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Multi-core vs Multi-CPU I am requesting a new server from our Server team. Which is better for SQL Server performance: 2 CPUs with 8 cores per CPU or 1 CPU with 16 cores? Does the shebang determine the shell which runs the script? This may be a silly question, but I ask it still. If I have declared a shebang  #!/bin/bash    in the beginning of my_shell_script.sh, so do I always have to invoke this script using bash  [my@comp]$bash my_shell_script.sh   or can I use e.g.  [my@comp]$sh my_shell_script.sh   and my script determines the running shell using the shebang? Is it the same happening with ksh shell? I'm using AIX. I'm basically searching for the opposite of putting all your eggs in one basket, where the risk is total failure because you did not hedge your efforts. I'm searching for a phrase that encompasses splitting your efforts and evokes the prospect of failing at both. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush also encompasses a sense of having focused your efforts, but only alludes to total failure. To satisfy the criteria, the phrase must cover:  attempting two things (or multiple iterations of one thing) both of which you might succeed at, if you addressed them serially but both of which you fail at because you address them in parallel  Here are the idioms/phrases that do not sufficiently cover the idea and why:  &quot;A servant to two masters&quot;  This has the sense of competing priorities, but not the sense of failing to achieve your goals.  &quot;Jack of all trades. Master of none.&quot;  The sense is insufficiently pejorative. Being a jack-of-all-trades can be seen as an advantage; I'm trying to focus on the lack of mastery.  &quot;The man who fancied himself a wit, and was half-right.&quot;  From Christopher Hitchens. Hilarious, but lacking the sense of split effort between two things.  &quot;Walking and chewing gum at the same time.&quot;  An idiom for multi-tasking, not for failing to multi-task. Edit Addressing a few suggestions and another one that occurred to me:  &quot;Hedging your bets&quot; or &quot;Betting against yourself&quot;  In this case, you cannot win both bets, but you will almost certainly win one. You limit your upside, but also limit your risk. I'm looking in particular for total, catastrophic failure due to split attention/effort.  &quot;Can't walk and chew gum at the same time&quot;  Failing to do two fairly simple things that most everyone can do, not failing at two hard things because you tried to do both.  &quot;Robbing Peter to pay Paul&quot;  In this case, Paul gets paid. If you were to rob Peter to pay Paul, and get robbed yourself before you could get the money to Paul, that'd be closer. :)  &quot;Spreading yourself too thin&quot;  An actual English idiom, but missing the implied sense of failure.  &quot;Too many irons in the fire&quot;  &quot;A lot of irons in the fire&quot; can be viewed positively, so this is missing the sense of a strategic misstep.  &quot;Between a rock and a hard place&quot;  The sense is of needing to act but having no good alternative.  &quot;Falling between two stools&quot;  My favorite answer so far because it does appear to be an actual English idiom (not a proverb). In that sense, it's great, but some of the usages are closer to a failure of  than a failure of effort. And falling between two stools implies that the attempted action was simply sitting down.  &quot;Chasing two rabbits and catching none.&quot;  This is the exact sense I was looking for, but it appears to be a cross-cultural proverb rather than idiomatic English like &quot;putting all your eggs in one basket&quot;. I'll be accepting it, and using it in my work! But if there are other ideas, please let me know. How do I get useful SQL Server database performance statistics? We currently have several shared SQL Server servers and instances in our organization. They are going with a different architecture where business units will get their own SQL Server instances. We have SQL Server 2008R2.  In the past, databases were put on servers in a more or less random fashion -- business use and disk space were the main drivers.  I've been tasked with coming up with a plan for allocating our 50+ databases across 3 servers (one instance per server). My criteria for divvying them up is as follows:   Business critical db's should be spread across the servers. i.e. avoid lumping a bunch of business critical db's all one server.   For the remainder of the non-mission critical db's, consider: a. Disk space usage b. I/O usage -- memory, CPU, etc.     1 and 2a are easy for me to figure out. I know how to get data file sizes.   My question is with that last bit - 2b. I do not know how relevant this is, what specific stats to look at, or how to get them.   Frankly, I'm not 100% sure how to phrase this question! I think I basically want to know is, "How 'busy' is this db -- however you define 'busy'?" Or maybe, "How does this db impact the performance of the server?"  I mean, disk space is important -- but it could (in theory) have a ton of rows or binary objects in there that are not written very often, so it has little impact on the performance of the server. I think I would want to know how much impact a db within a date range.  Is there a way to get these kind of general stats? I'm not looking for expensive queries, detailed user stats, or query optimization here. I'm aware of the SSMS reports, but they seem to be more real-time. The end goal is to divide up our current databases into evenly balanced buckets, and I would think performance is one way to do that.  Thoughts? Wisdom? Any other ideas on how to divvy up the db's?  Thanks! Tom How can I create Light Streaks in Cycles? No feedback when comment fails to post on Android 2.3.5 In the mobile theme on Android 2.3.5, comments that do not meet the minimum length will fail to post but no feedback message is displayed to the user.  The submit button changes to its active state, but nothing else happens. How to add a new kernel to grub2 How can we add a kernel to grub2? i knew the stuff we could do with the former versions, but it seems to have changed. What files should we edit? Sheafs and closed immersion So I'm going to be starting a Job here in a few weeks, I've been doing QA for about 6 years now. Pretty much your standard Test Plans/Testing with a little normal SysAdmin stuff that sometimes comes with the task. I've had some good ideas implemented in companies, as far as tracking requirements/test plans/issues differently, and they seem successful. However, this new position will be me laying down the foundation for QA. Right now things are done in what seems to be as needed as far as QA goes, requirements are gathered and sometimes kept in different locations, same with test plans (which are done by developers right now). So my job will be sort of centralizing this, or developing a Flexible way of QA'ing the Software (Web/Mobile development). So it seems the challenge will be centralizing everything, while creating test plans/ or ways of testing similar requirements that is flexible enough to span projects. I've had a few ideas, however, all my previous test work was windows based (So test plans in TFS or Microsoft Test Manager). I wanted to get some ideas from everyone here, or anyone that has started a QA department from scratch. I was also going to see if there were any books on the subject. My thoughts were mainly keeping projects separated for issue tracking (not sure of the software we will use yet). And keeping test plans for common I guess &quot;actions/elements&quot; that are repeated between different customers and executing those. Eventually maybe using selenium to save those &quot;common&quot; elements as test scripts. But I've never set something up like this before solo, so I've been doing quite a bit of reading. Any books/suggestions would be appreciated! Can one explain the different distributions of the Saxon and the analytic (Norman) (periphrastic, 'of') genitive $G$ a group s.t. every non-identity element has order 2. If $G$ is finite, prove $|G| = 2^n$ and $G \simeq C_2 \times C_2 \times\cdots\times C_2$ Let $G$ be a group s.t. every non-identity element has order 2. If $G$ is finite, prove $|G| = 2^n$ and $G \simeq C_2 \times C_2 \times\cdots\times C_2$  I know G is abelian since $ab = (ab)^{-1} = b^{-1} a^{-1} = ba$ for all non-trivial $a,b \in G$ so I have several questions remaining:    How do I prove $|G| = 2^n$? I'd like to say we use induction to prove this but I'm at a loss as to where I would start. Why is $G \simeq C_2 \times C_2 \times\cdots\times C_2$?   I've read several answers to question similar to this yet unfortunately most of them involve Galois Fields and vector spaces, both concepts I'm unfamiliar with. I'd greatly appreciate an intuitive proof. How to change plot style or other options after it was created Does an electrolytic capacitor degrade each time it receives reverse voltage? The equivalence of sample correlation and R statistic for simple linear regression The mediation package in R returns results in which:   Average Direct Effect (ADE) (the unmediated effect) is not statistically significant The Average Causal Mediated Effect (ACME) (the effect of the mediator alone) is positive and statistically significant The Total Effect (ADE+ACME) is larger than the ADE and ACME alone, positive and statistically significant   Does this indicate that the variable being mediated can only act through the mediator DV? I'm not quite certain as to how this would be interpreted.  Thank you for any help. Does the refresh rate affect LCD screens? I have never really paid any attention to the refresh rate setting on computers with LCD screens.  I thought with LCD displays the pixels are either on or off, they don't flicker like in old CRT monitors.  Seems trivial to me, but my own graphics card allows me to select 59Hz or 60Hz - which leads me onto my question:  Does the refresh rate affect LCD screens?  Technical info to back up any answers would be great. why is the output of the following code coming to be zero? When I click the bounty info icon on the iOS app. The added bounty description and reason is not shown.  For example: What licence is subscriber content provided under 4.0, 3.0 or them all? How can I safely upgrade an Ubuntu installation from one release to another? What should I do before upgrading to ensure it goes smoothly, and is there any clean-up I need to do afterwards?  In particular, do I need to do anything special if I am using packages from PPAs, if I have a graphics card that needs drivers, or if I'm running a custom Linux kernel?  This is a general question , but as example we take Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10