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  • RE: Linking between Oracle and Unisys DMS II

    roshan030701 (6/9/2013)


    I just wanted to know if i can establish the link server from my Oracle database to Unisys DMS II database?

    Most probably using Oracle's Heterogenous Services - 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: The size of a table. (space_used against calculated space).

    ben.brugman (6/10/2013)


    So how can I calculate the size more accurately?

    The actual space used by a table is what sp_spaceused reports.

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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: Log ship to local db for ETL source data

    rray 44280 (6/7/2013)


    I'm using log shipping to maintain a failover copy of my main db on a secondary server. I'd like to put our Analysis Services on the secondary. If...

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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: Allowing users to directly query data mart

    Brian Carlson (6/4/2013)


    I am looking for resources to help evaluate options for allowing users to query our data mart directly. (T-SQL). These are not experienced users and we can't risk...

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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: Re-partitioning a large table

    Lexa (5/23/2013)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (5/23/2013)


    Lexa (5/23/2013)


    Current partitioning strategy does not restrict growth within a single partition where we already see 576,114,055 records and growing. Operations on that specific partition are taking unacceptable...

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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: Re-partitioning a large table

    Lexa (5/23/2013)


    Current partitioning strategy does not restrict growth within a single partition where we already see 576,114,055 records and growing. Operations on that specific partition are taking unacceptable amount 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: Database Diagram

    moeessack123 (5/23/2013)


    Thanks guys.I did checkup and spoke to the developer.There are NO foreign keys

    Why you have to ask a developer about that? Aren't you the DBA?

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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 make a solution real-time replicate from oracle and mysql to SQL server?

    krit (5/23/2013)


    Anyone have experience like this please share, my company need to reduce licensing of oracle. thank you

    This is really funny, just a couple of days ago somebody mentioned SymmetricDS...

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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: Customer Journey

    ofridar (5/22/2013)


    Has anybody had any experience with representing the customer journey (funnel/loyalty levels) as part of a dimensional model? Would love to hear from experience!

    That sounds to me more like...

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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: Single DW multiple sources

    danielfountain (5/17/2013)


    We currently have multiple systems that we report on. They all contain information on the same topic - but they are systems built externally by different companies.

    However 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: Making data in a column unique (that's not a PK)

    RedBirdOBX (5/20/2013)


    What's the best way to ensure that data entered into a certian column is unique and not already in the table even though the column is NOT the PK.

    Create...

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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: Proper way to write a sproc

    Eugene Elutin (5/20/2013)


    I guess you know what BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT are for?

    i wouldn't be that sure about it, Eugene :crying:

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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: Compare an Oracle Database with a Sql Database !

    salmita (5/16/2013)


    I want to compare two databases : Oracle Database and Sql Database

    both of databases have the same data but not the same naming of Table or Columns for...

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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 Having Primary key on a table essential?

    Aspet Golestanian Namagerdi (5/2/2013)


    We are using Sql Server 2008 and we have a log table which has one clustered index(on creationdate, that can be duplicate) and two non clustered index.This...

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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 are your key activities and plans that you are going to implement this year to stanadardise your SQL Server Environment

    Ask youself...

    --what problems do I have?

    --what problems I foresee I might have?

    --what I'm going to do to solve them, minimize them.

    Quantify the effort.

    Write it down.

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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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