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  • RE: Oracle DB backup

    correct... correct... incorrect.

    damn, you failed in the last one. You can take backups using RMAN even if you have set your database to NOARCHIVELOG mode. That's the beauty of...

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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: RowID in Sql Server

    ... like Oracle's inbuilt primary key ROWID

    Oracle's ROWID is not a PK. ROWID is a unique row identifier, nothing else, nothing more.

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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

    The DTS which was part of SQL Server 2000...

    DTS was introduced on 7.0

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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: Select from 25 million Rows

    I'm glad you fixed it.

    Just a side note. The fact that you rebuild your indexes in a weekly basis means nothing, how if you are rebuilding once and again indexes...

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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: SPACE IN TEMPDB

    You may want to start here... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190768.aspx 😉

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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: Issues with 400TB Database

    Maybe it's 400TB because no-one has been running T-Log backups, they just added more disk space, the data could be just a few GB ?!?!? :hehe:

    😀 You made may day....

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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: My 3rd party softwares uses tons of cursors.

    I see, you are affected by CAS -short for Crappy Application Syndrome.

    CAS is a serious condition the only cure is major surgery -kill the CAS causing agent but in some...

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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

    Dear Ehsan --

    Firstly I'm not saying I know everything. I'm saying I know what a Oracle backup is and what a Oracle backup is not.

    Secondly. You are correct, I was...

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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: Connection to client failed

    Here is what I would do...

    1- RDC into the remote box.

    2- Open SSMS and open the local server

    3- Run select @@servername to get the actual instance name.

    4- Check error log,...

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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: Duplicate column name

    Any reason why you don't do something like...

    UPDATE intv_schedule

    SET program_id = (

    ...

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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: Connection to client failed

    Gotcha, your "clients" are actual SQL Server engines.

    -Can you ping the remote box by DNS?

    -Can you ping the remote box by IP?

    -Does the remote "client" SQL Server engine has 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: Oracle DB backup

    Let me summarize your "concepts"...

    Exp/Imp based backup strategy?

    Daily Cold Backup?

    Daily Cold/Hot Backup followed by full Export?

    Full Database Reorg?

    At first sight I would say -very politely: "what a pile of crap!!!"......

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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: Connection to client failed

    Not sure if I follow you.

    Is your problem that you are unable to access a client station from the server?

    If this is the case... are you actually talking about...

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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

    Yes, I have a doubt.

    Other that what's the reason you guys do not read what I write... my doubt is: what a big pile of rubbish!!! from which paralell Universe...

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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: sp_executesql Equivalent in Oracle...

    Support Gints.

    By the way, you do not "convert" storedprocs from SQL Server to Oracle, you learn what the storedproc is supposed to do and you rewrite it from scratch.

    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.

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