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  • RE: Adding Files to a Database

    joyce.staszewski (9/12/2008)


    Would it be better to add files to the existing Primary group and then rebuild the indexes to balance the data across the files?

    If you are planning in having...

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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: sqlserver connection over WLAN

    It looks like you have a DNS issue, name resolution.

    Can you ping the server from the station using DNS name?

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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: Data Warehousing?

    Glen (9/11/2008)


    Does it mean that what you are saying should be translated to: "When I am designing a data warehouse, I am not basing my architecture and design of a...

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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: Data Warehousing?

    Glen (9/11/2008)


    I totally disagree.

    Business requirements specify where you have to go, no how to go there.

    In ideal world? Yep. In reality? ...

    After all: the design of the DWH will...

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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: Data Warehousing?

    Glen (9/11/2008)


    Design of a DWH using relational model or cubes should be defined by client's requirements

    I totally disagree.

    Business requirements specify where you have to go, no how to go there.

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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: Network admin turned DBA

    1- You can start with Books Online, chapter 1.

    2- Think twice before doing anything then, when you are totally sure step back and think about it one more time.

    3- Always...

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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: Licensing Question

    Shark Energy (9/11/2008)


    ... a web app with hundreds of users you would be better off with the processor license.

    Yes.

    You can also research Microsoft ISP licensing.

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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: Data Warehousing?

    :w00t: You are only mentioning Kimball... that's blatant discrimination!!!

    If you mention Kimball you are required by law to mention Inmon... -or was it Inmoff? 😀

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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: Data Warehousing?

    Alvin Ramard (9/10/2008)


    Point a webcam at the abacus and you can have mirroring; or would that be replication?

    mmhhh... neither one, if you loose your primary-abacus-site you would have nothing at...

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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 ?

    Welcome to the Oracle world.

    PL/SQL and Transact-SQL are totally different languages like French and Occitan are meaning, do not expect to be fuent in one of them just because you...

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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: Data Warehousing?

    Alvin Ramard (9/10/2008)


    Backup of the abacus would be easy. Just take a picture and store it in a safe place.;)

    That would be good for DR... you can send 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: Data Warehousing?

    Michael Earl (9/10/2008)


    Assuming the table has a date field indicating when each row was added and rows cannot be deleted, it meets Inmon's definition just fine.

    In both definitions, the final...

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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: Two databases with the same physical file names and locations

    Sandra Skaar (9/9/2008)I have two databases, let's call them DB1_Production and DB1_Test. Both of these databases have the SAME physical file names AND the files are in the same location

    Prove...

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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 database

    Nicely done. Congrats!

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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: Robust Report Server

    vundisrinivas (8/28/2008)


    What are the steps we should take to increase the capacity and performace of the report server.

    1- Capacity planning

    2- Capacity monitoring

    3- Figure it out if more resources are needed

    4-...

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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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