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  • RE: Data Warehouse and Relational Databases on same VM Machine on different instances

    Welsh Corgi (1/15/2012)


    I was given a VM Machine and it is to home to a Data Warehouse on one instance and Several Relational Databases on another instance.

    The Relational DB's are...

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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: New and looking to advance my career

    Building on Ron and Jason's comments - once you have your home lab use and abuse Bools On Line (BOL) which comes free with your SQL Server. Read about architecture...

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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: Slowly changing periodic snapshot fact

    As far as I can see design solves the issue at hand.

    Having said that, let me put my nose where nobody asked me to put it... Are you positive 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: best practice to daily update TPS data extract (text file) in SQL Server

    safzalhussain (1/17/2012)


    the data size may varry from 1.5 mln to 5 mln in a year. so at this moment if FULL refresh is suggested then will it also be feasible...

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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: best practice to daily update TPS data extract (text file) in SQL Server

    GilaMonster (1/17/2012)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (1/17/2012)


    1- If you are deleting the whole table please use truncate rather than delete. Truncate will do it instantly and generate no t-log.

    Minimal transaction log activity, not none....

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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: my favorite normalization case study

    patrickmcginnis59 (1/16/2012)


    Why did you feel the need to say "you don't even care about the basics of data modeling"? I thought it was an interesting case, but now your reaction...

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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: Union Issue

    :blink: would you mind in posting your business requirements as well as the schema of the involved tables?

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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: Data Warehouse Design Suggestion

    I agree that it is a good idea to start with a single, simple datamart.

    On the other hand, do not constraint your design to what your initial user spells out,...

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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: best practice to daily update TPS data extract (text file) in SQL Server

    safzalhussain (1/17/2012)


    i m looking a best practice solution, to daily update bulk of records from Transaction Processing System (text files) into SQL Server database. we get large amount of data...

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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: my favorite normalization case study

    Please do not take it the wrong way but, out of curiosity, why is the subject of this thread "my favorite normalization case study" if you never intended to normalize...

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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: i give dmo to smo conversion

    danschl (1/16/2012)


    i saw that earlier too

    but everytime i run it i get

    on all 3 calls

    ODsole extended procedure error

    I think you missed Barry Young's post on that one...

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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: my favorite normalization case study

    Would you mind in writting a query to answer the question... "Did Peter Bishop attend Particle Physics 501 on January 9th, 2012?"

    Now... write a query to answer the same question...

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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: i give dmo to smo conversion

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic823529-22-1.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: Data Warehouse Design Suggestion

    Two comments.

    First one. Not totaly sure about the snowflake DimCustomer-DimLocation structure... it looks like a plain 1-1 relationship which I usually try to avoid at all costs.

    If the idea is...

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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: i give dmo to smo conversion

    danschl (1/16/2012)


    it appears that DMO is not supported anymore in sql2008r2

    EXEC @hr= sp_OACreate 'SQLDMO.SQLServer', @objServer OUT

    so i was trying to convert to SMO

    EXEC @hr= sp_OACreate 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo', objServer OUT

    Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server

    ...

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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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