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  • RE: Locking in oracle

    qaz123 90964 (10/9/2010)


    I have a select statement in sql 2000, with the select on a linked server (oracle) table.

    For example

    select * from linkserver..dbname.my_table

    in SQL 2000 reportedly caused locking...

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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 empty string ('') is the same as NULL

    Lowell (10/11/2010)


    In Oracle, the NVL function is equivilent to the ISNULL function in SQL.

    One of the wierd things in Oracle is that an empty string ('') is considered NULL, which...

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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 vs Oracle Stored Proc OUTPUT parameters

    dwmllr (10/10/2010)


    Thanks for the response.

    Your suggestion is an option. I was hoping to find a way to get around the SQL Server issue without cluttering the integration 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.
  • RE: Different Editions on one Server

    Raghavender (10/11/2010)


    Can we install different Editions of SQL Server, like SQL Server 2005 ent edition is one instance and SQL Server 2005 Std edition is another instance on one system...

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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: similar like Oracle RAC

    Jeff Moden (10/10/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (10/8/2010)


    grahamc (10/8/2010)


    So if its a memory, CPU issue, it will scale.... Cool!!! Thank you makes a little more sense now

    The focus of Oracle RAC is high availability...

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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: declaring global variables

    mail4sha (10/9/2010)


    In Oracle, we can set the public variable/constant/types/curosors in the Package specification, Could you please tell me that how to achieve the same functionality in the SQL server.

    There 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: similar like Oracle RAC

    Michael Valentine Jones (10/8/2010)


    DEC Rdb was introduced with clustering similar to RAC in 1984. My assumption is that Oracle acquired a lot of the technology for RAC when they...

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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: similar like Oracle RAC

    grahamc (10/8/2010)


    So if its a memory, CPU issue, it will scale.... Cool!!! Thank you makes a little more sense now

    The focus of Oracle RAC is high availability 🙂

    You can...

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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: converting oracle code to sql server code

    LAG() is actually a PL/SQL analytic function.

    I agree IS_VALID_DATE() is a custom function usually coded like:

    create or replace FUNCTION IS_VALID_DATE(pStr VARCHAR2, pFmt VARCHAR2) RETURN NUMBER

    IS

    vRet NUMBER := 0;

    vDate DATE :=...

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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: Clustering and SQL recovery mode

    LadyRuna (10/8/2010)


    I've gotten myself into an odd situation. A few months after an upgrade from SQL 2000 to 2005 (which I was NOT involved with), the customer comes back 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: similar like Oracle RAC

    grahamc (10/8/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly

    since you have it running... does that mean if you have a RAC environment running, that if you are hitting performance problems that a shiny new server can...

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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: similar like Oracle RAC

    grahamc (10/8/2010)


    From my understand (mostly reading of forums, blogs and web articles) the Oracle RAC is mostly a marketing gimmick, nice to helps sell the product, but not really applicable...

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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: similar like Oracle RAC

    Gianluca Sartori (10/8/2010)


    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (10/8/2010)


    saurabh.deshpande (10/8/2010)


    So, what they are giving new with Oracle 10g/11g.

    So, what's new?

    Now it works 😉

    Really, does it? 😛

    It does indeed - surprised? 😀

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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: similar like Oracle RAC

    Jeff Moden (10/8/2010)


    GilaMonster (10/8/2010)


    Jeff Moden (10/8/2010)


    Why wouldn't "Federated Servers" in SQL Server do the same thing?

    That's when you split a database across multiple servers so that each holds a piece.

    RAC...

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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 vs Oracle Stored Proc OUTPUT parameters

    dwmllr (10/8/2010)


    I need to get and integration solution to run on both SQL Server 2005 and Oracle instances of the same database. The Oracle DB exists and I created...

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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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