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  • RE: Excel Source in SSIS

    Microsoft has fantastic documentation on the particular, please check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964137(SQL.90).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: How to tune/speed up a procedure

    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


    And these stats prove your point...

    --With unique index on primary key, 6706 permits created in 582 seconds, which equals 11.5/sec

    --With no index on the primary key, 2520 permits created...

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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 tune/speed up a procedure

    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


    Ok, I modified the stored proc to add the @Today = GetDate() right before it does each insert into PWDPermit so I could gather some real timings, right now,...

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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 tune/speed up a procedure

    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


    Thanks, I'll try that.

    Please let us know how it goes.

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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 tune/speed up a procedure

    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


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    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


    After trying Elliot's suggesting about displaying the actual execution plan, it appears as though the most time consuming/resource intensive portions of the proc are in "Clustered Index...

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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 tune/speed up a procedure

    gregory.anderson (4/14/2010)


    After trying Elliot's suggesting about displaying the actual execution plan, it appears as though the most time consuming/resource intensive portions of the proc are in "Clustered Index Update" statements.

    Are...

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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: From View to Table

    I assume what you want is what you have in your view, is that correct?

    If that's the case use COldCoffee solution but in FROM clause type in your view name...

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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: To find the user who shut down the SQL Server

    First - remember that members of sysadmin and serveradmin fixed servers have shutdown privileges then check who are the members.

    Second - check if anybody has the specific privilege granted, 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: incident mangement(IM)

    vijay82 (4/13/2010)


    i am new to DBA? Can any one heip me how tickets as generated and on which base they are going to assigen to DBA persons.what is the IM(incident...

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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 is the difference between Implicit, Explicit, Ref Cursors?

    Suresh Kumar-284278 (4/14/2010)


    Thanks Jason & Pablo for the clarification.

    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: Data Mart Design - Best practice

    TVR (4/13/2010)


    ...taking it further to the cube level... Would you also stick with a single datamart feeding a cube or is it acceptable to having multiple marts as datasources?

    Here 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: How to tune/speed up a procedure

    First thing first... find out where those 24 hours are spent.

    Such a process should have two very different steps...

    1) Mainframe to SQL Server staging table.

    2) SQL Server staging to final...

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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 while trying to stop SQL Server service

    speja01 (4/14/2010)


    We have a nightly job which stops the sql server service prior to an O/S backup taking place on the server.

    I agree with Elliot, this is highly unusual 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.
  • RE: operating system error 3

    Check the full path.

    Log into the server using SQL Server service account and check if you can "see" the dump file in the location you are telling SQL Server 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: Career Advice

    CirquedeSQLeil (4/5/2010)


    This is a good method to quickly find stop gaps in your knowledge. Performing interviews can be a drain if you are expecting a lot of success. ...

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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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