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RE: Building Business Intelligence Data Warehouses

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Definitely a high level (somewhat academic) review of Data Warehouses. The clients my company interacts with don't have "steering committees" but do have business needs that we are solving. Sometimes the road to the Enterprise or large Departmental Data Warehouse is through Data Marts that conform through dimensions. I am not slamming the article but […]

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2003-07-14

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RE: Best practice how to calculate row size

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Hi Dale, quote: This may be what you are looking for: quote: Estimating the Size of a Table The following steps can be used to estimate the amount of space required to store the data in a table: Specify the number of rows present in the table: Number of rows in the table = Num_Rows […]

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2003-07-14

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RE: QOD - RAM available to SQL 2000 Standard

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Yes, and this is actually true of any app. Unless the OS was booted with the /3GB switch or the /PAE switch and the app has been configured properly to use AWE memory, all applications are limited to 2 GB. The /3GB allows an app to expand to use 3 GB (provided there's memory available). […]

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2003-06-30

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RE: Triggers vs. Foreign-keys?

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Hi Dale, quote: Whatever happened to those ERDs (for Frank, Entity Relationship Diagrams) and UML (Universal Modeling Language) Class Diagrams? please, don't make me think, I'm the only one who doesn't understand. But I'm glad to see you care In fact, when it comes to slang or off-oxford english, which is tought in school here, […]

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2003-06-25

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RE: Confusing query plan

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If the table is going to take up more than a couple of pages, use a clustered index. Otherwise you can get a 'heap' where the query hops all over the place and end up with as many IO operations as there are rows.

2003-06-23

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