I set up a maintenance plan for a 15 gig database that performs a complete database back up daily at 12:10 a.m. with transaction log back ups hourly from 6 am to 11:00p.m. Everything works fine for the transaction logs, but I seem to have problems with the full back up on occassion. Both processes were set up to remove any back ups older than 1 day old. The full back up will not delete the previous back ups the majority of the time which leads to a lack of disk space and the back up failing if it is not monitored well. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hello,I'm trying to create a simple back up in the SQL Maintenance Plan that willmake a single back up copy of all database every night at 10 pm. I'd likethe previous nights file to be overwritten, so there will be only a singleback up file for each database (tape back up runs every night, so each daysback up will be saved on tape).Every night the maintenance plan makes a back up of all the databases to anew file with a datetime stamp, meaning the previous nights file stillexists. Even when I check "Remove files older than 22 hours" the previousnights file still exists. Is there any way to create a back up file withoutthe date time stamp so it overwrites the previous nights file?Thanks!Rick
New to Database Mirroring and I have a question about the Principal database server. I have a Database Mirroring setup configured for High-safety with automatic fail over mode using a witness.
When a fail over occurs because of a lost of communication between the principal and mirror, the mirror server takes on the roll of Principal. When communication is returned to the Principal server, at some point does the database that was the previous Principal database automatically go back to being the Principal server?
I need to run two reports each of A5 Size to run back to page and print on single A4 paper means in 1st half Sale bill will be printed and in second half Gate Pass Will Be Printed both report will be on same page and size and shape should be maintained. How to do it.
Hello,I am hoping you can help me with the following problem; I need to process the following steps every couple of hours in order to keep our Sql 2000 database a small as possible (the transaction log is 5x bigger than the db).1.back-up the entire database2.truncate the log3.shrink the log4.back-up once again.As you may have determined, I am relatively new to managing a sql server database and while I have found multiple articles online about the topics I need to accomplish, I cannot find any actual examples that explain where I input the coded used to accomplish the above-mentioned steps. I do understand the theory behind the steps I just do not know how to accomplish them!If you know of a well-documented tutorial, please point me in the right direction.Regards.
Does anybody know of a way to rollback SQL Server 2005 databases back to SQL Server 2000? Is there a way of doing it without resorting to Copy Database Wizard? I love to find a way of attaching a SS 2005 database to a SS 2000 instance without any issues.
I recently upgraded to SS 2005 and I am very unhappy with the SS 2005 and I want to rollback to SS 2000, which was a lot more stable. I am having several major issues that are affecting my whole company's day-to-day operations and the managers are not happy. Some of the issues include night time batch running very sluggish for no apparent reason. This is a biggest problem because it only occurs once or so a week and causes a disturbance with the daily activities when the night time processing isn€™t completed on time. The rest of the time, the batch processing runs great, even a little better then on SS 2000. I don't believe it is a matter of my application needing to be retuned because if that was the case, then why isn't it running sluggish every night? Also, it's never the same day that the sluggish behavior occurs. If it was occurring on the same night, then I would have something to investigate within our application, but it doesn't. Another issue that I am having involves a night time job that restores a copy of the production database to the Data Warehouse server to be used for updating the data warehouse. Again, most of the time it runs great (~2 1/2 hours), but once or twice a week, it goes stupid and takes 6 1/2 hours for no apparent reason. Again, it is not happening the same day either, which could give me something to invesigate. On SS 2000, this same job ran flawlessly. Never I did I run into situation that the database restoration took that long to run. Even another issue involves a SQL Server Agent Job that was put into suspended state. What's a suspended state and how can I get it out of suspended state? I can find no information about suspended state in BOL. I did a Google and nothing came up. If this suspended state was put in for security reasons, great, but then tell me how I can remove the suspended state. I am also not happy with the fact that I can't get accurate information about the queries that are actively running at that particular moment. In SS 2000, when I noticed high CPU usage on the server, I would run the sp_who2 active stored proc and it would show me all the active thread and how much CPU it was consuming. I would then find the running threads with the highest CPU numbers and investigate the query and see if we could improve it. Now in SS 2005, I get in the same situation and run the sp_who2 stored proc, and there is no smoking gun. All of the active threads are showing very little CPU usage, which I am very suspect of. What the heck happen to sp_who2? I looked at some of the other ways of looking at running processes (i.e... sys.sysprocesses) and they don't appear to be giving the information that I need.
I am very unhappy and I just want to roll back to SS 2000 and wait a couple of years before I upgrade to SS 2005.
anyone try to convert a 7.0 database back to 6.5? Is there a way to move the data back or does the 6.5 to 7.0 upgrade change field identifiers or anything else prohibiting the move?
Please help. We need back up database on remote SQL Server backup device, because first one doesn't have space for backup file. Give mi hint what to do.
Hi all, I know how to backup database form full back, diffrential backupp. I ' d like to know how to restore database from transaction log file not from backup file. Thanks fro reading.
What is the best practice for a SQL back up? We are installing Symantec Backup Exec. Is it really necessary to pay for the SQL backup agent? What does the agent do for you that the regular backups within SQL doesn't give you?
I wrote a stored procedure. It work properly. But I want to catch if any error occurs while executing it. And I want to make roll Back on error .And send the error OUTPUT How can I roolBack the command below and How can I send the error over OUTPUT parameter? execute(@cmdS) Thanks.
Hi, I am trying to connect to a SQL DB and pull data from it. But i never get back any rows. I have run the query, it works fine and i get back rows. But htis does not seem to work. HELP ? Attaching my code TryDim ConnStr As String = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Engineering_Health_SiteConnectionString").ToStringURLConn = New Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(ConnStr) URLConn.Open() Dim param1 As New Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@FG", Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar) Dim param2 As New Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@SS", Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar) Dim query As String = "Engineering_Health_Site.dbo.usp_GetSiteURL"Dim comm As New Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(query) comm.Connection = URLConn comm.CommandType = Data.CommandType.StoredProcedureparam1.Value = Me.DropDownList1.SelectedValue.Trim comm.Parameters.Add(param1)param2.Value = Me.DropDownList2.SelectedValue.Trim comm.Parameters.Add(param2)Dim adap As New Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter(comm)Dim dt As New Data.DataTable adap.Fill(dt)For Each row As Data.DataRow In dt.Rows Response.Write(row(1).ToString) NextCatch ex As Exception Response.Write(ex.Message) Finally URLConn.Close() End Try
Hello all ASP'ers, I'm very familiar with .net code and data access as it is what I do for a living. However, what I don't do a lot is make my own web project from scratch. All our DB connections are handled through a DB class that we instansiate and use, quite easy. BTW, we hit an Oracle DB and code in C# in VS 2008 Team Developer.Here's my (simple I hope) dilemma.I'm using VS2008, C#, SQL server database. I put a text box and a button on the front page (of my web page) for users to enter their email address for a newsletter. I created the DB by right-mouse-clicking on my project icon in the Solution Explorer, add new item, then selected SQLServer Database, it and saved it. It now appears in the Solution Explorer. I've added the table and columns I need but for the life of me I cannot connect to it. I've seen TONS of connection string examples but I need help getting the proper syntax for my situationI have not created a user ID or a password for the database. What do I put in for the DataSource and the database?I dragged the database icon into my code and got the local path wher it resides:C:FilesWebProjects2008WbProjApp_DataNews.mdfHere is the most common connection string I see for SQL Server:SqlConnection Conn = new SqlConnection(" + "Data Source=Your server name;" + <------ What goes here?"database=Your Database Name;" + <------ What goes here?"UID=UserID of the server;" + <------ Can I get rid of this?"PWD=password of the server;"); <------ Can I get rid of this?I've done a different project using an Access DB and have that guy up on the web working great, I just can't get htis one connected and the data a' flowin'.Please help, this is my personal website and I want to use SQL Server but I'm getting frustrated and just might go back to Access, aaaaggghhhhhhh...Once I get past the Conn.Open(); in a try/catch I'll be good. I've got the rest of the data commands in place and ready to go. Here is a link to a visual to help you see what I'm doing, it's just a shot of my solution explorer.
Hi, For Asp.net project i have used backend as sql server database.My database name is Traveldb.i want to take the backup for this database in SQL Server as a "Filename.sql". Please tell me the steps to follow to take the backup file as SQL Script File extension.Thanks & Regards,Laxmi
Hi everyone, I am working in a company where data is changed daily (IT department of a shopping center) where item prices change everyday, the quantity available in stock vary daily,...What is the scenarios available for the back up on SQL Server 2000 (I am a developer not a database administrator, but I have a task to do which is to make a back up for the critical data) . could u help me with some links or idea.I was thinking of doing a full back up one time everyweek and daily I will do a differential backup?is that the best solution?Thanks.
Ok it seems to me that if you use the ms recommended code to connect your apps using the app_data folder etc, that the dbs never show up in the SQLExpress manager.So I can't back them up like I can databases I connect to SQLExpress the 'old fashioned way'. Only 2 out of 6 dbs are visible in SQLExpress manager.What is the proper way to do this?Thanks,Jamey
Hi there! Hope somebody got some better insight into this problem than i have. I'm struggling with some db logic. Overview: I have a client who is a publisher. They would like to post all their advert-size specs for each magazine to their web site. My first thought was that ill be able to build one table and populate it with the information for each magazine. I was wrong. Each magazine comes in a different size. Thus each magazine will have different advert-sizes as well. Layout for a magazine will look something like this: Size Trim Type Bleed Full Page 280x440 270x430 290x450 Half Page 140x220 130x210 150x230 etc... Some mags will not have values for Half pages since they dont print half pages and others will not have specs for Bleed. Because of this - as an easy way out I created a table per magazine. It works but i dont think its very smart.
Break it down! Ok so what im trying as a solution is to have three tables. The 1st table will hold the magID and Size values (e.g Half Page). The 2nd table will also have the magID and the Trim, Type, Bleed info. The 3rd table holds magID, sizeID, specID and the actual value (140x220). I thought that this would be better because within these three tables i can store the information for each magazine regardless of their differences. Brilliant!
The Problem. The problem comes when i have to put it all back together again. I need to represent this data in a table so i can bind it to a datagrid. I have NO idea how to do this. What i THINK i need to have is some temp table created on the fly. The row names for this temp table will come from the 1st table. The column names will come from the 2nd table and the values for each field will come from the 3rd table bound by foreign keys. I've somewhat managed to do this with INNER JOINS. But it doesn't give the desired result. I need to set row and column NAMES using tables 1 & 2 then populate the columns with table 3, then bind to a datagrid.
Any ideas on how i could manage this?
If you made it tis far through my question then thanks anyways! I hope you can help me out!
As backups are done on SQL, it keeps all the catalogs. Over time, there are too many. Which system table(s) contains those backup catalog entries and should I clean up some of those entries to keep the size in check or there is a max limit and being taken care by itself.
Question:: I know there is a switch to take a database that was upgraded to 7.0 back to 6.5. How does it work? If I upgrade a database and for 2 weeks input data and then decide I need to go back to 6.5 -- do I lose the data from those 2 weeks or does it revert all information back to 6.5
I set up a maintenance plan for a 15 gig database that performs a complete database back up daily at 12:10 a.m. with transaction log back ups hourly from 6 am to 11:00p.m. Everything works fine for the transaction logs, but I seem to have problems with the full back up on occassion. Both processes were set up to remove any back ups older than 1 day old. The full back up will not delete the previous back ups the majority of the time which leads to a lack of disk space and the back up failing if it is not monitored well. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
SELECT K.TRANS_TYPE,K.COMPANY,K.DIVISION,K.SALES_FORCE,K.SALES_LINE,K.SALES_REGION,K.SALES_ZONE,K.FORECAST_ DATE,C.STATISTICS_PERIOD,K.PRODUCT_NUMBER, K.CUSTOMER_CODE,K.WAREHOUSE,0,0,0,K.FORECAST_QTY FROM KPI_SIGNOFF AS K inner join ROUNDED_CALENDAR as C on K.FORECAST_DATE between C.START_DATE and C.END_DATE
Hi this is the code that I am using to populate a table let us call new_table. However what I would like to do is get the max forecast date and get the statistics_period for that max forecast date.
Once I get that I would set that as my current statistics period.
Then I want to create a new column in the same new_table call stat_period-1, which would be the one period back.
Please note that the statistics period is like the months 1 – 12. Does not go higher that 12 and does not go lower than 1.
So for stat_period-1 when statistics period is equal to 1 it would have to be set to 12.
This is what I want but do not know how to place this into the code, please help me with this. THanks
