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  • RE: Slowly changing periodic snapshot fact

    chris.johnson 46127 (1/19/2012)


    The changing values are things like current balance or arrears balance and seem naturally to be facts to me.

    I remember seeing in a banking oriented DWH a fact_daily_balance...

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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 a stored procedure use different database

    yes... yes... yes... 😀 either way you need a way to know to which database to point which means that "load processes" have to set a flag in some...

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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 Certifications

    Microsoft really doesn't care how you acquired your knowledge, you have to prove nothing - register for the test, take it, pass it, be happy forever after... better saying 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: Can a stored procedure use different database

    jflynn-735049 (1/19/2012)


    We have a large project that is using many stored procedures. The project uses multiple database so a stored procedure may call tables in another database. The issue...

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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: Getting Poor Performance - SQL Server

    Lets be clear... Does the very same query, with the very same predicate, with the very same filtering/access parameters, against the very same database/set-of-tables sometimes returns in seconds and sometimes...

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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 Certifications

    SQLKnowItAll (1/19/2012)


    Ok, I guess I could have figured that out on my own 🙂 What about other recommendations? i.e. Wait for 2012, or just upgrade to it later? e-learning, book,...

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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: Large Dimension

    mulukenn (1/19/2012)


    I have a large dimension, with approximately 60,000 records and a growth rate of 1600 a day (put another way, there will be around 1600 changes everyday). Would 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: SQL Certifications

    Please check "certification path roadmaps" on link next: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-sql-server.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: keywords in sql server

    sql Anand (1/19/2012)


    i want to see keywords in sql server 2008

    ...or checking the documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189822.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: hiii everyone

    trinamjose23 (1/19/2012)


    i want to start my carrier as sql server dba and i want to know what are the major things i should learn from development side

    May we ask...

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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 server 2008 exam 70-432 dumps

    lcasey 67763 (1/19/2012)


    Ok I should have searched before I posted. I see these are frowned upon. I didn't realise they were acutal exams. I thought they 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: Database in Recovery, taking over 6 hours to come out of recovery mode

    anthony.green (1/19/2012)


    running dbcc loginfo gave 32768 results, that I noticed that the log was set to grow in 1MB chunks so thats been changed to 8000MB.

    whats the easiest way to...

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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: Partitioning based on a field used in frequent Joins?

    sdruid71 (1/17/2012)


    Is there any value to partitioning a field that is frequently used in joins?

    For ex.

    Select * from table1

    inner join table2 on table1.ID=table2.ID

    where table2.mydate>=<date>

    In the example above, I realize 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 it should return max(name)?

    ashuthinks (1/19/2012)


    max function returns maximum no. from that table

    Close but not exactly what it does, if we define the function as max(expression) then the max() function returns the maximum value...

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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 in Recovery, taking over 6 hours to come out of recovery mode

    At first sight a 100 Gig T-Log for a 600 Gig Data Warehouse sounds a little excesive... how much data is ETLed in a daily basis against that DWH?

    More important......

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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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