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  • RE: Table Comaprision

    do you need to compare every single column or a subset of them like pk would do the trick?

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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: Backup Database Structure Only

    sql_dump may be what you are looking for, take a look here http://www.wisdombay.com/downs/sqldump.php

    it works pretty much the same way Oracle's "export rows=n" would do.

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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: Multi Company DataBase

    :blink: Let me ask just one question... how are you planing to proceed when one of the customers ask you to restore the database lets say... as it was yesterday...

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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: PL/SQL procedure exception handler.

    If an exception happens during storedproc XYZ execution it will abend with an unhandled exception.

    I would suggest to research exception propagation

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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 Migration Assistant

    ... and the error is?

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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: Bad Locks or good Locks

    Locks are at the foundation of RDBMS.

    Blocking locks are bad.

    Check wait events.

    This note may be of help http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/sql-server-wait-events-taking-the-guesswork-out-of-performance-profiling/

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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: Creating a Compatibility Product Table

    nalmir.hugo (6/14/2009)Is common to have data from these two tables (products+competitors) merged in a single product table?

    :w00t: Nope.

    The list of your-company's-products is one entity.

    The list of your-competitor's-products is another entity....

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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: Creating a Compatibility Product Table

    Nicely done John -good to know we still have good data modelers out there; I've nothing else to add.

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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: Binary Data Conversion

    Oracle RAW datatype?

    :w00t: If I remember correctly RAW got deprecated after Oracle 7.3.4 just before the Permian Extinction -on Ora8i systems forward it should have been replaced by...

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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.

    M P (6/11/2009)


    http://www.sswug.org

    Sorry... that one doesn't follow Tim & dmbaker's standards 😀

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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: Multiple copies of database

    three production copies?... all in the same server?

    Do all of them hold the same data?

    How do users choose to which database connect?

    Are you kidding? 😀

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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 the equivalent to Yes/No data type in SQL?

    Grant Fritchey (6/4/2009)A little more flexibility than bit, but then it has a little more flexibility than bit.

    not sure if this is a circular reference or quantum-logic 😀

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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: Setting up a reporting database to ease the load of production db using replication

    Let me check my understanding of the described scenario.

    There is an OLTP database happily living in a cluster which for the purpose of this exercise I would call system-a.

    So, 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: A great site like this - but for ORACLE.

    dmw (6/4/2009)


    metalink.oracle.com seems to be available only if you have an ORACLE support contract.

    You are correct, Metalink is available only to licensed users.

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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: Number of Characters

    Dugi (6/3/2009)I know it will boom the performance

    Oh yes... lenght() function would ensure you do Full Table Scan on the target table plus adding the overhead of a function call...

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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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