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  • RE: database table design

    Shall we understand that...

    1- Your system is cumulative loading of a particular table.

    2- Each day you get new rows that have to be inserted.

    3- Each day you get updates 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: How to catch a query from an another database?

    salliven (8/22/2012)


    I think you can include "dbid" column on profiler - it should tell you from where the query is being executed.

    I don't know what database is runing the query...

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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: Staging DB -> Star Schema DB -> SSAS Cube?

    imani_technology (8/21/2012)


    I have to modify the design of a data mart I "inherited." Currently the big picture is this:

    ETL Staging DB (EDI, Excel, and miscellaneous text files are loaded...

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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: Where to put a Type 2 SCD?

    imani_technology (8/21/2012)


    ...we have decided on the Type 2 SCD for the suggested sales price. Now for the next question: where to put it?

    How about in your DIMENSION table?...

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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 performance?

    I understand the offending "report" is created by several storedprocs which means several queries. If this is the case you have to figure out which query (or queries) are 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: Excel Pivot Table shows zeros from a SQL View hitting an Oracle View via a Linked Server

    Okay - we already know it is not an Oracle issue and also that it is not a linked server issue; we know this 'cause you stated that you can...

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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 catch a query from an another database?

    I think you can include "dbid" column on profiler - it should tell you from where the query is being executed.

    _____________________________________
    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: Naming Question for dev & production servers

    Development Environment, Test Environment, Production Environment?

    It doesn't matter if stand alone or cluster - no confusion.

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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: Naming Question for dev & production servers

    ... environment?

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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: Refresh from Oracle

    newbieuser (8/21/2012)


    Thanks for your replies.. we need to migrate 3-4 tables in Oracle to MSSQL and refresh the data on an ongoing basis.

    There are about 50000 records in each...

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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: Excel Pivot Table Show Zeros For Numeric Oracle Data Via SQL Linked Server

    Cross posting. Please reply here http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1348134-1044-1.aspx

    Please do not cross post.

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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: Excel Pivot Table shows zeros from a SQL View hitting an Oracle View via a Linked Server

    JesseDW (8/21/2012)


    ...If I connect the Pivot Table directly to Oracle, there is no issue.

    ...which means it is not an Oracle side issue.

    This issue may be better addressed on an Excel...

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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: Simple pass thru query

    Phunhog (8/21/2012)


    Many thanks Mr. Berzuko:

    Your expression works quite well!

    / / /

    Note the addition of the doubled up single quotation marks for delimiters. (Whats the correct term for this?)

    Glad it worked...

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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: Simple pass thru query to Oracle

    Cross post, please answer here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1347483-1044-1.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: Simple pass thru query

    Phunhog (8/20/2012)


    Hello Oracle Forum:

    I've got my first linked server established from SQL Server 2008 SSMS to Oracle.

    What is the proper syntax for this simple query with a date expression 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.

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