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  • RE: Inserting a 800 million records from Staging database to EDW, how to totally disable logging

    chris.stuart (4/3/2009)


    4) I would also like to set the logging db to maybe just a few gigs with the space being reused and records being committed as and when needed,...

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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: Index Defragmentation and Statistics Updation

    Ratheesh.K.Nair (4/14/2010)


    one more doubt will creating index on tables improves performance??

    During INSERT, the more indexes you have on target table the more overhead you are adding to the process a.k.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: Multiple reference in a single field

    Sasidhar is correct.

    FKs are there to enforce referential integrity rules. No referential integrity rules takes into consideration one child row with two alternative parents.

    If this is a business spec 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: what is the difference between Implicit, Explicit, Ref Cursors?

    As pointed by Jason an Oracle person wrote the question.

    In the Oracle world a explicit cursor is a cursor you define in the "declare" section - this is pl/sql stuff...

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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: Product Level is insufficient while using Import Export Wizard

    bladerunner148 (4/13/2010)Edition - Standard Edition

    Standard Edition is expected to support Import/Export - I would open a ticket with Microsoft.

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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: Dynamic Partitioning

    gady.male (4/13/2010)...I just gave the book scenario as an example in order to make my question a bit clearer

    it didn't work as expected, huh? 😀

    Answering your question it all depends...

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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: Dynamic Partitioning

    I do not see any need for table partitioning... a 500 pages book with 25 sentences per page will be stored in 12,500 rows - ten thousand books will 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: Data Mart Design - Best practice

    One datamart per FACTual table, no FACTual table duplicates.

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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: format rtf column into plain text

    bryan van ritter (4/13/2010)


    Not by clicking here and there, but with a function probably?

    Sure!

    Look at the link I posted, customize the code so to write your own function and 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: format rtf column into plain text

    bryan van ritter (4/13/2010)


    Isn't there a way to do this directly in the database?

    Do you mean... by clicking here and there? don't think so.

    You can always convert data already...

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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: format rtf column into plain text

    Mostly everything is possible, check this http://www.codeguru.com/columns/dotnettips/article.php/c7529/ 😉

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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 help

    Mushana (4/12/2010)


    How do i access this site, it has some solutions i want

    Replication - PBworks: PBworks Online Collaboration

    Just bing "Replication - PBworks: PBworks Online Collaboration" ... first return on 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: Gud book for Sql server 2005 Beginner

    You can start with BOL - comes with SQL Server for free.

    On the other hand, if you do not have database background may be a good idea to read some...

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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: Information_Schema and permissions

    ask your DBA to run query as either "sa" or "dbo" on target 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: How do I correctly design a many-to-many relationship in SQL Server?

    vidya_pande (4/10/2010)


    for example -

    employee and skill many to many relation-

    employee

    empId [pk]

    empName

    Skills

    skillId [Pk]

    SkillName

    EmployeeSkills

    EmpId[Pk]

    SkillId[Pk]

    Exactly!

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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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