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Monitoring error logs in Oracle and Sql Server
In Oracle, there are 3 places that I know of that are important for monitoring: the bdump, where background process error is stored; udump, where user trace error is dumped; and cdump, the core dump, where Oracle internal error is dumped. cdump is in the binary format, you can use “strings -a” to look at…
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
Below is a piece I wrote for last week’s Sql Server PASS newsletter. The editor adjusted the title to The Times, They Are Changin’. I thought that change lost the humor I try to convey 🙂 Also, it is amazing how close Brian and I think on this one. We didn’t talk to each other,…
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Enable File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks for cluster install
I talked about one issue when setting up Sql cluster here. Recently I came across another problem while setting up a Sql Server 2000 cluster on a 2-node Windows 2003 cluster. The error occurred at the step where you were asked to provide a login that can get into the remote node(s), server(s) where install…
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Assign SELECT results into variables
I mentioned here that SELECT INTO in Sql Server is functionally similar to CREATE TABLE AS in Oracle. Oracle also has SELECT INTO, but it is used for assigning query results to a variable. Here is a PL/SQL code snippet: declare MyVariable varchar2(20); Begin select ColumnName into MyVariable from MyTable where MyID = SomeInteger; dbms_output.put_line(‘Hello…
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Best way to represent date value in Sql Server
I am going through Kalen Delaney and Itzik Ben-Gan’s Inside Sql Server 2005 books. I am surprised and happy to learn that you can always represents date/time value in the format of [YY]YYMMDD[ HH:MI[:SS][.MMM]] in Sql Server, with things inside the square bracket being optional. In fact, that is a recommended practice because you will…