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  • RE: Schemas, schemas, and more schemas

    Jeff Kring (2/18/2011)


    Prior to my current job, I worked solely on SQL Server 2000 so schemas weren't something I ever really cared about. Several months ago, though, I came...

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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: Nonclustered Versus Unique NonClustered

    sqlchanakya (2/17/2011)


    I was just trying to convey like whats the significance of unique key while creating indexes...

    mmhhh... to enforce uniqueness perhaps? 😀

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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: fastest way to export from Oracle into textfiles

    Jo Pattyn (2/15/2011)


    ...or try to write to "external tables"

    Oracle "external tables" are read-only - no DML activity is allowed.

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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: fastest way to export from Oracle into textfiles

    sqlgreg (2/17/2011)


    Thanks, guys. Jo, I ended up using the spool option to spool the results of a query with a custom delimiter (pipe) into a text file.

    Out of curiosity... what...

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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: Is anyone listening?

    sqlgreg (2/11/2011)


    Ok, I just got an email that the server is down for awhile, so that's why the listener isn't running. Or listening./quote]

    That certainly explains 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: system requirements for datawarehousing

    miriyalasrihari (2/8/2011)


    WHAT ARE THE MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS TO BUILD A DATA WAREHOUSE...................WITH MICROSOFT OS

    Volume?

    Concurrency?

    Volatility?

    Daily ETL or near-real-time?

    Size of user community?

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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: Snowflaking Dimensions

    Sideout1972 (2/9/2011)


    ssills (2/9/2011)


    Looks to me as if there are two fact tables: policies and transactions, both have agent relationships. The former is SCD. The latter probably isn't. Whether broker may...

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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: I want calculate the percentage through an update of a table

    Did you commit?

    Post definition of the table,

    Post session showing update statement.

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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: Snowflaking Dimensions

    Sideout1972 (2/9/2011)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (2/9/2011)


    1.a - I do agree a DimAgent dimension table is needed.

    1.b - How about having two FactPolicyTransaction columns named AgentPolicy and AgentTransaction.

    I assume FactPolicyTransaction table will be sliced...

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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: Snowflaking Dimensions

    Sideout1972 (2/9/2011)


    Question 1: Building an insurance data warehouse, you have a DimPolicy table (for the insurance policy) and a FactPolicyTransaction table (for the transactions on that policy). There 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: Development server running wild

    Check for scheduled jobs - this may be some sort of a monitoring tool.

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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: restore master & mdsb etc

    najibphl (2/8/2011)


    Can someone tell me if it is possible to restore master , msdb etc on a clone?

    i need to make a description of all the steps that must...

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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: ensuring maintenance gets done on a 24/7 database

    winston Smith (2/8/2011)


    Lets say you have a large db that has to be online24/7. It has tables with many indexes that need to be maintained.

    Most systems will have a downtime,...

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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: Getting an error on every tuesday

    srilu_bannu (2/8/2011)


    Hi all,

    We have a job that is being run for the past 4 years and it never failed due to this reason.The job fetches the data from OLEDB Linked...

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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: need help with sql query against oracle database

    Patrick.I (2/8/2011)


    Hi All,

    I have a .NET app and the app uses a Oracle Db.So i'm using Oracle .Net Provider for .NET

    I have a problem with...

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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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