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  • RE: Need Direction for my new project

    I would start by researching varbinary datatype.

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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 OLE DB linked server problems - SQL Server 2005

    Glad to help.

    On the other hand, nothing is more scary that knowing neither the root cause of a problem nor why the problem went away 🙂

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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: Placement of your FK in a table

    Joe Celko (7/3/2010)


    You order the columns in logical groups (the street address, city state and ZIP are placed together) because of the default ordering of SQL.

    :blink: "because of the default...

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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: Unsure about Fact and Dimension

    paul.ingham (7/2/2010)


    ...am wondering if i can have a Policy Transaction fact who's granularity is an individual policy line from the policy table and also have a policy dimension from 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: Placement of your FK in a table

    So ... what would you do with a FACT table that has 48 FKs? location is inmaterial/

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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: installing the Oracle Client to Connect SQL SERVER

    To test client please...

    1- Ping target host - if you can ping it you can access the box.

    2- Edit tnsnames.ora file located in ORACLE_HOME/network/admin adding an entry for target database.

    3-...

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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: Creating Automated Procedure to Import and Arrange Data

    Novicejatt (7/1/2010)


    I'm new to SQL, so I dont know much about that.

    You may want to consider hiring a temp DBA, work with him/her in this project and take advantage of...

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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: Oracle to SQL Server 2008 Migration

    Arie Jones-435881 (6/29/2010)


    Not exactly true. There is a little translation going from Oracle to SQL Server. It does depend on wether you are comfortable with the current setup. So if...

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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 2005 or SQL Server 2008

    I would start by comparing SS2K5 and SS2K8 features, plenty of documentation on such matter like in http://www.extremeexperts.com/SQL/SQL2008/SQL2005Vs2008.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: Excluding rows from table

    anitha.cherukuri (6/30/2010)


    The Reason is If reading type is final that meter will be historic one.

    Thats why i dont want to see 101.

    I cannot see a "Final" row for 101...

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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 book to learn new features of Sql Server 2008

    Have you already built a home lab? - installed SQL Server at home?

    In the affirmative case check Books On Line a.k.a. BOL - it comes with the software.

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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: Variable names in stored procedures

    If I remember it right IDENTIFIER_CASE property refers to names of Tables, Columns and Procedures therefore SQL Server is doing what is expected to do erroring out when a 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.
  • RE: Partitioning large tables for performance.

    Steve Jones - Editor (6/30/2010)


    Do you have partitions separated on different drives? Have you still seen large improvement of indexing? Or does this just act as another type of index?

    Steve...

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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: Alive

    sudhakara (6/30/2010)


    Can you suggest me the best way to send a alert message when sql server has been stopped for log time ? example by using the another sql 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: Candidate Key Or Composite Key

    bteraberry (6/30/2010)


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    Gopal Rathore (6/30/2010)


    Is this will be a good database design because it will make joins faster but again I will have to compromise with finding formulaId in Detail...

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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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