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  • RE: What SQL Server edition are you using?

    SS2K & SS2K5

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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: SB Counter

    Monitoring Service Broker?

    I would start here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166069(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: Tool for DATA MODELLING

    My money is with ERWin; be sure you get the yourBrain plugin working with 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: Creating a listener to update another database

    Put an index on the flag column, schedule a job to run every other minute then let scheduled job look for the rows that are ready to move... and move...

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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

    Chances are there are 266 matching rows on pymt table, isn't 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: Fastest way to insert data from SQL Server 64 Bit to Oracle

    is Oracle server local or remote?

    how many network hops?

    bandwith?

    latency?

    how complex is the query reading from SQL Server?

    post offending query execution plan.

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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: Partitioning and Foreign Keys

    :blink: now I'm confused.

    If partitioning strategy is not designed to help archiving/purging and at the same time is hurting performance... why partitioning?

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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: Identity_Insert

    Assuming SS2K5 statement below should do the trick...

    select is_identity, count(*) from sys.columns group by sys.columns.is_identity

    0 => Disabled

    1 => Enabled

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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: Creating a listener to update another database

    Two solutions...

    1) Application in database A knows when a row is ready to be "moved" to database B, isn't it?... so, let application in database A connect to database 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: 3rd-party enterprise-level backup tools - Should DBAs still be in charge of backups/restores?

    Marios Philippopoulos (10/2/2009)Why replace the SQL native functionality for backups with a 3rd party tool, especially if you are already using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (which comes with a...

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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 do pros store Critical Employee info in tables?

    ed-1075072 (10/8/2009)


    ... or for all the mentioned fields such as SSN, Salary info?

    all columns you want to protect.

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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: Partitioning and Foreign Keys

    Since your "PartitionTable is partitioned on a non-PK column" your PK could not be clustered. Easy as that.

    If in that scenario a non-clusterd PK proves to have a negative effect...

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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: 3rd-party enterprise-level backup tools - Should DBAs still be in charge of backups/restores?

    EdVassie (9/25/2009)


    If both approaches work 100% of the time then the risks are the same so the focus moves to costs.

    mmmhhh... There is not such a thing as a...

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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 "normal" is normaliization on your production databases?

    David. (9/25/2009)


    For our data acquisition systems, all are at 3rd level normalization.

    Our data warehouse uses the Kimball Star Schema design.

    I'm in full agreement with David's post above.

    In regards...

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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 I can make look like I expert on SQL Server?

    Thank you Gianluca, very kind of you.

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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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