Which Method Of Creating Records Would Yield The Best Performance?
Sep 13, 2004
This question is regarding a "helper app" I'm building to go along with my ASP.NET appplication. It will be inserting/updating records in the database as a nightly process. It is a Windows application built in VB.net.
I have a table which should always only have one of each type of record in it. This table on average will have between 100k and 500k records.
Which operation would be faster and less strain on the server?
a. Use a "if exists" and see if a record of this type already exists, if it does, update it, if not, insert the new one.
b. Unconditionally issue a delete for the record I'm about to insert, then insert the new one.
c. Create a trigger that will delete the old record if a new one is inserted?
I'm about to build a batch of procedures that will be returning one row of data that is created by referencing the same table multiple times. The example below is very simplified but you'll see the differences.
Which is better:
Option A:
SELECT a.Field1, a.Field2, b.Field1, b.Field2 FROM MyTable a, MyTable b WHERE a.ID = 10 AND a.Type = 1 AND b.ID = 10 AND b.Type = 2
Or Option B:
SELECT a.Field1, a.Field2, b.Field1, b.Field2 FROM MyTable a JOIN MyTable b ON a.ID = b.ID WHERE a.ID = 10 AND a.Type = 1 AND b.Type = 2
I can't see what is going on, this is the situation:
I call the Pull method, specify the table to be affected, the query to be used, the connection string to the remote SQL server, the tracking options (On) and the Error table. The pull method executes with no errors however, no table is ever created. I don't know why, here's what I have done so far:
I read the SQL BOOKS ONLINE help on preparing RDA, I set up the IIS virtual directory for anonymous access and on the connection string I send in the user name and password for the SQL server, I went into the SQL Server and grated access to the user name to the database that I am going to access and I made the user a db_owner.
So, according to SQL BOOKS ONLINE I have everything right however, it won't populate, so right now I am open to suggestions on how to get this to work, heres the code: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ string rdaOleDbConnectString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=<Server>;Initial Catalog=<DB>; User Id=<User>;Password=<Password>"; (it's not exactly like this, but in it has the proper values) string connectionString = "Data Source="\Program Files\client\db\MobileDB.sdf"";
SqlCeRemoteDataAccess rda = new SqlCeRemoteDataAccess("http://10.1.1.206/mobile/sqlcesa30.dll", connectionString);
IList _tableNames = new ArrayList(); IList _queries = new ArrayList();
############ Code that prepares tables and queries ############
I wanted to set up a mechanism that would transfer blocks of records (a few dozen to in rare cases a few thousand), with slight modification, from one database to another. It's a sort of custom partial archiving process that would be triggered from a web-based admin application. Records in the target db would be identical except:
-- the primary key in the source table, an identity field, would be just an integer in the target table -- the target table has an extra field, an integer batch ID supplied by the web application that triggers the process
It's a simple, if not efficient matter to do it within the web application: query the source table, suck the records into memory, and insert them one by one into the target db. This will be an infrequent process which can be done at off-hours, so a bit of inefficiency is not the end of the world. But I wondered if there is a more sensible, orthodox approach:
-- Could this process be done, and done efficiently, as a stored procedure with the batch ID passed as a parameter? -- Is there any way to do a bulk insert from a recordset or array in memory using ADO and SQL? And if so, is that better than inserting records one by one?
Advice on the best general approach would be appreciated, and I will try to figure out the details.
I wanted to set up a mechanism that would transfer blocks of records (a few dozen to in rare cases a few thousand), with slight modification, from one database to another. It's a sort of custom partial archiving process that would be triggered from a web-based admin application in plain old ASP (not .net alas). Records in the target db would be identical except:
-- the primary key in the source table, an identity field, would be just an integer in the target table -- the target table has an extra field, an integer batch ID supplied by the web application that triggers the process
It's a simple, if not efficient matter to do it within the web application: query the source table, suck the records into memory, and insert them one by one into the target db. This will be an infrequent process which can be done at off-hours, so a bit of inefficiency is not the end of the world. But I wondered if there is a more sensible, orthodox approach:
-- Could this process be done, and done efficiently, as a stored procedure with the batch ID passed as a parameter? -- Is there any way to do a bulk insert from a recordset or array in memory using plain ASP, ADO and SQL? And if so, is that better than inserting records one by one?
I realize that the ASP.NET tableadapter and dataset features might provide a good solution, but in the short run I can't rewrite the whole application. Advice on the best general approach from an ASP-ADO platform would be appreciated, and I will try to figure out the details.
heres my problem, since I migrated to SQL-Server 2005, I was able to use the Row_Number() Over Method to make my Custom Paging Stored Procedure better. But theres onte thing that is still bothering me, and its the fact the Im still using and old and classic Count instruction to find my total of Rows, which slow down a little my Stored Procedure. What I want to know is: Is there a way to use something more efficiant to count theBig Total of Rows without using the Count instruction??? heres my stored procedure: SELECT RowNum, morerecords, Ad_Id FROM (Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Ad_Id) AS RowNum, morerecords = (Select Count(Ad_Id) From Ads) FROM Ads) as testWHERE RowNum Between 11 AND 20 The green part is the problem, the fields morerecords is the one Im using to count all my records, but its a waste of performance to use that in a custom paging method (since it will check every records, normally, theres a ton of condition with a lot of inner join, but I simplified things in my exemple)...I hope I was clear enough in my explication, and that someone will be able to help me. Thank for your time.
SELECT - 1 AS OrganisationID, '--Please Select--' AS OrganisationName UNION ALL SELECT OrganisationID, OrganisationName FROM tblOrganisation ORDER BY OrganisationName
So I was creating a new table-valued function today which queries some data from a preexisting table. Since this is my first table-valued function, I decided to check out some of the examples and see what I can figure out.
One particular example helped me out a bit until I ran into some data access issues... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165054.aspx
So I create my function:
[SqlFunction(DataAccess = DataAccessKind.Read,SystemDataAccess=SystemDataAccessKind.Read,FillRowMethodName = "FillMyRow",TableDefinition ="p1 int, p2 int"] public static IEnumerable getMyTable() { using (SqlConnection conn = ....) { using (SqlCommand command = conn.CreateCommand()) { ///.... populate command text, open connection using (SqlDataReader rdr = command.ExecuteReader()) { while (rdr.Read()) { customObject1 o = new customObject1(); ///... populate o's parameters from reader ... yield return o; } } } }
public static void FillMyRow( object source, out int p1, out int p2) { customObject1 f = (customObject1)source; p1 = f.p1; p2 = f.p2; }
Notice, this example yield returns the value o upon each iteration of the reader. Despite the fact that the DataAccess is set to Read I still get the error...
An error occurred while getting new row from user defined Table Valued Function :
System.InvalidOperationException: Data access is not allowed in this context. Either the context is a function or method not marked with DataAccessKind.Read or SystemDataAccessKind.Read, is a callback to obtain data from FillRow method of a Table Valued Function, or is a UDT validation method.
I did however get past this error, by creating a collection of customObject1, populated it within the while(rdr.Read()) loop, then return the collection after closing the connection, command and reader.
I assume this error has something to do with the fact that you can't yield return results from within an open reader. Is this error right though in this case? Whats causing it to throw a InvOp Exception? Or is this a bug?
So I know that each employee should have 2 Type 1's and 4 Type 2's. I hope that makes sense, I'm trying to change my data because ours is very proprietary.
I need to identify employees who do not have all their stages and list the stages they are missing. The final report should only have employees and the associated missing types and stages.
I do a count by employee to see how many types they have to identify the ones that don't have all the types and stages.
My count would look something like this:
EmployeeNumber Type Total 100, 1, 2 100, 2, 2 200, 1, 1 200 1, 2
So I know that employee 100 should have 2 more Type 2's and employee 200 should have 1 more Type 1 and 2 more Type 2's based on the required list.
The problem I'm having is taking that required list and joining to my list of employees with missing data and pulling from it the types and stages that are missing by employee. I thought I could get a list of the employees that are missing information and right join it to the required list where the missing records would be nulls. But, that doesn't work because some employees do have the required information and so I'm not getting any nulls returned.
I have a SQL 2000 sp3a server on Windows 2000 sp4. Running dual proc server with hyper threading enabled, 3gb memory attached to a HP EVA 5000 SAN.
One of the tables is 67gb and contains 140,000,000 rows. Recently someone dropped the clustered indexe so i`m trying to put it back (i've dropped the non clustered indexes as no point leaving them there whilst clustered builds).
The problem i am having is the rebuild is taking forever!! It ran for 23 hours before someone rebooted the server (!). The database is currently recovering from the reboot but i need to work out what is causing the appalling performance so i can get the index rebuilt. There are no reported hardware problems.....
There are multiple file groups involved and i found i was getting an extent allocation rate of 1.5 extents a second and same for deallocation.
Hi,I am trying to write a method which needs to call a stored procedure and then needs to get the response of the stored procedure back to the variable i declared in the method. private string GetFromCode(string strWebVersionFromCode, string strWebVersionString) { //call stored procedure } strWebVersionFromCode = GetFromCode(strFromCode, "web_version"); // is the var which will store the response.how should I do this?Please assist.
Dear all, I'm using SQL Server 2005 Standard Edetion. I have the following stored procedure that is executed against two tables (RecrodedCalls) and (RecordedCallsTags) The table RecordedCalls has more than 10000000 Records and RecordedCallsTags is about 7500000 Records Now the lines marked in baby blue are dynamic (Dynamic where statement) that varies every time this stored procedure is executed, may it contains 7 columns in condetion statement or may it contains 10 columns, or 2 coulmns.....etc Now I want to create non-clustered indexes on the columns used in the where statement, THE DTA suggests different indexing whenever the where statement changes. So what is the right way to created indexes, to create one index on all the columns once, or to create separate indexes on each columns, sometimes the DTA suggests 5 columns together at one if I€™m using 5 conditions, I can€™t accumulate all the possible indexes hence the where statement always vary from situation to situation, below the SP:
CREATE TABLE #tempLookups (ID int identity(0,1),Code NVARCHAR(100),NameE NVARCHAR(500),NameA NVARCHAR(500))
CREATE TABLE #tempTable (ID int identity(0,1),TypesCount INT,CallsType NVARCHAR(50))
INSERT INTO #tempLookups SELECT Code, NameE, NameA FROM lookups WHERE [Type] = 'CALLTYPES' ORDER BY Ordering ASC
INSERT INTO #tempTable SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(RecordedCalls.ID)) As TypesCount,RecordedCalls.CallType as CallsType
FROM RecordedCalls LEFT OUTER JOIN RecordedCallsTags ON RecordedCalls.ID = RecordedCallsTags.CallID
WHERE RecordedCalls.ID <= '9369907'
AND (RecordedCalls.CallDate BETWEEN cast ('01 Jan 1910 00:00:00:000' as datetime ) AND cast ( '01 Jan 2210 00:00:00:000' as datetime ))
AND (RecordedCalls.Duration BETWEEN 0 AND 1000000)
AND RecordedCalls.ChannelID NOT IN('62061','62062','62063','62064','64110','64111','64112','64113','64114','69860','69861','69862','69863','69866','69867','69868')
AND RecordedCalls.ServerID NOT IN('2')
AND RecordedCalls.AgentID NOT IN('1000010000')
AND (RecordedCallsTags.TagID is null OR RecordedCallsTags.TagID NOT IN('100','200'))
AND RecordedCalls.IsDeleted='false'
GROUP BY RecordedCalls.CallType
SELECT IsNull(#tempTable.TypesCount, 0) AS TypesCount, CASE('English')
WHEN 'Arabic' THEN #tempLookups.NameA
ELSE #tempLookups.NameE
END AS CallsType FROM
#tempTable RIGHT OUTER JOIN #tempLookups ON #tempTable.CallsType = #tempLookups.Code
DROP TABLE #tempLookups
DROP TABLE #tempTable
Thanks all, Tayseer
Any suggestions how to create efficient indexes??!!
i created a simple table to record all uploaded files to my website. now, it works, but the problem is, it posts to the table 2 times, as in it executes "Button1_Click" event twice. The result is i get two records which are the same, and only differs in primary key (because i set it as an autonumber). how do i fix this? thanks in advance here's the code: HTML: <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConflictDetection="CompareAllValues" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString %>" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [Base_Files] ([User_ID], [Date_Posted], [File_Type], [File_Size], [File_Name], [File_Description]) VALUES (@User_ID, @Date_Posted, @File_Type, @File_Size, @File_Name, @File_Description)">
I have a spreadsheet that we download from one of our customers that contains Sales Order Release information. The spreadsheets contains 1-n releases per part #.
I have a SQL 2000 view that groups this information into a smaller table (after importing into SQL).
I need to take this view and create 1-n release records based on our production run qty and put it in a new table. I have a field in my view that contains the desired # of records to create.
Since I never used TSQL to loop through table/view, how do I do this. Following is what the output should look like:
From SQL view --------------------------------------- Part #: 11124A1 Qty Due:175 Run Qty: 50 # Release to Generate: 4
I have a SP that I use to insert records in a table. This SP is calledhundreds of times per minute.Most inserts complete very fast. And the profiler data is as follows:CPU: 0Reads: 10Writes: 1Duration: varies from 1 to 30But once in a while the insert SP seems to stall and takes a very longtime. Here's the info returned by profiles in this case:CPU: 0Reads: 10Writes: 1Duration: can vary from 6000 to 60000Note that the CPU, reads, writes remain the same. But the duration ofthe SP increases. What could be the reason for this?? The SPeventually completes in all cases - its just that they seem to take avery long time sometimes??What areas should I investigate??Thanks in advance,DK
Hi, I just have a Dataset with my tables and thats it I have a grid view with several datas on it no problem to get the data or insert but as soon as I try to delete or update some records the local machine through the same error Unable to find nongeneric method... I've try to create an Update query into my table adapters but still not working with this one Also, try to remove the original_{0} and got the same error... Please help if anyone has a solution
I have a table like the followingField1 Field2 Field3------ ------- ------x1 y1 z1x1 y2 z2x1 y3 z3x1 y4 z4x2 y1 z5x2 y2 z6x2 y3 z7x2 y4 z8x3 y1 z9............and so onI want to create a view with x1, x2, x3.. as uniquerecords; y1, y2, y3.... as fields; and z1, z2, z3.... as the valuesWhen I doCREATE VIEW xyz (y1, y2, y3, y4) ASSELECT field1 ,( SELECT field3 FROM table WHERE field2 = 'y1'),( SELECT field3 .....FROM tableI get the error that the sql query creates duplicate values. I think Imay have to do a join using distinct values of field1. I was lookingfor some guidance with the join.Thanks for your help in advance(using SQLSERVER 2000)
I have 3 tables (A, B, C) with milions of records (A ca 5 milions, B and C ca 10 milions). I have created a join betwenn them
select some fields (A, B, C) FROM A as a JOIN B as B on a.a1 = b.a1 and a.a2 = b.a2 JOIN C as c ON b.b1 = c.b1 and b.b2 = c.b2 Where fieldtime <= date/time
But it takes to much time: aftre 2 hours and half is still running.
creating the missing records in a date/time range.
However, I need to return different groups for each span of records.
here's some data....
aaa1 aaa7 bbb2 bbb5 bbb6
The numbers are the hour of the day.
I need to return
aaa 0 0 aaa 1 1 aaa 2 0 aaa 3 0 ... bbb 0 0 bbb 1 0 bbb 2 1 ... and so on.
I've got a numbers table and I can left join with it but I just get nulls for the missing hours instead of having it as above.....I can't think of a way of repeating the groups for each of the 'missing' hours - other than creating a length insert statement to fill in the gaps....unless that is the only way of doing it.
Hi We are using the SQL Server 2005 Full Text Service. The data is not huge, but the kind of data is that each record is small and there are a large number of records. There are 35 million records now with 11 GB of data and about 1.6 GB of FT catalog on the table. This is expected to grow to at least 10 times the size of this data. The issue is with FTS taking a long time to return results when the number of hits (rows) getting returned from FTS is large for some searches, it takes a very long time. With the same data & catalog, those full text queries for less common words return timely. The nature of the problem doesnt allow us to only have top results. We need all the results. So it’s not about the size of data but the number of results getting returned from FT. (As the catalog is inverted). The machine is dual processor with 4 GB RAM.
I am considering splitting the table and hence the catalog and using multiple servers to do full text searches in smaller catalogs. Is there any other way this issue can be solved ?
If splitting is the only way, can you give me an idea as to what is a statistical/standard limit to the number of search results/cataog size as which FTS gives good results
I have a transformation where final result set give me 25 rows of data. Now before I put into destination table, I need to add another column which will show how many total records we have. Like.
My dataset:
A Â 20 abc B 24 mnp c 44 apq
Now I need to add another column within my transformation before I store the result set to destination like this:
A 20 abc 3 b 24 mnp 3 c 44 apq 3
Here. new column gives count of total rows in our dataset which was 3.
How can I achieve this? Can I use derive column to this?
writing the query for the following, I need to collapse the continuity. If the termdate for an ID is one day less than the effdate of the next id (for the same ID) i need to collapse the records. See below example .....how should i write the query which will give me the desired output. i.e., get min(effdate) and max(termdate) if termdate is one day less than the effdate of next record.
Hello Everyone,I have a very complex performance issue with our production database.Here's the scenario. We have a production webserver server and adevelopment web server. Both are running SQL Server 2000.I encounted various performance issues with the production server with aparticular query. It would take approximately 22 seconds to return 100rows, thats about 0.22 seconds per row. Note: I ran the query in singleuser mode. So I tested the query on the Development server by taking abackup (.dmp) of the database and moving it onto the dev server. I ranthe same query and found that it ran in less than a second.I took a look at the query execution plan and I found that they we'rethe exact same in both cases.Then I took a look at the various index's, and again I found nodifferences in the table indices.If both databases are identical, I'm assumeing that the issue is relatedto some external hardware issue like: disk space, memory etc. Or couldit be OS software related issues, like service packs, SQL Serverconfiguations etc.Here's what I've done to rule out some obvious hardware issues on theprod server:1. Moved all extraneous files to a secondary harddrive to free up spaceon the primary harddrive. There is 55gb's of free space on the disk.2. Applied SQL Server SP4 service packs3. Defragmented the primary harddrive4. Applied all Windows Server 2003 updatesHere is the prod servers system specs:2x Intel Xeon 2.67GHZTotal Physical Memory 2GB, Available Physical Memory 815MBWindows Server 2003 SE /w SP1Here is the dev serers system specs:2x Intel Xeon 2.80GHz2GB DDR2-SDRAMWindows Server 2003 SE /w SP1I'm not sure what else to do, the query performance is an order ofmagnitude difference and I can't explain it. To me its is a hardware oroperating system related issue.Any Ideas would help me greatly!Thanks,Brian T*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
Hello Everyone,I have a very complex performance issue with our production database.Here's the scenario. We have a production webserver server and adevelopment web server. Both are running SQL Server 2000.I encounted various performance issues with the production server witha particular query. It would take approximately 22 seconds to return100 rows, thats about 0.22 seconds per row. Note: I ran the query insingle user mode. So I tested the query on the Development server bytaking a backup (.dmp) of the database and moving it onto the devserver. I ran the same query and found that it ran in less than asecond.I took a look at the query execution plan and I found that they we'rethe exact same in both cases.Then I took a look at the various index's, and again I found nodifferences in the table indices.If both databases are identical, I'm assumeing that the issue isrelated to some external hardware issue like: disk space, memory etc.Or could it be OS software related issues, like service packs, SQLServer configuations etc.Here's what I've done to rule out some obvious hardware issues on theprod server:1. Moved all extraneous files to a secondary harddrive to free up spaceon the primary harddrive. There is 55gb's of free space on the disk.2. Applied SQL Server SP4 service packs3. Defragmented the primary harddrive4. Applied all Windows Server 2003 updatesHere is the prod servers system specs:2x Intel Xeon 2.67GHZTotal Physical Memory 2GB, Available Physical Memory 815MBWindows Server 2003 SE /w SP1Here is the dev serers system specs:2x Intel Xeon 2.80GHz2GB DDR2-SDRAMWindows Server 2003 SE /w SP1I'm not sure what else to do, the query performance is an order ofmagnitude difference and I can't explain it. To me its is a hardware oroperating systemrelated issue.Any Ideas would help me greatly!Thanks,Brian T
I have a situation where deleting old records is blocking updating latest records on highly transactional table and getting timeout errors from application.
In details, I have one table called Tran_table1 in OLTP database. This Tran_table1 is highly transactional table, it will receive data for insert/update continuously
While archiving 2 years old records from Tran_table1 into Tran_table1_archive in batches(using DELETE OUTPUT INTO clause), if there is any UPDATEs on Tran_table1,these updates are getting blocked and result is timeout errors in application.
Is there any SQL Server hints to avoid blocking ..
declare @table table ( ParentID INT, ChildID INT, Value float ) INSERT INTO @table SELECT 1,1,1.2
[code]....
This case ParentID - Child 1 ,1 & 2,2 and 3,3 records are called as parent where as null , 1 is child whoose parent is 1 similarly null,2 records are child whoose parent is 2 , .....
Now my requirement is to display parent records with value ascending and display next child records to the corresponding parent and parent records are sorted ascending
I have been trying to solve the locking problem from past couple of days. Please help mee!!
Scenario: -------------- I have a SSIS package in which 2 data flow tasks. 1st data flow task deletes records from a 5 tables and the 2nd data flow task should insert records into 1 of the five tables after the success of 1st data flow task. This scenario runs in Transacation.
The above scenrio in the 2nd data flow task hangs in runtime. It does not complete. with sp_who2 command i could see that there is an intent share lock(LK_M_IS) on the table and the status is SUSPENDED.
I dont know how to come out of this locking. Please help.
I have a table with about half a million records, each representing a patient in my county.
Each record has a field (RRank) which basically sorts the patients as to how "unwell" they are according to a previously-applied algorithm. The most unwell patient has an RRank of 1, the next-most unwell has RRank=2 etc.
I have just deleted several hundred records (which relate to patients now deceased) from the table, thereby leaving gaps in the RRank sequence. I want to renumber the remaining recs to get rid of the gaps.
I can see what I want to accomplish by using ROW_NUMBER, thus:
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() Over (ORDER BY RRank) as RecNumber, RRank FROM RPL ORDER BY RRank
I see the numbers in the RecNumber column falling behind the RRank as I scan down the results
My question is: How to convert this into an UPDATE statement? I had hoped that I could do something like:
UPDATE RISC_PatientList_TEMP SET RRank = ROW_NUMBER() Over (ORDER BY RRank);
but the system informs that window functions will only work on SELECT (which UPDATE isn't) or ORDER BY (which I can't legally add).
I need a little help here..I want to transfer ONLY new records AND update any modified recordsfrom Oracle into SQL Server using DTS. How should I go about it?a) how do I use global variable to get max date.Where and what DTS task should I use to complete the job? Data DrivenQuery? Transform data task? How ? can u give me samples. Perhaps youcan email me the Demo Package as well.b) so far, what I did was,- I have datemodified field in my Oracle table so that I can comparewith datelastrun of my DTS package to get new records- records in Oracle having datemodified >Max(datelastrun), and transferto SQL Server table.Now, I am stuck as to where should I proceed - how can I transfer theserecords?Hope u can give me some lights. Thank you in advance.
I have a query similar to the following. The intent of this query is to retrieve the top 6 records meeting the specified criteria (LOGTYPENAME = 'Process Status Start' OR LOGTYPENAME = 'Process Status End' ) based on most recent dates. Please keep in mind that I expect to return up to 6 records for each unique LogProcessName. This could be thousands of different LogProcessNames with up to 6 records for each.
1) The table I am executing against currently is very large in size and thus takes a long time to execute against. It would seem there must be a more efficient query to get the results I am looking for? 2) CTE doesn't work on SQL 2000. I need a query that does. 3) I cannot modify the database itself in the process.
;WITH cte AS ( SELECT [LogProcessName], [LogBody], [LogDate], [LogGUID], row_number() OVER(PARTITION BY [LogProcessName] ORDER BY [LogDate] DESC) AS RN FROM [LOGTABLE] WHERE [LogTypeGUID] IN ( SELECT LogTypeGUID FROM LOGTYPE WHERE LogTypeName = 'Process Status Start' OR LogTypeName = 'Process Status End' ) ) SELECT * FROM cte WHERE RN = 1 OR RN = 2 OR RN = 3 OR RN = 4 OR RN = 5 OR RN = 6 ORDER BY [LogProcessName] DESC, [LogDate] DESC
Does anybody else have any idea that would yield the results that I am looking for and take into account items 1-3 above?
