When I delete substantial amounts of data using the SQL DELETE command, the database size apparently remains the same (702 mb) and the log file goes from about 17 mb to over 1 gig. I was expecting for the overall size to decrease drastically, but got just the opposite.
Is this typical? Can I do something to slim it down? As I am just trying to decrease the overall size to make it easier to work with when creating my application in VB, I am not worried about restoring the db (I have secure copies).
Ok so I have some dynamic sql to delete a file that is created via sql earlier on. It is to provision a copy of a database to an instance on link server. Everything works great and the files used to delete. Now, with no code changes it is throwing a syntax error. I do a print of what the dynamic sql is creating before executing and then I copy / paste what was generated into command prompt and guess what!! The file deletes.
Here is the result on screen:
@DeleteBackupFileStatement: DEL adas16.clients.advance.localwip$AvionteAP_Template_893.bak /Q Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near ''. Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near ''.
Here is the code that creates the statement:
SET @DeleteBackupFileStatement = NULL BEGIN SET @DeleteBackupFileStatement = 'DEL ' + LTRIM(RTRIM(@BackupFile)) + ' /Q' END PRINT '@DeleteBackupFileStatement: ' + cast(@DeleteBackupFileStatement as varchar(400)) BEGIN EXEC adasdb.master.sys.Sp_executesql @DeleteBackupFileStatement END END
The value of @BackupFile is simply the path of the file with the file name, everything in the prepared statement with the exception of DEL and the switch at the end.
How can you delete a log file. Say I have backed up a transaction log at some drive say G:. Now I want to delete this log file and want to define it in a job. What is the syntax - delete G:Test_log.bak ???? What is a proper syntax?? Thanks!
can some one please help me to delete a File with extension .mdf, as its continously giving error that file can't be deleted its being used by any other program or user.
I am trying to remove the transaction log file since I have created another one on a seperate drive by it wont let me do it . I get this error "cant delete the primary data or log file" Now microsoft site clearly state steps for deleting the transaction log file , by first emptying it and then deleting it BUT IT DOESNT WORK. I have even tried detaching the database and then removing the transaction log file and then attaching the database again BUT it attaches the transaction file back again GRRRRRR
then on top of this MS SQL studio does not allow to put PRIMARY or anyother value to the Filegroup for tansaction log files so how on earth can a transaction file be "primary" as the error is stating ??????
can anyone tell me how to get rid of a transaction log file that was created with the database ?
Server: Msg 1101, Level 17, State 10, Line 1 Could not allocate new page for database 'TEMPDB'. There are no more pages available in filegroup DEFAULT. Space can be created by dropping objects, adding additional files, or allowing file growth.
So went to EM & added another file (Additional file in some other drive ) to the Tempdb , now I want to delete this file ???
What are the steps ... I cant re-start the SQL Server
I can not delete this file from C/Windows/Temp directory, all other files form that foder I can delete. The error message I get is that something else is using this file. The thing is I cant find what is using it, even though I uninstaled SQL Server 2005 completely. I have tried lots of things, nothing helps. At the end I entered windows in SAFE MODE, went to Computer Management and disabled almost every service I can, that might be using it, and still cant get rid of this SQL.LOG which is 26GB now. The only thing I could do is to compress the file and now it is 6.5GB.
Hi ALL, I need to delete 1st and last lines of text from a text file in an automated process,and save the file with the same name or a different name at the same location. How is that possible?Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!! Sai.
In SQL 2012 I'm trying to delete a log file (both physically and logically). There are two log files and one of them is unnecessary. When I click 'remove' in SSMS it will delete the log file, but then when I go back under database properties it's still showing up even though the file has been physically removed from the OS. I'm wondering what steps I can take to get rid of the file permanently?
Basically remove any line that start with a "#" or any blank lines..
I am assuming you can do this only using a script component and not directly through ssis..but i am not too familiar with scripting...so some code would be helpful
I use discountasp.net. I've added some new tables that I'd like to place on my website. My problem is that if I reattach my mdf file to my server, my member roster gets deleted. So my question is how can I update the mdf file without losing member information?
I have maually deleted the Database.LDF file by stopping the SQL Server. When i start the SQL Server, merge replication which was configured for the database does not work. How do i fix this problem.
I'm new to SQL Server 2005 (up until now I've been an Oracle DBA exclusively) and have been tasked with backing up all (6) of our SQL Server 2005 databases on a regular basis. To accomplish this, I've created individual SQL Server jobs for each database I wish to backup. Each of these jobs executes a T-SQL script like this:
BACKUP DATABASE [MYDATA] TO DISK = N'\networksharemydata.bak' WITH RETAINDAYS = 4, NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'MyData-FullBackup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GO
My goal in specifying 'RETAINDAYS = 4' was so that there would always be 4 days worth of "backupsets" (forgive my Oracle-ese) kept in mydata.bak. But when I look at the amount of backupsets kept in mydata.bak I noticed that all of them were being kept and none were being deleted.
I researched this problem a little bit and thought I had discovered a solution by specifying 'INIT' instead of 'NOINIT' and 'NOSKIP' instead of 'SKIP', but this deletes the entire contents of mydata.bak only-if all of the backupsets contained in it are past their expiration date. I was hoping it would just delete the expired backupsets and keep the non-expired ones, but this isn't the case.
Does anyone know the simplest way - with T-SQL commands - to accmplish the task of backing up a database to 1 individual .bak file and also only retain x amount of "backupsets" within it? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and the more detailed the better. Thanks.
I'm new to SQL Server 2005 (up until now I've been an Oracle DBA exclusively) and have been tasked with backing up all (6) of our SQL Server 2005 databases on a regular basis. To accomplish this, I've created individual SQL Server jobs for each database I wish to backup. Each of these jobs executes a T-SQL script like this:
BACKUP DATABASE [MYDATA] TO DISK = N'\networksharemydata.bak' WITH RETAINDAYS = 4, NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'MyData-FullBackup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GO
My goal in specifying 'RETAINDAYS = 4' was so that there would always be 4 days worth of "backupsets" (forgive my Oracle-ese) kept in mydata.bak. But when I look at the amount of backupsets kept in mydata.bak I noticed that all of them were being kept and none were being deleted.
I researched this problem a little bit and thought I had discovered a solution by specifying 'INIT' instead of 'NOINIT' and 'NOSKIP' instead of 'SKIP', but this deletes the entire contents of mydata.bak only-if all of the backupsets contained in it are past their expiration date. I was hoping it would just delete the expired backupsets and keep the non-expired ones, but this isn't the case.
Does anyone know the simplest way - with T-SQL commands - to accmplish the task of backing up a database to 1 individual .bak file and also only retain x amount of "backupsets" within it? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and the more detailed the better. Thanks.
I am trying to delete tables from data where the ModifiedDates older than 9 years in AdventureWorks2012 database . I get console notified that foreign keys are dropped but the delete statement is throwing errors. I am sure that somewhere the key constraints are not getting altered, but i'm not able to figure it out as i'm a relative beginner to T-SQL. The error and code:
The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_SalesOrderHeaderSalesReason_SalesReason_SalesReasonID". The conflict occurred in database "AdventureWorks2012", table "Sales.SalesOrderHeader [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO") | Out-Null $option_drop = new-object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ScriptingOptions; $option_drop.ScriptDrops = $true;
I don't know if the question has been nailed down. Aside from deleting tables, can we delete the *content* of data within the tables. It doesn't seem crazy that, if you can pull in data from a feed then you should be able to remove the content out again (without also destroying the user's meta-data work ). Reasons for this include:
- Security (a user may not have rights to see *my* data and should go refresh their own) - Size (workbook doesn't need to have GB's of irrelevant data saved to disk in a workbook if it was just useful during development phase to a pre-production data feed) - Bad data (pre-production data feed is not good data) - User-friendliness (data feed was refreshed 2 years ago and workbook was saved to file server. Users shouldn't be presented with irrelevant data, but should get empty pivot tables until they go do their refresh)
Obviously Excel internally knows how to clear out PowerPivot data, given the prompt shown here: [URL] ....
But how does a user initiate this on their own (corruption aside)?
Previous time this question was asked, without a real resolution: [URL] ....
We are running SQL Server 2005 express on Windows 2003. The database server gets significant amounts of data.
Because of the 4GB data limit we have a daily cron task which goes through and deletes data older then 90 days.
We would like a way to archive this data instead of deleting it. Is there any way to take data and compress it and store it in a different way, so that if needed, customers can query directly out from the compressed data? Cleary querying from compressed would be slower but that is ok.
Any other solutions that would allow us to archive data instead of deleting it? Thanks.
I have a package which loads data from a flat file (csv) to 4 tables in a database. Now, the load is incremental.
I want to clear the data of all 4 tables(in the database) before loading the data from flat file everytime.How can i do this? Iam using 4 Oledb Destinations, 1 multicast, 1 source component to do this. Also can it happen like a transaction? because if it deletes the existing data and couldnt load new data there will be a problem!.how to avoid this?
Hi i have to delete the master table data without deleting the child table records,is there any solution for this, parent table has relation with the child table. regards vinod.t.v
I have the following issue with Maintenance plan backups that work for BAK DIF and TRN to a remote server share. When I try and remove the old files with a clean up task I get an error and the files don't get deleted.
The version is as follows Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3054.00 (X64) Mar 23 2007 18:41:50 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)
The error result is as follows,
Failed-1073548784) Executing the query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'\\EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'\ABCD-A1\BACKUPS\ABCD_BACKUP\ABC_DAILY\ABCD',N'trn',N'2008-01-13T12:52:49'" failed with the following error: "xp_delete_file() returned error 2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.'". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
The maintenance plan seems to be adding extra "" though when i enter the code directly in a query i get same error.
xp_delete_file() returned error 2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.'
The servers belong to the same domain and are using the same Service account which has all the necessary rights to the share and the file directory location. The backups work but i get the error on the cleanup task.
Trying to figure out how to get the Cleanup task to delete old files. The same happens for all file extensions and I have tried other locations with simpler file paths same error.
I have edited the aspnet_Users_CreateUser stored procedure so that the UserId that is created when a new user is created is copied to a UserId field in another table. However, when I use the website administration tool to delete users that have been created, it gives me an error saying the delete statement conflicted with the reference constraint. I then added the following code in the aspnet_Users_DeleteUser procedure.... IF ((@TablesToDeleteFrom & 16) <> 0 AND (EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE (name = N'vw_tt') AND (type = 'V')))) BEGIN DELETE FROM dbo.userclassset WHERE @UserId = UserId SELECT @ErrorCode = @@ERROR, @RowCount = @@ROWCOUNT IF( @ErrorCode <> 0 ) GOTO Cleanup IF (@RowCount <> 0) SELECT @NumTablesDeletedFrom = @NumTablesDeletedFrom + 1 hdhd END This code was then added to the function at the end which deletes the data from the aspnet_Users table when everything else has been removed (@TablesToDeleteFrom & 16) <> 0 AND Now when I delete a user in the website admin tool, it "deletes" (with no error) the user from the list but doesnt actually physically delete it from the database. Any ideas?
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[dbo.ServiceLog] Script Date: 07/18/2014 14:30:59 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER proc [dbo].[ServiceLogPurge]
-- Purge records dbo.ServiceLog older than 3 months: -- Purge records in small portions to avoid locking production tables -- for a long time. The process takes longer, but can co-exist with -- normal usage of the tables.
[Code] ...
*** Getting this error below when executing the code ***
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ServiceLogPurge, Line 45 Incorrect syntax near 'Failed:'.
Edited by SomeNewKid. Please post code between <code> and </code> tags.
I have added a delete button to my datagrid, and put in what I think is the code to delete a member from the database at their Member ID, however when I have called a members details and the delete button is pressed, nothing happens!!?? Any ideas? Here is the code:
<%@ Page Language="VB" %> <script runat="server">
' Insert page code here ' Function GetMember(ByVal iD As Integer) As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader Dim connectionString As String = "server='localhost'; trusted_connection=true; Database='adp1SQL'" Dim sqlConnection As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(connectionString)
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT [oga].* FROM [oga] WHERE ([oga].[ID] = @ID)" Dim sqlCommand As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConnection)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@ID", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int).Value = iD
sqlConnection.Open Dim dataReader As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader = sqlCommand.ExecuteReader(System.Data.CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
Return dataReader End Function
Sub dgMember_Delete(sender as Object, e as DataGridCommandEventArgs) dgMember.EditItemIndex = -1
Sub btnView_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) dgMember.DataSource = GetMember(memberID.Text) dgMember.DataBind() End Sub
Sub dgMember_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
End Sub Function DeleteMember(ByVal iD As Integer) As Integer Dim connectionString As String = "server='localhost'; trusted_connection=true; Database='adp1SQL'" Dim sqlConnection As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(connectionString)
Dim queryString As String = "DELETE FROM [oga] WHERE ([oga].[ID] = @ID)" Dim sqlCommand As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConnection)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@ID", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int).Value = iD
Dim rowsAffected As Integer = 0 sqlConnection.Open Try rowsAffected = sqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery Finally sqlConnection.Close End Try
my row in my data base consists of 12 coulmns, i have a duplicate values in 6 coulmns of it , i use select distinct for all it doesnt work for it it doesnot remove dupliacte , i cant make primary key or any constraint on this 6 coulmns together cause it contains duplicate values even if i choose ignore duplicate it doesnot work
example id name adress telephone job gender deprtment 1 john dd 123 doctor m 1st deprtment 1 john dd 123 doctor m 2nd deprtment
so there is duplicate on id, name,telephone, job , gender and different in department so how i make a primary key on id , name , adress , telephone , job , gender together
also how to delete duplicate from it although i used distinct function and it doesnit remove duplicate
I wrote a script to archive and delete records rom a table back in 2005 and 2009.
I can't seem to get the syntax right. Any sample script to simply archive and delete records?
This is what I have so far.
DECLARE @ArchiveDate Datetime SET @ArchiveDate = (SELECT TOP 1 DATEPART(yyyy,Call_Date) FROM tblCall ORDER BY Call_Date) --SELECT @ArchiveDate AS ArchiveDate DECLARE @Active bit
I have to delete a ton of data from a SQL table. I have a unique identifier called the version. I would like to use if not in these versions then delete. I tried to using the statement below, but learned the hard way that it created an error this is the message I got....
Msg 9002, Level 17, State 4, Line 3...
The transaction log for database 'MonthEnds' is full due to 'ACTIVE_TRANSACTION'.
I was reading about truncate, I am not sure how I would do this or how I would setup the statement.
Delete Products where versions were not in (('48459CED-871F-4971-B888-5083990332BC','D550C8D3-58C7-4C74-841D-1C1675F19AE3','C77C7817-3F04-4145-98D3-37BB1610DB35', '21FE83FA-476D-4604-80EF-2ED57DEE2C16','F3B50B81-191A-4D71-A406-011127AEFBE1','EFBD48E7-E30F-4047-909E-F14DCAEA4181','BD9CCC41-D696-406B- 'C8BEBFBC-D362-4D0F-A555-B281FC2B3023','EFA64956-C2CF-41FC-8E21-F060597DAFCB','77A8DE56-6F7F-4490-8BED-AA6809B947EF','0F4C1E5F-B689-4DCB-
I really don't know how frowned upon my approach is here, but it was the only way I have been able I've been able to do it.
On my application, when users delete their account, it sometimes brings the db server to a COMPLETE crawl. The reason is some users who delete have many years of related data, and when the data deletes with them, its very slow.
To avoid this I've taken off many contstraints, and I do have some sprocs that deleted orphaned data at night.
