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  • RE: There is insufficient system memory to run this query

    First check size and utilization of TempDB, lack of TempDB space or lack of free space on the drive TempDB is seating could cause this issue.

    Second, you may have bumped...

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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: No.of data files for TempDB which is in a dedicated drive in a cluster

    Database looks fairly small, are you experiencing TempDB bottleneck?

    The rule of thumbs for databases experiencing TempDB bottleneck is to allocate one tempdb datafile for each core, each datafile in a...

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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: Duplicate Primary Keys - How to Handle ??

    Even if I'm not a big fan of surrogate keys I can understand they come handy from time to time.

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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: Performance with foreign key

    Hans Lindgren (5/12/2009)Remember that for efficient FK use you must index correctly. You can introduce a big performance hit if you do this wrong. Remember inserting into a table makes...

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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: Duplicate Primary Keys - How to Handle ??

    ifila (5/12/2009)I have a situation where i know i am going to have duplicate primary keys ?

    I want to allow duplicate records.

    Your PK definition is wrong; you either allow...

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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 migration

    Oracle Migration Workbench, check documentation here http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/portal.all_books it's free!

    By the way, this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum; since you are interested in a DB2->Oracle migration 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: Should data and log files be on separate physical disks?

    Suresh B. (5/11/2009)


    MDF and LDF files are on same physical disk. I think moving them (to different physical disks) may not improve the performance.

    Your statement contradicts what Microsoft documentation, common...

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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: Restoring a BACKUP FILE to a Database --- Urgently?

    Firstly, your title is Software Engineer so you should be as away as possible from databases and ask a DBA for help when needed.

    Secondly, if you are training yourself 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: Restore a SQL Server 2000 .bak to SQL Server 2005 using SQL Server Management Studio Express

    Please do not restore SS2K database on SS2K5 server; you have to upgrade it.

    Also remember Logins, Jobs, etc. are not part of your "database" so you have to script them...

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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: Error: 602, Severity: 21, State: 30.

    Did you drop and re-create the offending stored procedure?

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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: one to many mandatory participation agreement at both end using MS SQL

    mmhhh... do you mean deferrable integrity constraints?

    Yes, you can do that but a deferrable integrity constraint is nothing but a normal integrity constraint that will wait until you commit 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: "tempdb" size -- 550GB!

    Barkingdog (5/9/2009)Found statement causing the issue.

    Please consider asking the questions below to yourself:

    1- Is this something that was working before and out of the blue started behaving this way?

    2- Did...

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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: Breaking Database in Two

    mithun.gite (3/30/2009)Few of our clients have 4-5 years Data gethered on their dastabse.... Now the database has become very large so it is responding slow for any damn reports execution...

    Let...

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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: Performance with foreign key

    Let me start by saying that I personally love FKs.

    Having said that FKs certainly add overhead to the database engine, that's a fact.

    Looking at your comment below...

    Sanjay (5/8/2009)...large database (maybe...

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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: varchar vs nvarchar - Which is preferred ?

    ifila (5/8/2009)Since space is cheap is it better to use nvarchar and forget about it

    ... depending of the scale that statement might not hold true; imagine you have a 4...

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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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