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  • RE: import data problem in SQL server 2008

    Do not use export/import wizard, script your data load - first do your parent tables then your child tables as defined by Referential Integrity constraints.

    An alternative would be to disable...

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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: Concurrency question

    leesider (7/23/2012)


    I have a Windows service that I want to install on two separate machines. There is a loop in it that checks a table every 30 seconds. If I...

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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: Best way to deal with millions of very short rows?

    Not need to even worry about the total number of rows stored across all your tables, performance is a function of the tables included in a particular query, the quality...

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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: Tracking server changes

    wanox (7/19/2012)


    What can i use to track changes made st server level

    Do you mean, 'server' as in the physical server? as in platform including O/S? as in platform including O/S...

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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: import data problem in SQL server 2008

    ali.mahmoud.habib (7/22/2012)


    I want to import data from one database to another , the destination I don't have permission to resotre a backup file to it, so I have only one...

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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: Staging Incremental Methodology - Flag Record as an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE to the Data Warehouse Table

    Jeff Moden (7/21/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (7/21/2012)


    Welsh Corgi (7/21/2012)


    Whan I said flag them as inactive I dod not mean to store an "Inactive Flag", I mean to indicate that they were inactive as...

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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: Staging Incremental Methodology - Flag Record as an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE to the Data Warehouse Table

    Welsh Corgi (7/21/2012)


    Whan I said flag them as inactive I dod not mean to store an "Inactive Flag", I mean to indicate that they were inactive as a particular Date,...

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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: Staging Incremental Methodology - Flag Record as an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE to the Data Warehouse Table

    Welsh Corgi (7/21/2012)


    I totally agree and understand that you do not want to delete records but flag them as inactive.

    In general the inactive flag is not enough because it doesn't...

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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: Table Partitioning

    lokeshvij (7/20/2012)


    the real challenge here is to define range function. As mentioned above if I assign a status range from A to C to Partition 1, then how could I...

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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 am a newbie . help me to learn sql server

    Build you own lab a.k.a. install SQL Server on your home computer then go to Books Online a.k.a. BOL (installed alongside SQL Server) and read the chapter about architecture.

    After that,...

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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: TCP/IP

    krishnasoft43 (7/21/2012)


    WHAT IS THE TCP/IP ADDRESS IN SQL SERVER 2008 AND HOW TO CHANGE THAT ONE.

    hey hey... no need to be that loud! 😀

    I assume you are asking for 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: Staging Incremental Methodology - Flag Record as an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE to the Data Warehouse Table

    richykong (7/20/2012)


    ...I used the MERGE statement and DELETE statements to handle all my ETL...

    I do agree on the MERGE statement but I do not on the use of DELETE -...

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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: BYTE in Oracle VARCHAR2 Column definition

    Welsh Corgi (7/2/2012)


    I'm creating Staging Tables in SQL Server and I was wondering what does a VARCHAR2(100 BYTE) or VARCHAR2(15 BYTE), etc translate to in SQL Server?

    Ora11g allows 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: Data model changes for Multi Tenant datawarehouse

    I'm sorry I'm not in agreement with the approach.

    Provided each tenant actually owns its own data warehouse I wouldn't put all of them together in a single database - I...

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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: Many to Many RelationShip with type 2 SCD's on both sides

    GRUNNINGER (7/3/2012)


    ... we have multiple products from multiple suppliers (Many to Many relationship)...

    Break the many-to-many relationship - add a bridge table.

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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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