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  • RE: Power designer or erwin

    Being using ERWin for over 15 years now - I think it is a fine tool.

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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 Modeler

    You missed the ultimate tool in your list - the human brain, being using it for data modeling purposes for over 25 years now, always worked fine. 😉

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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: trigger problem

    Three clues...

    1- Triggers are created in a table.

    2- Trigger has to know when to fire - insert? delete? update?

    3- If you want trigger to insert in another table, you have...

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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

    Sooner or later Oracle support is going to ask to apply SP3 - save yourself some time and do it beforehand 🙂

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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

    Oracle does not supports VARCHAR(5000)

    The highest you can go is VARCHAR2(4000)

    What's the data type and size of the Oracle side column?

    What version of Oracle is 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: oracle recovery partitions

    hbujar (5/11/2010)


    I have a question for oracle, is it possible to recover only partition from backup tape e.g Part_201005 if I delete from database.

    In general this is not possible 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: Normalization

    Irfan-358189 (5/11/2010)


    ... please also explain to me clustered and no-clusterd index and their difference

    A non-clustered index is a object totally separated from the table. Index points to the table.

    A clustered...

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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: maintain history

    bozworth hollinz (5/10/2010)


    I'm working on a strategy to deploy ddl changes to a schema. However, I have the requirement to maintain the data within the schema. Does anyone have 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: how to use reusable code

    creating custom functions and other stored procedure alike objects is the way to go.

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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: Quick way to form relationship from several hundred tables to one

    info-849042 (5/4/2010)


    Hi, I need to form relationships from several-hundred tables to one table. Is there a quick way I can do this (SQL script, etc)?

    Everything and anything can be done...

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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 are redundant structures in Databases?

    Z@f (5/9/2010)


    ... will be question upon "Redundant Structures"

    This expression applies to optimization structures in large environments like multitera byte data warehouse, such structures come in two flavors which are non-redundant...

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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: Design Suggestions for a Quotes Database

    Sid Childers (5/9/2010)


    I was able to get this one figured out last night. Thanks for your reply.

    I'm glad but... still curious 🙂

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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 (5/7/2010)


    Don Peterson has written an article on why you should not use the type of design that you are proposing: "Lookup Table Madness" at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Advanced/lookuptablemadness/1464/

    I totally agree...

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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: Design Suggestions for a Quotes Database

    Sid Childers (5/8/2010)... I need to know whether I should reference my PKs and FKs in the stored procedure?

    What do you mean with "reference my PKs and FKs in 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: Need Ideas for a large lookup table solution

    Cory Blythe (5/7/2010)


    The table would be simple Zip1, Zip2, Distance.

    Some of the more common uses would be find all Values of Zip2 within 10 miles of Zip1 etc.

    Once table gets...

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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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