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  • RE: Collation problems

    agh100 (9/9/2011)


    I get the error : Msg 468, Level 16, State 9, Line 4

    Cannot resolve the collation conflict between ...

    I would rebuild table setting columns to the proper collation or...

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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: Basic question: Dimension tables - how do you handle changes (i.e. store's manager or floor plan type)?

    rgtft (9/6/2011)


    Maxer (9/6/2011)


    How does your database know that the new row is still for the same store, it just has a different manager now?

    To properly handle SCD of the Type...

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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: Unable to connect to Oracle - failed with error code 0xC0202009. Description: "ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

    kiro1234 (9/9/2011)


    Starting from 11g passwords in Oracle could be case sensitive.

    Actually, they are case sensitive by default - as previously posted.

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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: update the date field in a table after each update

    Lowell (9/2/2011)


    to follow up on what Pablo said, here's a simple example...

    hey hey hey! I answered exactly what poster asked - you are volunteering too much information 😀

    Just kidding...

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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: update the date field in a table after each update

    sreeya (9/2/2011)


    I need some help on this:

    I have a table and one of the columns has a datefield that has a default value getdate(), when evr there is a update...

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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: Capacity Planning for Databases

    sqlnaive (7/9/2011)


    What should be the strategy to anticipate the DB growth for the next entire year or say 5 years.

    We keep monthly stats showing space allocation therefore (in a perfect...

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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: Table backup

    SQL Guy 1 (9/2/2011)


    That actually means that it's impossible to backup. I wanted to backup a set of tables from differnt filegroups, along with all their (possible) constraints, triggers,...

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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: Do you know any website like SSC but for Oracle DBA

    Uripedes Pants (8/29/2011)


    sorry about a non-answer, but I've just never seen another site as active and well-done as SSC for ANY topic.

    I agree SSC is amazing but that may 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: Executing sproc on Oracle Linked Server Crashes SQL Service

    k_poth (8/29/2011)


    I've set up a linked server from SQL 2008 R2 to Oracle using the OraOLEDB.Oracle provider. I'm using this linked server to periodically query tables in Oracle and call...

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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: Incremental load - using timestamp reliable?

    rgtft (8/24/2011)


    Would it be possible to do a checksum on the fields you're interested in on both source and DW; if they're different, then you need to do an update...

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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: Incremental load - using timestamp reliable?

    Shurkadze (8/23/2011)So you have dimension tables with 500M+ records? Or is this a hypothetical question?

    Nothing hypothetical about it - actually one of the DIM tables holds 1.2 billion rows.

    How do...

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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: Multiple databases in ORACLE - How?

    jeremy.singer (8/30/2011)


    While I would be inclined to use the light-weight solution of creating more schemas, oracle also allows you to create multiple independent databases on the same server. You can...

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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: Multiple databases in ORACLE - How?

    vikingDBA (8/29/2011)


    That was not stated as a requirement.

    Backup Recovery is not "stated as a requirement"? :w00t:

    Let me break some news for you, Database Recoverability is one of 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: Check for Replication tables

    RaviShankar1234 (8/28/2011)


    What is the system table where I can see what are the databases enabled for replication?i

    I would use sp_msforeachdb querying syspublications, sysarticles and syssubscriptions system 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: Multiple databases in ORACLE - How?

    vikingDBA (8/25/2011)


    I don't know how crazy this is going to sound, but here goes:

    Create one database, with one set of tables. In each table, put two additional columns, 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.

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