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  • RE: Picking up Oracle development skills

    jgrubb (2/9/2009)


    ... but aggregates and functions are different.

    Not to mention Triggers, Cursors, Partitioning and stuff that does not exist in the SQL Server world like bitmap indexes, star-transformation, materialized...

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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: Interview questions plz any one reply me

    Let me help you with a couple of them...

    1. While instalation i am getting one error "restart ur system and install again" ?

    Server liked the process that much it wants...

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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: Picking up Oracle development skills

    Oracle documentation is clear, comprehensive and FREE!... check here http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.all_books

    If you have Transact-SQL skills please take into consideration things are not that straighforward in the Oracle side, SQL and PL/SQL...

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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: %1 Error Message

    :w00t: never got that one. What do you see before and after that error message?

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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: /3GB swith with SQL2005 SE

    SQL Server lock resources have nothing to do with how much memory you have in the box.

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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 become sql server dba

    1- Take Microsoft training

    2- Get certified

    3- Get a job as Transact-SQL developer

    4- Get an entry level job as SQL Server DBA

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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: Enabling 12GB on SS2005 Standard/Windows Server 2003 Ent.

    You should be Okay.

    SQL Server standard edition can use as much memory as O/S maximun and dynamic AWE support is also available (1).

    (1) http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/enterprise-compare-editions.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: Statistics/indexes question

    shri_sastry (2/6/2009)


    Ramesh,

    Thanks for the script, how do I know when was the last time the indexes were rebuilt/reorganized. I am trying to come up with...

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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: Online Re-Index

    David got it covered but I would like to add my two cents.

    If you are working in a maintenance window -which means users are not there to bother 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: Indexes

    Script just processes any index which avg_fragmentation_in_percent is greater than 10%, isn't it?

    Question here is... Why?

    Those scripts and policies are good for small size databases, not for a 900 Gig...

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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: ROLLBACK Transaction

    It looks to me your transaction got commited.

    How about point-in-time recovery?

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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: defrag tool on MDF and LDF files?

    No.

    No.

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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 rebuild efficiency - viaBCP

    LAW1143 (2/3/2009)


    we are in desperate need of purging as well.

    The objective is to only rebuild the indices on the data we plan to retain.

    we have ~5 years of transactional...

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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 rebuild efficiency - viaBCP

    I'm a little confused because your post first states rebuilding indexes would be impractical because of their size then you are entertaining the idea of bcp-out/bcp-in the whole table which...

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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: Reclaim Unused Space in a Table

    Jonathan Kehayias (2/3/2009)


    PaulB elludes to this but doesn't actually make the point clear.

    :w00t: mmhhh... I wasn't avoiding -elluding?- the issue and I think my proposed solution is spot on;...

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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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