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  • RE: How many DBA's per instance/Database

    GilaMonster (8/22/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (8/22/2010)


    the fun begins with very large databases supporting business critical applications with stringent SLAs.

    I'll say. That 1TB mission-critical DB with 0 downtime allowances in business hours could be...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: How many DBA's per instance/Database

    456789psw (8/22/2010)


    I am sure there is "it all depends" We have about 20 instance DEV,QA,Prod

    and only 2 database half way big the other are very small. one is...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Data warehouse - Dimensions

    Raunak Jhawar (8/22/2010)


    Type 6 SCD transformation are very very specific.

    Seldom the need arises to maintain a history table.

    I do not like history tables either - talking here about a data...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Data warehouse - Dimensions

    da-zero (8/20/2010)


    Actually, to be precise, a dimension is not of SCD type 1,2,3 or hybrid, it's attributes are. A dimension can have a combination of different types of SCD. For...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Package fails when adding field from Oracle

    S Hodkinson (8/20/2010)


    I do not have access currently to the Oracle database but I am trying to contact the people who have. Is there any way to check from...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Non Relational Financial DB Design

    brucla (8/20/2010)


    I have a friend (a programmer) who's boss wants to build a non-relational database to handle PayPal type of financial transactions, and he asked for my 2 cents...

    I don't...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Best way to select a large amount of data?

    ricardo_chicas (8/19/2010)


    I forgot to say that the "like" is this way: column like '123456%'

    so it is using the index and doing a clustered index seek

    Are you positive this is...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Best way to select a large amount of data?

    ricardo_chicas (8/19/2010)


    For several reports we need to extract about 5 millions records from a table of 124 million ( 173 gb)

    I am able to use the clustered index ( with...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Please Help me improve this SPROC!!! It runs too slow!

    gregory.perry2 (8/18/2010)


    Once I restructure the Hierarchy table and take all of the redundant Crap out I think it will be a lot less than 60k records. Because not all...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Importance of order of precedence of tables in FROM clause

    ashish.kuriyal (8/10/2010)


    it depends how updated your indexes and tables are.

    :blink: Could you please elaborate? This is really confusing.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Deployment of package step by step

    sql_freak (8/19/2010)


    I am new to SSIS systems. Can any one please give me step by step how to deploy a newly created package in to a project existing in the...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Feedback on placing views inside stored procedures

    Ray Cacciatore (8/19/2010)


    I just inherited a new SQL Server project. I noticed that the previous developer did not refer to tables in his stored procedures. All references are made to...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Openquery hanging, is it Oracle or SQL Server's fault?

    tomiboy59 (8/19/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (8/18/2010)


    tomiboy59 (8/18/2010)


    Ok. The query hanging hasn't happened for a while, but now I got the error in the picture attached. This gets fixed if I restart the server....

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Database Disaster Recovery

    Nathaniel Kuyembeh (8/19/2010)


    Can you backup a database in recovery mode?

    Title line reads: "Database Disaster Recovery"

    I'm kind of confused, are you looking for advice in regards to a Disaster Recovery plan...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • RE: Package fails when adding field from Oracle

    S Hodkinson (8/19/2010)


    We have tried running the scripts attached but still get the error reported on the ODBC connection.

    Please do this...

    Log into Oracle database via sqlplus then execute query -...

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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