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  • RE: Difference between Oracle & SQL Server at high level.

    saurabh.deshpande (10/5/2010)


    What are the difference between Oracle(Say Oracle 10g) and SQL Server (Say SQL Server 2005) at high level.

    Too many differences - this exceeds what can be discussed 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.
  • RE: Staging vs Temp tables in SSIS

    I'm in agreement with Derrick. I vote for Staging tables.

    Also, a real staging table would not add overhead to Tempdb as a temp table would do.

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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: Incorrect syntax near '0'.

    tmurray 69699 (10/5/2010)


    I have it after the last 0 then a , anc then conn2)

    :blink:

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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: Group by vs. Distinct

    UMG Developer (9/29/2010)


    Sure with GROUP BY you can add a HAVING clause, but I have seen people use DISTINCT as a short-cut for grouping by all the returned columns 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: Disk Defrag

    Jon.Morisi (10/4/2010)


    I've been operating with the preference to take SQL server offline when defragmenting the disks in which SQL Server datafiles or logfiles reside on in order to avoid possible...

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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: xp_instance_regread redirects

    Nicely documented. Thank you Howard.

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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: historization of high volume data

    Gibou (10/5/2010)


    I'm new to sql server high volume usage. I have an application to develop and I would appreciate some advices.

    Say that I'll have to have those tables :

    - cars

    -...

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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: Dimension problem

    riccardo.russo79 (10/4/2010)


    Paul,

    your solution is nice. I will have 50+ classes... so I will have 50+ DW with 1 DataMart each one?

    I would say it will end up being one DWH...

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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 split name in parts and search them in a column

    as-534320 (10/4/2010)


    How can i use substring() and charindex()? Can you point me a small example?

    Sure thing.

    Example below solves scenario where there is a first and last name separated by...

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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: Bulk Insert very large compressed partitioned table and primary key

    Pablo Campanini (10/4/2010)


    Hi.

    I tried to load a very large .CSV file in primary key order to a Compressed partitioned table with the parameter ORDER by the primary key, but it...

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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: Renaming all user created tables

    jamesmario (10/3/2010)


    Is there a script to change all the user created tables? for example, a database created with 5 tables (table1, table2,table3,table4,table5) and later wants to rename them to (table11,...

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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: Dimension problem

    riccardo.russo79 (10/2/2010)


    I need help for modeling a new DW.

    Situation: my ETL software collects measures each quarter from 100 different tlc nodes. The measures are divided in classes (say now there...

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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: Decrease Query execution time.

    rahulpatel112 (10/4/2010)


    I am facing problem since last 5-6 month in sql server in query executing it takes 10-12 mins to execute even if database is on local pc.

    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: How to split name in parts and search them in a column

    as-534320 (10/4/2010)


    I will need to create a stored procedure to search for a person name.

    Ex:

    @name = 'John Smith'

    I would like that this stored procedure returns persons called 'John Smith' and...

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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: append only unique records

    rwyatt292 (10/3/2010)


    Paul thanks for the help

    Glad to help.

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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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