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  • RE: Convert date format in SQL sever report(BIDS) with Oracle date format

    Seattlemsp (1/25/2012)


    during the passed days, I tried many times. However it still doesn't work for me.

    The error message said: ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement

    It looks like I may not declare 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: what would be appopriate or best practices in DW design for handling deletes, updates processes...

    sqlblue (1/23/2012)


    2) what if I have a big table of 500 mil rows, and have to do daily updates of 200-300 mil records, how can I do this efficiently? Right...

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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: maximum database size of sql server 2005 express edition

    parkerhains (1/23/2012)


    I think 4 GB will be very less. Will there be more upgrades to this?

    Either spam or really bad worded.

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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: Database design question

    If you want to go this path you may want to consider to move out of AppliancesProperties the "catalog" columns meaning, create a separate table called ApplicancesPropertiesCatalog where you describe...

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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 (1/18/2012)


    I have a business requirement that I need to determine the difference between historic change of a SCD type 2 dimension attribute. At this time the dimension is tracking...

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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: Materialized View in SQL Server 2008

    Elliott Whitlow (1/23/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/23/2012)


    Dev (12/21/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (12/21/2011)


    Elliott Whitlow (12/20/2011)


    Although the phrase Materialized views is not used often with MS SQL the Indexed views are the equivalent. As they...

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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: Gone backwards from Service Pack 1

    Here is an interesting discussion on the same matter http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsecurity/thread/447354c8-56df-46b2-a198-abbbecb4b1ff

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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: Hi....

    achanta.priyanka (1/18/2012)


    I'am unable to give 'dbcreator' permission to my account in sql server 2008....

    I'am unable to give to 'sa' account or any other account also...

    It is giving an error that...

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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 would be appopriate or best practices in DW design for handling deletes, updates processes...

    sqlblue (1/22/2012)


    1) what would be the appropriate design for both source and target DW to handle hard deletes regularly on the source system?

    Too many questions in a single...

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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: Materialized View in SQL Server 2008

    Dev (12/21/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (12/21/2011)


    Elliott Whitlow (12/20/2011)


    Although the phrase Materialized views is not used often with MS SQL the Indexed views are the equivalent. As they must be materialized...

    _____________________________________
    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: Schemas vs Databases

    chrisvolny (1/19/2012)


    I have a database design where I've split the tables into five different schemas. One of the managers/architects (not a data architect) is fairly insistently suggesting that the schemas...

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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: Insert Statement Syntax Error

    Either table rpt_tblOracleCustomers doesn't exist or is sitting in a different schema or your account has no privileges on it - SQL Server can't see it.

    Try fully qualifying the 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: regarding Dead lock

    Shivrudra (1/19/2012)


    Hi all...

    I know to capture the deadlock we use trace flags like 1204 1222 and also by using profiler with Dead lock chain,graph.

    But i didnt get ans of How...

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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: INDEXES

    "diLip" (1/19/2012)


    how does sql engine decide what indexes to use when seeking indexes from table or tables that has clustered and multiple non-clustered indexes. I verified some different scenarios including...

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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: Bulk copy from SQL Server Table

    Tom Van Harpen (1/19/2012)


    Is it possible to do a bulk copy (minimally logged) with ability to specify batch size using a SQL Server TABLE as the source?

    If so, can someone...

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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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