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  • RE: Will Tables affect Performance...?

    I'm not a fan of this kind of generic lookup tables - I would create a table for each one of the "codes" you have to describe.

    Doing it properly e.g....

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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: Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    rmechaber (4/30/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/29/2012)


    Cloud computing does not refers to distributed computing - even when you can have distributed resources to source your pool of computing resources - but to the ability...

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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: Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    GilaMonster (4/29/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/29/2012)


    eric.lyons (4/26/2012)


    I wince every time I hear someone use the words "cloud computing".

    This is marketing hype in line with the "pet rock."

    Hope you are trying crack a joke...

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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 Conversion to Oracle is appending characters to data values

    Express12 (4/27/2012)


    TARGET:

    Oracle 11

    COLUMN_1 char (14 Byte)

    Data Value: 220490 ED

    Any particular reason to use CHAR data type - which is deprecated - instead of using a proper number data type on...

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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: Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    eric.lyons (4/26/2012)


    I wince every time I hear someone use the words "cloud computing".

    This is marketing hype in line with the "pet rock."

    Hope you are trying crack a joke - which...

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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: Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    onlo (4/27/2012)


    For those large companies, enterprises or governmental organizations, due to the data security issue, they will have their own private clouds.

    This is incorrect. It is public information...

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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 Test Triggers ?

    I see two very different questions here...

    adc22 (4/29/2012)


    1) How to check a trigger is fired or not, while doing database testing?

    Welcome to the wonderful world of testing and quality...

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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: Kimbal Fact Table Type - Transactional Type Issue

    ppcentral (4/27/2012)What you think?

    Nice to see that for once Wikipedia got it right 😀

    Seriously, I think you are focusing too much in meaningless formalities and too little in the task...

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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: Kimbal Fact Table Type - Transactional Type Issue

    ppcentral (4/27/2012)


    I can include unitPrice (but I may decide to not include it) or even other usefull information related to each line of the invoice like discount, tax.... So, with...

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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: Kimbal Fact Table Type - Transactional Type Issue

    Actually is pretty straight forward, rows in a Transactional Fact table have to show the level of detail of each and every "line" of the originating transactions.

    If the originating transaction...

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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: Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    onlo (12/28/2009)


    Cloud Computing - No need to have a DBA ?

    How do you think ?

    A proper Cloud Computing provider doesn't goes beyond providing the basic platform usually in the form...

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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: Kimbal Fact Table Type - Transactional Type Issue

    ppcentral (4/26/2012)


    Dear friends,

    Today I post another issue related with Kimball Fact Table Types...

    The following cases are two examples of Fact Tables in a dimensional model. Which Fact Table Type 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: Datamart Design Methodology

    MaverickMan (4/25/2012)


    Business Requirement: Providing a self sufficient self service tool that power users or leadership could use to derive performance data.

    Tools in discussions: Report Builder 3.0 would like to be...

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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: OBIEE vs SSRS

    Spam - Reported

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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: Less DBMS dependant application: Oracle, SQL, MySQL and DB2 Less Migration Cost!

    :blink: what?

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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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