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  • RE: Urgent, Attach/Import Oracle database into a new machine (with a Oracle 11g enviroment installed)

    Resender (5/12/2011)


    Its far from small the folder that contains the files tells me its 57.5 GB.

    That's a small database - I would ask customer to send a full export.

    Resender (5/12/2011)


    Problem...

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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 (5/12/2011)


    Well I got the feeling compatibility might be a problem, I got word that the client still uses 9i

    If this is the case install fresh Ora9i codeset in 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: No data found error

    Out of curiosity, what happens is you execute very same offending query as OPENQUERY()?

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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 Analysis Services with Oracle

    Agreed. SQL Server Analysis Services integration with Oracle is a well documented subject.

    You may want to start by checking Microsoft documentation on the matter, like... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964120(SQL.90).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: Copy off original data, even if it is corrupt - before restoring backups?

    This doesn't look to me llike a DR question, much more of a backup/recovery question.

    DR planning usually includes a secondary remote environment that will take over production activity when primary...

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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: Passing an argument to an Oracle Stored Procedure and returning a record set to SSRS 2008 R2

    Check all objects getting ORA-06564 then...

    1- Be sure object exist.

    2- Be sure the Oracle account logging into Oracle during the process do have execute privilege granted on 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: Handling variations of a customers name on an order

    JohnMarks (5/5/2011)


    I am looking for opinions on how people model the entities which may have to store a number of different customer names that might be tied to an order....

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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: Passing an argument to an Oracle Stored Procedure and returning a record set to SSRS 2008 R2

    Toad is not executing statements as sqlplus.

    Either connect thru sqlplus - you have it in your local ORACLE_HOME/bin or research how to get Toad to exec statements as sqlplus.

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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: Landing My First Job

    SqlNewJack (4/22/2011)


    I'm currently a student finishing up my CS degree and making a major career change from a completely different field. What skill set would you recommend (languages, vendors, soft...

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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 (5/5/2011)


    I have set up a connection that pull data from Oracle 10.2.0.

    It is no problem to transfer numeric values like int, tinyint, decimal and so on, but string...

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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: Passing an argument to an Oracle Stored Procedure and returning a record set to SSRS 2008 R2

    the.eviled209.40k (5/6/2011)


    I am having an issue retreiving data from a Stored Procedure in Oracle to SSRS. First, I have to keep this Stored Procedure in Oracle because it is...

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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: Index creation in a huge table

    Time to check your backup/recovery strategy...

    What's your last known good backup?

    Does your backup/recovery strategy allows for point-in-time recovery?

    Was backup/recovery strategy ever tested?

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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

    varaprasad.gali (5/1/2011)


    Hi i am a developer in sql server. can any one suggest me what i shall learn next for bright career; pls suggest me

    As it most of the time...

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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 2008 Express Advances Install Fails

    Boomer... please check this... http://www.avianwaves.com/Blog/default.aspx?id=98&t=Mystery-of-the-SQL-Server-2008-RTM-MsiGe

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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 2008 Express Advances Install Fails

    Arthur.Lorenzini (4/29/2011)


    I am trying to install SQL Server 2008 Express Advance and I keep recieveing the following error:

    Exit message: ...

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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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