Format Database Disk With 64K Blocks NTFS
Jul 14, 2004Hi:
Somebody tellme that with a format of my database disk with 64K blocks NTFS, i can have better performance, is that true ? there is any problem in SQL with this block size ?
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Is It Possible To Move My Sql 2000 Database (in C Disk) To Another Disk (Disk) ?
Dec 28, 2006hello,all
I am new to Sql 2000,I installed sql 2000 database in C disk,but Now I found my C disk space is smaller than before,So I want to move my databse(include data and structure) from C Disk to D Disk(its space is very large) .
is it possible to do it ?
if its can be done ,do I need to change my asp.net program source code (exp: chaneg my crystal report connectstring ) ?
thanks in advanced!
Best Method To Move Blocks Of Records From One Database To Another
Feb 7, 2008I wanted to set up a mechanism that would transfer blocks of records (a few dozen to in rare cases a few thousand), with slight modification, from one database to another. It's a sort of custom partial archiving process that would be triggered from a web-based admin application in plain old ASP (not .net alas). Records in the target db would be identical except:
-- the primary key in the source table, an identity field, would be just an integer in the target table
-- the target table has an extra field, an integer batch ID supplied by the web application that triggers the process
It's a simple, if not efficient matter to do it within the web application: query the source table, suck the records into memory, and insert them one by one into the target db. This will be an infrequent process which can be done at off-hours, so a bit of inefficiency is not the end of the world. But I wondered if there is a more sensible, orthodox approach:
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-- Is there any way to do a bulk insert from a recordset or array in memory using plain ASP, ADO and SQL? And if so, is that better than inserting records one by one?
I realize that the ASP.NET tableadapter and dataset features might provide a good solution, but in the short run I can't rewrite the whole application. Advice on the best general approach from an ASP-ADO platform would be appreciated, and I will try to figure out the details.
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The folder management system basically have to keep the folder structure in tact with changes in underlying managing application logic. That involves such operations as creating a new folder with subfolders, copying a folder with its content into another folder branch (which may be on the same or another server and place), deleting a folder/content, renaming a folder, applying NTFS access rights to folders and subfolders for users according generic templates. As all these actions are unreliable and some tasks may take hours to complete, SSB approach seems to be the viable solution. Some tasks involved have to be done within 10 minutes, others (are prolonged) have to be scheduled for overdnight run. Windows service like EA sample may be used to start the actual NTFS related tasks. Content transfer involves WMI remoting with robocopy tool on target machine (for better network utilization), other related tasks make use of WMI APIs and probably do direct (i.e. synchronous) calls to the remote target file server.
At this stage, making atomary executable modules that do just one functionally isolated task like DirCopy, DirCreator, DirRename, DirDelete, DirUserAccess seems like somewhat logical choice.
The questions starting to arise from SSB queues planning to adoption of ExternalActivator sample to run these atomic executables. The problem is that if SSB messages contain atomic tasks for these executables, they needed to be syncronized in two ways - by execution precedence (create or copy dir first, then apply users' access rights) and transactionally (only when all related tasks succeed, the appropriate feedback action and event log writing can be taken.
I can imagine two implementation scenarios below.
Case A. Create common queue for directory creating, content transfer and access rights.
In that case ExternalActivator has to be either extended & re-designed or it has to activate another Activator-Coordinator (middleway) executable, that would actually read the queue and, based upon the message type, run the appropriate atomary executable. In that scenario, the queue processing would be stalled because if the previous task was content transfer and lasts, say access rights to them can't be started before the transfer task has been finished OK. That in turn probably will require running multiple instances of the atomary tasks and using conversation groups, wouldn't it? What would be the most reliable and simple way to achive that?
Case B. Dedicated queues for each atomary executable modules.
Neither EA changes nor extra Activator-Coordinator middleway executable required. But because the atomary task-oriented queues are not syncronized with each other the queues internal conversation groups wouldn't help much... That means if a directory not yet exists, userRights module have to wait. But, what if we are transferring directories from path X to Y, based on what the userRights module knows to wait? With zero asynchronous design experience I'm lost here...
Hope I described the app domain understandably, thanks for hints leading to the working solution!
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Sep 10, 2007If I return the Average, Minimum, and Maximum values for the counter Physical Disk: Avg. Disk Queue Length, and those values are 10, 0, 87 respectively, which value do I use to compute the Avg. Disk Queue Length for a 4 disk array(RAID 10): Average, Minimum, or Maximum? The disk(lun) is on a SAN.
Get Total Disk Size And Free Disk Space
Nov 13, 2007-- Initialize Control Mechanism
DECLARE@Drive TINYINT,
@SQL VARCHAR(100)
SET@Drive = 97
-- Setup Staging Area
DECLARE@Drives TABLE
(
Drive CHAR(1),
Info VARCHAR(80)
)
WHILE @Drive <= 122
BEGIN
SET@SQL = 'EXEC XP_CMDSHELL ''fsutil volume diskfree ' + CHAR(@Drive) + ':'''
INSERT@Drives
(
Info
)
EXEC(@SQL)
UPDATE@Drives
SETDrive = CHAR(@Drive)
WHEREDrive IS NULL
SET@Drive = @Drive + 1
END
-- Show the expected output
SELECTDrive,
SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS TotalBytes,
SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of free bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS FreeBytes,
SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of avail free bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS AvailFreeBytes
FROM(
SELECTDrive,
Info
FROM@Drives
WHEREInfo LIKE 'Total # of %'
) AS d
GROUP BYDrive
ORDER BYDrive
E 12°55'05.25"
N 56°04'39.16"
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this is my configuration :
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Kindest regards,
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Thanks.
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The log files (.ldf) currently reside on a separate physical disk from the data files, if I attach and reattach the data files will the logs remain where they are by default or do I have to re specify there location?
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Dec 3, 2007Hi All,
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May 16, 2007Hi there
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Feb 16, 2007Hello everybody
Had some problems yesterday with a full transaction log. Was able to solve it by following microsofts knowledge base article n° 272318.
However, today I'm trying to create a new DB using the enterprise manager and get this error:
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Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 2
I/O error (bad page ID) detected during read at offset 0x0000003bdc4000 in file 'D:program filesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLData352.MDF'.
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Ok here goes,
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sp_spaceused ImporterModuleQueue
name rows reserved data index_size unused
------------------- ----------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
ImporterModuleQueue 30 9469432 KB 9468280 KB 32 KB 1120 KB
This is about 9 GB
select sum(len(QueueContent)) from ImporterModuleQueue
49744918
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43529
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ImporterModuleQueue](
[ImporterModuleQueueId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[ImporterModuleId] [int] NOT NULL,
[StartedDateTime] [datetime] NULL,
[FinishedDateTime] [datetime] NULL,
[QueueContent] [varchar](max) NOT NULL,
[CreatedDateTime] [datetime] NOT NULL,
[QueueErrors] [varchar](max) NULL,
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CONSTRAINT [PK_ImporterProcessQueue] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED
(
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)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
--
dbcc opentran
No active open transactions.
--
DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'ImporterModuleQueue' table...
Table: 'ImporterModuleQueue' (2030070418); index ID: 0, database ID: 5
TABLE level scan performed.
- Pages Scanned................................: 14
- Extents Scanned..............................: 10
- Extent Switches..............................: 9
- Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 1.4
- Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 20.00% [2:10]
- Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 80.00%
- Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 5714.1
- Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 29.40%
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