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  • RE: Moving tables to filegroup didn't change PRIMARY size

    Any particular reason why you expected it to shrink?

    Have you set your database to autoshrink?

    On the other hand, it will never shrink to a size smaller than the original allocation...

  • RE: Primary Key

    That's the beauty of it Robert, that's why ice cream comes in dozens of flavors 😀

    In regards to your position about relational theory, best practices and staging tables being as...

  • RE: SQL server dynamic select for insert to Oracle

    Open Management Studio, New Query...

    use your_database

    go

    execute your query

    Right-click on result grid... Save as

  • RE: db is unicode?

    Just to clarify the point, you still have to choose a Collation -Page Code - for your non-Unicode data.

    The Collation you choose does not affects data stored in Unicode datatypes...

  • RE: BI DBA

    :doze:

    Gents... poster just asked for a list or questions, unfortunately poster ignored wildh follow-up question which was spot-on. The answer -to wildh - would actually define how to answer the...

  • RE: Primary Key

    GilaMonster (10/12/2008)


    Audit tables I probably would put a pk onto. Probably just an int identity, but I would want something there to uniquely identify a row. Especially if auditors want...

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    Mike (10/11/2008)


    Isn't that too many direct reports to the CIO? I assume that the "n" means many application teams...Even if there's only one application team, that's still 7 direct...

  • RE: Primary Key

    By the way... may I point at another -less sensitive - kind of tables doesn't make sense at all to have a PK?

    How about Monitoring, Auditing and Error logs?

    Either if...

  • RE: Primary Key

    Jeff Moden (10/11/2008)


    Heh... and by the way... this...

    T - you do whatever transformation or massaging is needed...

    ... sometimes means deleting duplicated data. 😉

    Nope. We do not delete on Staging. Period....

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    Jeff Moden (10/11/2008)Nope... for a decent size company, that's about what I'd expect except it might be missing the "Project Management" layer.

    For some of the small companies I've worked for,...

  • RE: Primary Key

    GilaMonster (10/11/2008)I don't see why I would want to fail the entire load if I know there's dups in the source data that, for whatever reason, cannot be removed from...

  • RE: Primary Key

    Gail -- you are not reading my posting, let me quote myself once again 🙂

    L - you attempt to populated FACT and DIM tables -reporting failures.

  • RE: Primary Key

    Jeff Moden (10/11/2008)I'll add an IDENTITY column as PK even on staging tables. Being stuck in the world of SQL Server 2000 means I don't have slick tools line...

  • RE: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    :w00t:

    CIO

    |___ PMO

    |

    |___ Infrastructure

    | |

    | ...

  • RE: Copy Loggins, jobs, store procedures

    Just script them as Greg said in reply #1!!! :crazy:

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