Will an Illustrator class help me understand Photoshop?
Hi there,
I realize I may have put the cart before the horse a bit, but I recently bought a copy of Photoshop, in hopes of learning how to use it to explore digital art and graphic creation.
I know there are a ton of tutorials online, but I was considering taking a couple of inexpensive courses at community college too. The school offers courses in Beginners Photoshop, but the next one is not until March.
They do have a course on Illustrator though, that begins next week.
I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to take that course, and if I could feasibly translate anything I learn in that class into Photoshop. I figured at the least it would give me more of a feel for the Adobe programs in general, since I can't imagine their interfaces would be too terribly different.
Thanks
All Adobe programs have similiarites and I firmly believe that learning one will help you learn another. Not only that, but Photoshop and Illustrator work well together, so it could be very useful for you to know both.
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5 TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') maxdt
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WITH dat AS (SELECT 723677 vid, 243668 fid,
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TO_DATE ('06.02.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy'), TO_DATE ('
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Plan hash value: 1865145249
| Id | Operation | Name | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time | OMem | 1Mem | Used-Mem |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | | 66 |00:01:54.64 | | | |
| 1 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 3 | 66 |00:01:54.64 | 6144 | 6144 | 6144 (0)|
| 2 | CONNECT BY WITHOUT FILTERING (UNIQUE)| | 1 | | 42M|00:01:04.00 | | | |
| 3 | VIEW | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 4 | UNION-ALL | | 1 | | 3 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 5 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 6 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 7 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
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2 (SELECT 723677 vid,
3 243668 fid,
4 TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') mindt,
5 TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') maxdt
6 FROM DUAL
7 UNION ALL
8 SELECT 721850,
9 243668,
10 TO_DATE ('06.02.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy'),
11 TO_DATE (' 22.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy')
12 FROM DUAL)
13 SELECT /*+ GATHER_PLAN_STATISTICS */ DISTINCT vid, fid, mindt - 1 + LEVEL dtshow
14 FROM dat
15 CONNECT BY LEVEL <= maxdt - mindt + 1
16 order by fid, vid, dtshow;
46 rows selected.
SQL>
SQL> SELECT * FROM TABLE (DBMS_XPLAN.display_cursor (NULL, NULL, 'ALLSTATS LAST'));
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
SQL_ID 1d2f62uy0521p, child number 0
WITH dat AS (SELECT 723677 vid, 243668 fid,
TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') mindt,
TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') maxdt FROM DUAL
UNION ALL SELECT 721850, 243668,
TO_DATE ('06.02.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy'), TO_DATE ('
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GATHER_PLAN_STATISTICS */ DISTINCT vid, fid, mindt - 1 + LEVEL dtshow
FROM dat CONNECT BY LEVEL <= maxdt - mindt + 1 order by fid, vid,
dtshow
Plan hash value: 2232696677
| Id | Operation | Name | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time | OMem | 1Mem | Used-Mem |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | | 46 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 1 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 2 | 46 |00:00:00.01 | 4096 | 4096 | 4096 (0)|
| 2 | CONNECT BY WITHOUT FILTERING (UNIQUE)| | 1 | | 90 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 3 | VIEW | | 1 | 2 | 2 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 4 | UNION-ALL | | 1 | | 2 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 5 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
| 6 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | 1 | 1 |00:00:00.01 | | | |
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Can anyone please help me understand this and aid in tuning this accordingly? Also, I would be happy to know if there are better ways to generate the missing date range.
Regards,
SatishMay be, this?
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(SELECT 723677 vid,
243668 fid,
TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') mindt,
TO_DATE ('06.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy') maxdt
FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
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243668,
TO_DATE ('06.02.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy'),
TO_DATE (' 22.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy')
FROM DUAL
UNION ALL
SELECT 723738,
243668,
TO_DATE ('16.03.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy'),
TO_DATE (' 04.04.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy')
FROM DUAL)
SELECT vid, fid, mindt - 1 + LEVEL dtshow
FROM dat
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= maxdt - mindt + 1
and prior vid = vid
and prior fid = fid
and prior sys_guid() is not null
order by fid, vid, dtshow;
66 rows selected.
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