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  • RE: Foreign Key to a Foreign Key

    oh boy 😀

    1- the statement that reads "only managers can manage a department" does not holds true in the real world. In the real world you are going 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: SQL query timeout on Oracle

    Welcome to the Oracle world... there is not such a thing as Temp DB in Oracle but we do have Temp tablespaces sitting on the same Oracle instance.

    In regards 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: Normalization

    oh yes! very interesting indeed.

    I found the article as interesting as the theory that Grand Cannyon was an alien mining operation is 😀 which everybody knows is true,...

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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: Foreign Key to a Foreign Key

    David Portas (1/20/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/20/2010)


    When I say 1-1 relationship I'm not saying 1-0/1; I'm saying 1-1 and I insist that a 1-1 relationship most certainly means something is deadly wrong.

    What 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: Conversion failed when converting data and/or time from character string

    Too litle and vague information to support any serious advise.

    What does your DBA says about 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: Foreign Key to a Foreign Key

    David Portas (1/20/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/19/2010)


    1) A design that ends up with two or more tables having a 1-1 relationship most of the time means something is wrong.

    Why?

    It is true that such...

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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 query timeout on Oracle

    ORA-01652 does not signals timeout but the inability to extend a temporary segment a.k.a. tablespace full 🙂

    Oracle error stack is certainly pointing to affected tablespace, it could be either...

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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: HELP me please ....

    Yes I have a backup

    Question is... which recovery model is in place?

    Is it Full or Bulk-logged?... in the affirmative case Lynn's suggestion e.g. taking a tail-log backup - would...

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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: Remove Trailing Zeros from Numeric(19,8) datatype

    Yes, cast() 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: Strategic Advice for Unique Requirement

    May I ask what is the rationale behind such a consolidation project?

    The most active/queried to-be-consolidated table represents less than 10% of total data volume... why would somebody add to this...

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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: DWH Fact / Dimension Desgn Question

    A dimension table should describe a single attribute in a fact table - is this the case?

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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: Foreign Key to a Foreign Key

    Two thoughts...

    1) A design that ends up with two or more tables having a 1-1 relationship most of the time means something is wrong.

    2) No physical design should include n-n...

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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: Database Design and Search Query help

    This is home work, isn't it? - nothing wrong about that.

    If you really want to get a grasp of it do this...

    Entity-Relationships

    - Identify your entities - draw it!

    - Identify...

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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: Low performance on SQL Server 2008 Std 64 bit and Windows 2008 Server R2

    I would start by gathering fresh performance statistics on affected tables and indexes ... it is not unseen that new RDBMS engines does not like performance stats gathered with previous...

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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: DateTime Field Search In Table

    amitabhssinha (1/19/2010)


    Your suggestion please.

    My suggestion would be... please answer my questions 😀

    Here they are...

    - how many rows are stored on DATE_SAMPLE table?

    - how many rows is supposed to retrieve...

    _____________________________________
    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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