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  • RE: Weird Performance problem. Fast on standalone laptop, slow on super-duper server.

    Stueyd (4/9/2013)


    Anyone got any suggestions where else to check?

    Was performance miserable since day one or has performance deteriorated over time?

    Long shot... have you attempted to restore the offending database on...

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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: When to update statistics manually, if at all?

    SQLKnowItAll (4/8/2013)


    So, I'm using my google foo to try to find some articles about why we should not be updating statistics and recompiling on a daily basis. 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: tempdb

    Please follow link next to find out how to monitor blocking locks... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271509 - That would tell you who is blocking who.

    Out of curiosity... is standalone database running on 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: ssis Logging FIle vs syslog table in database

    +1 ... I would go for a table too. Much more flexible.

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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: Order dates in DESC order, starting with current Month/Year

    5280_Lifestyle (3/20/2013)


    I'm trying to get month and year output for an SSRS report using an Oracle data source for use as a multiple value parameter; the user can select dates...

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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: CPU usage

    PiMané (3/19/2013)


    * The CPU history says that SQL Server uses 1 to 0% of CPU but other processes use 10 to 30%

    What else is running on the particular server?

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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: Performance issue

    Solution is doing it row-by-row, no surprise that's painfull.

    Why not design a set based solution? A single insert into select from statement should do 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: copying table with filegroups and partitions in DW server

    1- Pre create the table as it pleases you.

    2- Populate the table - I assume the servers can "see" each other.

    As a proof of concept you may want to pre...

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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: Database describing databases and references to tables

    gbfv (3/4/2013)


    Hello, I asked a question at dba.stackexchange.com here, that's not getting a lot of interest. Now that it has fallen out of the first page I fear there's no...

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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: export/import error

    nick.mcdermaid (2/7/2013)


    As already suggested, the issue is because a column, table or alias name is longer than 30 characters, which is the Oracle size limit on object names.

    It is nothing...

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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: it takes too long to insert data to different tables

    huy1002 (2/20/2013)


    I was trying to dump data from a Temp table to 4 different tables (Computers, ComputerInfo, Vulnerabilities, and AuditInfo) in C# with different methods I created in classes.

    if...

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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: Policy database Design

    Bhuvnesh (1/27/2013)


    i have enclosed here sheet which contains column's list . can anybody help how can i seggregate them into different tables ?

    How about building an Entity/Relationship Model?

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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: DWH : Fact table : index creation.

    Bhuvnesh (2/18/2013)


    Andy Hyslop (2/15/2013)


    could test your ETL's by dropping all of your indexes and re-creating and determining the impact so see which is more efficient

    Does it cost intensive if...

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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: Remote Query to Oracle very slow

    newbieuser (2/12/2013)


    Hi friends,

    We are troubleshooting performance on a process that is taking too long. I ran a trace using sql server profiler and it looks like 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: Export all tables of database to Excel

    Angeline87 (2/16/2013)


    Hi to everybody

    How can I export all tables of a database to one excel file (each table should be one spreadsheet in the excel file) by using SQL Code?...

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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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