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

    koln (1/11/2008)


    So now that you have climbed the ladder to Sr. SQL DBA....what is a next logical career choice...what do people do afterwards ?

    What kind of shop are you working...

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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 DBA vs. Oracle Apps DBA

    useruser888 (6/27/2010)


    I am an Oracle Apps DBA and have been looking for a Apps DBA job for over a year. 🙁 I really don't know when/will I find one... A...

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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: Edit Data with Database Manager Software

    rgbarber (6/26/2010)


    ... to easily and quickly change data that was input from customers in the tables.

    This is very bad mojo.

    DBA owns the structure but not the data, user community owns...

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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: Book suggestion?

    1- Get some background in relational theory, C. J. Date may be a good start.

    2- At the same time build a home lab a.k.a. install SQL Server in a home...

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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: Direct Deposit Table Structure

    Ray K (6/23/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/23/2010)


    In this particular case I'll probably go with a denormalized solution - single table.

    Just curious: why single table? When I first read the question, my initial...

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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: drop production database

    vsm198 (6/25/2010)


    yes, I have approval to drop the database.

    Did you get it in writting?

    Does the organization uses a ticketing system? in the affirmative case ask for a fully...

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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: Tuning

    mike 57299 (6/23/2010)SELECT order_hdr_id, customer_id, order_date, amount, city, state, zip INTO #Open From Order WHERE ship is null

    Assuming script is creating #Open temp table, how about...

    insert into #Open

    select order_hdr_id,...

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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: Row Audit fields (Created/Modified) using Computed Columns

    You are correct. Thank you Wayne.

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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: Error Attempting to Delete User

    I would start by trying...

    select *

    from TABLE_PRIVILEGES

    where GRANTOR = 'offending_account'

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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: Row Audit fields (Created/Modified) using Computed Columns

    WayneS (6/23/2010)


    IMO, you'd be better off with a regular column that is updated by an UPDATE,INSERT trigger. A default value wouldn't be necessary, since the trigger would do always maintain...

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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: Direct Deposit Table Structure

    In this particular case I'll probably go with a denormalized solution - single table.

    _____________________________________
    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: Consider as child table or design as master table?

    OR...

    1- Rename your master table as TablenameBase

    2- Create a view Tablename (same name as the original table) so all current queries could continue doing those ugly "select *")

    3- Add new...

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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: Autogrowth leading to file fragmentation?

    As far as I know the burden is on the Operating System and not on the database engine. When SQL Server needs more space and datafile is set 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: Row Audit fields (Created/Modified) using Computed Columns

    Since a persisted computed column is actually stored in the target table as opposed to a plain computed column that is virtual - why not use a standard column and...

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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: row/column-level security

    SQL Server offers RLS/CLS - short for Row Level Security / Cell Level Security. As I understand it RLS/CLS offers similar funtionality of what is called Virtual Private Database in...

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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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