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  • RE: Joining the darkside

    http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=20

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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: IO request taking longer than 15 seconds

    may be something is wrong with your X: drive, is that the only phisical drive reporting the issue?

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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: Nested sql agent jobs?

    that's a shame, a package could easily call your eight parallel processes.

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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 relationship

    do you mean... referential integrity?

    Look for FKs, the easiest way for you is to ask SQL Server to draw a chart based on your offending 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.
  • RE: Archiving Data

    nabil nejat (9/16/2008)


    its a databse with 5 tables , i want archive 2 or 3 years old data in to another database.

    Cool!... just write a procedure and do it. ...

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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: Archiving Data

    It all depends of what you mean by "archiving".

    You can certainly achive several different "archiving" strategies like...

    - Have archiving partitions in your tables

    - Have archiving tables in your database

    - Have...

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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: moving logins from one server to another

    Yes.

    You can script the logins on source server then apply script on target server.

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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: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 version difference

    In regards to your question you may want to check this document... http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/enterprise/comparison.mspx

    ...probably your boss couldn't care less about all the technical stuff BUT... he/she may care about money!... 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: Maintenance Plans - Best Practise

    I personally find Maintenance Plans fine on small shops running small databases.

    For a large environment I personally prefer to have full control so I usually write my own procs 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: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 version difference

    I have to say it's pretty uncommon to have Standard Edition on Production and Enterprise Edition on Development/Staging.

    Here is the deal... you have more SQL Server features available on Development/Staging...

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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: Multi Tenency Databases

    Rootman (9/15/2008)


    My question is, does anyone have experience of implemeting multi tenancy in the real world, and if so, do they have any comments on my proposed options?

    Yes, I did...

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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: All agent jobs returning error

    Issue might be related to the account that "owns" the job rather than to the account you have set for SQL Server Agent.

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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: Maint Plan - Selecting ALL DATABASES doesn't get newly added databases?

    Changes on Maintenance plan are not automatically reflected on Jobs so... it wouldn't surprise me.

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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 Scalability

    Steve Jones - Editor (9/15/2008)


    I disagree. Clustering doesn't scale out at all. It provides redundancy, HA solutions, not scale out.

    I'm in agreement with your disagreement 😀

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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: Are there equivalents in Oracle Sql ?

    You have to ask this question to Angelo, good luck.

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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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