Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 2,116 through 2,130 (of 3,060 total)

  • RE: Loading Data From Database to Datawarehouse

    I agree with Grant, if the idea is to "practice" datawarehousing think of this data movement as a whole ETL a.k.a. Extract, Transform & Load - process.

    Remember, datawarehousing has...

    _____________________________________
    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: Cursor - trying to find another method

    I do think using a cursor is the right strategy.

    Post suggest there are a number of secondary processes and tables involved, may be the process is slow because some of...

    _____________________________________
    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: Disable foreign keys

    Krasavita (3/18/2010)


    Thank you very much

    :crying: Is anybody concerned about referential integrity here? I bet whoever set that FK did it for a good reason.

    _____________________________________
    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: Options for dealing with table Contention

    I would start by taking full table scans out of the picture by ensuring there are indexes in place to serve queries and updates.

    I would also create/recreate indexes with a...

    _____________________________________
    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: Physical SQL Server move from one town to another w/SAN Storage.

    I agree with Gregory. This approach should work just fine.

    I assume that when you say "backup everything" you mean you are taking a physical backup of the whole server -...

    _____________________________________
    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: Partitioning: Storage alignment vs. Non-Storage alignment

    Taking into consideration most queries rely on cluster index on client+date - as I can see it partitioning by date will certainly hurt performance during querying.

    As a result of partitioning...

    _____________________________________
    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 Scripts - How to run and get results

    Are you trying to query a table that got dropped?

    By the way, SQL Server does not keeps track of who drops and object but you can be certain was either...

    _____________________________________
    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: Removing duplicates and keeping 1 record with no PK

    I've seen so many "duplicate rows" postings lately that I feel somebody has to tell people Microsoft is not charging a license fee per unique index.

    Once you have a...

    _____________________________________
    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: Transaction Log

    Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)


    BSavoie (1/5/2010)


    If it were called the Transaction Journal...

    ...I would expect to see it published monthly 😀

    you made my day! 😀

    _____________________________________
    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: Modifying Trigger

    Did you went to tables/details pane, right-click the table on which the trigger exists, point to AllTasks, and then click ManageTriggers?

    _____________________________________
    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 Modeling Question

    Pranav Shah-410191 (4/5/2010)


    Thanks guys, this helps me a lot. At least now I know why multiple databases are better than multiple schemas.

    Glad to help

    _____________________________________
    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: Relationship between two tables on different servers, one truncated and the second contains all records.

    allenb-717661 (4/5/2010)


    I see what you are saying and that might work but I'm not sure how to do it.

    Please start by searching for "sliding window" in BOL; there is an...

    _____________________________________
    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: Relationship between two tables on different servers, one truncated and the second contains all records.

    Partitioning may be the answer for this archive and purge scenario.

    Have you considered a sliding window on SERVER1?

    You can send last partition rows to SERVER2 then truncate partition on SERVER1.

    _____________________________________
    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: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)


    including our vendors.

    As a rule of thumbs I think on a new version of a product as the fullfilment of whatever the vendor promised for the...

    _____________________________________
    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: Foreign key constraints...WHY??

    Steve Jones - Editor (4/5/2010)


    I'll stand by my "design w/o RI is poor."

    May I substitute the word poor by the word wrong? 😉

    _____________________________________
    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.

Viewing 15 posts - 2,116 through 2,130 (of 3,060 total)