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  • RE: How could these queries be blocked?

    usman.tanveer (5/6/2009)Here is the scenario. Query 1 is blocking Query 2 and Query 3

    Lets go for the basics... Please show us what makes you think query #1 is blocking queries...

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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: When to think about Disaster Recovery?

    Alvin Ramard (5/6/2009)Keep in mind that a DR plan for development can be completely different from a production DR plan. A development DR plan could be as simple 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: let's have a debate on using numeric data type :-)!

    Front end application code should handle field length at the GUI level.

    In regards to the back end datatypes you may want to take a look at this: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.phpr/2212141/Choosing-SQL-Server-2000-Data-Types.htm

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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: When to think about Disaster Recovery?

    homebrew you have my vote.

    DR must be part of the project's blueprint from day one otherwise how are you planning to get it funded?

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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: Initial Log size: 66631 MB and Growth: 30%

    Is this a reporting database?

    Does it gets fully refresh overnight?

    Is your backup strategy setup on full recovery model?

    If YES, YES, YES... set your backup strategy to simple mode and...

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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: Blanks rows in a table

    Do you really have blank rows in a table or a report is showing blank lines on it?

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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: Transaction Log Truncate Problem

    atoth (5/5/2009)


    Yes sorry, I should have used the word Shrink instead of truncate in my post - the log file wont shrink below 90GB.

    What was the original size of 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: Transaction Log Truncate Problem

    TRUNCATE and SHRINK are two different things.

    TRUNCATE would truncate unused log segments but wouldn't affect TLog size.

    SHRINK would reduce the size of TLog to a size not smaller than it...

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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: Archiving Data

    It all will depend on some metrics...

    How big are your affected tables?

    What's the percentaje of rows affected by each archive & purge process?

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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 set DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_CLIENT_INFO in linked ORACLE server from SQL 2000

    Since an Oracle package is nothing but a collection of storedprocs example next applies, please check this http://blogs.objectsharp.com/cs/blogs/matt/archive/2005/06/13/2221.aspx

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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 create user in Oracle 9i

    Gift Peddie (3/17/2009)


    In the US I have not seen 8i or 9i for development since 2006, you may be talking about admin I am talking about development. The reason...

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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: Maintenance plan error........help me

    abhi4u86 (5/1/2009)


    Hi all,

    Everything is fine in server,All databases are backedUp,Jobs are running fine, but in the morning report i got an error

    "Failed to acquire connection "Local server connection". Connection...

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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: Convert Oracle ctl files to BCP fmt files

    Vijaya Kadiyala (4/10/2009)


    There is no way to convert the SQL Loader control files to BCP format files.

    Why dont you try out SSIS..

    "No way" sounds to me like an unfortunate wording...

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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: Temp tables and table variable analogies in Oracle

    Nilesh (4/29/2009)


    I would like to know what replaces Temporary tables in T SQL Stored Procedures.If I have to write the same stored Procedure in Oracle. Taking into consideration same tables...

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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: Log maintenance on objects

    mmhh... are you talking about version control of system objects?

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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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