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  • RE: Receive Data from Oracle Internet Directory

    Tis (8/2/2012)


    ... tried to query by LDAP. But it does not work.

    Would you mind in defining "does not work"?

    OID is supported by an Oracle database therefore a SQL Server side...

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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: Cubes without A Data Warehouse?

    I remember developers creating Cognos cubes out of a relational database so the answer would be yes, it is possible.

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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 Redesign

    So... reading your detailed defense of your case, you are not suggesting to do Gap Analysis - which is what I do suggest to do, init?

    I have to rest my...

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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 Redesign

    GSquared (7/26/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (7/26/2012)


    Lucky9 (7/26/2012)


    I have to redesign the database based on the new business requirements

    Could someone please help me with the steps that needs to be followed

    when redesigning 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: Database Redesign

    Lucky9 (7/26/2012)


    I have to redesign the database based on the new business requirements

    Could someone please help me with the steps that needs to be followed

    when redesigning a database.

    Either the...

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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: Is Replication correct in this situation ?

    Let me test my understanding of this...

    a) Portal is a read-only subset of tables from each database

    b) Intake will support an OLTP system

    c) Phisical locations appear to be pretty close...

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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 join 3 tables

    As stated count is correct but not the one you are looking for, in that case fix would bt to filter out the unwanted JVM or just divide the result...

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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: Is Replication correct in this situation ?

    Couple of questions to better understand the scenario...

    1- Why two databases e.g. intake and portal? when it appears like one would do the trick?

    2- Intake will act as a source...

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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" data for 1 customer in a multi-customer database

    SQLKnowItAll (7/26/2012)


    However... I could maybe put each customer into their own schema? and build those schemas on their own filegroups? Hmm... Just thinking out loud.

    Why don't you push your...

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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" data for 1 customer in a multi-customer database

    SQLKnowItAll (7/26/2012)


    1. Std. Ed.

    Do poor's-man partitioning, a table by customer exposing the bunch as a view joining all of them.

    SQLKnowItAll (7/26/2012)


    2. Partitioning on customer means that the customer id has...

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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: Generate sql script of a table schema in SQL 2000 through script

    You can get the base data needed to create your table from "sp_help table_name".

    Data can be loaded into a cursor then a script can be built on-the-fly by adding the...

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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" data for 1 customer in a multi-customer database

    SQLKnowItAll (7/26/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (7/26/2012)


    As far as I understand it MongoDB is a non-sql, documents oriented database engine.

    In terms of restoring a subset of the database I would start by backing up...

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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" data for 1 customer in a multi-customer database

    As far as I understand it MongoDB is a non-sql, documents oriented database engine.

    In terms of restoring a subset of the database I would start by backing up subsets of...

    _____________________________________
    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: Deploying Adhoc reporting over a complicated structure

    Usually Adhoc reporting is allowed against a Data Warehouse not against an OLTP system - is this an OLTP system, init?

    Allowing adhoc reporting against this structure might cripple the system...

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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: Field Sizes in Staging database : all varchar(2000)?

    devereauxj (4/13/2012)


    the IT Manager wants to use varchar2(2000) for all fields in all tables...

    ...Manager's idea is to make sure we capture the data in staging exactly like it is 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.

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