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  • RE: need to learn how to be a DBA

    Rich Yarger (6/13/2011)


    I typically don't either, but when your awesome employer is paying for you to take it - it's kinda hard to hide!

    Been there. Take the test on Saturday...

  • RE: need to learn how to be a DBA

    Rich Yarger (6/10/2011)


    thanks for the encouragement all. I have been using the MeasureUp testing, and in all honesty - that was better than my Microsoft Press book. I'll...

  • RE: How to drop the extended procedures

    kollisudheer27 (6/13/2011)


    while i am droping the extended stored procedure....i got following error

    "Cannot drop the procedure 'xp_regdeletekey', because it does not exist or you do not have permission."

    how can i resolve...

  • RE: PostGreSQL

    Raghavender (6/11/2011)


    I came to know that PostGreSQL is a RDBMS. can any one of you came accross of this technology ? how will be the future if we work on...

  • RE: monitor a database size

    sqlfriends (6/11/2011)


    How can I monitor the backup file size increase?

    Look at Backup/Restore History Tables in msdb database.

    On SS2K8R2 backupfile history table willl do the trick http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188653.aspx

  • RE: Insert data through View using openquery on Linked Server fails

    Tobias Ortmann (6/8/2011)


    Thanks, Pablo.

    Yes, the columns are defined in bytes.

    We changed them to charaters and it works.

    But I don't understand why 🙂

    We read from varchar2(50 bytes) and insert into...

  • RE: monitor a database size

    sqlfriends (6/11/2011)


    You said there are serveral ways, so beside sp_helpfile, what else can I use?

    if you are after ballpark numbers and interested in past history too the easiest way is...

  • RE: Sum Counter for a Week

    Jeff Moden (6/9/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/9/2011)


    I used the word "should" Jeff. 😉 In my view best practices call for filtering/access to be specified in WHERE clause, there is where a sleeppy...

  • RE: Sum Counter for a Week

    Jeff Moden (6/9/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/8/2011)


    Filtering should be done in WHERE clause and not in SELECT.

    General structure should looks like:

    SELECT

    list-of-colums-to-be-returned

    FROM

    list-of-tables

    WHERE

    ...

  • RE: Dimensional Model for Fictitious Video Store - Subscriptions

    Arthur Gary (6/8/2011)


    i.e. changes in subscription, how do I track the changes in the money values without doubling the count in subscriptions?

    mmhh... you may have it backwards. Facts do not...

  • RE: Insert data through View using openquery on Linked Server fails

    Tobias Ortmann (6/7/2011)


    ORA-12899: value too large for column "TEST"."TABLENAME"."TEXTCOLUMN" (actual: 52, maximum: 50)

    Have Oracle side columns defined their sizes in bytes? like varchar2(50 bytes)?

    Double the size of the columns or...

  • RE: Sum Counter for a Week

    Filtering should be done in WHERE clause and not in SELECT.

    General structure should looks like:

    SELECT

    list-of-colums-to-be-returned

    FROM

    list-of-tables

    WHERE

    conditions-for-filtering-and-access

    ;

  • RE: Moving large table to its own filegroup

    I would move the other tables.

    Why move a table that takes 90% of the space while you can move the ones that take 10% ?

    If the answer is "because...

  • RE: What makes a database transactional?

    kwoznica (6/7/2011)


    If a database is in full recovery mode is it technically transacational? After all data is sent to transaction logs.

    Or does the application code need to specify transactional...

  • RE: After changing sa password!

    alnawrass2002 (6/4/2011)


    after changing my SQL sa password all my maintenance plans & my jobs failed to excute?

    This is one of the reasons why schedulled jobs shouldn't login into the system...

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