I have a database that I am setting up in SQL Server 2005. Initially, I am doing very large imports of data. Every time I run an import, I am having the increase the size of my transaction logs, and now they are approaching 2 GB. Should these be purging themselves? I have to keep increasing the max size of the log so that I can get my data in. While this will work for now, it is not a long term solution, because I can see the log size growing quite large and the amount of space on the server obviously isn't infinite. Is there a setting that I can change so they will automatically purge? If not, how do I purge this information myself?
We are running SQL Server 2000 and making full database backups using a maintenance plan. The transaction logs are being backed up via a separate plan.
However, the transaction log backups aren't purging but the database ones are. They are both run under the same id and both write to the same directory. Old text reports also get purged fine. I've got 'Delete older than 1 week' ticked for everything.
Can anyone think of anything else to check ? Thanks
My transaction log blows out to more than 55 GB when I run an index rebuild on a fairly large table. It’s ok for the transaction log to get that big but I want to shrink it back down ASAP while maintaining the integrity of my transactional backups. I’m thinking of a process something like the following: 1.Full database backup 2a.BACKUP LOG database-name WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY 2b.dbcc shrinkfile(2,20,TRUNCATEONLY ) 3.Full database backup
Is this the best way to shrink the T-Log while maintaining the integrity of my transactional backups? My database is MSSQL 2000 sp4 in full recovery mode.
Not sure if this question makes sense, but is it necessary to purge old data in msdb tables used by the db mirroring monitor job?
I'm just wondering if an insert into the data table every minute of the day would still be needed a month from now. I'm thinking this data would be useful for the purpose of "alerts" and to have access to its recent history, but other than that, is it recommended (or necessary)? Would these records keep accumulating until manually purged?
We have staging table in which data is dumped from files . The staging table is truncated for every load . In order to retain data from staging table we are creating staging_purge table which hold the staging data. what is the fastest way  to copy data from staging to purge table without impacting the load process.
I've got a large MS Sql Server 2000 database that has 15 indexes, with roughly 180 million rows representing 240 GB worth of data. Due to the massive size of the database we are trying to purge it down to a smaller dataset, about 40 million rows, in order to speed up the query performance and to be able to defrag the indexes (which are 30-50% fragmented). To complicate the matter, this table is also a publisher in a transactional replication setup, with one subscriber. Also, the system needs to be up constantly so I'm only allowed about a 3-5 hour period to take an outage a week.
So far I've tested several methods of delete following all best practices (batch deletes, using indexes in delete's where clause), and have come up with deleting/commiting 500 rows at a time. The problem is that it still takes 3-4 seconds to delete this many rows, on a 8 GB RAM, 4 processor machine that is not currently used or replicated.
I'm at a loss on a way to pare down the data with a delete as the current purge script will take 7 hours a day for about 3 months. Another option I'm considering is to do a truncate and copy the data back over from the replicated database, but again this has its own set of problems, i.e. network latency and slow inset times. Yet another option would be to create a replica of the table on the production db, copy the data to it, then rename the table.
Any one have experience with purging such a massive amount of data? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello guys! I am relavtively new to ASP.NET programming ang was just starting out on my first project. I am using ASP.NET2.0 technology by using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition and of course with SQL 2005 Express Edition. I would like to develop a database for our IP addresses, so one field of my table in a SQL data is the field for IP addresses.I would like to write a program wherein after clicking the button, that field will be automatically filled up with IP addresses (e.g, from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.0.255).How do I accomplish this kind of dynamic filling up of fields? Thanks a lot!
I just got sql 2005. Can someone point me in the right direction on getting started importing data. I need to be able to load ascii data into SQL 2005 on a weekly basis. This ascii file will have the same data structure but data will change weekly.
I have heard to do this automatically (basically with a click of a button) you should use a DTS package. I also see this SSIS. I am trying to understand what to use for this import process. I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanks.
I want to make a package in SSIS for automatic process of my data cube providing some log informations (two INSERT statements to my log table with actual date and result of operation succesful/unsuccesful). I tried to set data source to analysis services, I found my cube but I don't where I can add my cube to project and how can I desingn it. Can anybody tell me how to??? Thanks
I have two tables. When my user completes an insert of data in table (1), I would like the second "related" table (2) to be automatically populated with defaults. Is this possible? My logical approach to this is: 1. Build a handler for the OnInsert event of the first table 2. In the handler, call the Insert Command on the SQLDataSource for the second table with the defaults specified in the DataSource. What I'm not sure how to do is Step 2 or whats the best way. How do I call the Insertcommand programmatically for a DataSource? Or, is there a better way such as some kind of traditional hardwired SQL insert statement like in classical ASP? Or is there a way to programmatically call a stored procedure and if so is the 3rd approach the best way?
How exactly would someone do this best? It seems this would be a rather common thing someone might need to do.
Hey everyone, trying to set up a SQL Query to run on a pre-determinedbatch cycle that will automatically dump out specific table data to a..csv file so that users can load the file into Excel right away, withno manipulation or modification.We are running SQL Server 2000. I am a novice SQL user. Anysuggestions?
Hi,i have a problem about the CLIENT-SERVER architecture procedure.Well , i have an application in VB with ADO connection to a table in adatabase on a SQLSERVER 7.0 .Is possible to do that when a client updates a data in a field of my table ,the SERVER communicates to all clients connected to my table that this dataare updated , without the client do anything , for example without aclient-timer to control the data in the server ???thanks
I've got a question about failover with the database mirroring.
I have 3 servers, 2 with SQL 2005 and 1 with SQL Express as witness.
After getting some problems to install database mirroring with Windows authentification, i had to create an authentification by certificate.
All goes well but my problem is about my primary instance SQL alias.
The alias on the primary doesn't follow on the secondary when the primary is down.
I've searched on forums and in the internet SQL web sites, but i didn't find anything.
I create another alias on the secondary but i don't know how to modify it in T-SQL...
I would like to know if there's any solution to modify an SQL instance alias by transact-SQL? or if anyone has already install on its servers, a fail over automatic with one instance alias with data mirroring in T-SQL?
what i need to do for my project are as following:
a mobile user send data via GPRS to SQL server Database. then i need to have a method to detect while a particular table is being inserted. and then extract data from table construct a report dynamiclly. what should i do to achieve this goal? e.g. window application, store procedure or trigger ?
PS : client side is a mobile application developed using MCL. i don't in which way he will send all data to SQL server Database, so what i need to do is to monitor new data inserting.
2) how to auto generate and print report directly after record been inserted into the table ? Do i need to import report web service API ? if yes, which one? or i can use other methods e.g. predefine report control view in my window application, turn off pop-up menu while printing a report(I guess)
I have a problem with the round of SQL Server 2K on the float data type.
In my application I do a SQL request for find a row in a table of SQL Server 2K.
This is the request :
SELECT DISTINCT N_ROW_ID FROM COMM WHERE N_ARTICLE_ID=79510 AND N_DATASOURCE_ID=1 AND N_SOURCE_ID=-102 AND N_PROVIDER_ID=-100 AND N_LEAD_TIME IS NULL AND N_UNIT_PRICE = 329.78 AND N_UNIT_PRICE_CURRENCY_ID=1
N_UNIT_PRICE is a float data type.
In the line need, the field N_UNIT_PRICE has 329.78 but with the round of SQL Server 2K I have 329.779999999999997.
So I never find the row
Do you have a solution for comparate a float flied with SQL Server round and a float send in a request as my 329.78?
I can't transform the column in decimal or numeric data type.
i have a big database and for each table i have Active field (N/Y) and i wanna delete all record the active N. how i can do that without delete from each tables and looking to details tables before. our database have a complex relations. please any solution.
All, I records that have two columns, date col and time col.
I am trying to write a SQL statement to extract the rows that fall within a range of time. Eg current date/time + 10 hours and current date/time - 10 hours.
I'm assuming that the .ldf file houses all the transaction logs, well mine is getting quite large (like 6 times the size of my .mdf) and I'm wondering if there is a way to purge logs back to a specific date. Can anyone give me some direction? Thanks
Hi all I have table with about 67 million records that are marked for deletion.
I know that I can
DELETE from table WHERE ToBeDeleted='t'
But this may be too big a task for the server considering the amount of data to delete at once. And if it runs out of resources and errors then nothing gets deleted....
Is there a way to segmant or loop so i can delete like 100k records at a time?
A client of mine just asked about Archiving and Purging their data (based on different time constraints). For isntance, certain data would get archived after 3 years over to a different database, others purged all together. My thoughts off the bat are store procedures run on a job schedule.
Greetings, I have a SQL Server 2005 database which is populated with test data. I need to copy this database to a new instance and then purge the copied database of it's contents for the next round of testing. I know there exists a Copy Database Wizard w/in the SQL Server Management Studio; I'm assuming I need to perform this first, then purge the existing data w/in the copy. The Copy operation looks pretty straight forward, but I haven't a clue on how to perform the purge. Can someone help? Regards, Loopsludge
Suppose I am appending to my transaction log dump device every half hour,thus adding 48 log dumps per day. How can I purge my transaction dump device to only keep the last 1 week's worth of these logs. I do not wanted to issue an INIT in the command, because this will wipe it completely. I noticed an EXPIREDATE and RETAINDAYS parameter for the DUMP command. Can I use these to selectively purge the backup device or will these allow the device to be wiped clean also?
Anyone have anything hints on getting the option of DELBKUP to work. I have a maintenance job that backs up the database. Also set to delete backups older than 1 day. This doesn't seem to be working.
greets all, ive got a table with batches of records. each group of records has a batch id as part of the PK in the form BTCXXXX where XXXX is an auto-incremented number. so lets say i have 100 batches of 20k records per batch in the table. so the distinct batch ids are BTC0200 (oldest batch) through BTC0300 (newest batch). i only want to keep the 90 most recent batches in the table at any given time. is it ok to just subtract 90 from the last batch id and do something like:
DECLARE @batch_id char(10) SET @batch_id = 'BTC' + batch_num-90
DELETE FROM ITEM_BATCH WHERE BATCH_ID < @batch_id
i want to cover if the table has more than 90 batches and if the table has less then 90 batches. is this a feasible approach?
I hope someone can help me with a big problem... I'm using Citrix Resource Management Services with a SQL 2000 database. Their are 15 citrix servers which are all reporting to the SQL database.
The database is expanding very quickly and is becoming slower and slower.
My question is: I want to schedule a purge of old records on a friday afternoon, like this:
I do have very old versions of duplicate store procedures on my databases. I know there is no "safe" way to do this using DMVs, so I am planning to combine that with a trace. But I would like to get others opinions about that.
Here's the DMV I am planning to use:
SELECT CASE WHEN database_id = 32767 then 'Resource' ELSE DB_NAME(database_id)END AS DBName ,OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(object_id,database_id) AS [SCHEMA_NAME] ,OBJECT_NAME(object_id,database_id)AS [OBJECT_NAME] ,cached_time ,last_execution_time ,execution_count
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I will save that on a local table and run it every 5 min maybe? Or at an interval equal or lower than PLE?
Trying to create a new job from sql server 2005 Management Studio. The nifty wizard under Management provides options to create backups, and clean history, but I cant seem to find out how to create a job to purge old backups.
Looking at the commnand line Sql Server Agent Job shows:
I am attempting to do a rather simple purge task on a very large table. This task will need to take place daily and delete records older than 6 months out of the database. On first pass this will delete well over 130 million rows. I thought the best way to handle this is create a proc and call the proc from a SQL Agent Job that runs nightly. Here is an example of the script:
CREATE PROCEDURE usp_Purge_WCFLogger AS SET NOCOUNT ON EXEC sp_rename 'dbo.logs', 'logs_work' GO SELECT * INTO dbo.Logs_Backup FROM dbo.Logs_Work WHERE TIMESTAMP < DATEADD(month, -6, GETDATE())
I'm getting this when executing the code below. Going from W2K/SQL2k SP4 to XP/SQL2k SP4 over a dial-up link.
If I take away the begin tran and commit it works, but of course, if one statement fails I want a rollback. I'm executing this from a Delphi app, but I get the same from Qry Analyser.
I've tried both with and without the Set XACT . . ., and also tried with Set Implicit_Transactions off.
set XACT_ABORT ON Begin distributed Tran update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.TRANSACTIONMAIN set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update TSADMIN.TRANSACTIONMAIN set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 and DONE = 1 update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.WBENTRY set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update TSADMIN.WBENTRY set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.FIXED set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update TSADMIN.FIXED set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.ALTCHARGE set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update TSADMIN.ALTCHARGE set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.TSAUDIT set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 update TSADMIN.TSAUDIT set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 COMMIT TRAN
It's got me stumped, so any ideas gratefully received.Thx
I have a design a SSIS Package for ETL Process. In my package i have to read the data from the tables and then insert into the another table of same structure.
for reading the data i have write the Dynamic TSQL based on some condition and based on that it is using 25 different function to populate the data into different 25 column. Tsql returning correct data and is working fine in Enterprise manager. But in my SSIS package it show me time out ERROR.
I have increase and decrease the time to catch the error but it is still there i have tried to set 0 for commandout Properties.
if i'm using the 0 for commandtime out then i'm getting the Distributed transaction completed. Either enlist this session in a new transaction or the NULL transaction.
and
Failed to open a fastload rowset for "[dbo].[P@@#$%$%%%]". Check that the object exists in the database.
