's beside the point here).
And deserialize() is passed this:
deserialize - struct
1
SERIALISED
2
JSON
3
[empty string]
The first argument is the value to work on, and the second is the type of deserialisation to do. I have no idea what the third argument is for, and it's not mentioned directly or indirectly on that docs page. So dunno what the story is there.
The next issue isn't a code-oriented one, but an implementation one: how the hell are we expected to work with this?
The only way to work here is for each function to have a long array of IF/ELSEIF statements which somehow identify each object type that is serialisable, and then return true from canSerialise(), or in the case of serialize(), go ahead and do the serialisation. So this means this one CFC needs to know about everything which can be serialised in the entire application. Talk about a failure in "separation of concerns".
You know the best way of determining if an object can be seriaslised? Ask it! Don't rely on something else needing to know. This can be achieved very easily in one of two ways:
Check to see if the object implements a "Serializable" interface, which requires a serialize() method to exist.
Or simply take the duck-typing approach: if a CFC implements a serialize() method: it can be serialised. By calling that method. Job done.
Either approach would work fine, keeps things nicely encapsulated, and I see merits in both. And either make far more sense than Adobe's approach. Which is like something from the "OO Failures Special Needs" class.
Deserialisation is trickier. Because it relies on somehow working out how to deserialise() an object. I'm not sure of the best approach here, but - again - how to deserialise something should be as close to the thing needing deserialisation as possible. IE: something in the serialised data itself which can be used to bootstrap the process.
This could simply be a matter of specifying a CFC type at a known place in the serialised data. EG: Adobe stipulates that if the serialised data is JSON, and at the top level of the JSON is a key eg: type, and the value is an extant CFC... use that CFC's deserialize() method. Or it could look for an object which contains a type and a method, or whatever. But Adobe can specify a contract there.
The only place I see a centralised CFC being relevant here is for a mechanism for handling serialised data that is neither a ColdFusion internal type, nor identifiable as above. In this case, perhaps they could provide a mechanism for a serialisation router, which basically has a bunch of routes (if/elseifs if need be) which contains logic as to how to work out how to deserialise the data. But it should not be the actual deserialiser, it should simply have the mechanism to find out how to do it. This is actually pretty much the same in operation as the deserialize() approach in the current implementation, but it doesn't need the canDeserialize() method (it can return false at the end of the routing), and it doesn't need to know about serialising. And also it's not the main mechanism to do the deserialisation, it's just the fall back if the prescribed approach hasn't been used.
TBH, this still sounds a bit jerry-built, and I'm open for better suggestions. This is probably a well-trod subject in other languages, so it might be worth looking at how the likes of Groovy, Ruby or even PHP (eek!) achieve this.
There's still another issue with the current approach. And this demonstrates that the Adobe guys don't actually work with either CFML applications or even modern websites. This approach only works for a single, stand-alone website (like how we might have done in 2001). What if I'm not in the business of building websites, but I build applications such as FW/1 or ColdBox or the like? Or any sort of "helper" application. They cannot use the current Adobe implementation of the customserializer. Why? Because the serialisation code needs to be in a website-specific CFC. There's no way for Luis to implement a custom serialiser in ColdBox (for example), and then have it work for someone using ColdBox. Because it relies on either editing Application.cfc to specify a different CFC, or editing the existing customSerializer CFC. Neither of which are very good solutions. This should have been immediately apparent to the Adobe engineer(s) implementing this stuff had they actually had any experience with modern web applications (which generally aren't just a single monolithic site, but an aggregation of various other sub applications). Equally, I know it's not a case of having thought about this and [I'm just missing something], because when I asked them the other day, at first they didn't even get what I was asking, but when I clarified were just like "oh yeah... um... err... yeah, you can't do that. We'll... have to... ah yeah". This has been raised as bug 3750731.
So I declare the intent here valid, but the implementation to be more alpha- / pre-release- quality, not release-ready.
Still: it could be easily deprecated and rework fairly easily. I've raised this as bug 3750732.
Or am I missing something?
Adam

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CatSearch taking more time than full table scan

Hi
I have a table which has close to 140 million records. I had been exploring the option of using oracle text for search. So , I created an index(ctxcat) on the column Name by the following query.
begin
     ctx_ddl.create_preference('FT_WL', 'BASIC_WORDLIST');
     ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('FT_WL', 'prefix-index','TRUE');
end;
create index history_namex on history(name) indextype is ctxsys.ctxcat parameters ('WORDLIST FT_WL');
But when I executed the following query , I have found out that catsearch is taking more time. The queries and thier stats are :-
1. select * from history where catsearch(name, 'Jake%', null) > 0 and rownum < 200;
Elapsed : 00 : 00 : 00.13
Statistics :
112 recursive calls
0 db block gets
413 consistent gets
28 physical reads
0 redo size
33168 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
663 bytes receuved via SQL*Net from client
15 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
199 rows processed
2. select * from history where name like 'Jake%' and rownum < 200;
Elapsed : 00 : 00 : 00.05
Statistics :
1 recursive calls
0 db block gets
220 consistent gets
383 physical reads
0 redo size
26148 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
663 bytes receuved via SQL*Net from client
15 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
199 rows processed
Can anyone explain why this is happening?
PS : there is no conventional index on the name column.
Edited by: 976934 on Dec 14, 2012 3:32 AM

The asterisk (*) is simply the correct syntax for a wildcard using catsearch. If you use % instead, then you will not get the same results. Please see the section of the online documentation below, that shows that the asterisk is the wildcard for catsearch.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/text.112/e24436/csql.htm#CHDJBGHE
Additionally, if you want to limit the rows, then you need to get the matching results in an inner sub-query, then use the rownum in an outer query. The way that you were doing it, it first limits the rows to the first 200, then checks which of those meet the criteria, instead of the other way around. So, the correct syntax should be the following, which should also be the most efficient.
select * from
       (select * from history
        where catsearch (name, 'Jake*', null) > 0)
where rownum < 200;

Acrobat 9 pro more functional program error

Hi all
I have a feeling this is a reaccuring post and i am amazed that adobe wont release the patch or the information to fix it.
Countless hours by installers and techs must be spent on this trying to work around this issue.
If there is some genius Acrobat speciallist that can help I would be very grateful.
I have deleted everything on my system with a pro uninstaller and registry cleaner plus manual checks the has acrobat references.
The stupid program still stops and exits with the same annoying error ....ie it has found a more functional program and will exit ......"what the F*** is a more functional program" who at adobe thought of this genius bit of programming ....wow......
Anyway thats me done ..... I even tried Adobe telephone support but they are in some little island country somewhere and have noooooo idea.

Hi Mike,
thanks for attemting to resolve this perpexing bug from adobe.
I dont think deactivation was an issue because I I hadnt activated it.
I have cs4 master collection installed and have been trying again with adobe 8 and abobe 9 pro ext but no success.
I also tried uninstalling aver adobe product and then using an uninstalled to remove anything it could find the microsoft installer cleanup ....the problem with the microsoft one is it want to go to work on office 2007 and surely abobe is an add on to office not the other way round.
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