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  • RE: equivalent for rownum

    Paul White (9/8/2009)


    Thanks for posting such a super-helpful and detailed reply though - well done sir.

    Just to make it clear, rownum does not exist in real world, it's a pseudo-column....

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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

    Paul White (9/8/2009)


    If ROWNUM in Oracle returns rows ordered by the internal row identifier

    ...actually, it doesn't.

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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: Schema Separation vs. Partitioning

    tgarland (8/31/2009)


    I am looking at multi-tenant because I am going to have multiple companies accessing the database and only their information along with the global tables.

    Just out of...

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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: Stored procedure grouping

    bitbucket (9/7/2009)


    You may want to examine the grouping of your stored procedures using this group of create statements.

    CREATE PROCEDURE my_Proc_Name;1

    AS

    SELECT some column from some table

    GO

    CREATE PROCEDURE my_Proc_Name;2

    AS

    SELECT some other...

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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

    newbieuser (9/8/2009)


    I do 'select rownum from table' in oracle to select rows ordered by rownum.

    :w00t: No, you don't.

    In the Oracle world rownum is a pseudo-column, Oracle assigns -to rownum- 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: Restore Master database next to other Master database

    Since system databases cannot be moved I don't see this happening.

    When going for solution suggested in previous post please be aware a system database can only be restored in 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: !! Online SQL Server ??

    Silverfox (9/7/2009)


    if you are serious about learning, I would suggest you get a cheap laptop or netbook and do it that way.

    I second this motion.

    The alternative is for you 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: How to get new tables to point to new data file

    jymoorthy (9/7/2009)


    In case, if you have created the new file in the same file group (PRIMARY), then you may stop the grow option on the old file and enable grow...

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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: Budget Money to Spend

    John Rowan (9/2/2009)


    My manager approached me late today and told me that we have roughly 200 k in our budget for hardware and software licenses and upgrades for this year....

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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: Designing a Process to Load data from AS400 to Oracle using SSIS

    Why is SQL Server part of this picture?

    The most efficient way would be for Oracle side to pull data from AS400 in a single step.

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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: Stored procedure grouping

    Naming convention. Documentation.

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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: Filtering database question

    liuc (9/2/2009)


    Which is the "best practice" in these cases?

    Put "Design" as step #1 of project life cycle, not as last step.

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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.welcome (5/9/2008)


    This is not a joke.

    I have my doubts this was not a joke.

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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 speed and server memory

    lallen (9/3/2009)


    I've been having an issue with query speed that our IT dept can not solve.

    I ran a simple query (select count(*) from table), and the query took over 8...

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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: Importing of data from Oracle to sqlserver taking 6hrs

    how long a comparable size FTP takes in between the two servers?

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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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