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  • RE: Oracle reserved words problem

    rojen83 (1/23/2010)


    Handle Transaction (Rollback/Commit) when applicable. Regards, ... If that's the case, temporary tables will not work. I have tried it for a couple cases

    :blink: either this is spam 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: Difference Between a View and a Stored Procedure

    AndrewSQLDBA (3/30/2010)


    Today one of the guys that I work with asked me the difference between a View and a Sproc. I could not easily answer. I just could not put...

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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: Linked Server to Ctree

    Don't think the Oracle section of the forum is the right place for this question.

    I would consider opening a ticket with FairCom.

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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: Speed difference with or without FK

    endo64 (3/26/2010)


    is it important to query optimizer if there is FK between two tables or not?

    for ex.

    table A (a_id, b_id)

    table B (b_id, value)

    select * from A left (inner) join B...

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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: design - very important

    repent_kog_is_near (3/24/2010)


    Paul,

    Do you have a link for Kimball's star-schema that you refer to, for OLAPs?

    My pleasure... try this one http://www.consolidata.co.uk/Data-Warehousing/What-is-DWH/Star-Schema/default.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: design - very important

    repent_kog_is_near (3/24/2010)


    3NF+ for OLTP and 0 NF for OLAP?

    I wouldn't go that far.

    I'm in agreement about 3NF+ for OLTP - actually I do believe there is nothing you can't solve...

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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: Upgradation sql 7.0 to 2005

    I would start with SQL Server Upgrade Advisor ... check this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144256(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: design - very important

    repent_kog_is_near (3/23/2010)


    I am sure the good logical design (Normalization) is very critical.

    Even when normalization to -at least- the 3NF is critical for an OLTP system allow me to point 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: Peculiar behaviour in SSMS 2005

    Annoying, huh? Doesn't happens to me.

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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 using the LIKE OPERATOR

    ronaldkrex (3/24/2010)


    What do you mean by Upper?

    I mean... use upper() function on both ends of the condition as shows in previous 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: Query using the LIKE OPERATOR

    upper(Name) LIKE upper(@Name) or @Name IS NULL

    also remember to add "%" ... like in: upper(name) like upper('Jerem%')

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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: causes for subscription expiration

    Yes.

    Check here... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151188.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: Selecting Oracle catalog view gives wrong results using Linked Server in SQL Server 2008

    Two troubleshooting suggestions...

    1- What happens if you run view's underlying query from SQL Server?

    2- Would you mind in showing the result of "select instance_name from v$instance;" from both the Oracle...

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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 help

    looks like a text-book case for a pivot query ... bing "sql server pivot"

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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: Setting conditions on an IF Trigger Statements

    George Murphy (3/11/2010)Can you recommend a good script which can auto generate a soultion like yours?

    Problem would probably be compatibility ... I'm pretty sure GSquared's solution generator only runs on...

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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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