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  • RE: Puzzler-Extra dbo

    Eugene Elutin (6/29/2010)


    Stefan_G (6/29/2010)


    Keith Underwood (6/29/2010)


    He was using the GUI, so all he did was put back in the name of the table "batch", not dbo.batch.

    Well, there are two possibilities:

    1)...

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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 issues: dynamic SQL and multiple value conditional

    Here is what happens when same query is executed twice.

    First run has to do physical I/O to move datablocks from disk to buffer cache the logical I/O to serve 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: Performance issues: dynamic SQL and multiple value conditional

    diego_silva_pires (6/29/2010)


    You mean, if i make the split in the code instead of calling the function?

    No. I mean skip the function - just a test - to see 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: Performance issues: dynamic SQL and multiple value conditional

    Does performance improves if you hardcode what your are fnsplit() today?

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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: Puzzler-Extra dbo

    it looks like developer renamed dbo.[batch] as dbo.[dbo.batch]

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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.

    Larry Kruse (6/23/2010)Typically, one of the client's administrators logs into our website to send out an alert/broadcast. When the admin signs in, we present a list of all 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: Insert 1,000 records in one second

    irmorteza2000 (6/28/2010)


    thanks “PaulB-TheOneAndOnly” for your information

    Best Regard. Morteza 🙂

    Glad to help 😉

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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

    If you are confortable with current structure on Oracle side I would keep the same structure in SQL Server.

    In the SQL Server world does not exist the "schema" concept 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: Working with Currenty -- Looking for case studies or how others have done it.

    Ross McMicken (6/28/2010)


    If the data is coming from a system that stores both the local currency and USD, which is most ERP and accounting systems in use these days, then...

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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: Insert 1,000 records in one second

    Ninja's_RGR'us (6/28/2010)I was in Pass when the Lead DBA of MySpace was there to host conferences. IIRC they were handling something like 1 M queries a minute.

    Exactly. Volume 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: Production DBA Begineer's Task list ?

    1- Check backup status/logs - ensure all databases are recoverable.

    2- Check space at both database and disk levels - ensure system has enough space.

    3- Check SQL Server logs - research...

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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: Insert 1,000 records in one second

    Ninja's_RGR'us (6/27/2010)


    Sites like myspace handle heck of a lot more than that... but still this is a nightmare to setup and maintain :w00t:.

    Agreed but, look at the infrastructure MySpace had...

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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: Career Advice...what is next after SR SQL DBA ?

    grahamc (6/28/2010)


    and there in lies the problem... generally speaking, if you are very god on technical side, its because you have always pushed to learn/understand more, thrive under pressure, etc....

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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: Insert 1,000 records in one second

    irmorteza2000 (6/27/2010)Suppose we have a website with 1,000 viewers each second. And we want to insert the viewer’s information(for example) to the SQL database. So we must insert 1,000 records...

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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: Working with Currenty -- Looking for case studies or how others have done it.

    At the granular level I would store all figures in the currency of origin and I'll identify the currency.

    I would also have a DIM_CURRENCY_CONVERSION table storing daily conversion rates 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.

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