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  • RE: Next Step in my Carrer

    You are right Jeff, can't argue about it - I assumed poster is already a decent DBA 🙂

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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: Not Returning Null Records

    dwain.c (2/23/2012)


    I believe that most of the articles I've read on performance suggest you do it like this:

    select istatus, dtmoveout, bmovedout, *

    from tenant

    where istatus in (1,4)

    and dtmoveout...

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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: Next Step in my Carrer

    Three main areas of development:

    1- Performance tuning.

    2- Business continuity.

    3- and the, again, more Performance tuning.

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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: Not Returning Null Records

    nscott 48570 (2/21/2012)


    That worked BEAUTIFULLY, thank you!

    Glad to help.

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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 are big databases different for administration?

    I'll take #4 for $500 🙂

    When working with small databases even crappy code - better saying "sub standard code" appears to work properly and perform fine; on top 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: update statement

    sqlfriends (2/21/2012)


    I would like to find out if I run 4 update statements on a production server, will that lock the table, and affect users of the application.

    It may take...

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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: Not Returning Null Records

    nscott 48570 (2/21/2012)


    I'm trying to teach myself SQL; I apologize in advance if this is an easy question. I'm getting stuck on the following query b/c it is 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: Inserting data from one table into another table ordering by a datetime field

    Yes. ORDER BY clause must be specified on SELECT statements if a particular order is needed.

    Adding to it, here is the beauty of it... even if a clustered index...

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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 tutorial for beginners

    In my opinion nothing beats original documentation, please follow link next to Microsoft tutorials on SQL Server... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms167593.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: Inserting data from one table into another table ordering by a datetime field

    gary.morey (2/21/2012)


    I have a staging table (MergedDataStage1) that was populated by inserts from 2 tables. I now need to be able to insert the rows from this staging table...

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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: Please help me

    ganeshnarim (2/21/2012)


    please guide me how to use books online..

    Books On Line is installed alongside SQL Server so just go Start => All Programs => SQL Server => Books On Line

    Two...

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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: Strategy to load fact table with from SCD type 2 dimension

    MikeBrey (1/30/2012)


    Sorry about the delay, other projects and had to research what a temporal fact snapshot table was. If I understand it is a fact table that behaves like 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: Please guide me

    Please do not cross post, it fragments and duplicates effort.

    Answers here please: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1255246-391-1.aspx#bm1255263

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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: Please help me

    1- Build your own lab - a.k.a. install SQL Server Developer Edition on a home computer.

    2- Install an example database like Northwind

    3- Read about architecture first then about 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: How to alter Partition Range on the table

    Assuming you are planning to use the same partition key please check ALTER TABLE SPLIT RANGE syntax, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186307.aspx

    Last but not least... I'm hopping this table is not being partitioned...

    _____________________________________
    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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