A customer on SQL7 has a 40GB tempdb (which is usually 2-5GB) which has filled the drive. ShrinkDb/ShrinkFile do nothing as the db has only 2GB of free space. How can I truncate the data or blitz tempdb and create a new (2-5GB) one (Stopping the server, deleteing the .mdf, starting the server creates a new tempdb with the same size as the old one!)
View 2 RepliesI've been having some trouble keeping my log file size under control due to some off-hours data loads. Currently, while updating some certain tables, the data base is still in "Full" mode, which of course makes the log file grow accordingly.
Today I figured out that, given the current scenario, in order to shrink the log file back down (after the table update), I have to (1) backup the log file, (2) shrink the log file, (3) backup the log file again, and (4) shrink the log file again. My question is: why do I have to do two iterations of backup / shrink? Why does it not work with one iteration? I just want to better understand the architecture and functionality.
Also, would there be a better way for keeping the log file size under control? If I switched the database to "Simple" mode to load the data, would that work any better?
If so, what might be the best methodology?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
Kent Rothrock
Highland Mapping, Inc.
Is it possible to truncate Transaction Log and Shrink DATABASE while the database is being used by users or the database becomes unuvailable during this operations?
Thank you.
We have a SQL server 2012 database with size 200mb and Transaction Log has gone up to 34GB.
We have SQL server Mirror is enabled and principal database is running with Full Recovery Model.
How can I truncate/Shrink Log files? Will it impact on existing mirroring setup? I am very much new to SQL server.
I was able to find a few posts on this topic, but none of them quiteseemed to fit the situation, so I'm hoping that someone else might beable to help me here.I have a client who is using SQL 2005 (sorry, don't have the exactbuild with me). They run a weekly process which causes TempDB to growto over 100GB before it fails due to a full disk. Once it's grown tothat size we can't seem to shrink it again short of restarting theserver.The database is set to Simple recovery mode and I believe that it isset to auto shrink.Here are some things that found out/tried:DBCC SHRINKFILE (tempdev, 50000) does nothing.DBCC OPENTRAN returns no transactions.If I look in TempDB for any temporary tables, I get a couple dozen.They all have zero rows in them though. I didn't think to look at thecolumns that they contain, but maybe that will give me an indicationof their use. I used SELECT OBJECT_NAME(id), rowcnt FROMtempdb..sysindexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(id) LIKE '#%'sp_spaceused shows that almost none of the space is actually beingused.I've looked for reindexing operations in their code and didn't seeany, but there's quite a bit of code there. While there are someoperations against some very large tables, I didn't see any obviouscartesian products or sorts either. Again though, there's a lot ofcode and I haven't profiled much of it.My plan right now is to reboot, set up a trace to track both filegrowths and SQL statements and then see if I can find whichstatement(s) are causing the TempDB to grow to be so large. Anysuggestions on additional things to track? Even given this though, Idon't know if that will help me with the shrinking issue, except topossibly prevent it from being necessary in the future.Any advice or suggestions welcome. Please let me know if I've left outany important information. I always seem to forget at least oneobviously important bit of information. :-)Thanks!-Tom.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to know what happens if i shrink the database with truncate only option and do a full backup or transaction log backup ? are the full backup or transaction log backup valid? I know that the performance of the database is bad if i shrink the database. What happens to full backup or transaction log backups?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWe are using SQL Server 2005 (SP1). I have created a maintenance plan that backs up up the datebase every night. The problem is that the transaction log is continuing to grow. I have been told that a full backup will automatically truncate and shrink the transaction log. However, this is not happening. How can I truncate and shrink the transaction log after a full backup as part of our maintenance plan. Thank you.
View 29 Replies View RelatedHi,
We're running our database on SQL Server 7 and we've setup the tempdb to grow automatically.Gradually,it has grown upto 11390 MB and the used space is only 14 MB.It's not shrinking when we used the shrinkdb option.We cannot move the tempdb to RAM as it's very big.Can anyone help us in this...
How do you shrink the tempdb in SQL Server 7 after you allocated a large space to it but later realized you allocated too much.... I need to reclaim the space allocated to it but when I try to change the size or do a shrinkdb it either tells me I cannot shrink it smaller than allocated size or it shrinks tempdb to current (which is too large)... I looked online but could not find anything...
Any suggestions or assistance would be much appreciated... up to my eyes in tempdb..... Bill.
Hi Guys,
Tempdb in one of our SQLSERVER is standing at 5GB. I try to shrink it to 2GB, using following commands.
DBCC shrinfile(2,2000)
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (tempdb, 2000)
It doesn't want to shrink at all... I ran sp_spaceused it give following results
Reserved data indx_size unused.
808 KB 384 KB368 KB 56 KB
I dont understand why tempdb doesnt want to shrink...?? help is greatly appericated.. thanks..
Does tempdb ever need to be shrunk, or have it's log (does it even have one) dumped or does sql server handle this chore?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOne of my boxes was built with all of the system databases on the C: drive, and tempdb is up to 2 GB and there is no room left on the drive
It should have been installed on the D: drive
I've never had to do this before, mostly because I never install sql serevr on the c partition
Any war stories or suggestions
Hello friends..
We are getting below error every day.we have job Shrink TempDB which runs every hour..but once a day we are getting this error.Is this error becasue of other jobs also running by that time which uses huge resource from DB..I cant understand why???.. can any body have an idea??
Executed as user: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. ...97031). The PageId in the page header = (1:1056620160). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID -720718983, index ID 0, page ID (1:297030). The PageId in the page header = (1:-1839155936). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID -720718983, index ID 0, page ID (1:297029). The PageId in the page header = (1:1057229472). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID 0, index ID 0, page ID (1:297023). The PageId in the page header = (0:0). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID 0, index ID 0, page ID (1:297022). The PageId in the page header = (0:0). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID -720718983, index ID 0, page ID (1:297021). The PageId in the page header = (1:1056467424). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID -720718983, index ID 0, page ID (1:297015). The PageId in the page header = (2:1071640160). [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 8909) Table error: Object ID -7207189... The step failed.
Papillon
I have a install of SQL 2005 that is about 5 months old. The tempdb.mdf and master.mdf files have ballooned to a huge size almost filling my hard drive. How do I reset them to a reasonable size?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my TEMPDB Database.It gets extra size throughimporting data into one of my databases in same server.How can I shrink my TempDB Databse?Thanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I'm running Sql 2000 with many users logged in. My tempdb database has grown to a large size 3/4 of it free space. Is there a way to shrink the database while users are logged on. I tried using the enterprise mgr. to shrink the tempdb database, but it did not work. How can I shrink this? It's using a ton of free space.
Thank You in advance
I have a tempdb that was created at 1Gig. I don't know why but I want to shrink it below the original creation size. Is there a way to shrink this file or create a new file and delete the old?
I have tried shinkfile and shrink database with no luck.
Thanks Jeff
How do you shrink the tempdb in SQL Server 7 after you allocated a large space to it but later realized you allocated too much.... I need to reclaim the space allocated to it but when I try to change the size or do a shrinkdb it either tells me I cannot shrink it smaller than allocated size or it shrinks tempdb to current (which is too large)... I looked online but could not find anything...
Any suggestions or assistance would be much appreciated... up to my eyes in tempdb..... Bill.
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I need a script to Backup & Shrink tempdb.
namesize
tempdev1024
templog64
tempdev21024
tempdev31024
tempdev41024
tempdev51024
tempdev61024
tempdev71024
tempdev81024
I can't believe how many tempdb's there are?
Output of below query is
SELECT session_id,
SUM(internal_objects_alloc_page_count) AS task_internal_objects_alloc_page_count,
SUM(internal_objects_dealloc_page_count) AS task_internal_objects_dealloc_page_count
FROM sys.dm_db_task_space_usage where internal_objects_alloc_page_count >10 and session_id> 50
GROUP BY session_id;
[Code] ....
Database MDF is 27806 MB and I tried to shrink but unable to shrink. It is production server.I do not want Restart sql server.There is no open transaction.
Hey guys,
I'm having difficulty completely truncating my tempdb online log. It sits at 25%, and remains allocated even after I've truncated the log with backup log tempdb with truncate_only. Now, I would assume this to be normal if there is a spid who hasn't commited or rolled back a transaction, or if checkpoint hasn't run. However, running DBCC opentran('tempdb') shows me that there are no open transactions at that time, and checkpoint appears to be running fine.
Can anyone give me any hints on which way I should point with my investigation.
Regards,
-Kilka
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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWith a database size of almost 2 GB, I run the 'truncate table eventlog command' which completes successfully, but the database size only decreases by about 10 MB so stays too large - indeed the number of rows in the eventlog table is minimal, but the otehr tables in this database don't show such an amount of tables large enough to cause the size issue either. What could be the reason and how can I reduce it (possibly truncating another table but then which one, how could I determine which is too large and needs truncating?).
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf you have problems shrinking a transaction log no matter what commands you issue, here's a way to shrink the tranlog:
1. Right click on the properties of the database and go to the options tab.
2. Change the recovery mode to simple.
3. Right click again on the database - go to all tasks - shrink database.
4. Shrink the database.
5. Change the recovery mode back to what you had it as.
I found this out by trial and error as I could not find any documentation on it and no matter what I tried, I could not get the transaction log to shrink.
Has anyone seen the SQL Server error:
"tempdb is skipped. You cannot run a query that requires tempdb"?
We're running a .Net web application with a SQL Server 2000 backend, and we get the error intermittently. Restarting the SQL Server service seems to fix it, as it causes tempdb to be rebuilt, but this isn't a long term solution. Any direction or hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
- Mike
Hi all...
Please forgive the elementary nature of my question, but could someone please explain the differences between these two database backup types:
1. Log backup
2. Log backup no truncate
From what I understand and have read, the "no truncate" backup method keeps the entire transaction log indefinitely. Using the truncation method, the transaction log is either 1) compressed or 2) cleaned up so that any completed transactions are removed from the log. Which one of these is true?
And, for the big question: is it better to run a backup of the transaction log with truncation or not? Our current backup scheme is similar to the following:
Full backup every 24 hours
transaction log backup every hour with no truncation
Should we insert a truncation backup somewhere in here? What is the danger of removing (or compressing) parts of the transaction log? Will this affect the restore process?
Thanks in advance!
I need a stored procedure that can drop and recreate any table in a DB.
How could I find out all information pertinent to a table and able to generate the create statement dynamically in the preocedure then drop it and recreate the table.
Thank you and please help.
I want to drop table and then recreate. It's referenced by many table and I dont want to drop all constraints referencing to it. Is there any feature like "switch off/on constraints" in MSSQL?(6.5)
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to recreate a database from a log file? Here is the situation:
I had a server go bad. The drive configuration was as follows
Server OS on separate RAID controller - RAID Level 1
SQL Data on separate RAID controller - RAID Level 5
Transaction Logs on Separate Raid Controller - RAID Level 1
I lost the RAID 5 array and can't get it back and don't have a backup. I need to know if/how I can recreate the database from the log file. The log file has been set to grow and has never been purged so I am hoping that I can recreate the database from scratch. Is this possible?
Dear All,
after searching continuously for removing the suspect mode of MSDB database, i've found a great article in net.but i dont understand how to proceed. please explain me the steps....
1.Detach the damaged msdb. You can't just detach msdb because you're not allowed to detach system databases. However, you can if you start the server with trace flag 3608. I did this by shutting down the server, navigating to the directory 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBinn' and doing the following: start sqlservr.exe -c -T3608
2.Move or rename the damaged msdb files (msdbdata.mdf and msdblog.ldf in the 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLData' directory)
3.Run the instmsdb.sql script in the 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLInstall' directory
4.Shutdown and restart the server without the 3608 trace flag
Vinod
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.
I want to create a clean copy of my DB now that it is done. So it can be moved to another Server. It has some sample data in some tables that I would like to keep and some in other table that I don't. How can I do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi!
I have lost the repl_publisher login.
Is it possible to recreate it in any way?
What about the password?
Thanks
Håkan
I need to drop and recreate few subscriptions in transactional publication
Do I need to worry about log marker issues ?
Do I need to set the primary and replicate databases in 'DBO use only'
The Primary and Replicate databases are being accessed all the time.