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  • RE: Oracle trace?

    chrisph (4/24/2012)


    Anyone have experience with tracing with Oracle, SQL Profiler is so easy but I'm a bit lost with Oracle. All I need is to see which users are...

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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: Migration between Oracle, SQL, MySQL and DB2!

    Abrar Ahmad_ (4/24/2012)


    [font="Verdana"]Do we can list down the basic difference in data types of different DBMS like Oracle, SQL, MySQL and DB2, while keeping in view the migration cost minimum?...

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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 Sources

    markpc2009 (4/13/2012)


    I need help and pointing in the right direction!

    I have a database which is recording employee hours and a spreadsheet that contains additional informtion on how these hours were...

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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 2008 not listening on any port

    To which port SS2K5 says it is listening to?

    To which port SS2K8R2 says it is listening to?

    Is SS2K8R2 up?

    Can you connect localy to it?

    Can you connect remotely to 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: design methods

    lorne 64075 (4/21/2012)


    I am very new to SQL Server programming and am finding lots of tutorials and information on the SQL language itself. I have played around a bit...

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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: Kimball FactTable Types (missing a Fact Table type)

    ppcentral (4/19/2012)


    @paul-2,

    I understand your perspective... and was an interesting answer. But the reality is that you have these agregate tables in real world scenarios assuming the role of a fact...

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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: SSRS 2008 Dynamic Columns Report

    Satch24 (4/20/2012)


    wow, looks like my post makes no sense at all.

    Well... there is no question asked on your post 😀

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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 database in SQL Server

    Dj463 (4/19/2012)


    @paul-2, Thanks for the reply

    Yes, it is a recurrent process ocuuring every three months to move data older than 3 months to archive database on another server and delete...

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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 do Partitioning on Existing table in SQL Server 2008R2

    tauseef.jan (4/20/2012)


    I have a similar question.

    I tried creating a partition on a table in sql server 2008 R2.

    But i do not see the storage option when i right click 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: Error Restoring database larger then 40 GB

    Lets start with the basics... is there enough space to accomodate the restore?

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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: Suggestions for a very long transaction

    S_Kumar_S (4/20/2012)

    1.defrag indexes more frequently after checking how much they are fregmented.Currently they are rebuild weekly.

    2. Increase CommandTimeout to 40s from default 30s.

    1- May just add to the missery 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: Alternative to SQL Server Agent

    Check SQL Sentry... http://www.sqlsentry.net/event-manager/sql-server-enterprise.asp

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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: Advice?/Suggestions?/Recommendations?: Configuration & Implementation

    Felicia Coons (4/17/2012)


    I've been asked to look at load balancing mainly because of the poor (and inconsistent) design of the databases as well as the present server configuration. I also...

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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: Suggestions for a very long transaction

    S_Kumar_S (4/20/2012)What can block an insert?

    Locks acquired by INS/UPD/DEL statements stay put for the lenght of the transaction therefore a system that has transactions taking as much as 30 seconds...

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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: count(*) giving wrong numbers

    select

    ID,

    SITE_ID,

    TO_CHAR(WHEN_OPENED,'MONTH,YYYY') MONTH_DATE

    COUNT(*) OPENCOUNT,

    from

    OPEN

    where

    WHEN_OPENED is not null and...

    _____________________________________
    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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