Having Difficulty Setting Back Up To Back Up File Wihout Datetime Stamp SQL 2K
Apr 24, 2007
Hello,
I'm trying to create a simple back up in the SQL Maintenance Plan that will
make a single back up copy of all database every night at 10 pm. I'd like
the previous nights file to be overwritten, so there will be only a single
back up file for each database (tape back up runs every night, so each days
back up will be saved on tape).
Every night the maintenance plan makes a back up of all the databases to a
new file with a datetime stamp, meaning the previous nights file still
exists. Even when I check "Remove files older than 22 hours" the previous
nights file still exists. Is there any way to create a back up file without
the date time stamp so it overwrites the previous nights file?
New to Database Mirroring and I have a question about the Principal database server. I have a Database Mirroring setup configured for High-safety with automatic fail over mode using a witness.
When a fail over occurs because of a lost of communication between the principal and mirror, the mirror server takes on the roll of Principal. When communication is returned to the Principal server, at some point does the database that was the previous Principal database automatically go back to being the Principal server?
I need to run two reports each of A5 Size to run back to page and print on single A4 paper means in 1st half Sale bill will be printed and in second half Gate Pass Will Be Printed both report will be on same page and size and shape should be maintained. How to do it.
How does SQL Server respond when the NT Server's clock is set to a time that is earlier than the current time? Someone on my team seems to think that this is a problem for SQL Server, but I am not sure.
how can I dynamically set up the period between now and one year before in a query like this:
where cast(LEFT(period_start,8)as DATE)>='2014-10-01' and cast(LEFT(period_end,8)as DATE)<='2015-09-30' and  Practically in the second or third of every month I need to run the period late of one year.
Hello,I am hoping you can help me with the following problem; I need to process the following steps every couple of hours in order to keep our Sql 2000 database a small as possible (the transaction log is 5x bigger than the db).1.back-up the entire database2.truncate the log3.shrink the log4.back-up once again.As you may have determined, I am relatively new to managing a sql server database and while I have found multiple articles online about the topics I need to accomplish, I cannot find any actual examples that explain where I input the coded used to accomplish the above-mentioned steps. I do understand the theory behind the steps I just do not know how to accomplish them!If you know of a well-documented tutorial, please point me in the right direction.Regards.
Hi all,I have a problem converting datetime to integer (and than back todatetime).Depending whether the time is AM or PM, same date is converted to twodifferent integer representations, which holds as true on reversalback to datetime.AM Example:declare @DI integer; declare @DD datetimeset @DI = cast(cast('3/12/2003 11:34:02 AM' as datetime) as integer)set @DD = cast (@DI as datetime)print @DI; print @DDResult:37690Mar 12 2003 12:00AMPM Example:declare @DI integer; declare @DD datetimeset @DI = cast(cast('3/12/2003 11:34:02 PM' as datetime) as integer)set @DD = cast (@DI as datetime)print @DI; print @DDResult:37691Mar 13 2003 12:00AMNow, this is not a big problem if I knew that this is how it issupposed to work. Is this how SQL Server is supposed to work?
Does anybody know of a way to rollback SQL Server 2005 databases back to SQL Server 2000? Is there a way of doing it without resorting to Copy Database Wizard? I love to find a way of attaching a SS 2005 database to a SS 2000 instance without any issues.
I recently upgraded to SS 2005 and I am very unhappy with the SS 2005 and I want to rollback to SS 2000, which was a lot more stable. I am having several major issues that are affecting my whole company's day-to-day operations and the managers are not happy. Some of the issues include night time batch running very sluggish for no apparent reason. This is a biggest problem because it only occurs once or so a week and causes a disturbance with the daily activities when the night time processing isn€™t completed on time. The rest of the time, the batch processing runs great, even a little better then on SS 2000. I don't believe it is a matter of my application needing to be retuned because if that was the case, then why isn't it running sluggish every night? Also, it's never the same day that the sluggish behavior occurs. If it was occurring on the same night, then I would have something to investigate within our application, but it doesn't. Another issue that I am having involves a night time job that restores a copy of the production database to the Data Warehouse server to be used for updating the data warehouse. Again, most of the time it runs great (~2 1/2 hours), but once or twice a week, it goes stupid and takes 6 1/2 hours for no apparent reason. Again, it is not happening the same day either, which could give me something to invesigate. On SS 2000, this same job ran flawlessly. Never I did I run into situation that the database restoration took that long to run. Even another issue involves a SQL Server Agent Job that was put into suspended state. What's a suspended state and how can I get it out of suspended state? I can find no information about suspended state in BOL. I did a Google and nothing came up. If this suspended state was put in for security reasons, great, but then tell me how I can remove the suspended state. I am also not happy with the fact that I can't get accurate information about the queries that are actively running at that particular moment. In SS 2000, when I noticed high CPU usage on the server, I would run the sp_who2 active stored proc and it would show me all the active thread and how much CPU it was consuming. I would then find the running threads with the highest CPU numbers and investigate the query and see if we could improve it. Now in SS 2005, I get in the same situation and run the sp_who2 stored proc, and there is no smoking gun. All of the active threads are showing very little CPU usage, which I am very suspect of. What the heck happen to sp_who2? I looked at some of the other ways of looking at running processes (i.e... sys.sysprocesses) and they don't appear to be giving the information that I need.
I am very unhappy and I just want to roll back to SS 2000 and wait a couple of years before I upgrade to SS 2005.
Hello everyone, I have a PC and I am using it as a "mini" server for Temp testing purpose. This PC is on the network. I am wondering if there is a DB file with specific name and extension I can save on our network drive or folder which is backed up automatically overnight daily. Any suggestion/comments are highly appreciated!
I got a .bak file from my friend I want to restore the data base (presently I don€™t have any database in my system).
But while I try to restore it I am getting an error
€œ System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Directory lookup for the file "D:Microsoft SQL Server 2005mydatabase.mdf" failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
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I have installed Microsoft sql server in a different directory Not where he is installed
I can successfully restore the back up files of data base on my own system But not the backup files created from others systems
Greetings,Our former SQL Server 2000 DBA backed up everything in a single diskfile. By everything I mean, full backup, differential backup andtransaction logs. See below for details of how the backup is currentlyset up. When I did 'view contents' of DBBackup, I saw it contained themixture of log, full and diff backups of verious dates. She has quit.Other coworkers said (in a not-sure tone) she was able to restore thedatabases from such a single file, although nobody ever saw or knew howshe did recovery. My knowledge about SQL Server, especially regardingits backup/restore is limited. But I've ever worked with otherdatabases, e.g. Oracle, MySQL and Postgres. I think log backups, fullbackups and differential backups should be completely separated. Also,in each type of backups, each database should have its own backup file.Please advise.=====Log backup:CREATE PROCEDURE sp_lbackup ASBackup log AGEP To DBBackupBackup log careerfairs To DBBackupBackup log CoEdocuments To DBBackupBackup log committee To DBBackupBackup log conference To DBBackupGOFull backup:CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.sp_fullbackup ASBackup database AGEP To DBBackup WITH INITBackup database CoEdocuments To DBBackupBackup database careerfairs To DBBackupBackup database committee To DBBackupBackup database conference To DBBackupGODiff backup:CREATE PROCEDURE sp_diffbackup ASBackup database AGEP To DBBackup with differentialBackup database careerfairs To DBBackup with differentialBackup database CoEdocuments To DBBackup with differentialBackup database committee To DBBackup with differentialBackup database conference To DBBackup with differentialGO=====Thanks in advance for any help,Bing
I am having a nightmare of a time with my Sql Server 2005 Express. My computer crashed on Friday the 13th - of course. I saved all my files onto another drive and wiped out C: I brought everything back in but I started a new file for my Visual Basic projects. After asking questions I found this was a major no-no So I brought my original folder back in. This solved some of my problems I was having with Visual Studio and Visual Web, but I am continuing to have problems with Sql Server. I will explain these two problem they may be related, I don't know. When I run my Visual Website on a server I get this message:
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file(then my file name)failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
And my second problem is when I attempt to run Sql Server Management Studio Express I get this error message:
There is no editor available for (then my file name) .mdf
Make sure the application for file type(.mdf)is installed.
I have been saving a trace file while entering orders into a new vendor application. I can replay the files just fine and everything works. My question is that I am trapping ten minutes worth of orders that are entered. However when profiler replays the trace it runs through in about a minute. I was trying to get a realistic a load approach as I can, and was wondering if there is a way to conrol how fat profiler runs the file trace. I put in 20 orders during this 10 minutes, in the real world no one could put the 20 orders into the system in a minute. Any ideas (and no,purchasing a real load testing program is not an option)
I had taken back up on employee from my office. Office server name is UMASHANKAR. My server name is XYZ. I had attached that back up file BY RIGHT CLICKING :: SERVICE OBJECT-->BACKUP DEVICES-->NEW BACK UP DEVICE.Now i create database of EMPLOYEE my server XYZ. I had tried to restore EMPLOYEE back file by right clicking EMPLOYEE database-->TASKS-->RESTORE-->FILE OR FILEGROUP-->To Database: EmployeeSource of Restore:From Device: Employee.bak(I had selected from file by browsing)i had selected recent back up.But server name in back up is UmashankarMy server name is XYZwhen i am clicking ok then i am getting this error.Restore failed for Server 'XYZ'.(Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)Additional information:|--> An exception occured while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. | --> The media set has 2 media families but only 1 are provided. All members must be provided. All members must be provided. RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3132)Plz solve this problem. I need it urgently
I have some C# (.NET 2.0) code that performs back-ups and also can perform restores of back-up files. I would like to validate the integrity of a file prior to initiating a restore operation. In other words, I want to know, before I try to restore, if the file is just a random file (picture, work doc, zipped backup, etc.) or if it is a valid SQL backup file.
I have a table that has 5 values that I want to MSSQL to create a csv file for. After it is created, dump that csv file back into the database as a binary file. Is this possible?
We have a hierarchical table of some 2-3k of rows that grows slowly at only 3-5 rows a month, and is never likely to be above 5k, holding file/directory names with an IdParent int value pointing at that items immediate parent or NULL if root
iterative code required to achieve the result I am looking for is best handled in the Application layer, but in this case the design brief is that we must get our results back as a View. Speed of execution and code clarity are secondary 'icing on the cake' issues.
I have tried recursive CTE's and XML FOR solutions but without success, and while I feel the latter is probably the best all rounder the searches I have made and the examples I have read do not seem to solve this particular issue.
Even to find the starting point of the search tree (i.e. the .EXE and the .CSV items) was difficult because the final slash is optional in some of the rows (.e. row 4)
The end result of my view on the above data should return:
Id FilePath 5 C:ProgramFilesExcel.EXE 6 D:DataFilesMyDataList.CSV (note the adding of the missing delimiter between DataFiles and MyDataList)
I am not sure if this is possible or not, but I have to at least ask.
I have a SQL Reporting Services project that has a QA server version and then a Production server version. So when requested changes are made to the reports, I make the changes in Visual Studio and then push to QA. After the changes have been tested and approved, I then push the changes to the Production server.
I have come across an issue, where requested changes were made in Visual Studio (a lot of changes), and pushed to QA. The users now have changed their minds and they want instead to stay with what is in production. So, I am looking for a way to recover the report file on the production web server, bring it back into my visual studio project to replace the report that I had changed.
Is this possible, or will I have to start over and step one and reverse the changes in Visual Studio.
I'm developing an application in VB 2005 Express using SQL 2005 Express. I need to put a timestamp into my table each time I create a row...
The following is a snippet...
Dim DDate As [SqlDateTime] = Now()
Dim TheQuery As String = "INSERT INTO Groups (PC_Name_Stamp, OperatorNo, Group_Type, Date_Time) VALUES ('Development', '2', 'Test',' " & DDate & " ')"
Which won't work as I am attempting to concatinate a SqlDateTime into a string.
My best guess is that I need to somehow to use a DEFAULT value in the table that persists so each time a row is created the datetime it was created is saved with the row, rather than being re-calculated each time the table is opened. There are probably several other ways of doing it and this may not be the easiest.
I'm not a programmer, just an Engineer, so I can only read Help for 5 minutes at a time.
hi, How can i get DateTime Stamp of a Table in SQL Server???
We can get Datetime Stamp of a Table after modifying Structure from Sys.Tables. But i need Date Time Stamp of a Table after Modifying the Data in Table(Like Inserting Records,Deletindg Records & Altering Records) without adding any extra columns in my table to store datetime stamps... Can we get that one??? if yes, How can i get datetime stamp???
anyone try to convert a 7.0 database back to 6.5? Is there a way to move the data back or does the 6.5 to 7.0 upgrade change field identifiers or anything else prohibiting the move?
Please help. We need back up database on remote SQL Server backup device, because first one doesn't have space for backup file. Give mi hint what to do.
