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  • RE: ERD Help

    Please take a second look at SoldItems.DateSold, I think this is redundant to Sales.SaleDate. If both pieces of information describe the same attribute which is the date/time of 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: Need advice on database integration

    Little Nick (11/5/2010)


    1. Current solutions architecture on integration, looks bad

    2. This is because, if there's no data is push from ERP into IntegratedDB, that special program still running. At this...

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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: What's the definitive book on SQL Server DB design?

    info-849042 (11/4/2010)


    What is the definitive book on database design best practises? E.g. covering things like recommended max number of columns in a table (if any recommended max), when to use...

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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: Reporting Strategy - Looking for suggestions/comments

    btodd 61953 (11/2/2010)


    I'm learning a lot and thankfully I have a TEST system to work with. The problem is that it is taking me a long time to accomplish...

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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 without UPDATA and DELETE

    xbarf (11/4/2010)


    My DB has only one table. This table has only two columns (X & Y) but many many records.

    The only operations on this table are: INSERT and SELECT.

    I mean,...

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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)


    I don't know much about virtualization. Somebody just told me tha it can take use of other servere which are in your virtual environment.

    Yes and 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: Apress ebook of the day

    RichardDouglas (11/3/2010)


    I promise this isn't spam and I have no connection with Apress

    Okay Rich, I'll trust you but... if you keep notifying us about such new releases it will 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: SQL clustering vs. virtualization

    parissa_bakhshi (11/2/2010)


    I have a problem choosing between clustering and virtualization solutions.

    We have an SQL server instance which have some large databases in it. Most of serer resources consumes for this...

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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 to Oracle & ViceVersa

    DNA_DBA (11/1/2010)


    There's a document here that shows how the two databases compare from a DBA point of view:

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/SQLServer2008forOracle.docx

    Not your fault but target document is not as good as it 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: Sr level interview questions

    sasi.tripuraneni (10/26/2010)


    Can any one please post Sr level interview questions, its very urgent!

    Don't put in your resume anything that can be used against you or better rephrasing it: don't lie...

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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: Date Dimension Hierarchy Question

    RainbowFfolly (10/29/2010)


    No I hadn't even thought of it. I think I may have been unwittingly brainwashed by Kimball into believing that if Ralph hates snowflakes then so should 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: Date Dimension Hierarchy Question

    RainbowFfolly (10/28/2010)


    I've a question about date dimensions related to constructing hierarchies for events that may span more than one year.

    I'd like to include religious holidays in my date dimension as...

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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: Normalization vs Denormalization

    rootfixxxer (10/28/2010)


    How do i quote some one?!

    @GilaMonster

    Should it? Always? In every case? Why?

    I have little knowledge about developing dw's, but the little thing that i know for example 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: Oracle to SQL replicaton - entire DB or one table

    Michal222 (10/29/2010)


    Does anyone have experience about replication between Oracle 10gR2 database to SQL server 2008 database, if so could you please share it with us about the tool or method...

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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: Working with Oracle

    feersum_endjinn (10/28/2010)


    I think this is what you need:

    I would probably do...

    SELECT SUM(NVL(qty,0))

    rather than...

    SELECT NVL(SUM(qty), 0)

    ...so to ensure individual Null values are summarized as zeros.

    _____________________________________
    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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