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  • RE: Return True or false from a SQL Stored Proc

    Why don't you write your query with the needed logic and return either (0/1) or ('T'/'F') as needed?

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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 GoldenGate for SQL 2008 R2 High Availability??

    DB.Duck (4/13/2012)


    Has anyone ever heard of Oracle GoldenGate being used for pure SQL Server 2008 R2 high availability? (i.e. No Oracle db's involved.) I'm only talking high availability, NOT...

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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: Problem creating Oracle Data Sources in SSAS 2008 R2

    manishkumar30 (4/14/2012)


    I have the same configuration. I am using SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 11g in my same system.

    my requirement is through SQL Server 2008 Link Server, I want...

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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: DATABASES

    Lynn Pettis (4/13/2012)


    Sounds like homework to me.

    Agreed.

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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: Field Sizes in Staging database : all varchar(2000)?

    devereauxj (4/13/2012)


    NEWBIE to DW : the IT Manager wants to use varchar2(2000) for all fields in all tables.

    In general DWH Staging tables are modeled after the OLTP tables from where...

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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: stored procedure slower than query sql server 2000

    ssa2010 (3/2/2012)


    When I running a Stored Procedure in sql 2000 query analyzer, it take 35 seconds. But when I run this script directly, it takes 1 second. How can I...

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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: Query consumes high CPU and 285 Sec avg duration

    Ankit.shah22 (4/11/2012)


    Hi all,

    This service broker query consumes high CPU above 80% and ave duration is 285 sec.

    WAITFOR(RECEIVE conversation_handle, service_contract_name, message_type_name, message_body FROM ExternalMailQueue INTO @msgs), TIMEOUT @rec_timeout

    Any idea...

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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: Can INFORMATICA access SQL Server with Windows Authentication?

    Alan Spillert (4/11/2012)


    Our data warehouse group is using Informatica (latest version) to pull data from many system, including my SQL Server 2008R2. We were using only Windows authentication until...

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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: Reading microseconds from Sql server into oracle 10g

    Lowell (4/11/2012)this is actually an Oracle question, and dblink behavior

    Oracle DBLink connections behave like a normal client connection meaning that the server on the remote side of the DBLink perceives...

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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: Reading microseconds from Sql server into oracle 10g

    The proper Oracle datatype would be TIMESTAMP not DATE, also you should use TO_TIMESTAMP() not TO_DATE() for conversion.

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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: Backup & Restore Oracle DB!

    Lynn Pettis (4/10/2012)


    rocky_498 (2/12/2012)


    Hi guys,

    I am very new in Oracle. I would like to know is there any way i can create a Backup of Oracle Db and 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: What edition of SQL 2008 should be ordered for small business? (3-5 users)?

    adonetok (4/10/2012)


    What edition of SQL 2008 should be ordered for small business? (3-5 users)?

    it all depends on the features you need, database size and expected growth of both database size...

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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: Recommendation needed for reindexing/reorganizing on multiple servers in multiple dbs

    pamozer (4/9/2012)


    We currently have 20 database instances with anywhere from 20 to 400 databases per instance. All databases have exactly the same schema. I am trying to come up...

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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 JOBS

    ard5karthick (4/9/2012)


    Hi Mohan,

    Open SSMS

    Right Click on the Job you want and from the POP Up select Disable option.

    To check after its been disabled the Job will be having an Red...

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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 JOBS

    Jeff Moden (4/8/2012)


    If you want to disable ALL jobs quickly and easily, just turn off SQL Agent.

    I do not think poster wants to stop backup processes.

    On the other hand, 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.

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