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  • 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...

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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 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

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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 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...

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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: 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...

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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: 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...

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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: 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...

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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: 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...

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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: 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....

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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: 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,...

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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: 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...

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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: 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.

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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: 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...

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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: Where should the DBA Team exist?

    :w00t:

    CIO

    |___ PMO

    |

    |___ Infrastructure

    | |

    | ...

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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: Copy Loggins, jobs, store procedures

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

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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: Primary Key

    GilaMonster (10/11/2008)


    PaulB (10/11/2008)


    you know for a fact uniqueness is enforced on the source dataset

    I wish all the source data that I had to work with was as clean...

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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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