Hello....Can someone help me please?
I had a mdf file with 48 Mb...and suddenly, the size of it increased
to 690 Mb (without any action or movement of data)...
Why could it be done?....is there any solution for thar?
Thank you.
Tony
How to decrease msdbdat.mdf size? This is a bit urgent and it would be great if anyone can reply on this.
Gaurav Arora
Here are my scenarios:
We have an application with replicated environment setup on sql server 2012 . Users will have a replica on their machines and they will replicate to the master database. It has 3 subscriptions subscribed to the publications on the master db.
1) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with no sql server on it. After the initial synchronization(used replmerge tool) the mdf file has grown to 33gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studion . Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 84 gb with little empty free space available.
2) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with sql server 2008 on it. After the initial synchronization(used replmerge tool) the mdf file has grown to 49 gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studio , Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 90 gb with 16 gb free space available.
3) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with sql server 2012 on it. We have dropped the local database and recreated the local db and did the initial synchronization using replmerge tool. The mdf file has grown to 49 gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studio , Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 90 gb with 16 gb free space available.
Why it is allocating the space differently? This is effecting our initial replica set up times.
Database size increased from 600GB to 1000 GB in 4 hours. There was no process running. I am not able to understand why would database size increase in 4 hours.
Does anyone know how should I trouble shoot this?
Does any one know what could be making the size of a backup get so big in SQL server?
I noticed if you back-up the same database in Enterprise Manager over and over (without making any changes to the database), the size of the backup gets bigger and bigger. To get around this I simply erase the backup and create a new one.
Now I'm experiencing the same kind of problem, different situation. I decided to make very few changes to my database. If anything, I shrunk the size of the tables and stored procedures.... Now all of a sudden my database backup is 7 times larger.
What could be increasing the size so much, if I haven't increased the amount of tables or stored procedures?
What is the log file about? Mine is huge? Is there a way to reset it or clear it?
any help would be great.
Thank you,
Alec
Hi,
I was running out of space and thus deleted some rows from a table. To my surprise the db size increased. I then shrunk it to bring it back to what it was earlier.
When i deleted some 5000 rows, some space must have been released. Where did the space go and why did the db size increase after deleting the records?
I thght it might be log files..but db is set to Simple Recovery which does not utilize a Log File.
Any reasons?
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ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
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native_error=5039, msg=[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size.
I'll try to post the full log in a new post.
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Hi,
i use this script that show me the size of each table and do the sum of all the table size.
SELECT
X.[name],
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, CONVERT(money, X.[rows]), 1), '.00', '') AS [rows],
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, CONVERT(money, X.[reserved]), 1), '.00', '') AS [reserved],
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, CONVERT(money, X.[data]), 1), '.00', '') AS [data],
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, CONVERT(money, X.[index_size]), 1), '.00', '') AS [index_size],
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, CONVERT(money, X.[unused]), 1), '.00', '') AS [unused]
FROM
(SELECT
CAST(object_name(id) AS varchar(50)) AS [name],
SUM(CASE WHEN indid < 2 THEN CONVERT(bigint, [rows]) END) AS [rows],
SUM(CONVERT(bigint, reserved)) * 8 AS reserved,
SUM(CONVERT(bigint, dpages)) * 8 AS data,
SUM(CONVERT(bigint, used) - CONVERT(bigint, dpages)) * 8 AS index_size,
SUM(CONVERT(bigint, reserved) - CONVERT(bigint, used)) * 8 AS unused
FROM sysindexes WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE sysindexes.indid IN (0, 1, 255)
AND sysindexes.id > 100
AND object_name(sysindexes.id) <> 'dtproperties'
GROUP BY sysindexes.id WITH ROLLUP) AS X
ORDER BY X.[name]
the problem is that the sum of all tables is not the same size when i make a full database backup.
example of this is when i run this query against my database i see a sum of 111,899 KB that they are 111MB,but when
i do full backup to that database the size of this full backup is 1.5GB,why is that and where this size come from?
THX
It is possible to find table size and in that table each row size.
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Hi,
I am using
exec sp_helpdb
go
dbcc sqlperf(logspace) for
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Stacy
Hi!
I'm using SQL Server 2000!
How to know then Data files size and Log files size by Store Procedures or Sql query?
Thanks!
Hi all,
I need your help in fixing SQL error. I have a SQL table which has more than 50 columns. 5 of them should hold 1000+ character text. I allocated nvarchar(2000) for each of those fields. But Iam getting an error when Iam trying instert the text from C#.net application.
Error Message is:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot create a row of size 8739 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060. The statement has been terminated. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() at UsefulFunctions.DataBase.ExecuteSql(String Sql, ArrayList arrParam) in D:ProjectsUsefulFunctionsClass1.cs:line 395 at racf2.RacfTicketClose.Btn_Close_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in d:documents and settingswwwwwwwwwwwwwwinhousesecurity
acf2
acfticketclose.aspx.cs:line 167
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Is their any tricks that will allow you get around the 8060 byte row size limit.
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