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

    thomas_emerson (5/19/2011)


    I'm getting a similar error, but with different circumstances. My team has a group account set up with the Oracle owners, and all of us can use 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: Cursor use in Oracle

    Jeff Moden (3/12/2011)


    I absolutely agree but, just like I said a year and a half ago, too many people simply give up too easily on finding a high performance set...

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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

    alexandre.lepage 4666 (5/17/2011)


    Maybe it's just me but I still feel a schema for dimension tables distinct from one for fact tables is somehow wrong: but my "killer" argument here might...

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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: Re-designing a Transaction Database - 37 Types of Transactions

    I'm in agreement with Grant.

    You do not model after transactions but after entities and relationships, after your ER model is sound then you move to physical implementation.

    I also agree...

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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 (5/19/2011)


    DATAFILE 'D:\dbname\system01.dbf' SIZE 700M REUSE

    I thought I did use reuse

    I meant, create database reuse controlfile 🙂

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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 (5/18/2011)


    Funny enough, the client now passed along that the database might be an 11 or 10g after all

    Well... what can I say? this is kind of a little unprofessional...

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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: A developer is using an db user (nonhuman) to make changes to production

    DBAgal (5/18/2011)


    I inherited a database where the db users were granted db_ownership. After spending hours on the phone yesterday explaining the db change management process, the developer was given...

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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: newbie to sql server

    crainlee2 (5/16/2011)


    I'm especially proud of this one:

    USE Master

    DELETE FROM SYSOBJECTS

    What do you think?

    I think you have a great potential for a stand up comedian career 😀

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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: Error reading string from Oracle to MS SQL 2005

    Dan-Ketil Jakobsen (5/10/2011)


    As mentioned, I get to transfer some tables, but I am not allowed to change the datatype on all tables I need for my extract.

    Understood.

    How are you moving...

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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 SELECT * is not a best practise?

    Spam!... Reported, please do not reply.

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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 SELECT * is not a best practise?

    Suriya.pn (5/17/2011)


    Why SELECT * is not a best practise?

    Just building up on previous postings, as a rule of thumbs: never retrive all columns, never retrieve all rows.(*)

    (*) As always happens...

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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 (5/17/2011)


    OK I got a virtual Windows XP machine installed

    Installed 9i

    Created the dummy instance

    Shutdown the dummy instance

    After that I'm stuck

    Is the idea to import a dump file?

    Startup instance, Create tablespaces...

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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

    As you do I prefix my factual tables as FACT_ and my dimensional ones as DIM_, I also use the STG_ prefix for the staging ones; God knoww there 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: MS SQL Server vs MySQL Database

    duplicate

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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: MS SQL Server vs MySQL Database

    hakimali (5/13/2011)


    I work for a small company that just released its first iPhone app. The company was founded for that purpose: to develop iPhone apps. It looks like this app...

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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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