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  • RE: How to change the database state in oracle

    silahtooengi (5/31/2011)


    How to change the database state in oracle

    Not clear to me what you mean.

    Do you mean shutdown/startup?

    Do you mean restricted mode?

    Do you mean archivelog/non-archivelog mode?

    Other?

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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: Opinions on handling date ranges with unknown limits?

    ShawnTherrien (5/30/2011)


    In my system there are a lot of programs for people to belong to, a lot of periods of information, a good number of StartDate/EndDate.

    Right now a period record...

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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: PK Identity as a convention, always more effective when there is a single int natural key?

    Please allow me to spice it a little 🙂

    For starters, if you come to my desk with a 1:1 relationship better for you to have very, really strong arguments about...

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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: DW NOVICE Question - How Best To Exploit OLAP

    YSLGuru (5/24/2011)


    I admit I don't fully know the diff between a DW (Data Warehouse) a DM (Data Mart) and a CUbe; they could all be 3 different words for 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: Oracle RDB ODBC SSIS Import to SQL - Data Errors

    kvacola (5/27/2011)


    Hello all ... first off SSIS n00b warning!

    I am trying to import about 38+ Million rows from an Oracle RDB database to SQL. I have the ODBC connection...

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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: Primary key is must to increase the performance?

    kuppurajm (5/25/2011)


    I am using identity column in table.but not set that column as primary key.

    by makking that column as primary key any performance will be increased?

    Not necessarily. Look at 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: Urgent, Attach/Import Oracle database into a new machine (with a Oracle 11g enviroment installed)

    Resender (5/25/2011)


    Been resolved

    Congrats on the good job.

    Would you mind in sharing final strategy with the forum? Others may benefit in the future 🙂

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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 refreshing DEV/TEST servers with LIVE data

    I'm in agreement with Steve, a proper environment should have at least three escalation points e.g. Development, Test/UAT and Production.

    Usually Test/UAT and Production are the same size; Development can 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: Does Table Partitioning reduce write duration?

    thinknight (5/26/2011)


    Does Partititioning reduce write performance?

    It shouldn't.

    If properly partitioned it should decrease contention during heavy I/O.

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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: EMERgency PLease help

    bijarcity (5/23/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (5/22/2011)


    bijarcity (5/21/2011)


    Is there any way to check if a connection between 2 SQL Servers exists.

    For instance I don't want a sproc to be run unless 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: EMERgency PLease help

    bijarcity (5/21/2011)


    Is there any way to check if a connection between 2 SQL Servers exists.

    For instance I don't want a sproc to be run unless a connection exists...

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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: Countries of birth lookup table with subcategories

    Diane Davis (5/19/2011)


    I am thinking about adding a category to each entry so that "Kenya" will have a "continent" category of "Africa". Then the searches can be written so that...

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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 export data in sql server?

    Tiya (5/21/2011)


    I am doing export only for practice..and learning purpose.thanks for the help..is there any query to import?

    Well... it all depends on what are you planing to do with that...

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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: ipad or kindle

    sqlfriends (5/22/2011)


    I often found to read articles on line would be easier if I have an ipad or kindle.

    I can move around with them instead of carrying around my heavy...

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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: Use schema to distinguish between dimension and fact tables

    Carlos Bossy (5/19/2011)


    I have seen schemas used only once in a data warehouse where it made sense. This particular DW had multiple data marts (stars) where the marts had...

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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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