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  • RE: Help needed for creating the star schema

    barry.mcconnell (6/11/2013)


    Data vault is not a mix of the two models but a formal methodology in its own right that has more than a decade of design and testing behind...

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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

    barry.mcconnell (6/11/2013)


    Unless you are stuck doing a star schema might I suggest you look at Data Vault as a better design for a data warehouse? http://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Agile-Warehouse-Vault-Volume/dp/061572308X

    I do not want 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: Need A Help in Encyption

    Learner44 (6/11/2013)


    what is overhead actully mean in encyption?

    It means that each time you encrypt or decrypt data, processing cycles are used on it - processing cycles that would not be...

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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: Production / Dev Design

    Are all these production database alike? ... like implementations of the same for different customers?

    I would consider a single development instance where each developer is the master and commander of...

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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: DB Size Growing after moving fields

    I would take a look at DBCC CLEANTABLE; please check this.. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174418.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: DB Size Growing after moving fields

    Couple of quick questions...

    Do all affected tables have a clustered index?

    In the affirmative case, was each one of such clustered indexes rebuilt?

    In case one or more affected 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: DB Size Growing after moving fields

    Jeffrey Williams 3188 (6/10/2013)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/10/2013)


    I would focus on the issue at hand, do it only on affected tables.

    He ran a shrink on the database - that affected all tables...

    We 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: Script to find all indexes where page level locking is disabled

    OLDCHAPPY (6/9/2013)


    Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "ALTER INDEX [ARFCRDATA~0] ON [bip].[ARFCRDATA] REO..." failed with the following error: "The index "ARFCRDATA~0" (partition 1) on table "ARFCRDATA" cannot be reorganized because page level...

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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: Journey of DBA to a cloud computing expert

    Benki Chendu (1/30/2013)


    How would I be able to transition myself from a DBA to a cloud computing expert?

    Depending on your definition of "cloud computing expert" you might be asking 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: Optimizer Execution plan.

    WangcChiKaBastar (6/10/2013)


    So effectively I should consider more optimization of the query itself with an execution time of 55 secs ?

    since 5 secs run time is only temporary run off of...

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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: DB Size Growing after moving fields

    I would focus on the issue at hand, do it only on affected 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: Optimizer Execution plan.

    WangcChiKaBastar (6/10/2013)


    I have a Parameterized Stored procedure that has a query with some joins and use of temp table and UNION.

    When I run the query for the first time in...

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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

    sram24_mca (6/5/2013)


    We are planning to data warehouse the 2 different projects , to implement this we have to create the star schema from the 2 project database. Can anyone 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: DB Size Growing after moving fields

    scorchpc 96170 (6/10/2013)


    I have been doing some SQL maintenance on various servers that I administer.

    One of the scripts takes 20-30 fields or so, and moves the data from 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: Back up

    techmarimuthu (6/10/2013)


    What is the use of WITH CHECKSUM in backup statement?

    Please check this... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189055.aspx#BckChecksums

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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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