Phil

Manchester, United Kingdom

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Age: 35

Oracle DBA, Unix admin.

Available for employment! ;)

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comment Does Logical Fragmentation Meaningful in the age of huge SANs?
I'll add that this is something that frustrates me these days - 10 years ago I'd dictate tablespace mappings (I'm an Oracle DBA) to clients and tell them what storage to buy for a hybrid OLTP/reporting system. I knew what disks they had and what configurations (RAID 5 for boring stuff, 0+1 for perf etc). Now, you're lucky if the "storage admin" even knows what has been presented to your DB host. Don't even get me started on thin provisioning! Anyway, SQL Server Question, so I'll leave it to the SQL Server people :)
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comment Does Logical Fragmentation Meaningful in the age of huge SANs?
Best question I've seen on the site recently. Welcome, and +1. Looking forward to some quality answers.
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comment Postgresql - how to drop a trigger
drop trigger triggername on tablename; should work... How odd.
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answered Oracle 11g install on Debian Wheezy does not start
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comment Oracle 11g install on Debian Wheezy does not start
Seems strange that the ORACLE_SID is AL32UTF8 - that is the character set... Is there an /etc/oratab file on your system? If so, edit your question with its contents.
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accepted Migrated questions, quality, and frequency of returning users
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reviewed Reject suggested edit on mysql import - database not found error
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reviewed Close change data directory postgres with database cluster
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reviewed Close What is causing the Periodic High Disk IO writes on MySQL Apache Server
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reviewed Close Query for Oracle database
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reviewed Close How to Change location of postgres cluster and database within the same machine?
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comment Query for Oracle database
I hate to say it, but have you tried writing a query? How is your SQL knowledge? Edit your question with your attempts.
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comment DELETE vs TRUNCATE (Oracle)
RE truncates - Though if you have FLASHBACK DATABASE setup you can recover the DB to a previous SCN and get the data, but it requires a database bounce. See gavinsoorma.com/2009/08/using-flashback-to-rollback-a-truncate as an example
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comment Oracle PL SQL EXTREMEMLY slow FETCH performance
What else are you doing in the loop? If you're doing an update, delete or insert it will be relevant, so edit your question with exact details.
May
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comment skip columns while using LOAD command mysql
LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.txt' INTO TABLE t1 (column1, column2, @discard3, column4);
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answered skip columns while using LOAD command mysql
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on What's the difference between functions and stored procedures?
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awarded Caucus
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comment How to merge data from 2 databases
Before it got edited.... Sigh.
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comment How to merge data from 2 databases
Assuming SQL Server?
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