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  • RE: Exportar datos a dbf

    Jeff Moden (7/14/2010)


    Would anyone care to do a translation for the rest of us, please?

    OP wants to know how to move data from SQL Server to Fox-Pro 🙂

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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: Is prefixing table names with "tab" a good idea

    It all depends on you naming convention.

    In some cases the author of the naming convention may be tired of having to explain why tables are the only objects that lack...

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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: Nested Views - General

    Nested views should be used with moderation.

    They are great when properly used - Ingrian encryption appliance relies on two layers of nested views and it works just fine.

    On the other...

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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: Passing Date parameters to Oracle

    The secret is to be sure date_field and mask have matching formats

    TO_DATE(date_field,mask)

    like:

    to_date('07/14/2010','mm/dd/yyyy') <= This is good

    to_date('07142010','mmddyyyy') <= This is good

    to_date('20100714','yyyymmdd') ...

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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: "Real" copy of Codd's 12 (13) Rules for RDBMS

    Amazing documentation, Thank you a lot Tom.

    I'm saving these jewels on my private library for future reference 🙂

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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: unable to open SSMS in single user mode

    If the idea is to start SQL Server in "normal" mode you can either...

    1- Start the SQL Server Service or,

    2- Command line: sqlservr.exe (assuming this is the default instance)

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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: unable to open SSMS in single user mode

    hxkresl (7/13/2010)


    So at this point I am limited to using only the cmd line until I can get the underlying problem solved?

    Not clear to me what the problem is.

    I...

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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: OEM SQL Server Plug-in Metrics Monitoring Issues

    CavyPrincess (7/7/2010)


    Perhaps this may help someone in the future.

    Certainly. Very nice, well referenced documentation.

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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: unable to open SSMS in single user mode

    hxkresl (7/13/2010)


    From cmd prompt I type sqlservr.exe -m and the databases are all started up.

    Next I click Start->SSMS->Connect and I get this error:

    "Login failed for user '<instance>\Administrator'. Reason: Server 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: Is Data Integrity really important or not

    Steve Jones - Editor (7/13/2010)


    Typically this is why it is implemented on the back end, often with constraints, less often with triggers.

    Agreed.

    PKs/FKs when enforcing RI in the -local- database.

    Triggers when...

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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: Brainstorming on strategies for a database with some data warehouse characteristics but with some updating required

    Okay ... too much going on in a single post, let me pick one...

    Anye Mercy (7/13/2010)


    Is partitioning something that could help me?

    Partitioning is usually implemented to help in administrative tasks...

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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: Deleting Specific Rows and Columns in SSIS

    Script Component will do it.

    Check here for details... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137640.aspx

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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 to Oracle & ViceVersa

    Been there, done that - several times, both directions.

    Data is usually a walk in the park.

    Fun begins with the code - the sensible thing to do is to rewrite 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: what will happen if clustered index is dropped.

    azadsale (7/13/2010)


    so execution plans which r there in cache are of no use when we rebuilt indexes.

    then is it ok if i clear the cache after this process(rebuilding indexes).will 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: Is Data Integrity really important or not

    _ms65g_ (7/13/2010)


    Could you introduce an article about values of data integrity and enforcing and implementing it?

    And Do we must implement it with using DDL or we can implementing it at...

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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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