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  • RE: GUID or Int is the best for primary key columns?

    Paul White (9/14/2009)


    Oh no you di'int!!!

    told you, I was going to spice it a little 😀

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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: GUID or Int is the best for primary key columns?

    Awesome, nice discussion.

    Still amazes me how discussions go from point A to point Z, how this one went from the original "GUID or Int is the best for primary key...

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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: Intricate Database Design for a Family Tree--Help?

    I'm in agreement with Paul W that

    There are many ways to implement this

    but... only one way would be elegant and efficient at the same time 😉 ...

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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 (4/6/2009)How important is it for DBAs to stay in control of database backups/restores, even if the tools used are third-party tools that do system-level backups?

    Rule #33 says DBA...

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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: Databse structure for high performance

    chandio11 (9/13/2009)We are developing web application which will serve 1000K users simultaneously.

    Shall we understand "1000K users simultaneously" as in one million concurrent requests to the database?

    If yes... call Microsoft and...

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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: Intricate Database Design for a Family Tree--Help?

    Mark (9/12/2009)


    The problem I'm having is the reciprocity back to the sister/brothers. How can I design a database where there are connections between sister and brothers without 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: equivalent for rownum

    Mazharuddin Ehsan (9/11/2009)


    Let us say I have a flat file containg rows of data and I want to uplaod the file to a database table with an additional column comprising...

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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: equivalent for rownum

    I'm giving up :doze:

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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: Moving Databases

    sqlbuddy123 (9/9/2009)


    But I couldn't move the distribution data and log files onto these data and log drives.

    Question is... why? what's preventing you from moving the files?

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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: equivalent for rownum

    Mazharuddin Ehsan (9/9/2009)


    PaulB (9/9/2009)

    Please note that it doesn't work as OP expected to work in Oracle

    It is for the OP to tell us what he intends to do with...

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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: equivalent for rownum

    Mazharuddin Ehsan (9/9/2009)


    In this specific case OP was relying on rownum to get "ordered" rows from a table which would never happen.

    Here is one way to make it happen in...

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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: Putting all your data in one column of one table

    Michael Valentine Jones (9/8/2009)


    You should have suggested simplifying the design further by storing all the data in a single row and column of a single table. Obviously, XML 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: Constraints with multiple values

    jimk (9/9/2009)


    Kinda like when you get a flat tire and the shop doesn't have a tire that fits. You can either wait around for a week while they order 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: Cursor invalidated during parallel execution

    kienway (5/26/2009)


    I have checked with all the nested view and the status is valid during that time.

    Error message says the "cursor" is getting invalidated, not any of the underlying objects.

    Try...

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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 SERVER SP to ORACLE

    You can always try Oracle Migration Workbench but the naked truth is most of the time you would have to rewrite the procedure from scratch. Read the SQL Server version,...

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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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