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  • RE: Dropping Image column

    george sibbald (1/12/2012)


    thanks lowell, that could be batched up ....

    For a 7.5 million rows I do not see the need of doing it in batches... you just have to insert...

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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: Question

    nawaz1774 (1/11/2012)


    Can any one explain me the difference between an Entity and an object

    You find Entities at ER modeling time - when you identify the entities and relationships of your...

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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: Filtered Foreign Key

    For starters, I think that this is a very interesting idea and I'm looking forward to what other people has to say about it.

    On the other hand I do think...

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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: Merge a 3 tables data in one view

    pallavi.unde (1/11/2012)


    ...can i make a view of above 3 tables as a one view..???? these three tables has totally different data...

    Assuming you figure out a way to join those 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: Convert date format in SQL sever report(BIDS) with Oracle date format

    I'm assuming the target database is Oracle and that the datatype of mytable.date is DATE.

    If this is the case you have two options, option #1 is to write a stored...

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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: Relational design question

    jarid.lawson (1/6/2012)


    Thanks for the reassurance. I'm designing a new financial tracking system as the company's new DBA...and I'm trying to do this as perfect as I can from the start....

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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: Relational design question

    jarid.lawson (1/6/2012)


    Am I over thinking this?

    Nope, you are not.

    As far as I understand the scenario there is a many-to-many relationship between Clients and Products - the bridge table breaks 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: Database Design/creation/developement tutorials/training

    duplicate entry

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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/creation/developement tutorials/training

    Please do not cross post - that fragments responses and duplicates effort.

    Original post is here... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1231569-1292-1.aspx#bm1231582

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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: WHILE LOOP

    SQLSeTTeR (1/6/2012)


    Thanks man!

    Wait until it works 😀 Glad to help.

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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: WHILE LOOP

    SQLSeTTeR (1/6/2012)


    Will backup_finish_date = NULL if backup is in progress? I would still need to loop in case it's still running.

    Yes. I think so.

    I think something like this will...

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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: WHILE LOOP

    I would query msdb..backupset 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: Database design tutorials

    acrutchley (1/6/2012)


    I have been responsible for administrating my companies sql databases for a number of years now, however I have never actually built my own database from scratch and I...

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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: Building a data warehouse

    Delario (1/6/2012)


    so how can I populate the fact table

    Well... you designed it, don't you?

    Each row on the particular FACT table is supposed to describe a factual event on your OLTP...

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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: Time dimension

    Brandie Tarvin (1/6/2012)


    Delario (1/6/2012)


    sql developer in fact I just copy the syntax, i know that the quataion marks are not allow

    It's more than just the quotations. NUMBER is an invalid...

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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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