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  • RE: Expanding column length on very large table

    The reason for the delay is datatype conversion from chr() to varchar2()

    If your table is not too large meaning less than 50 million rows or so and you can afford...

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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: what is best option for one main server and 2 sub servers

    ... how about the physical distance in between the sites?

    Any ball-park idea about the size of the databases?... like most likely less than 10 Gig... between 10 to 50 Gig......

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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: tempdb MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size.

    Adam Bean (6/6/2009)


    Of course, I make a post and then a few minutes later fix it ... bah, I'm good.

    Wrong... WE are good 😀

    Just by posting in this forum 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.
  • RE: what is best option for one main server and 2 sub servers

    You are correct, merge replication might be a good option but unreliable network is a major caveat.

    a couple of follow up questions:

    1- What volume of data is expected to be...

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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 Procedures

    rand() solution is not that bad either...

    DECLARE @counter smallint

    SET @counter = 1

    WHILE @counter < 5

    BEGIN

    SELECT (RAND(convert(int,DATEPART(ms, GETDATE())+@counter))*1000000000000000) Random_Number

    ...

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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: what is best option for one main server and 2 sub servers

    That's a business continuity project and just to get a decent scope of work much more information would be needed.

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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: Maximum number of configured locks reached!

    Philip (8/4/2009)


    How to manage this parameter?

    sp_configure

    Philip (8/4/2009)


    Is there anyone out there found any e-books with the details on these parameters and possible solutions?

    BOL

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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 old backup files to a different drive

    Research xp_cmdshell

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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: Which Replication do I need ---

    patrick ryan (7/24/2009)We have a desktop (winforms) application connected to a database in the USA. However, the users in the global location (UK, BRUSSELS) are experiencing slowness with 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: Constraints with multiple values

    SQL Server is doing what you have asked for which is, enforce a unique key constraint.

    You want to define a unique key constraint when you do not want to have...

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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: Having issues with a 6.5 DB in 2005

    Glad it worked out 😉

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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: Having issues with a 6.5 DB in 2005

    What the "6.5 database compatibility level is not supported" message is telling you?

    In a TEST environment you may try this...

    use master

    go

    exec dbo.sp_dbcmptlevel @dbname=N'your65db', @new_cmptlevel=90

    go

    --- do whatever you have to do,...

    _____________________________________
    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: Copy query result issue

    luckysql.kinda (7/31/2009)


    I have executed one query in a remote connection and found good result. This is very important result for me. I want to copy this data to my 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: mdf file increasing rapidly - what are the causes for increasing the mdf file size?

    venu_ksheerasagaram (7/30/2009)


    1) mdf file size depends on what factors?

    2) What are the ways to decrease the mdf file size?

    3) Precautions to take to get rid of increasing the mdf file...

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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 keep Month-End database(s) objects updated to match the Production database

    Got it.

    You are in the right version 😀

    SS2K5 replication by default replicates DDL changes to subscribers so, replication is your answer.

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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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