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  • RE: Wondering why ERROR on a specific case of smallmoney

    I agree with Johan - what calls my attention is not that second statement fails (which is expected) but that third statement shouldn't work and apparently it does work.

  • RE: SSIS packages and non-data warehousing purposes

    Rowles (2/18/2012)


    What percentage of SSIS packages that are used are for data warehousing?

    Are SSIS packages used frequently with third party applications?

    1- It all depends, if a given organization has no...

  • RE: Truncate VS drop

    ColdCoffee (2/17/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/17/2012)


    What tool would you use to screw togheter two pieces of wood? a hammer or a screwdriver?

    Both the tools bond 2 pieces of wood.

    I would ask...

  • RE: Rollback strategies

    Loundy (2/17/2012)


    Thanks for the replies, I've been thinking along the lines of exporting. Maybe creating a backup folder in msdb to store the old packages then if we need to...

  • RE: Can I get three examples of ETL?

    GSquared (2/17/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/17/2012)


    Jeff Moden (2/11/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/11/2012)


    Just loading a table hardly qualifies as ETL.

    Seriously? You don't think that taking a mega-row text file from something like Double-Click.Net and loading it...

  • RE: Truncate VS drop

    If you want to get rid of the data use truncate.

    If you want to get rid of the object use drop.

    What tool would you use to screw togheter two...

  • RE: Can I get three examples of ETL?

    Jeff Moden (2/11/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/11/2012)


    Just loading a table hardly qualifies as ETL.

    Seriously? You don't think that taking a mega-row text file from something like Double-Click.Net and loading it into a...

  • RE: OLAP versus Datamart STAR schema

    sqlvogel (2/16/2012)


    we use "star (schema) design", which is a synomym for "dimensional design" for Kimballistic Data Warehouse databases and we use "relational design" for OLTP databases.

    That's seriously inaccurate. The star...

  • RE: Table Structure For 900+ tables

    ...as an alternative:

    SELECT OWNER, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, DATA_LENGTH, DATA_PRECISION, DECODE(NULLABLE, 'Y', 'NULL', 'NOT NULL')

    FROM dba_tab_columns

    WHERE OWNER = '???' --<< Plug Schema Name Here

    ORDER BY OWNER, TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_ID

    ;

  • RE: OLAP versus Datamart STAR schema

    sqlvogel (2/14/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/14/2012)


    star schemas are not relational, they are dimensional.

    Maybe you don't really mean that Paul? Star schema is a design pattern quite commonly seen in relational database design. "Dimensional"...

  • RE: OLAP versus Datamart STAR schema

    nick.mcdermaid (1/23/2012)


    ... relational star schema

    star schemas are not relational, they are dimensional.

  • RE: Backup & Restore Oracle DB!

    Jo Pattyn (2/13/2012)


    Somewhere on this forum there is a link to various Oracle-forums

    You can try http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=20

  • RE: Backup & Restore Oracle DB!

    rocky_498 (2/12/2012)


    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 it Like SQL has?

    Either...

  • RE: What is the benefit of SSIS with respect to ETL?

    Jeff Moden (2/11/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/11/2012)


    ...ETL is a concept, a methodology that describes how to transport data from OLTP systems into a Data Warehouse database.

    Gosh... it's a whole lot more than that....

  • RE: What is the benefit of SSIS with respect to ETL?

    Rowles (2/10/2012)


    Generally I understand that SSIS allows for a wide-variety of services/applications to be used with SQL Server. Isn't ETL (extract, transform, load) the importing of raw data into...

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