In your own opinions, what is the best backup tool for SQL Server, taking value for money into account where possible.
I am looking to purchase 3rd party software for my company and would greatly appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks.
Currently we are using SQL Servers Backup utility to backup our databases to disk and then the files to backup tape during a nightly backup.
The time it takes for the backups to disk to complete for the databases is becoming prohibitively long and performance problems on the DB server are manifesting.
I am interested in other solutions. However, the propaganda listed at the various companies sites are less than insightful.
I was wondering if anyone used a third party Agent like Brightstor Enterprise SQL Server backup agent, or Veritas NetBackup for SQL Server, that would be willing to give some recommendations. If you use something that isn't listed here and it works well, I would be interested in hearing about it.
Do these backup agents significantly slow down the database performance? Do they create any locking issues? Some insight into your backup hardware configuration would be helpful as well. Thanks in advance for your help.
We are looking at providing a Disaster Restoration Plan for our customers and would like to know what advantages does Mirroring have over Commvault Galaxy OR do we use them together?
thanks.
Can SQL 2000 initiate backups to 3rd party applications (like LiteSpeedand BrightStor's SQL Backup Agent)? My goal is to be able to managebackup and restores completely through SQL Enterprise Manager and QueryAnalyzer without having to logon to the Server and using the 3rd partybackup application's software. Is this possible through SQL?Thank you,Stephanie
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise under Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise. My current backup strategy uses T-SQL jobs run by SQL Agent (writes out *.bak files) and then I have an Integration Services job that copies the *.bak files to our NAS device. I have performed a restore without issue. The jobs are all automated every four hours via SQL Agent. Is this a sound strategy or are there additional benefits to using 3rd party tools? If so, what are the advantages and which tool provides them?
I am trying to use NConstruct to generate my Nhibernate files. i can't connect to the sql server. In the past I have ran into similar problems with MyGeneration and other 3rd party tools. In those cases If I ran the tool as an administrator, it worked out ok. For NConstruct there is no option to run as administrator. I ran the SQL Server Surface Configuration tool to allow local and remote connections for named pipes and tcp already. I read all the blogs written for asp.net, and people often complain about the learning curve for Nhibernate or lack of Tutorials for Nhibernate. What I found in my case is that the steepest learning curve is to get the Microsoft Products Configured and Working Correctly! If anyone can be of any assistance, I would deeply appreciate it
View 1 Replies View RelatedHas anyone had experience using ‘VERITAS Backup Exec For Windows Servers Agent for MS SQL Server’ to run backup jobs? If so, what are the pros and cons?
I have always preferred using SQL Server Agent (not the maintenance plans) to run backup jobs and don’t know why anyone would want to use 3rd party software to do something SQL Server Agent does perfectly. Any advice?
I thought I was successful in linking SQL to a Third Party LDAP in the past, but I cannot get it to work now. It has been about 2 years ago I played with this. The LDAP does require authentication and I think that is where the problem lies, but if anyone can tell me if there is a way to do this and what the steps are I would greatly appreciate it.
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wld really appreciate it if anyone could guide me to a good third party tool for replication on sql server.
thanks in advance
achal
Hi,
I'm using one report tool by 'AriaCom' and have got such problems with FREE SQL in that tool. Pls advise!
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SQLExecDirect>[ODBC 195][37000][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]'instr' is not a recognized built-in function name.
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SQLExecDirect>[ODBC 195][37000][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]'mid' is not a recognized built-in function name.
Dear all,
Our system is using .Net 1.1 and SQL Server 2000.
In our system, the timeout of SqlCommand is set to 300 seconds (~5 mins). However, there was a case that exception 'ThreadAbortException' was thrown in .Net (IIS Server), with its corresponding query was blocked over 11 minutes.
The case raised a question: 'Which party manages the timeout after the sql command is sent to DB? .Net, IIS Server or SQL Server?' If the timeout is managed by .Net or IIS, is there any setting making SQL Server 2000 possible to kill the aborted process earlier?
Thanks for helps.
Gabriel
Hello,
I would like to know if anyone has a recommended method for having backups to tape while running log shipping. For example, is it possible to copy the transaction log backups used for log shipping to tape and apply them to a Full Database Restore from a 3rd Party Backup tool such as Veritas?
My goal is to be able to do a point-in-time restore from tape and still be able to use SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping.
Thanks,
Erik
Hi all,
I'm currently running a SQL Server 2005 setup (or so I believe) to use Windows Authentication. When I load Management Studio, the following popup box appears:
Server Type (greyed out): Database Engine
Server Name: Thor
Authentication: Wndows Authentication
U/N and P/W: greyed out
I can connect to my databases using PHP by specifying 'Thor' as my DB host, the DB name and then the username and password of a user I created.
The problem is that I cannot connect to my local server using EMS Data Export 2005 for SQL Server. I can use it to connect to a remote SQL DB on our web server but if I try to connect locally, it generates an error saying that the 'SQL Server does not exist or access denied'.
Does anyone have any experience with connecting to a local SQL server? I'm assuming that I need to setup my server to allow for external connections or something but I'm in the dark on the matter.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thanks.
i want to show data Party Name and Time interval wise. here is my table from where i will fetch data. so pasting table data here.
Call start Call duration Ring duration Direction Is_Internal Continuation Party1Name Park_Time
------------------------- ---------------- ------------- --------- ----------- ------------ --------------- -----------
2015/06/08 08:06:08 00:02:28 2 I 0 0 Emily 0
2015/06/08 08:16:38 00:00:21 0 I 0 1 Line 2.0 0
2015/06/08 08:16:38 00:04:13 5 I 0 0 Jen 0
[code]...
now i am not being able to cross join this CTE with my table to get data party name wise and time interval wise. say for if no data exist for a specific time interval then it will show 0 but each party name should repeat for time interval 9:00:00 - 9:30:00 upto 17:30:00. i like to add what filter need to apply to get data for incoming, outgoing, call transfer and miss call.
For Incoming data calculation
where direction='I' and
Is_Internal=0 and continuation=0 and
RIGHT(convert(varchar,[call duration]),8)<> '00:00:00'
For outgoing data calculation
[code]...
SQL Server 2008 r2 - 6 GB memory...I attempted a backup on a 500GB database but it was taking way too long. I checked the resources on the box and saw the CPU at 100%. I checked the SQL Server activity log and saw a hung query (user was not even logged on) that had multiple threads so I killed it and now the CPU utilization is back to normal.
Trouble is, now all of the threads in the activity monitor for the backup show 'suspended' and the backup appears to be not doing anything.
Need to restore database,here's the scenario:
Data got deleted on Friday evening, need to have database restored to FRiday afternoon and also some data has been entered on Monday, which needs to be there.
Windows 2003 backup utility uses the shadow copy option that allows it to copy open files.
Therefore, can I use this utility to backup the .mdf and .ldf files for my SQL 2000 database?
I can then attach the .mdf files if I need to restore the database to another server.
Can anyone tell me if this is safe? I've tried it and it worked but I'm worried there maybe some lurking danger in using this approach.
I've written a custom script to delete backup files from location. But unable to modify now to count the number of files are deleted. How to modify the script...
/* Script to delete older than N days backup from a specific directory */
USE [db_admin]
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup
GO
[Code] .....
Hi All,
I have to load data from from a text file ( approx 3-5 million rows) into a table .
I can use straight bcp with the format file , but the loading of data has to follow some business logic
Let me know if there are any third party tool to load the data instead of regular bcp
I have SqlServer 7.0 on Windows NT 4.0
Thanks in advance
Does anyone know any software to backup single tables ? i recall one software that extracts the data into a text file called SQLinsert or something but wondering if they are others around ?
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what are some good db managements tools that are available? I installed Toad from Quest and the Red Gate's toolbelt but I haven't play with them yet. I would like to know what is the most useful tool to invest time in.
Thanks.
Hey guys I really need your help.
We've outsourced our software last year, and it really a big mess for us since that company has been clashed. Then it so happened that the system failed to function well. Our batch transactions was working about 56 mins.. that is 24 records. Then it happened that this time 28 records was finished for about an hour. Our business hour is 8 hours only. That's why we have a back log now. We also failed to validate transaction since it takes a lot of effort before we update the database. It's working before but as our database becomes larger there are many errors occur in our application. Majority is runtime error. Then it happened that now we cannot move on anymore. We are using SQL server 2000 with VB6.0 application. our server memory is 1GB. Do you think adding additional memory will solve our problem?
Thanks!!
I prefer to write SQL code, without graphical tools.Have third party Query Analyzer that has filter and sort abilities?Also I looking for SQL editor with Completion ability (like we know forprogramming lang),for assist me write more quickly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working on a SSIS package to move data between SQL2005 and DB2. I currently have the DB2 ADO .Net connector from DataDirect which works fine for connecting to the AS400. My question is that I am working on a script transformation and I want to be able to use the Connection already created in the package their.
I can set it up just fine using the properties for the script, but there appears to be no way to create SQLCommands and connections unless I reference the DataDirector DLL in the script, which requires adding it to the GAC and the Framework folder.
I am just wondering if this is the correct way to go about this or if there are any other recommendations. Please let me know if I need to supply more information.
Thanks,
Chris
I have only one tape drive.
My server is using the SQL server 2005 backup tool and arcserve backup tool to backup different files .
Everytime I need to disable and enable the tape device driver (in device manager /windows) before I can use SQL server 2005 backup tool.
Everytime I need to disable and enable the tape device driver (in device manager /windows) before I can use arcserve backup tool.
It seems that the tape device resource is held by softwares even the tape drive is not in use.
What should I do to make the tape drive shared by different softwares?
Regards,
Manuel
I have been using the built-in tools of SQL Server (email and netsend) to monitor and alert me about some basic issues (like severity errors and job failures) with our SQL servers. We are now approaching a level and number of servers where I think we need to get a more global and more stable solution to monitoring and alerting.
So what third party tools are you are using to monitor your SQL Servers?
Thanks
SJ
shawn.johnson@kenexa.com
Hi All,
I am pretty new to SQL and would like a bit of friendly help, please. Am trying to set up a .Net web site that will have dynamic content supplied by a true SQL server (am using MSDE to build this first).
My issue is in building a search engine on my web site that will return hits from the content of the pages which are loaded in MSDE.
Is there a third party or open source search engine available?
Any clues for how to build (or beg, borrow or steal) a workable search engine to do this?
Many thanks,
Newbie
The only way I know of to debug a Sql 2005 stored proc is to create a VS2005 Database Project and step into it from there. Does anyone know of any third party tools that adds functionality to Sql Management Studio to step into stored procs?
View 5 Replies View RelatedFolks,I work on a system which is growing rapidly, with the number oftransactions we process growing on a daily basis. While this is goodnews or the business, maintenance is starting to become an issue as thedatabase is the backend for a website which cannot be down for alengthy period of time.While I do defrag the indexes, periodically the indexes do need to berebuilt. When this happens, the process locks pages and transactionsstart getting bounced out.Are their any third party utilities which will rebuild an indexwithout this locking occuring? Any help in pointing me in the rightdirection would be appreciated.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a better way to schedule jobs in SQL Server. I foundthis tool called SQLschedule at www.idera.com and am using the 30 daytrial. This tool really has a cool GUI, and seems to work well. Doesanyone else have any experience with their tools?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan SSRS be configured to use any third party .NET charting components or only ones that have been specifically designed for SSRS? I have seen a couple of third party charting software (Dundas, etc.) and while they are nice, they sell at a real premium and there are not many vendors offering SSRS charting. I was hoping for a bit better value and more of a selection to choose from.
R
We have a hosted SQL server with various internal applications on it. It has been decided by on high that the same server will also have a database from a third party on the server. The third party have asked for full system admin rights on the SQL server.
Obviously I am not going to grant that access level as it gives them full control on the box. From my viewpoint read and write access to the data can be tolerated but anything else will be denied. Would you consider this standard and is there any documentation with recommendations for control of external suppliers ?
I am sure that they shouldn`t be doing any work on tables structure, sp`s etc on a live database. That work should be tested, scripted etc and then run on in a controlled environment by my company.
Anyone have any advice ?
Thanks
SI
Hi,
I have a commercial data source 3 party one for me to extract data from , i have been provided the exe and the DLL how i can use this in SSIS as a datasource please let me know.
Thanks,