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  • RE: Calling an Oracle function from SQL Server

    SJanki (8/1/2011)


    I am also able to call it from .NET application using System.Data.OracleClient and the connection string.

    But due to some limitations I have to call it from the SQL Server...

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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: Calling an Oracle function from SQL Server

    Is RPC enabled on the linked server?

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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: Difference between Oracle and MySQL??

    rashu5577 (7/30/2011)


    Thank you.

    Then I can start up learning with Oracle DBA.

    Its one and the same , but have some changes in the Implementation

    No. They are not one and the same,...

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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: Datetime Formating -

    John Paul-702936 (7/27/2011)


    - how to get the Last 30 days records from a table in Oracle if the column is in format string -

    like

    Example - the value...

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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: Partitioned data (Non Enterprise SQL), Table-Valued Parameter and Upsert

    mmmhhh... TimeStamp data type columns may be a deal breaker, check this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933141(v=SQL.80).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: Adding new SCD 2 attribute to existing Dimension AND history required

    nahk.fussuy (7/29/2011)


    Funnily enough that is how we left it, With the analyst to go back to the biz to see how important history is for this.

    I suspect the answer...

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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: Does your employer assume you have broadband internet?

    Indianrock (7/28/2011)


    How many of you get some form of compensation for having broadband at home so you can handle after-hours work remotely? Is anyone being provided with an air...

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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: Manual Shrink works, Schedule Job Shrink bombs

    jmorgan 12692 (7/29/2011)


    one more question pertaining to this....when my NT Backup runs it is gonig to copy that entire 250GB file to backup...do you just let this happen? When...

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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: Why this query works ? It has syntax error already. (about attacks)

    aykut canturk (7/29/2011)


    ...tell me why sqlserver works that way and as long as everyone knows it, why they dont fix it ?

    It works that way by design.

    Can't fix what is...

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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: TempDB growth oddity.....

    Barkingdog (7/29/2011)


    This sql extract (from an update statement) causes our tempdb database to grow to 500GB (as well as takes hours to grow that large)

    ...

    inner join <table2>

    on AcYear = cast(Year(LDate)...

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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 a data warehouse in MS Sqlserver

    miriyalasrihari (7/28/2011)


    i am getting lot of confusion about the data warehouse in MS Sqlserver

    In simple terms a Data Warehouse is a database designed to serve as a central, historic data...

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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: Adding new SCD 2 attribute to existing Dimension AND history required

    I'm with you, a SCD of the Type 2 has to be tracked on the DIMension table, that's why we call it Slowly Changing Dimension 🙂

    On my experience SCD2 tracking...

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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 SqlserverAgent calculates next_run_date of scheduled job?

    santoooo (7/27/2011)


    Can anyone give some idea how the Sql Server Agent is calculating the next_run_date of the scheduled job.

    Whether it will use any stored procedure to calculate this..?

    That's proprietary code...

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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 Random Generated Primary Key

    Sean Lange (7/27/2011)


    I often tell business people (which are the ones that usually ask for this kind of silliness) that primary keys are used by the system and therefore 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: UK Compliance for Off-Site Backups

    robertprice45 (7/18/2011)


    In regard to physical tape/drive backups, what are the mandatory regulations relating to data backup. I'm aware of standards such as FDA and SOX compliance, but I believe they...

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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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