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  • RE: change the following query to storedprocedure

    ...and the question 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: Help an Oracle newbie out

    Resender (1/3/2011)


    OK the books have finally arrived (after 2 weeks delay and then the postman left them at my frontdoor without waiting for me to come to the door (stupid...

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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 best model this business process?

    aaa-322853 (1/1/2011)


    Sure, dimensions date, router and account. I just don't know how to structure the fact table in order to answer the business questions

    Specification suggest a row has to 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: Quick way to create a web page over a configuration table?

    aaa-322853 (12/31/2010)


    There's one requirement which comes up time and time again when I am working on DW projects is the ability to allow the end users to amend configuration values...

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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 best model this business process?

    aaa-322853 (12/31/2010)


    I have been thinking about how best to implement the following logic within a dimensional model for some time, I haven't yet came up with a clean solution.

    The business...

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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 much of a future is there for the "local" DBA

    Indianrock (12/30/2010)


    I'm sure many have vibrant careers as local DBAs ( not consultants, not working for some sort of "outsourcer" / cloud organization, etc ). The cloud really hasn't...

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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 installation - access level needed

    dbrashear (12/30/2010)


    My company's crack IT Security staff have proudly "locked-down" the entire corporation's computers to ensure that very little actual work gets done other than email spamming and surfing 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: Transaction Log and Simple Recovery Model

    chris.s.powell (12/30/2010)


    Thank you all! As a followup, does a delete record take up more space in the transaction log than an insert and if so, is there any way...

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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: Best Practices for SQL 2008 backup Maintenance Plans

    chaudharyabhijit (12/30/2010)


    What is a proper way to shrink Transaction Log files for a database that's set to a Simple Recovery mode?

    This is not needed.

    Under Simple Recovery Model t-logs are automatically...

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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: Difference between SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2

    mvillegascuellar (12/30/2010)


    I would like to know what is the difference between SQL 2008 and SQL 2008 R2?

    In cases like this nothing beats official documentation. Lots of differences, check SS2K8R2 features...

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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: Running a sql server 2008 job to back up to network folder

    mashikoo (12/30/2010)


    I'm trying to schedule a back up database task to backup some specific databases to a network folder...

    1- Share a folder located on target remote drive

    2- Map remote share...

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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: Distributed transaction

    Elliott Whitlow (12/30/2010)


    While being specific with BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION is a good practice, I will say that the DB Engine is smart enough to know that it is a distributed...

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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: Table Aligned Index

    jeelanik (12/30/2010)


    I started testing with a partition table with two schemes, one for data and other for indexes. I was able to switch, split and merge. But, there was...

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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: Repetitive Indexes

    Thank you for the clarifications.

    I'll say that... if you do not have a Test environment and you do not know the Queries and you do want to keep your job......

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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: Repetitive Indexes

    Stefan Krzywicki (12/30/2010)


    I'm currently transferring some tables from a large database on SQL Server 2000 to a new server, their own database and SQL Server 2008 R2. We don't have...

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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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