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  • RE: reading text datetime value with OPENROWSET and MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB12.0 changes datetime value

    Adrian Heald (5/6/2010)Note the 2010-05-04 08:00:00 data is correctly read at 2010-05-04 08:00:00.000 whereas the 2010-05-04 07:00:00 is incorrectly read as 2010-05-04 06:59:59.997

    Differential from 07:00:00.000 to 06:59:59.997 is pretty close...

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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

    wim.buyens (3/5/2010)


    This can be done with trigger and procedures I think but it won't be easy.

    You can't use a foreign key based on some condition.

    A trigger in which you...

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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 Warehouse question

    David Lester (5/7/2010)


    ... are you thinking nice for being able to lookup the possible values, and adding new ones sometime in the distant future, or is it a performance related...

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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.... what next?

    eric_russell 13013 (5/7/2010)


    ... the changes have already been implemented.

    Havn't you ever returned from a two week vacation and had that happen to you?

    Yes indeed - that's why I was asking...

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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.... what next?

    eric_russell 13013 (5/7/2010)


    In the second episode, the guest developer describes his solution step by step and then gets candid feedback and reaction from the original developer.

    Can the original developer candidly...

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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.... what next?

    CirquedeSQLeil (5/7/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (5/7/2010)


    eric_russell 13013 (5/7/2010)


    This discussion just underscores why it's imporatant to always have at least 2 admins and 2 developers who know your database, just in case someone steps...

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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 delete some part of string

    neliii (5/7/2010)


    column1

    \\xyz.se.df.a.b\fgd

    colum2

    \\xyz\fgd

    now i want to join both the coulmns by elimating the highlighted part. i mean .se.df.a.b

    or else just give me the query which can elimante that part from 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: SQL Server DBA.... what next?

    eric_russell 13013 (5/7/2010)


    This discussion just underscores why it's imporatant to always have at least 2 admins and 2 developers who know your database, just in case someone steps in front...

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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 Warehouse question

    David Lester (5/7/2010)


    There are a dozen values, which break down to the three categories.

    Using the above statement as reference I would agree that adding a new column to the target...

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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-00933 - SQL command not properly ended

    S Hodkinson (5/7/2010)


    Sorry I do not have SQL Plus. I do not use Oracle at all; this is a 'heritage' database

    any chance of asking whoever adminis Oracle database 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: normalization-relation ship problem

    misc 53111 (5/7/2010)


    would like to point out few things ,i am asking this as i want to break down contacts etc to related tables as there can be more than...

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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-00933 - SQL command not properly ended

    Please connect to target Oracle instance via SQLPlus and execute query with and without offending column. What happens in each case?

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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-00933 - SQL command not properly ended

    Please do this test for me.

    Using your original code instead of adding column a.ID_DESC please add a different column, if possible of the number or varchar datatype.

    Does it works or...

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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: Reclaim Table Space

    Whisper9999 (5/6/2010)We had a gig or two of free space in the data file before I dropped this table. I then dropped the table and then looked to see...

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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: MDW best practices

    chandu.ade (5/6/2010)


    Please share the best practices to be followed to cinfigure MDW. I am goint to implement MDW to capture database growth,cpu usages,memory utilization and all other paramaters.

    Follow the 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.

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