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  • RE: is it possible to have Single instance(name or SID) on multiple database?

    nikunj_lodhi (7/3/2013)


    @paul-2: I want to use the same instance number for ten different servers so dats y i was looking for it

    Oracle instances are identified by the SID defined by...

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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: Create Fact table or Dimension table?

    BlackGarlic (6/25/2013)


    Hi all,

    We are trying to expand existing datamart for patient visit monitoring, and I would like to get some suggestion or recommendation from DW experts here on SQL...

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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: is it possible to have Single instance(name or SID) on multiple database?

    nikunj_lodhi (7/2/2013)


    I wanted to know that can we have a single instance on two different databases?

    Since this was posted on the Oracle section of the forum, please allow me 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: How to exclude rows that have a specific column blank

    sdhines3 (6/21/2013)


    case when First.Name is null then ???

    Life is complicated enough, why try to force the use of "case" there?

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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 metadata

    chapunic (6/20/2013)


    Can i use ssrs to get sql metadata?

    Yes. Please check this SSC paper http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Reporting+Services+(SSRS)/74303/

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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 is Windows System Commands in SQL Server?

    Shadab Shah (6/19/2013)


    What are Windows System Commands in SQL Server? i got this jargoan from msdn website http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174187.aspx.

    I tried googling it but to no avail. Please help.

    http://www.sqlserver-training.com/sql-server-windows-powershell/-

    Hope this helps...

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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: which is better performance wise

    SQL_Surfer (6/16/2013)


    Two Scenarios

    1)A table with 200 fields. OR

    2)200 fields spanning across multiple tables? For e.g 10 tables with 20 fields each.

    Which one is better in terms of performance and space...

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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: "ORA-04091" Mutating Error

    Hard to tell for sure since poster cleaned up the original post but, ORA-04091 "Mutating Table Error" happens when a trigger attempts to select from, update or delete on 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: SQL Server Version

    m.rajesh.uk (6/14/2013)


    Even the support for Sql server 2000 is discontinued. So i just eliminated the previous versions.

    Support discontinued doesn't mean it is not in use - you would...

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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 Version

    No SQL Server 4.2? 6.0? 6.5? 7? on the poll? that's discrimination! 😛

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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: Fact Dimension issue

    niha.736 (6/12/2013)


    Hi Paul Thanks For the reply,

    If you can provide some more information on this, It will help me to understand better.

    1. will degenerate dimension contain only one attribute...

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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: Queries are faster with Statistics Sampling rather than FULLSCAN?

    I do agree with Alexander.

    Performance statistics are as good as the execution plan they help to select.

    In my experience, in most cases, the more accurate performance statistics are the better...

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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: Help needed for creating the star schema

    :doze: Barry, moving the discusion to a personal level, making assumptions about what other people may know or not and putting on other people's mouth words they have never...

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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: Fact Dimension issue

    niha.736 (6/12/2013)


    Please help in understanding the degenerate dim.

    We call degenerate dimension a dimension key (sitting on a fact table) that does not have an actual dimension table related. An...

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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 an existing table in sql server 2008

    Karthiart (6/12/2013)


    Please help me on this, what are the approaches/steps to create the partition.

    Building up on previous post, there is a very nice paper published on SQLServerCentral too, please check...

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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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