Where is clarity?

I've used Photoshop for many years, but for several years now I've been using Photoshop only as a backend to Lightroom, mostly to use plugins, actually... I recently got CS4 and am trying to learn about the new features. Even CS2 had shadow/highlight, I've found vibrance. But where is clarity? I've done a search and apparently it can be found only in Camera RAW? Can it really not be done in Photoshop? In particular I wanted to apply negative clarity to see how it would look an image I'm working on. Normally I would just wait until I go back to Lightroom to fine tune a picture, but that's really not the best way to work, I don't think. In this case the picture will probably never be in Lightroom, certainly not at this moment.
Judy

Resurrecting an old thread here.
Hudechrome-sd9sPI, you said:
When I find myself in a pickle needing to go back to RAW, I dupe the file, delete the layers and run it in RAW. Export it back to PS and open the unflattened layers and move them over, being sure they are in the same stacking as before.
I'm too new to PS to really understand what you're saying here. Do you do File | Save As | RAW to get the file back into RAW format? I haven't been able to duplicate the process. I too want to be able to apply negative clarity-type adjustment after the fact, and since none of the solutions I've seen offered anywhere (where there wa a solution offered) don't seem to work for me (perhaps due to my lack of experience, therefore lack of understanding). Additional "Clarification" (sorry, the pun couldn't be helped) would be appreciated.
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Performance with dates in the where clause

Performance with dates in the where clause
CREATE TABLE TEST_DATA
FNUMBER NUMBER,
FSTRING VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FDATE DATE
create index t_indx on test_data(fdata);
query 1: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where trunc(fdate) = trunc(sysdate);
query 2: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between trunc(sysdate) and trunc(SYSDATE) + .99999;
query 3: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between to_date('21-APR-10', 'dd-MON-yy') and to_date('21-APR-10 23:59:59', 'DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss');
My questions:
1) Why isn't the index t_indx used in Execution plan 1?
2) From the execution plan, I see that query 2 & 3 is better than query 1. I do not see any difference between execution plan 2 & 3. Which one is better?
3) I read somewhere - "Always check the Access Predicates and Filter Predicates of Explain Plan carefully to determine which columns are contributing to a Range Scan and which columns are merely filtering the returned rows. Be sceptical if the same clause is shown in both."
Is that true for Execution plan 2 & 3?
3) Could some one explain what the filter & access predicate mean here?
Thanks in advance.
Execution Plan 1:
SQL> select count(*) from TEST_DATA where trunc(fdate) = trunc(sysdate);
COUNT(*)
283
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 1486387033
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 9 | 517 (20)| 00:00:07 |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 9 | | |
|* 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TEST_DATA | 341 | 3069 | 517 (20)| 00:00:07 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
2 - filter(TRUNC(INTERNAL_FUNCTION("FDATE"))=TRUNC(SYSDATE@!))
Note
- dynamic sampling used for this statement
Statistics
4 recursive calls
0 db block gets
1610 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
412 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
380 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1 rows processed
Execution Plan 2:
SQL> select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between trunc(sysdate) and trunc(SYSDATE) + .99999;
COUNT(*)
283
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 1687886199
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 9 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 9 | | |
|* 2 | FILTER | | | | | |
|* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN| T_INDX | 283 | 2547 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
2 - filter(TRUNC(SYSDATE@!)<=TRUNC(SYSDATE@!)+.9999884259259259259259
259259259259259259)
3 - access("FDATE">=TRUNC(SYSDATE@!) AND
"FDATE"<=TRUNC(SYSDATE@!)+.999988425925925925925925925925925925925
9)
Note
- dynamic sampling used for this statement
Statistics
7 recursive calls
0 db block gets
76 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
412 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
380 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1 rows
Execution Plan 3:
SQL> select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between to_date('21-APR-10', 'dd-MON-yy') and to_dat
e('21-APR-10 23:59:59', 'DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss');
COUNT(*)
283
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 1687886199
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 9 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 9 | | |
|* 2 | FILTER | | | | | |
|* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN| T_INDX | 283 | 2547 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
2 - filter(TO_DATE('21-APR-10','dd-MON-yy')<=TO_DATE('21-APR-10
23:59:59','DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss'))
3 - access("FDATE">=TO_DATE('21-APR-10','dd-MON-yy') AND
"FDATE"<=TO_DATE('21-APR-10 23:59:59','DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss'))
Note
- dynamic sampling used for this statement
Statistics
7 recursive calls
0 db block gets
76 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
412 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
380 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1 rows processed

Hi,
user10541890 wrote:
Performance with dates in the where clause
CREATE TABLE TEST_DATA
FNUMBER NUMBER,
FSTRING VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
FDATE DATE
create index t_indx on test_data(fdata);Did you mean fdate (ending in e)?
Be careful; post the code you're actually running.
query 1: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where trunc(fdate) = trunc(sysdate);
query 2: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between trunc(sysdate) and trunc(SYSDATE) + .99999;
query 3: select count(*) from TEST_DATA where fdate between to_date('21-APR-10', 'dd-MON-yy') and to_date('21-APR-10 23:59:59', 'DD-MON-YY hh24:mi:ss');
My questions:
1) Why isn't the index t_indx used in Execution plan 1?To use an index, the indexed column must stand alone as one of the operands. If you had a function-based index on TRUNC (fdate), then it might be used in Query 1, because the left operand of = is TRUNC (fdate).
2) From the execution plan, I see that query 2 & 3 is better than query 1. I do not see any difference between execution plan 2 & 3. Which one is better?That depends on what you mean by "better".
If "better" means faster, you've already shown that one is about as good as the other.
Queries 2 and 3 are doing different things. Assuming the table stays the same, Query 2 may give different results every day, but the results of Query 3 will never change.
For clarity, I prefer:
WHERE fdate >= TRUNC (SYSDATE)
AND fdate < TRUNC (SYSDATE) + 1(or replace SYSDATE with a TO_DATE expression, depending on the requirements).
3) I read somewhere - "Always check the Access Predicates and Filter Predicates of Explain Plan carefully to determine which columns are contributing to a Range Scan and which columns are merely filtering the returned rows. Be sceptical if the same clause is shown in both."
Is that true for Execution plan 2 & 3?
3) Could some one explain what the filter & access predicate mean here?Sorry, I can't.

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Redo data transmitted from the primary database is received by the RFS on the standby system ,
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GTS (DBA) wrote:
Primary & standby log file size should be same - this is okay.
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GTS (DBA) wrote:
2) what abt group members ? should be same as primary or need to add some members additionally. ?
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primary
standby
Member per group
2
1
Number of log group
4
5
SCENARIO 2: you can also have this scenario 2 but i will not encourage it
primary
standby
Member per group
2
2
Number of log group
4
5
GTS (DBA) wrote:
All standby redo logs of the correct size have not yet been archived.
- at this situation , can we force on standby site ? any possibilities ?
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The Good....
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That way you should be able to see that clarity v1 effects pretty much the opposite regions (sky) that clarity v2 (shadows) affects, at least from a visual perceptive point of view.
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Hi,
I have a table T which has two columns : X(Varchar2(100)), and Y(Varchar2(100)).I want to know all the rows in the table T for which two conditions are simultaneously true: the first condition is X is not null or Y is not null, and the second condition is not(X is not null and Y is not null). So I write my query like below:
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where (X is not null or Y is not null) and not(X is not null and Y is not null)But the way I formulate my where clause doesn't seem elegant to me. Please, could I obtain the same result with a more elegant where clause?
Thanks.


where (X is not null or Y is not null) and not(X is not null and Y is not null) 
De Morgan 
where ((X is not null) or (Y is not null)) and (not(X is not null) or not(Y is not null)) 
where ((X is not null) or (Y is not null)) and (not(X is not null) or not(Y is not null)) 
double negation 
where ((X is not null) or (Y is not null)) and ((X is null) or (Y is null)) 
where ((X is not null) or (Y is not null)) and ((X is null) or (Y is null)) 
Distributivity of and over or 
where ((X is not null) and ((X is null) or (Y is null))) or ((Y is not null) and ((X is null) or (Y is null))) 
where ((X is not null) and ((X is null) or (Y is null))) or ((Y is not null) and ((X is null) or (Y is null))) 
Distributivity of and over or applied to the second term too 
where (((X is not null) and (X is null)) or ((X is not null) and (Y is null))) or (((Y is not null) and (X is null)) or ((Y is not null) and (Y is null))) 
Negation 
where ((<strike>(X is not null)</strike> not(Y is null) and (X is null)) or ((X is not null) and (Y is null))) or (((Y is not null) and (X is null)) or (<strike>(Y is not null)</strike> not(Y is null)) and (Y is null))) 
where ((not(X is null) and (X is null)) or ((X is not null) and (Y is null))) or (((Y is not null) and (X is null)) or (not(Y is null) and (Y is null))) 
Complementation 
where ((false) or ((X is not null) and (Y is null))) or (((Y is not null) and (X is null)) or (false)) 
where ((X is not null) and (Y is null)) or ((Y is not null) and (X is null)) 
preferring clarity (in the eye of beholder as always) over efficiency 
where x || y in (x,y) 
Regards
Etbin

Edited by: Etbin on 28.8.2011 11:45
steps separated with empty lines, negation enhanced

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