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  • RE: Urgent normalisation help please!

    msanchez7 (1/5/2013)


    Yeah this is my first time dealing with SQL, thank you for your support, it's good to know that there are people who help as much as they can.

    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: SQL Server 2012 VLDB Data Warehouse Design Question

    Anthony Stephens (12/16/2012)


    Appreciate feedback to this question. I'm working on a design for VLDB that will be in the several TB size range. The load activity will 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: Performance of a Query : which one is giving good performace

    Raghu.K (12/28/2012)


    I want join 4 tables in the Oracle.Table 1 is having 4 different where conditions.

    Which one is better (Performance wise)

    1.Join all 4 tables and write table1 where conditions globally...

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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: facts abt sps,views and functions

    sej2008 (1/19/2013)


    I just want to know whether or not function can call system or userdefined

    sps?

    Similarly can userdefined sps can call udf in its logic?

    can view call system sps or functions...

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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: Fact/Dimension design suggestions

    wshelton 51985 (1/14/2013)


    All the data i'm working with so far is in our ERP database - i'm simply trying to figure out how to include all this in a warehouse...

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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: "ORA-00936: missing expression" w/64bit R2 & OraOLEDB.Oracle provider

    Thank you for the feedback Swarren - other people will certainly benefit from it.

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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: Partitioning multiple tables of varying ranges

    In my opinion option #1 would be more elegant.

    No performance advantages in going with option #2.

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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: TABLE RELATIONS

    lonhanner (1/18/2013)


    Please tell me if the table structure is a one-to-many.

    Yes, it is a 1-n relationship.

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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: ORA-12592: TNS:bad packet or REB_REPSER ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

    Root cause of the issue is that the connection is timing out.

    Check sqlnet_timeout settings.

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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: Materialized View Logs on Log shipped secondary server database

    sqlbi.vvamsi (11/30/2012)


    Based on what I know, Materialized View Log is a master table that can capture deletes/inserts/updates just like CDC tables.

    You are correct, Materialized Views are an Oracle concept.

    Having said...

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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: Adding a new column to a table. Best approach

    bugg (11/17/2012)


    The standard way to add a new column to a table is more or less the following.

    alter table table_name add column column_name...

    That is NOT "more or less" alter...

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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: Continuing career with SQL

    A DBA position is usually the last technical position of a much larger IT career.

    Certifications are good in two senses, #1 You get to learn the general topics you are...

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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: Budget Fact Table and Date Dimension

    imani_technology (11/6/2012)


    We have a fact table for budgets. That table consists solely of the Budget Amount measure. How can I join it to the date dimension? 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: Use the surrogate key

    imani_technology (11/5/2012)


    Here is the scenario. I have a fact table that looks like the following:

    factEmployeeWorkHours

    PK ID

    LastName

    FirstName

    Hours

    The fact table joins to a dimension table that looks like the following:

    dimOrganization

    PK ID

    EmployeeLastName

    EmployeeFirstName

    Store

    StoreManager

    RegionalManager

    VP

    Region

    State

    But...

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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 to corelate oracle dba concepts and sqlserver dba concepts

    RK2012 (11/1/2012)


    How to corelate between oracle dba concepts and sqlserver dba concepts

    Since both Oracle and SQL Server are implementations of the same underlying theory their "concepts" are pretty much 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.

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