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  • RE: Need some DBA instruction

    Vijaya Kadiyala (1/8/2009)


    There are no big difference between 9.2 and 9i.

    Well... there is a reason for it, Oracle 9.2.* is nothing but Oracle 9i ... so you may expect 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: Linked Server with Oracle Database

    Glad it worked out 😉

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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: Sql Server Consolidation

    First thing for you to do is to understand what is management asking you to do.

    My wild guess is that you have several SQL Server boxes in your shop 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: Linked Server with Oracle Database

    Some people has fixed the issue by unchecking the "Allow inprocess" option

    On SQL Server Management Studio

    Server Objects --> Linked Servers --> Providers --> MSDAORA, right click select properties

    It wouldn'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: Oracle to SQL Server migration from an Oracle perspective

    You are more than welcome David.

    I would suggest to go back to management with a report showing a honest estimate of effort and even proposing to do a pilot by...

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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 to SQL Server migration from an Oracle perspective

    Your two primary sources of info for SQL Server are: 1) Books Online -which comes on sQL Server media and, 2) Microsoft Knowledge base -which is free at http://support.microsoft.com/ph/2855

    Your post...

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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 could not shrink log file

    thinknight (1/5/2009)I try to shrink log file to 10 GB

    How big was your Log at creation 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: Prduction DBA

    You have to ensure your databases are available, reliable, and recoverable and their performance meets SLA.

    Always remember this: DBA owns the structure but never ever the data.

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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: need a simple query

    Paresh Prajapati (1/5/2009)select t1.A,t1.B,t1.C,t2.D

    from table1 t1 inner join table2 t2 on (t1.A=t2.A)

    You may want to test your code, unfortunatelly it doesn't work.

    I think it will be better to wait...

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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 grows fast

    iqtedar (1/4/2009)


    ok ..i will ask him to do...so then what would be the default size of the log file...thanks..

    :w00t: It looks to me that you are planning to fix 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: How do you reindex a very large database?

    DBADave (1/4/2009)What else can be done to spped things up?

    I would work in fine tunning the application focusing on the most used 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: Transaction log grows fast

    iqtedar (1/3/2009)...one of the developers told me that he created a db with 270Gb assisgned to log file.

    Firstly, the root cause of the issue is having allowed a developer 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: Transaction log growth with no db activity

    Paresh Prajapati (1/1/2009)5. Monitor TempDB size. If it growth more , then move tempdb to individual disk.

    Could you please elaborate on the rationale of the above recommendation?

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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 getting fragmented very frequently

    What's the Fill Factor for these offending indexes?

    Either way, you may want to check the next note about how to defrag SharePoint indexes, here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345

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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 Practice for Intranet DB

    Chris Harshman (1/2/2009)


    PaulB (12/31/2008)


    Nice. I'm pretty sure your SOX auditors are loving it, isn't it?

    Well, as I've stated previously I'm not really a .Net person, more a database person, so...

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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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