I have a database SQL Server 2005 Express, that's
using the Simple recovery model.
There's quite a big transaction log for this database,
how do I empty it when it's the Simple model?
Besides, the log file hasn't been updated (acc. to
the Windows file date) since yesterday while the MDF
file has. Is this normal?
We have the following scenario,
We have our Production server having database on which Few DTS packages execute every night. Most of them have Bulk Insert stored procedures running.
SO we have to set Recovery Model of the database to simple for that period of time, otherwise it will blow up our logs.
Is there any way we can set up log shipping between our production and standby server, but pause it for some time, set recovery model of primary db to simple, execute DTS Bulk Insert Jobs, Bring it Back to Full recovery Model AND finally bring back Log SHipping.
It it possible, if yes how can we achieve this.
If not what could be another DR solution in this scenario.
Thanks Much
Tejinder
I need to create a data model for powerview report but I don't have data right now. The data will be loaded later after I create the report. What technique should I use??
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe are using a .bat script to restore several client dbs onto our sql server 2000 db. We want to set the client dbs from full recovery to simple. What command should I use in the .bat file to make this change?
.bat file ==
:: Second, restore data from SQL Server backup file to SQL server...
isql -E -S ao3ao3 -Q "RESTORE DATABASE CBSN FROM DISK = 'D:MARS_SYSDATAUPDATESCBSNCBSN.BAK' WITH MOVE 'MEDISUN_BCNV_Data' TO 'D:SQLDATACBSN_data.mdf', MOVE 'MEDISUN_BCNV_Log' TO 'D:SQLDATACBSN_log.ldf',REPLACE;"
We have a fairly large database that we use to store mom alerts and it stopped alerting as it's transaction log became full. I suggested to the owner of the database to set the simple recovery model so the log could automatically be truncated. However, it appears that the database is frequently reaching it's limit (of 3gb) and I'm having to set the limit even higher on a daily basis. Can anyone tell me why this is occuring? I understood that when the log file reaches 70% it should automatically shrink?
Kind Regards
Mike
DB replication can set db recovery model to simple ,why db mirror can not  db recovery model to simple.
DB mirror must be set to full recovery model.
As far as I know, whatever db mirror  and db replication ,there is a log reader to read the log in the ldf file DB mirror and DB replication are almost the same principle to replicate the db to another db server.
I have convert all databases to Full from Simple Recovery model.
As per documentation, it looks like simple.
Based on your experiences , do you think of any problem may come while doing this ?
Any impact on application performance after this ?
Is this work perferened to do when no body using system ?
Thanks
On SQL 2000 or SQL20005 will a database's log file automatically be truncated if the database is on simple recovery model?
The reason I ask is that we have a database (simple recovery) that keeps growing its logfile each weekend which causes disc space problems.
I am kinda new to SS but from the reading in BoL I've done was under the impression that for simple recovery model log records are only needed until the transaction has been written to disc and committed, and that SS will handle truncating obsolete records from the log where necessary.
I'm doing DBCC SQLPERF(logspace) which shows this first thing on a Monday morning:
Database Name Log Size (MB) Log Space Used (%)
-------------- --------------- ---------------------
myDB 4841.93 99.19465
Note the size of the log file - the data file is only 700MB!
Issuing a DBCC OPENTRAN doesn't show any open transactions, and a CHECKPOINT doesn't do anything to reduce the log space used (which if there were dirty records in the log still not written to disc this ought to do shouldn't it?).
The database is only written to as a replication subscriber.
Any suggestions what would be causing the log file to fill up?
At the moment I'm resorting to BACKUP LOG myDB WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY and considering scheduling this as an hourly job over the weekend - any reasons why this could be a bad idea?
Many thanks,
Moff
When I create a database, is there a way to make sure that the default recovery model is Full instead of Simple?
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Hello,
I have a question regarding the backup for the database in Simple Recovery Model.
In this Model, I know we can restore only to the last full backup or can use differential
Backup, if implemented as a part of backup.
But my point of confusion is about the backup of '.ldf' file, should those file should be backed up in the
Maintenance Plan, if yes does it help in reducing the size of Log file?
Do we need the backup of '.ldf' in phase of Restoring?
As I mention my database has Simple Recovery Model, but the size of log file is around 20GB,
Could not understand why as in this Model, normally it automatically truncate the Log file?
Help me to clear my these doubts,
thanks,
My trancaction log is 25GB and my database file is 39GB. I justswitched to the 'Simple' recovery model from the 'Full' recovery model.When if ever can I expect the size of the transaction log to reduce insize? Is there anything else that I should do to aide with thereduction?Thanks,Peter
View 5 Replies View RelatedHave a database that's in "Simple" recovery mode whose .ldf has grown to 270GB. Â This database is a data warehouse so "full" is not required. Â I put it in simple mode a month ago and shrunk the log down and now it's filled up the disk.Â
What steps can I take to mitigate this in future? Â I've read that this is caused by long running transactions which fill the log for DR purposes. Â Should I put the database back into full mode and backup/truncate daily. Â
The auto-growth is set to 128MB which is very low.Â
One of our database is in simple recovery model, and usually generating more than 220 GB log file (.ldf) every week. We are shrinking log file many times to release the space.
But as its not advisable I am looking for any other options. I suggested to change the recovery model to Full and start T-log backup, but client dont want to change recovery model.
Is there any way to manage Log file of Simple recovery model to maintain disk space?
Will full backup truncate log file ?
We have a sql 2005 x64 database (datawarehouse related), essentially a work area for us, that we truncate and re-populate via BCP weekly. (We don't backup the database at all) . From the perspective of data-import speed what is the best recovery model to use: Bulk-Logged or Simple? (I have read sql 2005 BOL and don't find it partcularly clear on this point.)
Barkingdog
P.S. Anyone know of an article listing "best practices" for high-speed data import?
Can the deleted records be recovered in Simple Recovery model database? Are the delete logs present there?
View 3 Replies View RelatedRunning 2005 Beta 3 Refresh. When I first deploy, it works fine. Subsequent deployments yield the following error:
View 9 Replies View Related I need to develop a language specific dwh, meaning that descriptions of products are available from a SAP system in multiple languages. English is the most important language and that is the standard. But, there are also requirements of countries that wants productdescriptions in their language.Â
Productnr Productdesc Language
1       product    EN
1       produkt    DE
One option is to column the descriptions, but that is not very elegantly. I was thinking of using bridge tables to model this but you have to always select a language in a filter (I think)..
I'm thinking of a technical solution, such that when a user logs on, the language is determined and a view determines whether to pick a certain product table specific for a certain language. But then I don't have the opportunity to interchange the different language specific fields in a report (or in my case PowerPivot).
I wnat to have a log file with all the updates and inserts made to the DB.
I understand I have to do a trans-log,how?
in order to make a query a transaction do I only have to declare trans...commit ??
tanx,
eyal
Hi all,
I have MS Time Seeries model using a database of over a thousand products each of which has hundreds of cases. It amazingly takes only a few minutes to finish processing the model, but when I click Mining Model Viewer to view the models, it takes many hours to show up. Once the window is open, I can choose model for different products almost instantly. Is this normal?
I have set up a simple trans rep from a server in the office to the web. both servers are NT4sp6aSQL 7.0. Tables only.
The publication and distribution db are on the server at the office, and there is a full time connection through the firewall.
The initialization and first replication works perfectly, but after that, there is a message from the snapshot agent that "no subscriptions needed initialization", the logreader says thare are no replicated transactions and the Distribution agent says there are no replicated transactions. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance
Does anyone know how to move the transaction log(s) of a LIVE database to a new location. I must move the log of a database to a new mirrored drive without any disruption to users. I cannot take the database offline or use the sp_detach_db stored procedure. Your inputs are much appreciated!
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I have a 300MB db, and a transaction log near 1.3GB. Upon notification, I backed up the db log with truncate_only - no luck getting it smaller. Later, tried backup with no_log ( assuming the o/s was full - no diff)
I tried shinkfile (logfile,truncateonly) and no luck.
I tried dbcc opentrans to see if any pending trans. The db looks fine with dbcc checkdb. I managed to free up a mere 50MB. I checked the permissions on the db, and added backup db, and backup log in the db permissions for the user logged in (also tried this with sa)
I am unable to free up the space to the os. Can I somehow rid the log file and start off with a fresh log file? I need this space. As a patch I moved the log to a larger filesystem as a temporarily fix.
start/stop SQL- nothing? reboot -nothing? I played with waiting game. This log does not want to release space. The log grew from data loads.
Question1: Suggestions how to truncate this log? The contents are not really impt, but the space is.
Question2: Can I add another logfile, then use EMPTYFILE to transfer the contents to the newly added log file, then REMOVE The original logfile? In theory does this make sense?
Thanks,
Jason
Hello, During an intantanée arrest of replication of data base sql server 7 sp2 (nt4),
I lose keys on the subscriber, how don't have it? Thank you in advance easter
pascal
:confused:
Here's my situation (SQL2K)
We have a testing database we're using to convert large amounts of data from 1 system to another. We might process 5-6 million records, but don't care about being able to recover point-in-time.
I set recovery mode to simple, do a full backup every night. I keep getting large transaction logs. I manually run Shrink Database when I realize the logs are big
What can I do to prevent the logs from getting big in the first place ?? Can I prevent logging from happening ?
I keep reading various books and BOL, but I guess I don't quite "get it" yet ......
Any plain spoken, detailed suggestions would be very appreciated .... thanks in advance.
My database backs up just fine, but the transaction logs
are not. I created a maintenance plan for the database.
Any suggestions ?
Agent Job for transaction log backup
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlmaint N'-PlanID 0A83F1BC-EEAA-
4BDF-9374-E7FF5C1215F8 -
Rpt "d:sqldataMSSQL$PRODUCTIONLOGzeon_live_commerce DB
Maintenance Plan16.txt" -DelTxtRpt 1WEEKS -VrfyBackup -
BkUpMedia DISK -BkUpLog -UseDefDir -DelBkUps 2DAYS -
CrBkSubDir -BkExt "TRN"'
The error log file for the transaction log backups is...
Microsoft (R) SQLMaint Utility (Unicode), Version Logged
on to SQL Server 'ZCHQ_SQLPRODUCTION' as 'ZCISQLSERVICE'
(trusted)
Starting maintenance plan 'zeon_live_commerce DB
Maintenance Plan1' on 6/12/2002 8:15:03 AM
Backup can not be performed on
database 'zeon_live_commerce'. This sub task is ignored.
Deleting old text reports... 1 file(s) deleted.
End of maintenance plan 'zeon_live_commerce DB Maintenance
Plan1' on 6/12/2002 8:15:03 AM
SQLMAINT.EXE Process Exit Code: 1 (Failed)
If you are set up for AutoCommit why would you or should you set a explicit transaction? I have noticed that in some called stored procudures from a "container" stored procedure. (Hope I got that right) that in the called stored procedure a Begin tran is used. Can anyone help with the why and what fors? It seems to me that you want to let SQL Server handle this becuase of the danger of leaving out a Commit or Rollback? But thats me. I may be very wrong? Thanks.
Tom
Hi,
I was just wondering, if I have a DB for log shipping, and change the recovery model to bulk-insert before I do a dbreindex, does the log still grow as big as the full recovery model? as in when the DB in bulk-insert model, will dbreindex still writes to the log? What i'm trying to do is try to make the log files smaller for log ship when i'm doing the db reindexing job.
Thanks.
I’m really scratching my head with this Transact-SQL, say you wanted to cycle through a set of rows, then perform an operation on each row, so in VB/DAO it might look like this:
Dim rsTables As Recordset, rsIndex As Recordset
Set rsTables = dbSource.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables")
Do While rsTables.EOF
Set rsIndex = dbSource.OpenRecordset("Select * From SysIndexes Where Name = '" & rsTables!Table_Name & "'")
DoSomethingToIndex rsIndex!Name
rsTables.MoveNext
Loop
How can you do this cycling with Trans-SQL?
hi !!i have a question about the connected and disconnected model to access the Sql server DB.......i know that there is better to choose one rather than the other in some situantions and there is no better model in all cases...... os i hope you can help me to decide what shall i choose...i will use the DB to connect to Web services and read data from the DB and wrtie some data back.......i do not know that to use ..... i hope you advise me and tell me about the rules that will allow me to choose what model to choose .... i appreciate your help!!Thanks !!!
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
Just wondering if the virtual filesize of the transaction log can be changed to suite us.
run dbcc loginfo(sagent_dev) display the followings:
FileId FileSize StartOffset FSeqNo Status Parity
213041664 8192 2110128
213041664 130498561960128
213041664 26091520197064
2524288039133184201064
2524288065404928204064
2524288070647808203064
25242880102105088210064
25242880107347968000
25242880112590848214264
25242880117833728213064
25242880123076608212064
Note that the virtual filesize can comprise of different configuration. In other database I can specify this logical size to whatever I like.
cheers
dave
We would like to replicate from a SQL 7 DB some data onto a SQL 2000 Server running SQL 2000. We plan to take some data off the SQL 7 DB's and create a Data Warehouse on the SQL 2000 Box.
Question: Will the data replicate successfully from the SQL 7 box onto the SQL 2000 box?
-thanks
-tom
Hi,
I am trying to disable transactional replication, but am having some problems. I used the wizard, however, it has taken 7 hours so far and is still not done. SQL Server (7.0) is showing the connection as runnable but it seems as if nothing is being removed. Am I missing something? Should I have done something else before running the wizard? I can't even kill the SPID.
Can anyone help or offer some advice?
Thanks in advance...
I have a trans log backup that runs every 15 minutes on san, works fine until I do a backup after a large load. I get the below error message. Anyone had this before?
Executed as user: DPSCSDOMsqlexec. The file on device 'n:sqllogsmdentallgdmp' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup set. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3242) BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step fail