Database Size & Management
Mar 1, 2007
I am not an SQL guru by any stretch but I am trying to understand the differance bewteen the size of the data contained in the tables and the physical size of the .MDF file.
Currently I have a website for a client with 27 megs of Physical data stored in the tables but a Data file size of 334 MB set a 3% autogrow. I have my Log capped at 5mb, but I can't seem to contain the Data file. My database just keeps growing and growing every 2-3 days with very little new data being inserted.
Why is there such an enourmous differance bewteen the size of data stored in the tables and the size of the data file and is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thank you for any help,
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Mar 2, 2008
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
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Sep 4, 2007
I am trying to resize a database initial log file from 500M to 2M. I€™m using€?
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
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Any help with this process?
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Aug 11, 2000
Hi,
I am using
exec sp_helpdb
go
dbcc sqlperf(logspace) for
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database size and log size or Is there any other way to get the logsize and database size by means of query analyzer.
Thanks in Advance.
Seenu. S
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Feb 13, 2008
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Jul 30, 2015
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Mar 20, 2007
I'm getting this error while trying to insert records into a SQL Server Compact Edition database. I have pasted my connection string that was used when creating the database as well as for accessing that same database from my Windows application.
Thanks for any help any of you can give!
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Feb 18, 2008
Hello,
I am developing a smart device application with Visual Studio .Net 2005 and SQL Server Compact Edition database. And also using merge replication to synchronize the data from the mobile device to the SQL Server.
My database size is around 350MB. So when I am trying to synchronize this is the error message that I get.
" The database file is larger than the configured maximum database size. The setting takes effect on the first concurrent database connection only.[Required Max Database size ( in MB; 0 if unknown)=129].
I tried changing the Max database size in the connection string and my connection string looks as follows and still did not have any luck.
connstr= "Data Source=Storage CardItems.sdf;Max Database Size=500;"
Any help regarding this would be appreciated.
Thank you
.
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Nov 9, 2005
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Aug 25, 2007
Hi,
I need support for the following problem.
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Hope any one will help.
Thanx in advance.
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Jul 19, 2007
Hi to All,
I am working in vb and C# .net as front hand and use mySql or Squel server as back-hand.
task is, i did here it that, we have more than one table, each and every is related by using the concept of Primary and Foreign key management.
in that database if i remove a record from master table, than the related record of all child talbes shall auto-matically reoved that is my question how it does happen.
first thing that you have understood my problem if yes than please if you have any idea, mail me.
i will very much thnks in advance to you.
bye
regards Rajat.
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Mar 3, 2008
Hi all,
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Thanks in advance,
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Jun 7, 2007
hi
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Jul 15, 2004
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Mar 1, 2002
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Everything runs fine but the database grows 1 G from yesterday's database. I am sure we do not have so much data entry in one day.
Any one can give some suggestion?
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How can know how much size for all of the index file?
Thank you very much.
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Hi..
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Hi,
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Hi,
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Hi,
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Thanks a lot and happy new year.
Best regards.
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