Deployment - Database Configurations
Nov 14, 2007
Greetings,
I've been looking around all morning and can't seem to find a good answer on this so I thought I'd post a message here.
I'm using the recommended practice of keeping the ASPNETDB.MDF data separate from my site data. (I have my site data located in separate databases but still keep them in the App_Data directory.)
I'm using SQL Server 2005 Express on a Server 2003 box and I've implemented scheduled backups on the databases in the Sql Server.
The questions I'm having are:
1. Why isn't the ASPNETDB.MDF database getting attached to the server? Is it using User Instances?
2. If it is using User Instance then isn't this degrading performance? If so, how to force it to not use User Instance?
3. If User Instance is how it is supposed to work then how are we supposed to do a full backup of the ASPNETDB.MDF database if it isn't attached in the server? (xcopy doesn't seem to work on User Instances because of the dreaded "is being used by another process" error.)
Any recommendations, advice, links, or answers to my questions would be greatly appreciated.
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Apr 9, 2007
Hello,
I have two SSIS packages in the same project with, for each one, a (XML) configuration file.
I have created a Deployment Utility file (.SSISDeploymentManifest).
My problem is that, when I execute that utility file, I can't deploy more than one configuration file, the UI only ask for one.
Is anyone can help me ?
Thanks a lot.
Alexis
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Jan 24, 2007
Hi:
After moving my deployment folder to the Target Server, I run the Installation Wizard. As I move next, I am missing the window which is supposed to allow me to set package config values as stated in MSDN:
"If the package includes configurations, you can edit updatable configurations by updating values in the Value list on the Configure Packages page."
Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141802.aspx
Does anyone know why I am not seeing it? In my deployment bundle which I have moved over has currently 3 files:
1) SSIS Deployment Manifest
2) SSIS Package
3) SSIS Config File
Again, I double click on SSIS Deployment Manifest, and it starts fine. I go thru the steps for File System Deployment, and then it prompts for installation folder path. After that, it takes me directly to validation. Why is it not showing me the Configure Packages Page as described in the MSDN Documentation. Please advise. Thanks.
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Apr 3, 2012
We have been given a new Database server with SAN drives attached for storage. We will see the SAN as 4 separate drives on the server (D,E,F,G). Drives D and E will be a 7 disk array using RAID 5. F and G will be s sperate 7 disk array using RAID 5 also.how best to configure our databases on these drives. I was thinking of splitting the systems db's, user db's, indexes and logs like this:
D: System DBs
E: User DBs
F: Indexes
G: Logs
I wanted to keep data and indexes seperate as well as data and logs seperate. I'm not sure if it makes sense to keep the system dbs on there own filegroup or not.
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Feb 5, 2007
If the configurations are stored in the database then does the package pick up the configuration as and when required or it a one time pick when the package is executed.
What I plan to do?
When the package is executed, I want to have a script task at the start of the package that will update the configuration table in the database with the values that the package needs to run with. I mean change the values of the configurations of the tasks which will be executed after the script task.
Thanks for your time.
$wapnil
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Aug 15, 2007
Hi,
Please can you let me know which of the following 2 is a better method to deploy SSIS packages
File System deplyment OR SQL Server deployment
What are the advantages of one over the other?
Thanks,
Mrinali
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Mar 26, 2007
Please forgive me if I'm in the wrong category...
How do you deploy changes to a database? Is there something you can run to compare the two versions and create a script to do this? I've heard about the DTS package (now DTSX I believe) but am not sure how to set one up. If anyone could point me to an article or something that might clear things up, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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May 17, 2008
Hello
I am currently developing a big winforms project that connects to a SQL Server 2005 database.
The idea is that the application will be deployed on random clients whenever needed. These clients have neither SQL Server installed, nor is there a server to provide a central database. The only option is to include the database file with the deploy.
Now, I've searched all around the internet on how to do this. I just can't seem to connect to the database-file from my deployed version. Is there something special that needs to be done?
Regards
- Varcour
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Oct 22, 2007
I have an application being developed in VS 2005 using SQL Express. I've built up some new roles and have several users pre-populated that I'd like to deploy to a shared hosting evironment.
The problem is that I seem to keep getting:
Database 'd:hostingmemberasangaApp_DataASPNETDB.mdf' already exists. Choose a different database name.Cannot attach the file 'd:hostingmember
2agilitysite1App_DataASPNETDB.MDF' as database 'ASPNETDB'.
I saw another post with a similar issue, but that resolution has not seemed to help. Can anybody give me insights as to where the "asanga" is coming from? That might help me diagnose the issue.
Thanks in advance
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May 29, 2006
This question has been asked before, with vague responses
I'm using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, SQL Server 2005 Express and SQL Server Management Studio Express.
When I create an application with Login controls, VWD automaticlly creates a ASPENTDB.MDF security database. I also create my own database for my application e.g. abc.mdf. In other words, I have two databases. However, my hosting company supports only one database. What do I (we) do?
I have seen articles on: aspnet_regsql . Does this create a new database with all the security features of ASPNETDB.MDF built into my new database i.e. abc.mdf?
(A) If yes, how do you run it with SQL Server Managment Studio Express? It sounds silly, but I need instructions here please ... Also, do you run this against abc.mdf or do you use it create abc.mdf?
(B) If not, how do you achieve a single database scenario?
I'm sure this is a very common deployment question, which is very confusing for most of us hobbyists that want to deploy their web applications
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Feb 8, 2006
I have a Visual Studio 2005 Database Project, with SQL Server 2005 scripts in it.
How do I make a deployment package with it?
How do guys deploy your database objects/scripts?
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Sep 21, 2006
HiI'm using sqlexpress on development machine and on client server. I'm building a webapp using membership and role provided for asp. In web.config I have definet membership provider and role provider to point to my database.After web site deployment I get allways message : Failed to update database "c:appapp.MDF" because the database is read-only, and I'm forced to apply rights for ASPNET. More than that somethimes I must re-register users.I have tried to modify in web.config with <remove name="LocalSqlServer"/> <add name="LocalSqlServer"...> but I get errors if I try to design my dataset file:"Cannot get web application service".TIAPaul
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Oct 13, 2007
Hi Guys/Gals,
I have developed a database in Visual Studio 2005 (c#) ,using SQL Express as my database, on my local machine and deployed it to a different machine where it is being used in a live environment. No problems.
However, I have continued developing the application on my local machine and have made numerous additions to the structure of the database (on the development machine).
My question...How do I go about deploying the new database structure to the live machine without losing the live data?
Best regards
Jonny M.
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Nov 15, 2005
I am in the process of designing a Windows Forms 2.0 app, and need advice on the recommended deployment/creation of the database for my customers.
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Jan 27, 2007
I am trying to deploy a SQL Server Express database to a remote SQL Server 2005 host. I was planning to copy and paste the data from my local tables to the remote tables using Management Studio Express but my ISP (NTL) appears to be blocking port 1433 and preventing me from getting a connection to the remote database.
Will an upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition help me? I understand that it has a Backup & Restore Wizard but how does this work? Does it rely on a remote connection and will it fall foul of the NTL port blocking? Or, can the file that the Backup stage produces be copied into the web-based MSSQL Manager, that my web host provides, to restore to the remote database?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Jan 2, 2008
Hi,
I work with a large team developing ASP.NET application that has a large database with over 50 complex stored procedures. It is proving more and more difficult and time consuming to centralise the development and update of the database changes and I was wondering if there were any best practises/tools that could be recommended. I have looked on the web for good articles and haven't found anything difinitive (except that Team Foundation Server is the way forward)..
A brief background to the current process is that everyone develops on the same database, and then updates the stored procedure scripts in source safe (manually). Then when we do a new release someone builds a script of all the database updates and runs it. There are issues related to developers updating there stored procedures over other peoples and other concurrency.
I am looking to move all the developers to start using local databases so that there work only effects them, but then this brings up problems of keeping all the local databases up to date whenever they get the latest source code. The only way I currently see is to build a database update program, that will run and update to the latest version.
Surely this must be a common issue? Anyone have any good ideas/concepts?
Also our setup is Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Source Safe 2005.
Cheers,
Andrew Thomas
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Oct 2, 2007
I have searched hi and low for hours within the product and online - I cannot find how to have SQL 2005 produce a script to automatically repeat the creation of a database role I have tedious manually created.
I have tried "script object as, create to,<>" - single-liners are produced - no details. More single line results from "<Database>, All Tasks, Generate Scripts".
Am I missing something or is this a bug?
€¦also to note after review blogs and other sources the use of the SQL2005 methods related to security and new schema objects - I feel€¦ dreadfully wrong - what is claimed feels like hype, unsupported by examples and usage cases feels like we better just make all automated processes sysadmin; I know learning curves can be strong but I am not this green or that stupid - where are the DOCS/training materials?
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Dec 28, 2006
I deployed my application to my newly installed xp pro laptop
The prerequisites are installed
Now that I want to testdrive my database application I get this error:
An attempt to attach an auto-named database file c:/program files........................MyDB.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file can not be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
This is what I read in my app.config file;
<connectionStrings>
<add name="MasterDetail.My.MySettings.MyDBConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|MyDB.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
What could I be doing wrong? If there is need for additional information you have to tell me
Thanks, Richard
Richard
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Nov 27, 2006
I want to create deployment for MS SQL 2005 Express database, that
creates database, tables and inserts data. I have made a similar with
VisualStudio 2003 and MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmsde/html/msdedepl.asp?_r=1
For Windows Vista it won`t work. I have tried to create with
Visual Basic 2005 Express, but I didn`t get how can I do it with
ClickOnce.
If you can help me, I`ll bee thankful!!!!
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Mar 7, 2007
Good Afternoon.
I am trying to write a short application within which I would like to embed a SQL Server Express database, all of which would be deployed via ClickOnce through a web site. The installation process seems to be working without trouble, including installation of the .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server Express 2005.
When the application launches on the new machine, however, I get a big Microsoft .NET Framework "Unhandled exception" error dialog box that indicates the database already exists and that the database file could not be attached. I am working with a clean virtual machine that I know has never had the database installed on it.
I fear I am overlooking something quite straightforward, but since this is the first time I have ever attempted to build a data-bound application, I am not sure where I am going wrong.
Perhaps the source of the problem, or a related problem, might be revealed even when I run the application in debug mode from within Visual Studio. I can run the application once, but if I try to run it again, I get an error when I try to open the database connection that is similar in content (database already exists...could not attach). I can run the SSEUtil and detach the database and then run the application again in debug mode and it works no problem (the first time!).
Lastly, if I install the application on the machine on which it was developed and make sure the database is detached, it will run without any trouble (even repeatedly). But, on a new blank machine, there is no database listed that matches my database name, so I cannot try to detach anything!?
My apologies for such a novice question!
Sean
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Dec 31, 2007
Well, I'm been trying to resolve my problems through searching previous post, but I'm starting to go around in circles. This is what my problem is: Originally, I created a SSIS package using windows authentication. Once I completed the work, I wanted to change the connection to SQL Server authentication and use xml configuration for deployment.
First problem: I edit the xml file, but can't use the connection
I double clicked the Connection Manager connection and changed the log on from Windows to SQL Server. Password would not save, so, I read about what most posts have been about and I can go into the SIS menu, choose Package Configurations and create a xml file with the name of my connection manager.
Then, I exit the package and go into the xml file and enter the password=XXXX; stuff right after the user Id. When I load the package, the connection does not load?? Shouldn't the package pick-up the password now that I have entered it? I used note pad to edit the xml. If I go into note pad, I can see the edit. If I use SSIS package config to view the file, I don't see the password. I'm also having sql agent task problems, but I think I will be able to solve this if I can get the package to run with the password in the design mode. Can anyone help me with this?
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Mar 2, 2008
Hi!
I hope the answer is as simple as the question -- but after reading all the documentation I could find (understand?) and a lot of posts here, I'm no closer to achieving the goal.
I have a Visual C# app, DAYTRACKER, developed in VS2005. It uses a database with several tables constructed using SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.
I want to deploy the app plus the database plus SQL Express to another machine, to be used by a single user (the administrator) with no need for network connectivity of any kind.
What I have so far is:
1. The application is successfully deployed from a CD-ROM, having used the Publish process within VS2005, and opens on the new machine -- without database connectivity, however.
2. SQL Express is successfully deployed (it deployed as a 'prerequisite' when I went through the Publish process in VS2005)
3. I manually copied the database's .mdf and .mdl files, using SQL Server Managers 'Copy Database' function, then transferred the copies to the new machine into the ..MSSQL.1MSSQLdata folder (where they appear along with the master.mdg, mastlog.ldf etc files)
Now, the DAYTRACKER application's DAYTRACKERConnectionString under 'Settings' in the VS2005 studio reads 'Data Source=DELL3;Initial Catalog=DayTracker;Integrated Security=True' (which are the appropriate parameters for the machine, DELL3, on which I wrote the program.)
The problem, of course, is that SQL Express on the new machine doesn't connect the application to the database. When I go to the 'SQL Server Configuration Manager' and go to the 'SQL Server 2005 Services' and double-click on the 'SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS)' icon (the service is running) and the user is logged on using 'Local System Account'. Under the 'Service' tab the Host Name is 'MUSIC' (which is the name of the new machine I've installed the app onto -- which of course is not the name - DELL3 - that the app's connection string is expecting). Under the 'Advanced' tab, I've tried correcting the name of the Startup Parameters default .mdf and .mdl entries to ..DayTracker.mdf and ..DayTracker_log.mdl, but the server won't start up after I make the changes.
What I'm hoping for: a step-by-step way of doing this type of deployment, preferable getting it all onto one CD-ROM, and installing it on the new machine so that it all works seamlessly from the start, not requiring any 'tweaking' of the SQLServer Express settings by the end-user.
But I'll take pretty much anything that fixes the specific db connectivity problem I've described.
Thank you very much.
John F.
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Jun 15, 2007
Hello, I had a question I thought someone might be able to answer before I test my theory.
If I run an outer package through SQL Server Agent and specify it to use a configuration file, will the children packages it call also use the configuration file? My instinct is no it will not.
If this is in fact the case, would it be considered best practice to just specify the configuration file for each package through an indirect environment variable? Is it possible to set an environment variable on the set values tab within sql server agent?
Then my only concern is how would developers test packages on their machines, should they also set up the same environment variable on their machine?
Any thoughts?
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Apr 24, 2006
I have read many posts about configurations. However, in practice, I cannot solve a problem that is bothering me. I have connection managers (that manage SQL Server 2005 connections) configured in a local package. I have ProtectionLevel = 1 (By the way, where do you state that you want it "DontSaveSensitive", etc?). When I deploy the package to another computer (using the deployment utility) though, I get the error "The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager ... failed". Could someone tell me, very explicitly, how can I use configurations to solve this problem? Or are there other ways to solve the problem? The problem, of course, is that the connection managers' passwords aren't being migrated from a computer o another. Thanks a lot.
Pedro Martins
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Apr 4, 2004
Hello, everyone:
How to configure transaction log file size, transactional backup interval and log shipping intereval, exactly? Someone told me it depends on the transaction speed. Is it correct? I have an average transaction speed about 10/min., one day, on SQL 2K/W2K. How should set above issues?
Thanks a lot.
ZYT
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Aug 23, 2007
Hi experts,
In SQL Server 2005 database we have partitioned a very big table into 30 partitions each holding few million of records.
Im just curious to know whether there are some configuration related to processors or system hardware in order to benefit from partitioning ? (Ex : If we have multiple processors Whether they need be configured to do a parallel processing ? )
Any real time experience (other than referring links) would be really helpful for me.
Thanks in advance,
Hariarul
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Feb 6, 2008
I have a question about Package Configurations. I had developed a prototype that has connections defined to 2 DEV SQL Servers and runs fine in DEV. I created a Configuration XML file and changed the XML file settings to point to our 2 TEST SQL Servers. I ran this package without issues. However, I was expecting the 2 SQL Server OLE DB connections within BIDS to point to the TEST Server after the package ran. I still was pointing to DEV. Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.
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Oct 19, 2006
Hi,
I have a package configuration for my SSIS packages to allow me to dynamically change the connection string of the connections in my packages. This was done so that when I deploy my packages to my development or test server, the packages would use either the development or test server name in the connection string. I have set the configuration up to use an environment variable to store the location of the config file (an xml config file). The package however does not seem to be using the environment variable though. If I change the location of the config file in the variable's value, it still points to the old location. Can someone please help.
Thanks
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Feb 12, 2007
Hi,
i keep struggling with dtsconfig.
i have 4 packages which all have the same datasource based on the global-datasource.
is there a way i can save that global-datasource, instead of configuring all 4 packages to use a config-file?
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Aug 5, 2007
Before I started using package configurations, I made several (wrong) assumptions. My primary use for configurations are to move packages between environments (dev, test, prod), so my config files only contain connection information.
My first assumption was I could create 3 different configuration files (XML) with the connection string properties for each environment. Because I use shared data source connections in my packages, these are the only properties I should have to store within my configuration file. Then I use indirect configurations, which I had a system environment variable set up on each server, called SSISConfigPath. On all servers, I have it pointing to a shared folder on our network so us developers can update the configuration files at will, if needed.
Now, in theory if I deploy all of my packages to the SQL Server MSDB on each of the servers, and schedule a job on each server, everything should work, right? Wrong.
First of all, we had to restart the SQL Agent service in order for the package to recognize there is a new system variable (similar to the Indirect Configuration "gotcha" that Jamie blogged about, but in this case, it wasn't a cmd window, but a windows service).
Next, an SSIS package doesn't first read the configuration file, but it tries to validate the connections that were originally stored in the package to begin with before replacing them. This is a problem when the environment you develop on is your local PC (laptop for example), and deploy to production, the SSIS package tries to connect to your laptop PC first, throwing an error because it cannot find it. If it can find your laptop, it succeeds, and only then switches the connection info with what is in the configuration file.
Can this "validation" step be disabled? It seems changing the "Delay Validation" = true on the package doesn't work for connections.
And when you open BIDs to run a package, the "Syncronize Connection Strings" dialog always appears. When you say OK, it doesn't stick and always asks you each time you open the file.
Please let me know what I should be doing, because this doesn't seem to work as flawlessly as I thought it should.
-Kory
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Jan 5, 2007
I have been experimenting with both XML and SQL Server Configurations. Management would really like to go with the SQL Server Configurations, but I seem to be having problems with them.
The main goal is to be able to create a configuration for each connection and have every package refer to its specific configuration, therefore in the future we could change say our SA password and only have to update this in a few places rather than for every package.
In order to experiment with the problem I am having I developed 2 identical packages, except one uses SQL Server Configurations and the other uses XML. The configurations save the exact same properties. With the XML package I can go into the configuration file and change say the password and initial catalogue properties and have these changes go into effect. With the SQL Server package these changes do not seem to take place. So I guess what seems to be happening is with the XML package the connectionstring seems to be generated with the other properties that have been saved in the configuration, but in the SQL Server package none of this seems to take place and the connectionstring just stays exactly as it is saved in the configuration file.
I was wondering if I just seem to be missing something or if anybody else has experienced this problem and found a solution.
Any help is much appreciated,
Sam
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Nov 15, 2006
Hi,
Within the SSIS package i am currently developing I have a number of variables relating to folder locations. I have added these to a SQL configuration package as i'd like to be able to change these prior to the SSIS package being executed. I plan to launch the package by calling a SQL Agent job from a web page.
On this web page i'd like to be able to change the values in the SQL database so that the package runs with User specified folder locations.
If anyone has done this before i'd appreciate if you could suggest how best to accomplish this. At present i'm thinking of just interogating the created database but as there are no keys etc set up this may not make updating the table easy.
Many thanks,
Grant
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Mar 25, 2008
I have an SSIS Package that utilizes two Configurations at design time...
1. Environment Variable Configuration sets the root folder variable and subsequently several other variables within the package using expressions (adapted from Jamie Thompson's template package - thanks Jamie)
2. Indirect XML Configuration to set the connection string to the appropriate db.
I've got 3 environments in play.
1. My workstation, using BIDS to design / debug the package. For my PC, the Indirect Config sets the connection to our test server/database.
2. A test server. For the test server, the Indirect Config on the test server sets the connection string to the test database on that server.
3. A production server. For the production server, the Indirect config on the prod server sets the connection string to the prod database on that server.
Problem...
Running the package in BIDS correctly runs against the test db, no problems.
Running the package on the test server in SSMS (either in the Execute Package Utility or using the Agent) without specifying any Configurations on the Configuration tabs, runs fine against the test db.
Running the package on the prod server in SSMS (again, in the Execute Package Utility or using the Agent) without specifying any Configurations on the Configurations tabs runs the package against the test db.
Is this because I'm not specifying the Configuration I have stored on the production server to use the connection string for production?
Curiously, the Indirect Configuration I have setup to read an environment variable to set the root folder (for logging, etc) works fine without having to specify any configurations on the configuration tabs in SSMS. In fact, I don't think you can specify environment variable configurations on these tabs - they open a Browse window to search the filesystem for a config file.
Any clarification anyone can give me regarding these Configuration tabs, indirect configurations, and what their purpose is would be great. I've spent days researching, reading through the two books I have, etc, and there's not much out there on this.
Thanks!
Jamie Pick (not Thompson)
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