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  • RE: Potential Production issue

    Not totally sure why you are "suspicious" of that reindexing job; perhaps you have some information you haven't shared yet?

    Could you please post space usage as follows?...

    Data space

    -- Data

    -- Indexes

    --...

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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: Which Oracle Client features are needed?

    I would do a standard Oracle client installation.

    Trying to trim the client software looks to me like a attempt to get into troubles.

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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: DB Design

    vyas (11/4/2008)


    So I would like to know no of tables and table structures,fk,pk and table relations to be created for this db design.

    mmmhhh...

    On one hand please note I volunteer...

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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: DB Design

    vyas (11/4/2008)


    Yup there will not be any OLTP and DSS.

    If this is the case I suppose you would be concerned about indexing and searching; are you sure a search appliance...

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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: DB Design

    vyas (11/4/2008)


    I am planning for New Database Design. The major scope of this project is storing and viewing the documents of the clients. I will like to have your...

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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 list Oracle database backup details?

    You are talking about three very different things, they are not remotely compatible.

    Export -which is not technically a backup would generate a dump file; you are free to see what's...

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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 list Oracle database backup details?

    Lets go step by step here.

    1- Export. Since you cannot recover a database from an export dump, export is not considered a backup. Either way export would write a log...

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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: Multiple instances or many databases

    You may want to have more than one instance in a box when:

    1- You are planing to have different setups in each one

    Benefits...

    ...independent setups may benefit when you have two...

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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: FACT Tables - Can you have NULLS in any of the foreign key rows

    Why don't you test it?

    Look...

    USE pubs

    go

    CREATE TABLE dbo.master_table

    (

    mykey numeric(5) NOT NULL,

    mydata varchar(10) NULL

    )

    go

    CREATE TABLE dbo.variable_table

    (

    ...

    _____________________________________
    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: Query data with manipulation

    Yes. There are probably more than a couple of ways of doing it, let me share with you the good-n-old pivot table way; not doing your job but here is...

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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 filter a Dimension on the base of other Dimension

    Something is wrong in your scenario.

    Dimensions are supposed to describe Factual attributes so you shouldn't be doing a query in Dimensions alone.

    Usually you query Factual tables while using related Dimensions...

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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: FACT Tables - Can you have NULLS in any of the foreign key rows

    In a Data Warehouse environment you define FKs just to let the system know there is a relationship but normally you disable them.

    The idea is ... you want...

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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: Query to convert rows in to column with out using function/procedure

    ...are you asking a DB2 question in the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?

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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: Unable to shrink temdb having lot of unallocated space internally

    Makarand Mohandas (10/30/2008)

    If your tempdb wants to get to that size let it infact give it more space.

    ...or revise you application, there is a reason why TempDB grows that way...

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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: Looking for a slow query... yes slow

    my choice would be a Full Table Scan in your larger table, then pack the predicate with as many inline views as you can, all of them doing Full Table...

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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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