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  • RE: How to obtain most recent SQL Server software

    if the guy doesn't want to give your the download credentials just ask the guy to download it for you and put it in a share someplace in the network.

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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: Timeouts when > 130 connections

    You are facing a capacity planning issue.

    Just in case, what's your timeout setup for the offending environment?

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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 can i reduce Initial Size Database File ?

    1- Script offending database creation

    2- Take a full backup

    3- Drop your offending database

    4- Delete mdf, ndf and ldf related datafiles.

    5- Alter database creation script setting -perhaps - 2 Gig 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/ Clusters indexes on big tables in warehouse

    You said FACT table therefore you are talking about a Data Warehouse environment.

    You do not use a natural PK on Data Warehouse, by using surrogate keys you are doing 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: Sql Server Agent Job

    please post the result of...

    SELECT count(*)

    FROM Database.dbo.trace

    WHERE textdata like '%UpdateAccount%'

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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: While Loop 100% CPU

    As a quick workaround you can always add a WAITFOR DELAY command in your loop, that would free resources for other sessions to use in each iteration of your WHILE...

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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 partitioning

    Is it possible to partition tables in a database??If so will it help in improving the performance???

    Yes.

    Yes, providing you implement the right partitioning strategy.

    Partitioning strategy should target at least one...

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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 users restore

    You are not telling how you are doing it right now so it's kind of hard to suggest something better.

    Lets go to the basics.

    LOGINS...

    ... belong to the instance therefore 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: Oracle DB backup

    shiwani2002sg (8/11/2008)


    hi

    to take bakup of oracle databae, use file starting with 'imp' . It must be residing in 'bin' folder inside the folder containing oracle.

    I see... you didn't even...

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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: Index rebuild

    California (8/11/2008)


    I have 4 indexes (1 clustered and 2 non-clustered) on a table which is 105 GB.

    100% support Jeffrey.

    By the way, I'm wondering of what kind your fourth index 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: PL/SQL After/Before Insert Trigger

    This is a text book example of what you may expect to happen when people tries to pack the application's logic into triggers.

    Application's logic should be on the application side.

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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 load _OraMTS_ into Oracle database

    ... and the question 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: Data types conversion in SQL and Conditional format

    :w00t: May be is because of the bottle of Brandy but believe me I couldn't figure it out what are you looking for... I'll check back when I back to...

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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: Linked Server Pros/Cons over Seperate DB's

    Heather (8/8/2008)


    I'm trying to figure out why someone would use a linked server over just having another database on the same server.

    Here is a reason...

    Picture this scenario, you work in...

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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: Delete Partition

    Some day somebody is going to tell me the truth about why SQL Server partitioning is such a nightmare.

    Don't understand why. Other RDBMS developed the technology before and made 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.

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