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  • RE: MSDAORA, Linked Server, OraOLEDB.Oracle

    :w00t: wow! Thank you for sharing. Very good catch, congrats.

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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: Oracle Connectivity

    sqlbuddy123 (7/10/2009)


    your detailed reply

    And the credit goes to... Oracle's oerr utility 😉

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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: Calling SS2K5 Stored Proc From Oracle

    Yes you can.

    All you need is Oracle's Transparent Gateway for Microsoft SQL Server and some time to read and test. 🙂

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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: Oracle Connectivity

    12154, 00000, "TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified"

    // *Cause: A connection to a database or other service was requested using

    // a connect identifier, and the connect identifier specified...

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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: Index is not been used by the query.

    May it's better not to use such index

    What's the size of the offending table?

    What kind of process against the offending table? e.g. scan or lookup?

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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 recover my user database if LDF is lost?

    mahesh.vsp (7/7/2009)In a similar way what i tried was, created a database "testdb" inserted 100 rows and stop my sql server , deleted the .ldf of "testdb" and restarted 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: A great site like this - but for ORACLE.

    Michael Meierruth (7/7/2009)


    There is also a charge to sign up to MetaLink via an Oracle support identifier. This is starting to get expensive.

    :pinch: If you have a licensed Oracle...

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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: Insert data into table

    May I ask why are you using surrogate keys instead of natural keys?

    Having the opportunity of seeing the original data wouldn't hurt either.

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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 there any way to delete records withouta dropping FKs

    molson (7/6/2009)


    I'm shocked and appalled some people have a total disregard for Referential Integrity.

    Sometimes a DBA's gotta do what a DBA's gotta do...

    :blink: do you mean... trash referential integrity? 😀

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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: Design Question

    Most of the answer depends of the kind of reporting business is asking for.

    A broad answer for the posted -broad - question would be: a table with indexes designed 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: Is there any way to delete records withouta dropping FKs

    suresh0123456789 (7/1/2009)Is there any way to delete records without dropping FKs

    Yes, doing it the right way -please refer to Gail's post.

    I'm shocked and appalled some people have a total disregard...

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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: precautions to be taken

    s007reddy (7/2/2009)


    When you move Dev database to PROD server ....

    Lovely 😀

    Post pretty much rubber stamps a big approval on this; that's wrong -it might lead inexperienced people to believe this...

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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: DATA CENTER Relocation

    Can you afford a down time?

    1- Pre create all databases in new location.

    2- Take a final full backup and put it on an external disk drive

    3- Ship the external disk...

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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: precautions to be taken

    ramyours2003 (7/2/2009)


    what precautions to be taken while restoring the database from development to production?

    :w00t: A signed job offer letter from other employer would easy the pain. 😀

    Is the 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: ABCD... of Oracle

    There are three ways to get started, they are: formal training, self training and on-the-job training.

    1) Formal training, you know what I mean.

    2) Go to http://www.oracle.com, download Oracle sofware, install...

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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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