.mdf And .ldf File Placement
Nov 30, 2004Can I choose where I want to store my database using MSDE
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Help With File Placement Please...
Jul 20, 2005Hello All,I am looking at the performance of our production database. It is40gb, and growing reasonably fast. It is placed in one file group on aRAID-5 array. The array is made up of 20 (or so) 9gb disks. The data,the indexes and the transaction log are all on the "one logical disk".My question then, is, would it be better to move the transaction logonto a separate device (with Raid-1), and then separate out theindexes and the data and to place them onto separate devices (ie.split the raid disks into 2 new drives). Or would it be better toplace the table into a larger number of smaller filegroups effectivelysplit across the raid device and to (strategically) place differenttables into the new logical disks. Does this make sense?Or, do I just leave everything as it is?CheersMike
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Aug 16, 2007Can anyone point me to any Microsoft articals giving reccomendations for file placement for SQL server? We are trying to convince our Hardware guys that we need separate disks for data/log/tempdb files and need some ammo.
Thanks,
Jason
Database File Placement (many DB's)
Jul 21, 2004Hello,
I have a question about how I can change the database placement on our HP MSA1000 SAN. Basically I'm concerned about the performance of one particular server with 40+ databases. I'm familiar with the standard recommendations such as separating data and log files onto different physical drives, etc. But how is this going to be possible when there are only 14 physical drives available in the MSA1000? I also have to be concerned about the other server that's attached. Any suggestions, besides getting additional storage... :)
Thanks.
TempDB Placement - One File Per CPU
Sep 8, 2006I need some help understanding the benefit of creating tempdb with one file per processor. I believe the benefit has something to do with the way SQL Server utilizes processor threads, but I'm a bit weak on the details.
Thanks, Dave
Tempdb Log File Placement
Feb 22, 2007Using SQL2000
Is it recommended to put tempdb data and logs files on different drives?
Tempdb Log File Placement
Feb 22, 2007Using SQL2000
Is it recommended to put the tempdb data and log files on different drives?
File Placement On Server With 2 SQL Instances
Jan 25, 2008I have a server with 2 instances of SQL installed. There are 6 physical disks in the server which have been made into 3 mirrors.
The first mirror has the OS on it. Currently, the 2nd disk has all the database and transaction log files from both instances of SQL.
I plan to make use of the 3rd disk. My question is: is it better to move the database and transaction log files from the second instance to the new disk so that all the files for the first instance are on disk 2 and all the files for the 2nd instance are on disk 3 OR is it better to keep all the database files from both instances on disk 2 and move all the log files for both instances to disk 3?
I'm sure I have read somehwere that in this situation, the disks should be separated by instance rather than seperating by file type.
File Placement For Optimal Performance?
Aug 24, 2007What is the best performance for this configuration:
Files:
Data
Log
Indexes
tempdb
Disk:
A - RAID 10
B - RAID 10 (or should this be RAID 1?)
Whats best?:
A - Data and Indexes
B - tempdb and Log
??? Thanks.
SQL Server Admin 2014 :: Database File Placement And Number Of Files
Feb 2, 2015Database File Placement Layout? We are planning to implement a new SQL Server 2014 OLTP Database with a 1 TB Data file and 1 TB Log File. I am looking at the possible layout of the database files and trying to determine the best possible configuration. My knowledge/research tells me that items which need separate storage due to constant simultaneous access are:
Data files – should go on the fastest reading storage.
Log files – should go on the fastest writing storage.
TempDb – involves a lot of writing at the same time the data files are being read.
Indexes - (including full text indexes) - involves a lot of writing at the same time the data files are being read.
Also, are there any benefit to having multiple OLTP Database Log files? Because SQL Server writes to the log file sequentially, I do not see any advantages to having multiple database log files. In a SQL Server 2012 Class I took last summer, under “Determining File Placement and Number of Files”, it states “Use a single log file in most situations as log files are written sequentially.”
DDL Placement In SP For Improved Performance?
Mar 14, 2008Hey guys
I have someone telling me that you can improve performance in SP's by placing all the DDL at the beginning of the procedure. ie. Do all your CREATE TABLE #tbl and DECLARE's before the rest of your code.
Any thoughts on this?
Placement Of Sys.conversation_endpoints And Sys.transmission_queue
Dec 21, 2006Is there any thought going into moving these two tables to a file group that we can control? Putting this in Primary with the rest of my system tables is quite problematic, and hinders my ability to manage space usage on my files. Traditionally, we didn't have to consider a primary file group that could grow to large proportions, but now with these two tables it can. If a large volume of messages gets sent through and the system can't keep up, then these tables and my primary file group will grow sometimes enormously.
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Apr 30, 2007 We are creating a company-wide table of ZipCodes, States, GPS info, etc. This table can be used by our development and production servers (many of them.) We could place the table on a given server and use linked servers to grant access to that table to the other servers. But is there a better way to handle this globally-useful table?
Barkingdog
P.S. Clearly, we don't want to have multiple copies of this table scattered around on various servers. That introduces synchronization issues.
Reporting Services :: Placement Of Parameters In Report Header
Jul 2, 2015I've got a feeling that the answer is, "can't be done," but I'll go ahead and ask the august members of this forum, anyway. Is it possible to alter the placement of the Parameter fields when previewing a report?
At the moment, it seems that they form in a column of twos, reading from left to right. I see how the ORDER is affected, by changing the order of the parameters in the Report Data window, but can I change the number of columns?
SQL Server 2008 :: If Exists Placement Theory For Optional Tables
Nov 4, 2015I like writing concise and compact sql code without cursors if possible. My current dilemma has me stuck though.I have 3 tables, but one of them is optionally used and contains a key element of TimeOut to determine which Anesthesia CrnaID to use. It is the optionally used part that has me stumped.
Surgery table
CaseID
Patient
(Sample data: 101,SallyDoe 102,JohnDoe)
Anesthesia table
CaseID
CrnaID
(Sample data:
101,Melvin
102,Bart
102,Jack)
AnesthesiaTime table (this table is optionally used, only if the crna's take a break on long cases)
CaseID
CrnaID
TimeIn
TimeOut
(Sample data:
102,Jack,0800,1030
102,Bart,1030,1130
102,Jack,1130,1215)
Select Patient INNER JOIN Anesthesia produced too many case results. So, I figured out there is an AnesthesiaTime table that only gets used if the anesthesia guys take time-outs. That doesn't happen all the time. I could use TOP 1 on the Anesthesia table, but technically I need to read the AnesthesiaTime table and locate the last time and pull that crna, Jack. I'm not sure how to deal with an optional table. I believe the IF Exists will be pertinent, but not sure of how to build this query. I've tried subquery without success.
Transact SQL :: Placement Of Option (Recompile) In Dynamic For XML Select Statement?
Apr 18, 2015I can't seem to place the "option (recompile)" in any valid position so that the following procedure executes without a syntax error .
USE [PO]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[npSSUserLoad] Script Date: 4/18/2015 3:57:38 PM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
[Code] ...
-- Generated code - DO NOT MODIFY
-- From Object Schema: 'C:XXXXXX.NetPOPOModel\_ObjectSchema
-- To regenerate this procedure use the 'Open With' option on file _ObjectSchema and select POCodeGen.exe
Declare @SqlCmd nvarchar(max)
Declare @ParamDefinitions nvarchar(1024)
Set @ParamDefinitions = N'@UserId int,NTUser varchar(30), @XmlResult XML OUTPUT'
Set @SqlCmd = N'Set @XmlResult =
(
Select
[UserId] [a],
[UserName] [b],
[code]....
SQL Server 2008 :: Show Single Placement Dates As Start And End Date For Asset
May 24, 2015I have a table called 'AssetPlacements' that shows the dates when certain objects (AssID) were placed at certain locations (LocID).
ID AssID LocID PlacementDate
1112015-05-01
2122015-05-06
3132015-05-09
4212015-05-03
5222015-05-07
6232015-05-11
I'd like to show the assets with a start date and end date for the placement of the asset.
The start date to be the placement date and the end date to be the next placement date of the asset.
Where there is no next placement date to then show the end date as the current date, so hopefully the table will show as the following.
ID AssID LocID StartDate EndDate
1112015-05-01 2015-05-06
2122015-05-06 2015-05-09
3132015-05-09 [GetDate()]
4212015-05-03 2015-05-07
5222015-05-07 2015-05-11
6232015-05-11 [GetDate()
I'm guessing some sort of recursion is required here to produce this.
Reporting Services :: Parsing SSRS Config File And Dynamically Changing File Path Of Config File In Code
Sep 2, 2015Currently have a single hard coded file path to the SSRS config file which parses the file and provides the reporting services web service url. My question is how would i run this same query against 100s of servers that may or may not share the same file path as the one hard coded ?
Is there a way to query the registry to find the location of the config file of any server ? which could be on D, E, F, H, etc.
I know I can string together the address followed by "reports" and named instance if needed, but some instances may not have used the default virtual directory name (Reports).
Am I going about this the hard way ? Is there a location where the web service url exists in a table ? I could not locate anything in the Reporting service database. Basically need to inventory all of my reporting services url's.
File Will Not Attach To SQL Reason File Is Not Primary File
May 10, 2007I have a customer they are running raid 5 on a windows 2000 server one of the drives went bad. The customer replaced the drive and raid rebuilt the drive, every thing seamed to be fine but there is one database file that cannot be attached to SQL. The file is 15G so I know there is information the error states that the file is not a Primary file. Any clue on how to fix this?
mdf file size 5,738,944 KB
ldf file size 10,176 KB
An Attempt To Attach An Auto-named Database For File (file Location).../Database.mdf Failed. A Database With The Same Name Exists, Or Specified File Cannot Be Opened, Or It Is Located On UNC Share.
Sep 2, 2007Greetings, I have just arrived back into the country (NZ) and back into ASP.NET.
I am having trouble with the following:An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file (file location).../Database.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
It has only begun since i decided i wanted to use IIS, I realise VWD comes with its own localhost, but since it is only temporary, i wanted a permanent shortcut on my desktop to link to my intranet page.
Anyone have any ideas why i am getting the above error? have searched many places on the internet and not getting any closer.
Cheers ~ J
Attach Mdf File And Data File Without Log File
Mar 1, 2006how can i attach the mdf file with a corrupted/deleted Log file
my log file is deleted how can i attach the mdf file
Maintenance Commands Affect On Log File / Log File Maintenance Without Log File Backups?
Jun 18, 2015I am testing some maintenance tasks sql commands such as index rebuild, index reorg, update statistics and db integrity check on a SQL Server 2014 Database. This is a new non-production vendor database (DB Size 500 GBs, Log Size 25 GBs) which eventually will be created in production. Currently, it is in full recovery model and without log backups. The database has a whole lot of indexes. I am just trying to rebuild and reorganize all the indexes (that need it), in addition to trying to get an idea of how long these maintenance task will take and the space needed in the log file to complete these tasks/commands. I would like to execute these tasks manually (the first time) to gather the duration and space required information. Eventually, I would probably schedule a weekly job to perform this maintenance.
I ran the index rebuild task on the database and noticed that the log file grew by over 50 GBs. I killed the process and truncated and shrunk the log file back down.
1. Does the index rebuild, index reorg, update statistics and db integrity check commands all use the log file?
2. Does Indexs Reorg have less impact on log file then Index Rebuild?
3. Should a truncate log and shrink log file be performed after these maintenance commands?
4. Should a full database backup be performed after these maintenance commands? Or before the maintenance commands?
I have read and understand that shrinking is not good for the database (could lead to more fragmentation and more data file growth when data is added) and I know about rebuilding indexes when fragmentation is GT 30% and reorganizing indexes when fragmentation is GT 5% and LE 30%.
Since this is a non-production database maybe I should set the recovery model to simple, run the maintenance commands and leave the database in simple recovery model unless the vendor needs it in full recovery model for some unknown reason.
5. With the simple recovery model the log file should be reused in a circular manner and not grow during these maintenance tasks. Is this correct?
Help Please (Check File Exists/ Archive File/ Check If File Empty)
Mar 10, 2008
Hello World,
I'm new to SSIS and would like a little assistance getting started, if possible...
Here is what I want to do:
Check if file exist (C:DTS UpgradeFilexxx.txt) --->
Archive file (C:DTS UpgradeArchive) --->
Check if file has data (true or false)
AND/OR
If there are any good website that have good direction, let me know
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
SQL Server 2012 :: Write A Process To Get File Size In Kb And Record Count In A File?
Jul 31, 2014I need to write a process to get file size in kb and record count in a file. I was planning on writing a c# console app that takes the file path and name as a param however should i use a CLR?
I cant put a script in the ssis when it's bringing the file down because it has been deemed that we only use ssis for file consumption.
SQL Server Admin 2014 :: Creating Additional Data File For A Particular File Group?
Jul 6, 2015For a database, we have 4 data files in a particular file group and the file sizes are almost 70 GB each.
Do I come across any performance issues if I create/pre-allocate an additional data file in the same file group so that the existing files don't grow too much?
Integration Services :: Flat File Error File Being Created In-spite Of No Errors
Jun 23, 2015I have a package in which there are only one Data flow Task and it has only three components. 1) Source , which is a SQL db 2) destination and 3) OLE DB Destination flat file Error output file. I want the error file to be created ONLY if there is any error while dumping the data into destination DB. But , the issue is, the error flat file is being created inspite of No error while dumping the data from Source to Destination.
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May 14, 2015I'm copying files to a folder with the naming convention as follows in the source folder:
CM_ABC_MY_TEST.txt
In the destination folder, this filename needs to appear as:
CM_XYZ_MY_TEST.txt
In my File System Task, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need an expression with a replace, substring, etc. But am having a hard time nailing down the exact syntax.
Integration Services :: Get FileName Fo Each File Created Via Dynamic Flat File Destination
Jul 24, 2015Need to know how I can get the dynamic filename created in the FlatFile destination for insert into a package audit table?
Scenario: Have created a package that successfully outputs Dynamiclly named flat files { Format: C:Test’Comms_File_’ + ‘User::FileNumber’+’_’+Date +’.txt’
E.g.: Comms_File_1_20150724.txt, Comms_File_2_20150724.txt etc} using Foreach Loop Container :
* Enumerator Set to: “Foreach ADO Enumerator” with the ADO object source variable selected to identify how many total loop iterations there are i.e. Let’s say 4 thus 4 files to be created
*Variable Mappings : added the User::FileNumber – indicates which file number current loop iteration is i.e. 1,2,3,4
For the DataFlow task have a OLDBSource and a FlatFile Destination where Flat File ConnectionString is set up as:
@[User::Output_Path] + "Comms_File"+ @[User:: FileNumber] +"_" + replace((DT_WSTR, 10) (DT_DBDATE) GETDATE(),"-","")+ ".txt"
All this successfully creates these 4 files:
Comms_File_1_20150724.txt, Comms_File_2_20150724.txt, Comms_File_3_20150724.txt, Comms_File_4_20150724.txt
Now the QUESTION is how do I get these filenames as I need to insert them into a DB Audittable. The audit table looks like this:
CREATE TABLE dbo.MMMAudit
(
AuditID INT IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL,
PackageName VARCHAR(100) NULL,
FileName VARCHAR(100) NULL,
LoadTime DATETIME NULL,
NumberofRecords INT NULL
)
To save the Filename & how many records in each file in our Audit Table, am using an Execute SQL Task and configuring it as this:
Execute SQL Task
Parameter mapping - Mapped the User Variable (RecordsInserted) and System Variable( PackageName) to Insert statement as shown below
SQLStatement: INSERT INTO [dbo].[MMMAudit] (
PackageName,NumerofRecords,LoadTime)
(?,?.GETDATE)
Again this all works terrific & populates the dbo.MMMAudit table as shown below BUT I also need to insert the respsctive file name – How do I do that?
AuditID PackageName FileName NumberOfRecords
1 MMM NULL 12
2 MMM NULL 23
3 MMM NULL 14
4 MMM NULL 1
How To Create, Install And Deploy Dts File For Sqlserver 2000 And Dtsx File For 2005 ?
Apr 24, 2007Hi,
I am looking for tutorials about how to create dts et dtsx files.
Thanks for your help.
Arioule.
Script Task To Compare File From FTP With File On Local Archive Behaved Strangely!
May 9, 2008In my script task I have the following code. The task I'm trying to accomplish is:
If the filename on FTP can be found in the local archive folder of e: drive then show message "FileAlreadyThere" (I will ultimatley change it to do nothing); if the filename on FTP cannot be found in the local archive folder of e: drive then transfer the file to the local package folder on d: drive.
While the script task is executing I was watching it closely, but the problem i saw is that:
If some files on FTP are already in local archive folder and some are not, then it the files which are already in the archive folder are dumped to the package folder; then after that the files which are not in the archive folder are then dumped to the package folder. But I only want the new files on FTP to be transferred to the package folder for further processing.
Then after this is finished, I saw all the files in the package folder are refreshed one after another, after the first round of refresh the second round starts, after the second round finishes it then stopped. I saw it refreshes itself because the 'Date Modified' of the file changes. And I saw the script task turned green.
I don't see how the code below produced this result. Something is wrong in the logic of the loop? Anyone has any idea why it's behaving the way it is now? And how to change the code to accomplish what I want? Thanks a lot!!
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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
Public Class ScriptMain
Public Sub Main()
Dim cm As ConnectionManager = Dts.Connections.Add("FTP")
cm.Properties("ServerName").SetValue(cm, "ftp2.name.com")
cm.Properties("ServerUserName").SetValue(cm, "username")
cm.Properties("ServerPassword").SetValue(cm, "password")
cm.Properties("ServerPort").SetValue(cm, "21")
cm.Properties("Timeout").SetValue(cm, "0")
cm.Properties("ChunkSize").SetValue(cm, "1000") '1000 kb
cm.Properties("Retries").SetValue(cm, "1")
Dim ftp As FtpClientConnection = New FtpClientConnection(cm.AcquireConnection(Nothing))
ftp.Connect()
ftp.SetWorkingDirectory("/directory")
Dim fileNames() As String
Dim folderNames() As String
ftp.GetListing(folderNames, fileNames)
If fileNames Is Nothing Then
MsgBox("NoFileOnFTP")
Else
Dim fileName As String
For Each fileName In fileNames
If File.Exists("c: emp" + fileName) Then
MsgBox("FileAlreadyThere")
Else
ftp.ReceiveFiles(fileNames, "c: emp", True, True)
End If
Next
End If
ftp.Close()
End Sub
End Class
XML Format File For Bulk Insert Of Text File With Fixed Length Columns
Jan 2, 2008Hey All,
Similar to a previous post (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=244646&SiteID=1), I am trying to import data into a SQL Table.
I am trying to program a small application that will import product data obtained through suppliers via CD-ROM. One supplier in particular uses Fixed width colums, and data looks like this:
Example of Data
0124015Apple Crate 32.12
0124016Bananna Box 12.56
0124017Mango Carton 15.98
0124018Seedless Watermelon 42.98
My Table would then have:
ProductID as int
Name as text
Cost as money
How would I go about extracting the data with an XML Format file? I am stumbling over how to tell it where to start picking up data for a specific column.
Is there any way that I could trim the Name column (i.e.: "Mango Carton " --> "Mango Carton")?
I don't know if it makes any difference, but I've been calling SQL from my code by doing this:
Code in C# Form
SqlConnection SqlConnection = new SqlConnection(global::SQLClients.Properties.Settings.Default.ClientPhonebookConnectionString);
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO PhonebookTable(Name, PhoneNumber) VALUES('" + txtName.Text.ToString() + "', '" + txtPhoneNumber.Text.ToString() + "')";
cmd.Connection = SqlConnection;
SqlConnection.Open();
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
SqlConnection.Close();
RefreshData();
I am running Visual Studio C# Express 2005 and SQL Server Express 2005.
Thanks for your time,
Hayden.
SQL 2012 :: Find Out Number Of Columns In Flat File Before Process That Particular File
Apr 14, 2014I need find out the number of columns in flat file before i process that particular file.I have file name in @filename variable and file path is @filepath variable.But do not not that how i will check the column name in before i will process that file.
@filePath = C:DatabaseSourceFilesCAHCVSSourceFiles
And i am using for each loop container to read the file one by one and put the file name in @filename variable.and my file name like
Product_20120607060930.txt
Product_20130708060930.txt
[code]....
Now what i have to do is i need to make sure that ID,Name,City,County,Phone is there in flat file.if it is not there then i have to send mail to client saying that file is not valid.I need to also calculate the size of flat file.
SQL 2012 :: TempDB Log File Usage Constantly Rising And File Keeps Growing?
Jun 16, 2014The TEMPDB transaction log file keeps growing.The database server is new and the transaction log was presized to 1 GB on installation. After installing a number of databases, the log file grew over a day to 38GB. Issuing a manual checkpoint was the only way to free some space to allow it to be shrunk back to a usable size. The usage of the file is still going up.
I am struggling to find what process is causing the log to be used so heavily. Looking at the log reuse wait desc for tempdb returns "Nothing" and tempdb itself isn't being used very much or growing in size.