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  • RE: oracle encoding

    chico_rpereira (5/4/2010)


    I`m trying to consume a webservice from an oracle procedure using the UTL_http, I build the request print and it`s OK but the request sent in the network 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: Compare primary key between tables from Oracle and SQL server using SSIS

    Not sure how to do it via SSIS but, if you have access to the Oracle instance...

    1- Log on via sqlplus and do... "desc table_owner.your_table_name' OR

    2- if logged as owner...

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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: Sample database design, development, test and deployment for an online student class.

    Irfan-358189 (5/16/2010)


    i am going to start another job/project and in that coming project i heard from my client that they need a guy who is good in queries and reports...

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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 dba resume

    Do you mean... format or content?

    For format... search the web -different cultures do it different.

    For content... only you know about your credentials including education and working experience.

    Try to keep 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: Database Size Increase After Index Rebuild

    rob 58081 (5/16/2010)


    I recently perfomed an Index Rebuild using a Maintenance Plan on a large table in my database because it was 91% fragmented. After the Index Rebuild the database...

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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: Data Archival - text, XML, excel, db output

    ASDL (5/16/2010)


    I don't think there is any set based operation that is required. All I really need to do is:

    select * from table_name where col1 = something and col2 =...

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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: HELP -- Lost drive with database transaction logs

    Since tempdb gets re-created each time SQL Server is started this shouldn't be a problem.

    What's the error you are getting? is it that the failed drive is not...

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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: Conditionally Fire Trigger

    david.c.holley (5/16/2010)


    If I wanted the trigger NOT to fire when one field is updated, but any of the others are updated, how would I construct the IF?

    Let me note that...

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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: Daily Backup Job

    This is really basic stuff. Do you have any exposure to maintenance plans?

    I do prefer to run my backups using custom scripts but certainly a maintenance plan would 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: Oracle to SQL replicaton - entire DB or one table

    sameer.kasi200x (5/13/2010)


    it may be an issue of Undo tablespace or rollback segments.

    Pretty easy to validate... start the job and ask your Oracle DBA to monitor undo tablespace as well as...

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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 1st, 2nd, 3rd values from another table into a select statement

    I would suggest ROW_NUMBER() OVER() then select RowNumber=1, RowNumber=2, etc.

    Check here for details ... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186734.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: Define A Conditional Forigion Key

    Carl Federl (5/8/2010)


    Paul Berzukov posted

    totally agree with Don Peterson's position on the matter but please note neither original poster nor anybody else in this thread is suggesting the creation...

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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: Purging huge table, good approach

    joemai (5/13/2010)


    I normally do this:

    - Create the exact same table structure with the original one and give it new name

    - Copy only data that you need only over to this...

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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: Query

    sure, derived tables are a little funny thing - take a look here... http://www.sqlteam.com/article/using-derived-tables-to-calculate-aggregate-values

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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: Moving databases

    george sibbald (5/14/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (5/14/2010)


    george sibbald (5/14/2010)


    ... and hope there are no flight cancelations

    :w00t: I'm appalled you don't trust the air travel industry 😀

    ours comes to a halt with 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.

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