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  • RE: DateTime Field Search In Table

    Just a couple of questions...

    - how many rows are stored on DATE_SAMPLE table?

    - how many rows is supposed to retrieve a tipical query on SAMPLE_DATE column?

    - Are queries range-filtering 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.
  • RE: Why experienced DBA try to embraces to younger DBAs in interviews?

    baghel_ramdas (1/15/2010)


    ...now I understand who can evaluate a DBA?

    My answer is - only experienced DBA can.

    :blink: Was this a surprise?

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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: search entire db

    Francisco Rosado (1/11/2010)


    i want to search a word infor in the entire db

    Do you realize this business requirement does not makes any sense?

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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: Any suggestions other than distinct

    nuno.luz (1/15/2010)


    Nome - IMEI - Empresa - Pontos

    Vania...

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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: SSMA for Oracle didn't show all the schemas

    It's never a good idea to connect to Oracle using either SYS or SYSTEM account just to select from some tables.

    Ask your Oracle DBA to create an account for migration...

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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: oracle to oracle etl using SSIS

    stewartc-708166 (12/28/2009)


    If the ETL is a simple data feed, then oracle can do that without any challenges using PL/SQL.

    However, for large volumes and/or complex transformations (e.g. check for existence,...

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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: oracle to oracle etl using SSIS

    bodhilove (1/13/2009)


    ... you can do an etl between 2 oracle databases using SSIS SQL 2008.

    why would you want to add SS overhead to ETL process?

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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 2008 to Oracle Performance

    In my experience is always better "to pull" rather than "to push" data in between environments.

    Having said that, if the business requirements ask to move data from SQL Server 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: Oracle to SQL replicaton - entire DB or one table

    You can replicate a single table if you want - even a subset of a single 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: Where can we use SUB QUERY and JOIN?

    Chris Morris-439714 (12/7/2009)


    This is similar to expressing doubt regarding the appropriate use of wheels and wings on an aircraft!

    😀 You made my day -- best part is, you are...

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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: Define A Conditional Forigion Key

    :pinch: that's too confusing, I could understand neither the scenario nor the question.

    Could you clarify? pretty please?

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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: DB getting large because of the varbinary. Possible actions...

    zaebis 88446 (11/17/2009)


    I am concerned about infinite expantion of my DB.

    How about a purge strategy?

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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: Datatype for IP addresses

    Melissa.Fischer (10/14/2008)


    Depending on what datatype you use the exclusion of address ranges can get tricky.

    :blink: why? anything is cast(able)

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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: Some good tips on projecting database growth?

    I just love questions that include the answer.

    As stated uou already have the volume metrics, trust the data 😉

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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: Need help with conversion -- string conversion

    SQL_Quest-825434 (12/5/2009)


    I know that this can be done by using string functions in SSIS.

    ... not really.

    Why not relly on concatenate? you know: +

    _____________________________________
    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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