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  • RE: Insert records that don't exists in the table

    ... how about something like this?

    insert into table2

    select * from table1

    except

    select * from table2

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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: License Pricing

    SanjayAttray (4/23/2009)


    Company IT dept. took the stance that they will go for SQL Server 2008 only in Mid 2010 after Microsoft releases SP2 and then add 6 months to it.

    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: To Determine how many columns matched in a query and getting percentage matched

    Not sure if I follow.

    Are you referring to rows that match the predicate vs. rows that do not match the predicate of a given query?

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    :w00t: ... got it, you are 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: Creating Indexes on every Column of a table..

    The one index per column solution, better saying one bitmap index per dimension key column on fact tables is a fairly accepted, pretty useful solution for Oracle data warehouse environments...

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    Well, that's the problem - poster never asked about instructions or tools to make a conversion. Poster knows how to do it.

    Poster clearly asked if it was possible to 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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    Oh boy; what you say holds true but you have never even attempted to answer the poster's question. 😀 You just keep randombly answering questions you make up in...

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    Okay -this is gonna be my last posting on this matter.

    Let me copy/paste poster's questions...

    1. Is there a way to modify the converted procedures?

    2. Is there way to keep...

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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 Table in SQL Server 2000/2005 in LAN

    Have you created any user tables?

    According to your scenario you just created an empty database.

    ... or perhaps SQL Server got confused because of "defulat" account? 😛

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    I think you may have overlooked the part where poster says: Is there a way to modify the converted procedures?

    In my book that means poster has two versions of...

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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: deleting backup files

    Your backup logic should look like:

    Step #1

    Take Backup

    On success go to Step #2

    On failure send alert and abort!

    Step #2

    Delete old backup files...

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    Gift Peddie (4/20/2009)


    Could you please elaborate about how Ora10g PL/SQL is more easy to integrate -or move to SQL Server 2005 than Ora9i PL/SQL code?

    That depends on the platform...

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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: Failed Login

    Has the user recently changed his/her password?

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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: Converted procedures from ssma for Oracle

    Gift Peddie (4/15/2009)


    It will be easier to move the application to 10g RC2 and then to 2005 because both are easy to integrate with limited issues, while 9i will require...

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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: Truncate/Delete

    yulichka (4/13/2009)


    For the server what is better to use delete or truncate. I know truncate (deletes data faster) and delete slower, but for the performance what is better?

    :w00t:

    With all due...

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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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