I have had two SQL 2005 Stnd x64bit servers running without any problems for several weeks now. I just setup two new ones last night. One the two new ones, I get an error message when I try to create a Maintenance Plan. I also get an error when I try to create a plan using the Wizard.
The error message is:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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The action you attempted to perform on a remote instance of SQL Server has failed
because the action requires a SQL Server component that is not installed on the
remote computer. To proceed, install SQL Server 2005 Management Tools on the remote
computer, and then try again. For more information, see "How to: Install SQL Server
2005 (Setup)" in SQL Server 2005 Books Online, or find the article on MSDN at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=57083 . (ObjectExplorer)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=57083
Note: SQL Agent is running. So far, everything else seems to be working fine.
I have installed SQLServer 2005 from Small Business Server premium edition. The package has been upgraded to SP2 and all the fixes have been applied.
I want to create a new maintenance plan to automate my DB backup procedures using SQL Server Management Studio. I start Management Studio and right click on the management folder and I I see is "Refresh" there is no "Create New Maintenance" plan presented.
I have tried this using the sa built-in account and the server administrator account both of which have sysadmin priviledges. I have also tried it from a client machine with another sysadmin userid but they all give the same results.
I checked to see if SSIS was installed. The add/remove programs wizard for SQL Server shows Integration Services SP2 is installed but I went ahead anyway and re-installed without error.
It seems that either SSIS is not running or I my user roles are preventing the maintenance wizard from running. Is there some way that I can tell if, in fact, SSIS is properly installed and running?
On SQL 2005 with mixed authentication, I am simply trying to create a maintenance plan to backup one single database. When I get to the end of the wizard, the creation process fails with this message:
Create maintenance plan failed().
I installed SQL 2005 using my domain account and the services are running under my account credentials. I am a domain and local admin.
I have been told to use the following Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts methods to create a maintenance plan programatically. Can I use C# to program a maintenance plan? If so, how could I use DTS methods to create a maintenance plan? Or, moreover, what would be a good first step to create this?
I need to programmatically create a SQL 2005 maintenance plan at hundreds of customer sites. Each plan will be a little different because of path names, database names, etc., so I can't use one canned plan without modifications. I know that SQL 2005 maintenance plans are XML packages and SQL jobs, so scripting isn't an option. I've seen mention of using the .Net API to create the plans, but I can't find any examples. SMO doesn't seem to have any objects for managing maintenance plans. Can someone point me to an example of using the API to perform this task?
I am new to always on management, I would like to know if exist a best practice for configuring maintenance plan on a alwayson system (two nodes) or is just running the maintenance plan wizard on both nodes.
I have a question that I hope someone can clear up for me. I have come across a number of different suggestions on DB maintenance, for example reindexing with the following script:
USE DatabaseName --Enter the name of the database you want to reindex
DECLARE @TableName varchar(255)
DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_type = 'base table'
OPEN TableCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN DBCC DBREINDEX(@TableName,' ',90) FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TableName END
CLOSE TableCursor
DEALLOCATE TableCursor
My question is, doesn't the maintenance plan have this functionality inherent in it when you create the maintenance jobs to reindex? Is there a benefit to scripting things out vs just using the maintenance plan wizard for this sort of thing and any of the items it covers? I came from an Oracle background where this was a no-brainer but I am a bit confused on the choices with SQL Server.
I have deleted a database from SQL Enterprise Manager. Anyone know a way to clear that database from my maintenance plan? I do not wish to just uncheck the deleted database or create a new database plan. Thanks!
I have been given a SQL Server 2000 database to look after which has been set up with a Database maintenance plan. The plan is set to backup the complete database and the transaction log. The backups are written to the local disk correctly but the plan is also set to remove any backup files (both database .BAK and transaction log .TRN) that are over one week old. Complete database .BAK files are written daily and the .TRN are written every hour daily. The .BAK files are removed ok automatically but the .TRN files are not - they are just slowly filling the disk. There does not seen to be anything different between the way the main database and the transaction log is set up in the maintenance plan.
I have a strange thing in one of our Maintenance plans.
On the first tab where you check which databases you're including in the plan I have (say my database name is CAT) a 'CAT' and 'cat' database listed and the one chosen is 'cat'. However my database in all other views shows up in all caps. (even when I do an sp_helpdb)
The backups look like they're working, etc. but it just seems weird. If I go to create a new plan it only gives me the one option 'CAT' which is really what's there. I'm new and I'm thinking the database at one time was 'cat' and this is when the maintenance plan was created. Then it was renamed to 'CAT' and there's the two db's showing in the old mainenance plan.
What would you do? Create a new plan with "CAT" and just get rid of the old one with the weird 'cat' and 'CAT'?
I've created a database maintenance plan to backup a database, but it just isn't happening, am i missing something. The maintenance plan appears to be created successfully.
hi everyone.. this is a little bit weird .. i am trying to make a backup strategy. i am using sql2005. when i go to maintenance plan. right click >> new maintenance plan... nothing happens.. if i go with the maintenance plan wizard everything goes normally. after doing the backup, if i right click on it and press modify , nothing happens too. what i mean by nothing happens is that it doesn't open the "design view". the back up is doing normally.. but i need to set a range of 5 days before overwriting the oldest backup. any idea what is going on or what am i missing?! thank you
Created weekly (full backup) and a daily (differential backup) Maintenance Plans using the wizard. I formatted the server, installed the OS and SQL. Restored the full backup (No Recovery Mode), then restored the differential backup (Recovery Mode), tested and all worked well.
Then I noticed the original Maintenace Plans I created (Full and Differential) were gone; makes sense as I had formatted the server.
Is there a way to create a Maintenance Plan file or script that I can save and just add back to the server??
Hope that makes sense. Any help appreciated. Kerry
Could someone advise and/or correct me with my thoughts on how I would do my db maintenance plans?
(db's on SQL2000 as 'full' model)
Backups: 1) Daily Transaction log backups scheduled frequently enough. 2) Full Backup scheduled daily. Good way to start I presume ;)
Maintenance: Would be scheduled daily if possible, on non-production hours and if not colliding with daily full BU schedule.
3) Full DB reorg data&indexes. 4) Update Query Optimizer Stats (although 'Auto Update Stats' is on) 5) Shrink the logfile (ldf) as I presume this will have grown due to previous maintenance jobs. 6) If 5 ok, alter ldf filesize back to new allocated size.
Our products are VB6-based interacting with MSDE2000 i.e. none of our clients have EM. We have auto-backups performed twice a day by default and we encourage people to keep it to a least 2 per day.
Yesterday, one of our clients reported a problem. Upon investigation, I did a DBCC CheckDB WITH ALL_ERRORMSGS which returned the following:
Object ID 1461580245, forward row page (1:159), slot 50 points to page (1:234), slot 43. Did not encounter forward row. Possible allocation error.
So after reading a lot of posts and blogs from Paul Randal, I proceeded cautiously to copy the DB then perform a DBCC CheckDB REPAIR_REBUILD which had no effect, then a DBCC CheckDB REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS which also had no effect. Then, I determined which table was at fault via DBCC CheckTable and I exported its data to a blank table where I discovered the missing data row and corrected for it manually. End of story.
Not a funny situation. The worst part is that this defect may have been there for a very long time, meaning that restoring the latest backup would not have helped the situation. I now realize that relying on backups alone is a huge no-no.
So, having been scarred into reality, I would like to install an automated maintenance plan. I'm used to doing it on my personal station using EM but, as stated above, I can't do that for the clientele. I was thinking about simply shrinking the databases and then doing a DBCC CheckDB WITH ALL_ERRORMSGS on all of them before performing a backup. Would this be a complete enough procedure or should I be doing something else? My understanding is that this will verify index structure and data integrity, and not attempt to repair anything which is uncovered.
Any thoughts of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
I have created maintenance plan. It was working fine. When I tried to edit it gives me error. How to sollve this error? Please help me.
Cannot show the editor for this task.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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Hi All, As a part of creating a maintenance plan i want to copy the backfiles from the server to another machine.How can i achieve this .Please help its very urgent.
I was wondering if there were any best practices for creating maintenance plans? Im just getting started into the DBA world and have been delegated the task of creating maintenance plans for our 8 SQL servers.
Right now, our backup policy is Fulls on Saturday, differentials Monday-Friday.
Also, since im new, if you defragment the database and rebuild the index, does that have the possibility of "breaking" anything?
Just looking for some good articles, or anything to get me started on best practices.
I am relatively new to SQL Server 2005. I have gone ahead and created a maintenance plan which backs up all our databases. This plan is scheduled to run every night. The problem is that each time the plan runs, new backup files are created which quickly uses up valuable disk space.
How do I set up SQL Server 2005 to only create one set of backup files and overwrite any existing files when the maintenance plan is run? I tried playing with the "backup set will expire" settings, this did not seem to do anything.....
I have a SQL 2000 server that has a small but very important database (about 5GB). The current maintenance plan does trans logs every hour and full every day. Currently they are to file on the same drive array. I would like to send them to a share on another server just to be really safe.
Would it be better to
1. Redirect the maintenance plan so that trans logs and backups go directly to the share
or
2. Keep the maintenance plan back ups to the current location and write a script that runs every hour and copies the .bak files to the share.
Also, since the database is so small should I just do full backups every hour instead of transaction?
In the Enterprise Manager of SQL Server 2000 I have set up a maintenance plan which rebuilds my indexes. I've stuided the documentation, and from what I've learned what happens behind the curtain is that several DBCC REINDEX commands are being issued. Question: If I have 20 tables and 40 indexes: Will SQL Server do the maintance plan in 1 single transaction, or will it divide the it up to eg. 20 or 40 transactions?
We are using a database maintenance plan to backup and reindex our db's. Up until the end of last month this was working perfectly - however now it has stopped deleting the old backups (even though we have checked 'Delete files over 1 day old').
Does anyone have any ideas as to why they are now being deleted - and how we can remove them automatically - has something been corruped? Would it be a case of creating a new maintenance plan?
I've set up a maintenance plan to back up the database at a certain time of day. But it never seems to work, which I don't understand. I'm the creator of the database as well as the DBA with all rights. I can create a manual backup, and I have full access to the default backup directory on SQL server. I've also tried scheduling automatic backups, but it won't work from there either. I've tried pretty much everything to get this to work. I've checked the Maintenance Plan History for that particular Maintanance Plan, and it shows no evidence of failure--or any history of activity at all--nothing. It just ignores the maintenance plan entirely. What could be the problem here?
I have created the backup plan for all the 40 user databases on one of the production servers.Scheduled to run the backup at Sunday 2.00AM every week on to a different drive on the same server.If all the databases are backed up at the same specified time,will it effect the performance or anything?Under the maintenance plan wizard,there is no option to select different times for different databases.Total size of all the databases will be 10GB.Does it take the backups one after another DB or all at the same time which is specified?Any idea on potential problems? Thanks!!
I am doing full backups on 25 databases nightly using the SQL maintenance plan. Recently I have started getting the backup process hung on one database, so the whole plan does not finish. The job shows as executing, but nothing is being done, and nothing has been written to disk for this database. The SQL logs show a DBCC TRACEON 208, but the process it refers to is using another database. The NT logs do not show anything going on either. Additionally the backup process will not die when it is killed. They only way to make it go away is to stop and start the SQL Server. The system is a quad Pentium 450, 2Gig of ram, and plenty of disk space. It is NT SP5, SQL7 SP1. The DB is about 8.2 Gig. There are no other jobs scheduled to run at the time the backups run. Does anyone have any ideas what would be causeing the process to hang? Also what is a trace flag 208, it is not listed in BOL. Thanks for your help.
I currently have a db setup to do full backups nightly with log backups scheduled to occur every two hours during the day. The plan was running fine until yesterday when I got the full backup and then one log, the next log file failed...the message I received is:
sqlmaint.exe failed [SQLSTATE 42000](Error 22029). The step failed
I am unable to find anything related to error 22029.
I have set up a db maintenance wizard to back up all of our databases at night, and also our transaction logs through the day
the db backups has worked once and the transaction back ups several times then this morning when I arrived I got the following message in the history for both of the back ups
sqlmaint.exe failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22029). The step failed.
I can't understand why, I haven't changed anything and nothing else was running at the time
