No Plan Choice?

I've ordered my phone, but why was I not able to choose a calling plan? It just put in the plan that approximated the Alltel plan I've had for 2 years, and charged me $89.99 for it! It's not even a plan that Verizon offers, and is MUCH more expensive than the one I need! Anybody else having that problem? Any ideas as to how to solve it?
Thanks in advance!

Seriously...is no one else having this problem? Are you able to sign up for the calling plan you want?

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Hi Ryan
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This is pretty old but still for the people who will be visiting to this thread just like I did.
We had a same issue... I have checked Web Dynpro java application for benefits enrollment and it shows this message when it has ZERO plans to show in open enrollment.
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What happens when the maximum limit of DataBase partitiong is reached

Hello,
We are using SQL server 2012 which allows 15000 partitions per table.
We are partitioning tables on the primary ID (e.g. periodID) of one of the tables.
As of now we have data for all the period in the DB. I am wondering that if we reach the maximum partition limit allowed by SQL server then what is the suggested approach?

Hi Rachana,
I have not tried it myself so I do not know. I suppose, it would just fail to create new partition. However, I heard some stories about performance issues, mainly related to subotimal execution plan choices in the systems with a few thousands partitions.
Frankly, I would not be surprised to see such problems. Under the hood, every partition becomes "individual table" with data in clustered and aligned nonclustered indexes sorted on partition scope. In any case, I would consider systems with thousands
of partitions are the edge cases. You rarely find them in the real life and some inefficiencies and problems could slip through the cracks in the test plans.
I would also suspect that number of partitions in DW systems is less important than in OLTP due to the query patterns - scans vs. seeks.
With all being said, I would consider such designs as impractical. Partitioning is management feature, which helps to address a few challenges, such as improving system availability with piecemeal restore; implementing tiered storage; improve concurrency
during ETL processes; implementing sliding window scenario; etc. I can see very little benefits of creating large number of partitions. Obviously, in some cases it could be beneficial to have a few dozens of operational (actively accessed and volatile) data
partitions. However, you rarely have the case to implement large number of partitions on historical/old data. Administrative overhead could easily outweight any benefits here.
For example, if I needed to architect partitioning on the large OLTP table that stores data for several years, I would partition operational data (weekly, monthly - depends on the requirements); partition previous-year data on quarterly or yearly basis and
keep older data in the single partition. Tiered storage and availability SLAs would become the most critical factors in the decision.
In fact, I would consider to combine both, partitioned views and partitioned tables together keeping recent data in the separate tables to improve accuracy of index statistics and old data in partitioned tables using partitioned views on top of that. But
it is the subject of another discussion.
Thank you!
Dmitri V. Korotkevitch (MVP, MCM, MCPD)
My blog: http://aboutsqlserver.com

Optimize union in ase query

we have a "select" query using 3 union operators (4 selects in total). In ASE 12.5.4 ESD# 10 executes in 2 sec, in ASE 15.7 SP103 it needs 88sec. If I run only 2 "select" (one union) it runs fast
I enable "compatibility mode" but it has no effect at all. The main difference in the plans is that in 12.5 the query is parallelized, however even when I added "parallel clauses" the performance was not improved. None of the tables is partitioned, all the tables have clear dbcc, the tables are not very big (700000 rows max),sysmon seems ok.
The "statistics io" output shows considerable higher io for version 15.7 and this is probably the explanation. I have tested several options of the optimizer which do not work. Also I have increased the histogram steps which improved the performance up to 88sec (before this the query had not finished in 20min)
I tried to use the abstract plan used in 12.5.4 but I have several messages like
Server 'TVSONL', Line 1:
The children of the 'nl_join ' operator don't have the required properties, as ordering, partitioning. The logical relational operation is valid at this point but it can not be implemented by this physical operator.
Server Message: Number 1035, Severity 10
Server 'TVSONL', Line 1:
The AP property enforcer operators 'sort', 'xchg' or 'enforce' can be used to create the needed physical properties.
Server Message: Number 1037, Severity 10
Server 'TVSONL', Line 1:
When an ordering is missing, the nl_join or h_join peer physical operators that don't need an ordering can be used.
Server Message: Number 1027, Severity 10
Server 'TVSONL', Line 1:
I have no experience on abstract plans, but I shall try to read the manual and work on this.
I open this thread mostly for any ideas on what to do, I was surprised that compatibility mode has no effect and I really don't know what to do. Maybe there is a hint somewhere on optimizing "unions"
Thank you in advance

Hi,
You should persist down the missing_stats route, it may well help to create a few histograms.
Are you absolutely sure that compatibility mode (maybe at server level) was not on?
The fact it is not only priming the search engine with the legacy AP, but actually using it in full usually would mean that basic_optimization was set (which isn't the case here) or it is using partial compatibilty mode ( same thing as basic).
If it is on then any changes to the 15x Optimizer criteria will have no effect unless specified in an abstract plan themselves.
The 'show long' will contain all that is in a 'show on' output but will also contain the logical properties stage ( which is actually where ASE forms the basis of the row counts you see in the plancost output), the codegen phase (no use to anyone unless you are trying to debug something more than plan choice), some extra pushdown info, more info in eqc competition (can be key), more info post 'best plan' stage - and gumpf. It is a requirement to really try to piece together what is going on in a lot of circumstances however with more than 4 or 5 tables and anything other than a few simple entries in the predicate, as is likely here, it becomes unmanageable.
Disable all parallel and make sure you have no forces in the query (no parallel hints etc), then
Run this:-
set compatibilty_mode off
set statement_cache off
set plan optlevel ase_current
set option show on
set option show_log_props on
set statistics time,io,plancost,resource on
set option show_missing_stats on
set showplan on
set show_sqltext on
dbcc traceon (526, 3604)
go
<query>
Then do the same again i.e. (all the commands )but add in:
set store_index off
Then the same as the first set again adding in:
set alternative_greedy_search off
Then the same as the first set again with:
set store_index off
set alternative_greedy_search off
Then the same as the first set again but add in:
set plan optlevel ase_default
And post the outputs. As Jeff said, ddl is really needed to help out here and maybe optdiag outputs as well. Can you run it on 125x with showplan and set statistics time, io on as well?
Be prepared that modifying/splitting out this query might be your only option.
Cheers,
Simon

Need help to understand awrsqrpt

Hi,
Following is the content of awrsqrpt:
-> % Total DB Time is the Elapsed Time of the SQL statement divided
   into the Total Database Time multiplied by 100
Stat Name                                Statement   Per Execution % Snap
Elapsed Time (ms)                         4,013,371    4,013,371.0    39.7
CPU Time (ms)                             4,013,407    4,013,406.5    44.5
Executions                                        1            N/A     N/A
Buffer Gets                                1.11E+09   1.111433E+09    54.2
Disk Reads                                        0            0.0     0.0
Parse Calls                                       1            1.0     0.0
*Rows                                          5,749        5,749.0     N/A*
User I/O Wait Time (ms)                           0            N/A     N/A
Cluster Wait Time (ms)                            0            N/A     N/A
Application Wait Time (ms)                        0            N/A     N/A
Concurrency Wait Time (ms)                        0            N/A     N/A
Invalidations                                     0            N/A     N/A
Version Count                                     2            N/A     N/A
Sharable Mem(KB)                                 80            N/A     N/A
Execution Plan
| Id | Operation                       | Name                 | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | INSERT STATEMENT                |                      |       |       |     7 (100)|          |
|   1 | FILTER                         |                      |       |       |            |          |
*|   2 |   HASH GROUP BY                 |                     |     1 |    66 |     7 (15)| 00:00:01 |*
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                 |                      |     1 |    66 |     6   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     NESTED LOOPS                |                      |     1 |    61 |     5   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |      TABLE ACCESS FULL          | TT_TMP1              |     1 |    20 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| T1                   |     1 |    41 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN          | IDX$$_01150001       |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   8 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN            | INDX_T2              |     1 |     5 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
INSERT INTO TT_TMP2 (
SELECT
    TRAN_DAT,
    CARD_NUM,
    SUM(MPU_AMT_1 + MPU_AMT_2) TOT_AMT
    FROM
    T1,
    T2,
    TT_TMP1
    WHERE
   MPU_MER_REF = MMR_MER_REF
   AND
   MPU_TRAN_DAT = TRAN_DAT
   AND
   MPU_CRD_NUM = CARD_NUM
   AND
   MPU_SETTL_FLAG = 'Y'
   AND
   MMR_RISK_TYPE IN ('B')
   AND
   MPU_CHANNEL_ID = 0
   GROUP BY
   TRAN_DAT,
   CARD_NUM,
   MMR_RISK_TYPE
   HAVING
   SUM(MPU_AMT_1 + MPU_AMT_2) > CASE MMR_RISK_TYPE WHEN 'B' THEN 0 ELSE NULL END)Where 'TT_TMP1' and 'TT_TMP2' are temporary tables. Now if we see Rows in Plan Statistics it shows 5,749 whereas in execution plan shows 1 row processed. Actually the DML selects 9 Lakhs of rows and inserts into the temporary table TT_TMP2.
Why the awrsqrpt is showing wrong amount of rows?
Platform: Windows
Database: 10.2.0.5
Regards,

The plan shows the optimizer estimates - the estimates which led to that particular plan being chosen - rather than the actuals.
The difference between actual and estimate is what gives you excellent leads to investigate poor plan choices.
Given that all the estimates are for 1 row - perhaps ( ! ) you have a statistics issue.

I want to cancel my subscription and change to the photographer plan, how do I do this? I tried to call you but it is impossible, chat is impossible as well . If I would not obtain answer for you, I will have no choice to cancell my suscription

I want to cancel my subscription and change to the photographer plan, how do I do this?
I tried to call you but it is impossible, chat is impossible as well . If I would not obtain answer for you, I will have no choice to cancell my suscription.
Thanks in advance

You need to cancel the present CC (in case of repurchase the cancellation fee can be waived off) & repurchase the plan that you want.
Please let me know if you would like to go for cancellation of the present CC via personal messaging.
Regards
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Activate a KIN on America's Choice Plan?

Does any one know if a KIN can be activated on a grandfathered America's Choice plan? One of my accounts got switched off of my America's Choice plan and is in the process of switching back, so I'm unable to check online.

Maybe you already read this thread I'm linking to, but it sounds like you can keep your America's Choice plan, but you cannot use minutes for data. I read on another forum that this is one of the few phones that works on an AC plan. Hope that helps.
http://community.vzw.com/t5/KIN/WARNING-ALL-OLD-AMERICA-S-CHOICE-CALLING-PLAN-USERS/td-p/371140

Americas choice family Plan 500 min shared

I TRIED to talk via Chat to a rep last night and got nowhere they wanted me to change plans and all i wanted was an answer to a simple question.
I have had this plan for years and when I got My smart phone, I added 1000 text for $10.00 extra a month . Before I added that I thought I had 100 text included in my plan . I was asking if they could confirm that and kept getting a run around to change plans . The reason I ask is because i don't even use 40 text a month so I was considering dropping the extra $10.00 expense, But they couldn't answer that i would have the 100 text included from the original plan . Does anyone Know ? ? I even asked for a supervisor and was told they are Busy. I said I would wait and then was told they were Unavalable ??

Most times reps are not capable of answering questions about grandparented plans because they are not trained on it.
"How much does text messaging cost?
Text messaging charges vary by your plan. Please refer to the list below to learn about your text messaging rates:     The MORE Everything Plan -- You have unlimited domestic and international text and multimedia messaging.
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SAP MAP - Best Choices for Planning Technical Basis

Hello, experts!
For today there are 3 variants of MAP planning scenaries implementation:
1.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BI Integrated planning
2.Planning and reporting via MAP Business content for BPS
3.Planning in ECC based MAP functionality and reporting in BI
Whether there are recommendations which alternative is more suitable, pro/cons?
It is possible to use standard MAP workflow scenaries with planning in BPS or BI Integrated planning ?
Regards,
Dmitry.

1.     BW Integrated Planning is the new SAP MAP Planning Solution. There is a also BI Content with predefined templates on BI Content 7.04. The next BI Content 7.05 will include many more out-of-the-box Templates.
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i.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2007/helpdata/EN/b4/982c4142aef623e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
ii.     http://help.sap.com/SCENARIOS_BUS2008/helpdata/EN/72/164a4135fff66fe10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
b.     7.05 is the enhancement of 7.04 by non-seasonal Assortment Planning and size-curves and images for seasonal Assortment Planning.
c.     http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Retail/SAP%20Merchandising%20and%20Assortment%20Planning%20%28SAP%20MAP%29
d.     https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CK/Implementation%20Guide%20Merchandise%20and%20Assortment%20Planning%20Integration
e.     RampUp Knowledge Transfer for internal use https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700003584172005E
2.     BW BPS is our old Planning Platform. Don´t use it anymore. There's also no migration option to BW Integrated Planning.
3.     The (very!) old ERP-based MAP functionality is not supported anymore, thus don't use it. All development goes into the above mentioned (1.) SAP MAP solution based on BW Integrated Planning.
In connection with Integrated Planning, Operational Assortment Planning and Control (OAPC) is the ECC application to plan your seasonal Assortment. The OAPC will get input from SAP MAP either on level Assortment or on level Assortment/Style/Color/Size. Depends on the customer requirements.
a.     http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/7f/2d6241bb688047e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
Hope this helps!

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What about Via Sat Exede satellite? 12 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up
25GB $130
Free data midnight to 5 am
Hook up VoIP phone and you got close to what you are asking, depending if you are a night owl or not.

Question on optimum choice of index - whether to use CTXCAT or CONTEXT

Hi ,
I have a situation in which there are short texts that are to be searched for diacritical characters and for that I implemented CTXCAT type of index. The solution works fine except for left side wild card search - in that case I have suggested the developers to use the query template feature. -this is the background information for the question I have and following example demonstrates it:
CREATE TABLE TEST_USER
FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(64 CHAR)                 NOT NULL,
LAST_NAME   VARCHAR2(64 CHAR)                 NOT NULL
CREATE INDEX TEST_USER_IDX3 ON TEST_USER
(FIRST_NAME)
INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CTXCAT
PARAMETERS('LEXER cust_lexer');
CREATE INDEX TEST_USER_IDX4 ON TEST_USER
(LAST_NAME)
INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CTXCAT
PARAMETERS('LEXER cust_lexer');
Don't worry about the cust_lexer, it is for diacritical search and it is not relevant to this question so I am not copying the code for the preference I created etc.
Now I have a row of data in the table with first_name column as Supervisor. If I run the below sql, it gives output:
SELECT *
FROM test_user
WHERE catsearch (first_name, 'Supervisor', NULL) > 0;
FIRST_NAME                     LAST_NAME
Supervisor                     upervisor
--even the below sql with wild card (*) at the end works fine...
SQL> SELECT *
2    FROM test_user
3   WHERE catsearch (first_name, 'Super*', NULL) > 0;
FIRST_NAME                     LAST_NAME
Supervisor                     upervisor
However the below sql queries doesn't give any output, though they should return the same row as above!
SQL> SELECT *
2    FROM test_user
3   WHERE catsearch (first_name, '*visor', NULL) > 0;
no rows selected
SQL> SELECT *
2    FROM test_user
3   WHERE catsearch (first_name, '*vis*', NULL) > 0;
no rows selected
--Using query template as below solves the issue:
select * from test_user
where catsearch(first_name,
'<query>
<textquery grammar="context">
     %viso%
</textquery>
</query>','')>0
FIRST_NAME                     LAST_NAME
Supervisor                     upervisor
Note that I verified the query execution plan and it uses the index and there is no Full Table Scan:
| Id | Operation                   | Name           | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT            |                |       |       |     9 (100)|          |
|   1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TEST_USER      |   376 |    99K|     9   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 2 |   DOMAIN INDEX              | TEST_USER_IDX3 |       |       |            |          |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up to the above , all details were by way of the back ground...now the question is - it is this the right choice? I am using context grammer using query template. There is another thread on this forum where an expert (Barbara) said that
". It should be better to use a context index than a ctxcat index with a query template that uses context grammar. " -this was said on this question link: Re: Wildcard Search
So I am getting this doubt. However I have good data here that shows that the query doesn't do full table scan - still is it a bad choice? Note that there are several issues with CONTENT type of indexes( as per my limited understanding) - because they are not transactional in nature and so we have to take extra steps/measures to have the indexes updated which seems like a major pain area to me.
My doubt is , did I do the right thing by using query template or should I use the CONTEXT type of index instead of CTXCAT type of index?
Thanks,
Nirav
Edited by: orausern on Jan 17, 2013 1:40 AM
Edited by: orausern on Jan 17, 2013 1:43 AM

I would just like to add a few comments.
Alhough it is documented that the ctxcxat index and catsearch do not support a wildcard in front of the term, a workaround is to use two asterisks on the left side of the term, as demonstrated below. I provide this only for clarification and interesting trivia. I would still use a context index for various reasons.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> CREATE TABLE TEST_USER
2    (FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(64 CHAR))
3 /
Table created.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> INSERT INTO test_user VALUES ('Supervisor')
2 /
1 row created.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> CREATE INDEX TEST_USER_IDX
2 ON TEST_USER (FIRST_NAME)
3 INDEXTYPE IS CTXSYS.CTXCAT
4 /
Index created.
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SET AUTOTRACE ON EXPLAIN
SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> SELECT * FROM test_user
2 WHERE catsearch (first_name, '**vis*', NULL) > 0
3 /
FIRST_NAME
Supervisor
1 row selected.
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 4046491764
| Id | Operation                   | Name          | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT            |               |     1 |   142 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TEST_USER     |     1 |   142 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 2 |   DOMAIN INDEX              | TEST_USER_IDX |       |       |            |          |
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   2 - access("CTXSYS"."CATSEARCH"("FIRST_NAME",'**vis*',NULL)>0)
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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2>The only time that I am aware of that there is a conflict between a wordlist and a lexer is when you specify stemming in both. If you are using stemming, you can still use both a wordlist and a lexer, but only set the stemmer attribute in the wordlist, not the index_stems attribute in the lexer.

Keynote and multiple choice quizes

Does anyone know of a way to create a multiple-choice quiz with Keynote?
What I mean is, can you create links from a question page (with video and text) with 4 options and then create pages responding to the users' choice...correct or incorrect... then move onto the next question page etc...?
Is there a way to use the Hyperlinks function in Keynote for this purpose?
I plan to export to iDVD and have an interactive quiz DVD...
I remember doing something similar a while back with Powerpoint.
I like to push the boundaries and see what can be squeezed out of a piece of software...

Sorry for the late response...
What do you mean by "I'm just saving them on my computer". Do you open the PDF with some application (which one?) and then do a save from that application?
You can send your PDF (with the missing border) to [email protected] with a reference to this post and I can have a look at it.
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