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  • RE: Database Design Best Practice for Generic Objects

    walshbd (5/8/2013)


    I have general question regarding design practices for generic child objects which may belong to many different types of parent objects. In my case, I'm keeping a note...

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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: Strategies for dealing with Excel

    Tyberious Funk (5/8/2013)


    Like a lot of organisations, we struggle with the fact that a lot of users manage important business data in excel spreadsheets. Wherever possible, I've been encouraging...

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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: Relationship between two tables (what is correct?)

    Carl0s_ (5/7/2013)


    Hi, can someone help me with this basic doubt? "tnx in advance"

    I have two tables (groups, rol), I need to know what's the correct way to create a relationship

    my...

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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: Oracle Linked server randomly failing from sql agent job

    jshurak (5/6/2013)


    I have a number of jobs that fail because of a linked server message.

    Executed as user: Domain\User. Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "OraOLEDB.Oracle" 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: Archiving

    mah_j (5/4/2013)


    I want to archive the data of a 400G table,what is the best way of archiving?

    What's the reason behind "archiving" if as I understand it, all data would 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: Best Practice for loading DW tables from live source with timestamp/Rowversion column to identify changes

    Please research SLD of the type 2 (Slowly Changing Dimensions)

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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: ?? on Job Steps and how they work

    if emailing the report is part of Step #1 then the report gets email during Step #1 execution.

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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: Using Schema for Logical Organization

    Schemas are not folders and you do not want to add any overhead to your database.

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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 Partitioning Scenario question.

    Sqlism (4/30/2013)


    Thanks Paul for your time.

    If i have data for Eg from

    2009

    2010

    2011

    2012

    2013

    How should i plan the partitioning for unexpected data where the date is like 1988 or 2050

    Create a...

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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: Are my statistics being used?

    Jon.Morisi (4/30/2013)


    Unfortunately I don't know how to check if my statistics are being used. Any ideas?

    Statistics ARE used.

    To test the concept, do this.

    1- Copy two related tables an write...

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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 Partitioning Scenario question.

    Sqlism (4/30/2013)


    I am worried because it might cause performance issues.

    Table partitioning is not about performance but administration.

    In most cases a partitioning strategy is based on thinking how to make your...

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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: Data Warehouse Models

    rka (4/14/2013)


    Someone from my company's strategy has said that the Data Warehouse model needs to be:

    - Atomic

    - 3rd NF

    - Relational

    But I disagree. I always considered DW models to be:

    - Dimensional

    -...

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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 Partitioning Scenario question.

    Sqlism (4/30/2013)


    Migrating warehouse from Oracle to SQL Server :

    Status: In process

    In Oracle : 6 Schemas

    In SQL Server: Created a database with 6 Schemas.

    -Every Schema has 3 Paritioned and...

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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 Books

    Fact is, you already have those books so I would go ahead and use them.

    Plenty of information in the net about new/deprecated features between SQL Server versions therefore, I would...

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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: Vaccine Dose & Date Sequence Problems

    For documentation purposes I would create a table with the same schema, populate it with the "wrong" rows then, just run an update statement on the core table updating columns...

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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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