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  • RE: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    GSquared (10/15/2010)


    I'm a performance tuning expert, and last I heard, profiling is politically incorrect.

    You made my day 😀

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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 to create primary key after inserting foreign key.

    aspardeshi (10/15/2010)


    Please let me know what is DRI.

    Please do not take this the wrong way but you shouldn't be doing data modeling if you do not know what Referential...

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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: Where are the good Senior Level DBA's?

    Tim Parker (10/15/2010)


    Is this normal in the SQL Server DBA community?

    Not only in the SQL Server market - same happens with other RDBMS technologies.

    Some DBA crown themselves "Senior" just because...

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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: Data Modeling with Visio -- is it worth it?

    My tool of choice is ERWin.

    Check here for details http://www.ca.com/files/productbriefs/erwin_data_modeler_product_brief.pdf

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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: Surogate Keys are not always the answer but are freqently used

    hallidayd (10/14/2010)


    - Defined as IDENTITY because the column is guaranteed to be unique within the table

    That's not even correct.

    :blink: please do elaborate.

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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: Surogate Keys are not always the answer but are freqently used

    Still amazes me - yet it doesn't surprise me anymore - how this "surrogate Vs natural key debate" goes on and on.

    Please let me start by stating my position 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: Learning Oracle

    Lynn Pettis (10/13/2010)


    In my opinion, both Oracle and SQL Server have their place. What I have seen, however, is that the decision to use one over the other 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: Learning Oracle

    Eric Russell 13013 (10/13/2010)


    On the other hand, SQL Server is newer ...

    Always remember SQL Server carries Sybase genes; don't look at SQL Server 4.0 as SQL Server date of birth...

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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: Learning Oracle

    harrifolfenced (10/13/2010)


    what are advantages of oracle over sql

    Let me point to just two differences that some people may construct as Oracle advantages.

    Oracle runs on multiple O/S

    SQL Server runs only 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: DBA Change Management Guidelines

    DBAgal (10/13/2010)


    ... do I need to include anything else in my list of guidelines?

    Do you have a ticketing system to track changes?

    Is there an established weekly Change Management call scheduled?

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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: one or two entity?

    bassam86 (10/13/2010)


    Suppose I have two entity X and Y that have the same definition

    What is the best database design,Is to create tow tables one for x and other to...

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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: Partition on a Siebel database

    André Lozeau (10/13/2010)


    We have a 600 Gb Siebel 7.7 database that runs on SQL-Server 2000, of which one table uses 320 Gb for 140 millions rows. We are in 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: Transfering the Sa password from one server to another

    MarvinTheAndriod (10/11/2010)


    In the case of a disaster recovery we currently use the following script, (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992/) to transfer logins across from our live server to our backup server. The server 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: project

    kanika.bhagat (10/10/2010)


    I have one table student and three fields mtt1,mtt2 and sum.I want to update sum field whenever there is a new value inserted in mtt1 and mtt2.I want to...

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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 Tables in Oracle 10g

    Lynn Pettis (10/8/2010)


    We all know that in SQL Server that there is a system table that tells you about all the columns in each table in a database, sys.columns (in...

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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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