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  • RE: Simple query (for you guys and gals)

    john-902052 (7/1/2011)


    Actually I did figure it out right after I set up the problem for you. DOH!

    Are we good or what? just by posting here you get 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: Simple query (for you guys and gals)

    Can't you join both tables and filter by ActiveStatus = 1?

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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: Restricting DBA from accessing SQL DB objects

    mister.magoo (7/1/2011)


    That sounds like an amazing project - please tell us the name of your product so that we can keep an eye out for it. Not to avoid it...

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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: Column Delete Issue

    sqlquest2575 (7/1/2011)


    I need to delete a column from a table that has 30000 records and it should not effect the performance now would like to know your expert opinion on...

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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: # of records and TOP clause

    rgtft (7/1/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (7/1/2011)


    If you need both the top 50 and the count() then you have to do both.

    That's what I thought; I was just wondering if there was some 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: # of records and TOP clause

    rgtft (7/1/2011)


    Is there a way in SQL Server to get the number of records in a SELECT that has a TOP clause. That is the total number of records...

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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: Restricting DBA from accessing SQL DB objects

    MuskaanGoyal (7/1/2011)


    I agree on this but my senior is not understanding the same thing. He told me that same is possible in Oracle using TOAD. Meaning we can restrict 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: Restricting DBA from accessing SQL DB objects

    raistlinx (6/25/2011)


    You sold me the rights to use your software. I can't resell it, but I'm damned well sure I'm not going to let it blindly thrash around 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: SQL server Collation

    vinod.saraswat (7/1/2011)


    I have db on developement server. If i check for the properties the collation is Case Insesitive. If I go into the tables and check the propery in SSMS...

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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: rchitecture of sqlserver 2008

    venugopal.machina (7/1/2011)


    what is the architecture of sqlserver 2008?

    In my opinion nothing beats official documentation by the vendor; here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522673.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: Good books for DMVs

    Just building on previous comments here is an example of how to use DMVs. The beauty of this particular example is that you may use the created applet for years...

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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: Migration Issue from Access To SQL 2008

    sqlquest2575 (7/1/2011)


    Hello Friends

    I am migrating MS access Db to SQL 2008 and I am using SSMA to accomplish this task. But I’ve couple of questions.

    1. When I run ssma...

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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 with dupicated values in dimension and facts

    Sachin4all (6/30/2011)


    for a single product instead of updating a single field in a row its creating a new row for the same product.But here we are not keeping any...

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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: best perf for a load

    Bruce W Cassidy (6/29/2011)


    Bulk insert will work fine for getting the data into SQL Server; the trick is getting the data out of Oracle quickly.

    The "Disconnected" Model

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

    Bruce W Cassidy (6/29/2011)


    Oracle's usernames and passwords are case insensitive, btw.

    That's not true. Ora11g credentials are case sensitive by default.

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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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