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  • RE: How to create user in Oracle 9i

    doug.williams (6/1/2009)(Oracle 9i is still alive and well)

    Actually, Oracle 7 is still alive and well 😀

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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 Performance issue

    vivek (5/30/2009)


    Still waiting for any suggestation.

    Trace the query.

    Compare execution plans, wait events.

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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: Need help with strategy / architecture for searching large dataset

    First the good news...

    Described scenario is a text book case of a single star-schema datamart with a single FACT table in the center surrounded by DIMension tables.

    Now the not so...

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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: Partitioning

    Partitioning is a useful resource if properly done -if not it has the potential of becoming you worst nightmare.

    Partitioning strategy should at least help in one of the cases below:

    1)...

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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: Partitioning

    berto (5/29/2009)Partition1

    tableA_May

    tableB_May

    partiotion2

    tableA_June

    tableB_June

    Hard to follow...

    Do you really want to create partitions using pieces of different tables?

    Imagine TableA and TableB are actually a piece of Genoa Salami and a piece of Pepperoni.

    When...

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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 Tables to a Different Database

    Yes!

    Here is how you do it.

    1- Pre-create the database in your "target" server -so you make all decisions about storage.

    2- Force-restore over the pre-created database -so datafiles go to 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: can I do a SQL "mirror" db backup?

    Look at "log shipping" -that's a SQL Server managed process that would do exactly what you are looking for.

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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: name instances in sql server

    Krasavita (5/28/2009)


    I created instances and I can connect to them locally,but I can connect remotly

    Are you prefixing the named-instance properly?

    Connection string for named instances should look like HOST_NAME\INSTANCE_NAME

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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: FIND THE DATABASE USED

    Are jobs running T-SQL scripts? look at the code, specifically "use" statements.

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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: Inserting data from one database to another

    Brad Allison (5/28/2009)


    I need to create INSERT scripts to get data from one table to another totally different database on a different server. I understand the INSERT INTO statement,...

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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: Quicken up a SQL 2005 to Oracle Query

    If query takes only 4 seconds on Oracle side I would say connectivity is the issue.

    Here is how you can trace Oracle side of the query...

    Set your environment... e.g. ORACLE_HOME...

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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 Tables to a Different Database

    David Benoit (5/28/2009)


    Can you backup to and restore from the external hard drive? If so, that seems like the safest and least painful way of doing this.

    :w00t: flashback!

    Brilliant post!...

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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: Quicken up a SQL 2005 to Oracle Query

    Shall I understand query takes 4 seconds on Oracle but 1 minute 45 seconds to return when over a link?

    How much data does the query returns?

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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: I need your SQL Server expertise again. Identity Columns

    I personally don't like surrogate keys; when possible I prefer to use meaningful -natural keys.

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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 Tables to a Different Database

    I would take a full backup of "source" database,

    move the dump file to an external disk drive,

    ship the external drive to "target" location,

    plug the external disk drive on "target"...

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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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