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  • RE: Creating Multiple SQL Logins cause performance problems?

    Nope.

    User creation may be one of the less intrusive activities I can think about.

    In our shop we have to have an approved Change Ticket to touch production, only...

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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: Inserts into a fact table

    I'll check the overall load in that timeframe - concurrency may be an issue but most probably I/O contention.

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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 comment on my Database Integration

    Little Nick (11/8/2010)


    GSquared (11/8/2010)


    I normally do ETL through SSIS, not through an external XML file, but it sounds like it should work, if I'm understanding you correctly.

    How about data integrity?...

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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: In a mixed (non-Native SQL) Recovery setup who best to take the lead on investigating errors

    YSLGuru (11/8/2010)So in closing it’s a question of not who should be responsible for making sure the recovery gets done but who should be the lead to investigate the issues...

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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 101 for application programmers

    This is like discussing why pigs get fat... answer is simple, it is not the pig's fault but the fault of whoever feeds the pig!

    In the environments I control 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: In a mixed (non-Native SQL) Recovery setup who best to take the lead on investigating errors

    YSLGuru (11/8/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (11/8/2010)


    YSLGuru (11/8/2010)


    Anyone In a mixed (non-Native SQL) Recovery setup who best to take the lead on investigating errors

    Always remember Rule #4 which states "DBA are responsible for database...

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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: Problems inserting a record

    bill 36362 (11/8/2010)


    SQL Express in not throttled. It does however have some limits. It only addresses 1GB of Ram adn 1 CPU and max db size is 10GB.

    I 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: In a mixed (non-Native SQL) Recovery setup who best to take the lead on investigating errors

    YSLGuru (11/8/2010)


    Anyone In a mixed (non-Native SQL) Recovery setup who best to take the lead on investigating errors

    Always remember Rule #4 which states "DBA are responsible for database recoverability" so,...

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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: Maintenance Free SQL?

    C# Screw (11/8/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (11/8/2010)


    Lets pray vendor doesn't drop or change the name of "NAME" column πŸ˜€

    Yep that would c#Screw it all right:-D

    So no probs otherwise then ?

    That's what I...

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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 design - help needed

    As Ray points it out there are a lot of questions to be asked.

    Most important questions I would ask to myself if I was in your position is:

    - 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: Maintenance Free SQL?

    Lets pray vendor doesn't drop or change the name of "NAME" column πŸ˜€

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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 drop large amount of index and constraint by sql?

    Chan Wai Yin (11/6/2010)


    We need to drop large amount of indexes and constraints and if we use SQL Analyzer to maually drop each of them this task would be painful....

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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 clustering vs. virtualization

    parissa_bakhshi (11/4/2010)


    ... use table partiotionning to break your database into parts and put each part in an one cluster node.Now what you have is 3 servers, each of them servicing...

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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: ERD Help

    bickling77 (11/6/2010)


    Here is my revised ERD with if someone could give me some input on this I would greatly appreciate it.

    mmhhh... still seeing SoldItems.DateSold column. πŸ™‚

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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: Fact table design issue- Please advise!

    Pac123 (11/5/2010)


    Thats right..Table B is at a more granular level than table #A. [one record for every week in the date range between start and enddates].

    Here is the root cause...

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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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