Is there a way to know how much space is free in each transaction log file of the same database?
Example:
A database with 3, 1GB files for transaction log: A, B and C created in this sequence.
From what I have read, since SQL Server 2005 writes to a single transaction log only, I guess if the transaction log is using 2.5GB than A and B are full and B is only half full. Is this correct?
Thanks.
Hello,
Somebody know how to reduce the space allocated for the transaction log space for my SQL_DB ?
3700 MB allocated but only 100 MB used and 3600 MB are free !
Transaction log properties :
Automatically grow file are filled
file growth by percent = 5%
maximum file size - restrict filegrowth = 3700 MB (we can't reduce it !)
Thank you for your precious help !
Khaix from Brussel.
Hi all
Iam working in Prodcution ENV,Please help how make space
The log file for database 'Home_alone' is full. Back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space.
Hi Folks,
It has come to my attention recently that my Transaction Log 200MB and a 1Gb Data Device has gotten much bigger than it used to be after
I deleted several thousand rows of data.
It used to be under 5% space used and now has settled at around 70 % space used. I have dumped the transaction log with no_log and done
backups immediately after on several ocassions and this has not solved the problem. I have also increased the log size from 150MB to 175MB
but this does not seem to have solved my problem.
Anyone got any ideas on how to decrease the % used log space in the Transaction Log ?
Is it bador unwise to have so much of the Transaction Log space used up ?
Thanks in advance,
Alan
I am new to SQL and might be missing something very easy. I have a situation where the space allocated to the transaction log of a database is extremly large (5 Gig). I can not manually reduce it. This gives me a "Error 21335: [SQL-DMO]The new DBfile size must be larger than its current size." This is a problem because the increase in size has taken all available space on the server.
Mike
Hello,
I am having a strange problem, never encountered before. I have a database that has been allocated 3000MB of Data space and 1200 of Log space. When i go an check the Properties of Database it give a count of 662.23 Data space available and 47.99MB of log space available. That`s weired. I tried truncating the log the Log space available is still the same and neither there is a change in the data space. It should`nt eat that much of data space according to my analysis.
Any insight
Please help ASAP
vIvEk
Hi friends ,
I have a database with around 2 GB space for the data and 5.8 GB for the
transaction log .
Now the problem is i do not have any more space on the system and data files requires more space than 2 G.B to execute some stored procedures .
Is it possible to decrease some space of the transaction log , say from 5.8 GB to 2 GB and allocate it to the data files .
My data and log files are on different drives . I did not find anything related to this topic in the BOL .
Can somebody help me with this problem ? Anthing related to this issue will be of great help to me since i have no expertise in this field .
Thanks and Regards
Christine S.
The transaction log takes up a lot of space on my database, and even after I try truncating the log, doing a transaction log backup, and then shrinking it, I am not allowed to reduce the size of the transaction log to less than 250MB. Is there some reason why this space is required?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I started working in one company as a DBA where the Ex-DBA left the company long time back. So all the databases have huge transaction logs (50-80GB) in size. But the problem is-
1. HDD space on the m/c its only 45GB. When I ran TLog backup cmd on that m/c, the hdd space was started reducing around 1GB/min and in few minutes I saw hdd space left is only 15GB so I stopped cmd (It had completed only 37% of the backup).
Second time again I tried to take TLog backup on hdd placed on n/w path but again I saw it was eating local disk space very fast.
So my question is, Is it like when you take Tlog backup of size say 80GB it will use 80GB local hdd as a temporary storage?
2. For this I found 1 workaround- I took Full backup then I restored it on some other m/c, then shrun the log files to few MB's then I again took Full backup of this shrunk db and restored it on production.
Is this only solution to my problem(Very less space on production's local HDD)? If anyone knows better soln than this then plz suggest me.
Thanks in Advance.
today I've put in production a big database accessed by 200 concurrent users, this database has READ_COMMITTED_SNAPHOT set to ON.I know that RCSI set to ON is very aggressive on tempDB so I'm monitoring it.I've noticed that the Transaction log space usage (%) on TempDB is slowly but ever increasing, I mean in the last 24 hours I've started from a 99% space free, now we are 37% space free...is it normal? TempDB log is 35GB in size.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've production sql server 7 sp3 on windows NT. I had a 8GB data file ofwhich 5GB were used and 3GB were unused. I wanted to take back the unused3GB.So I did the following with EM GUI:1. I tried to "truncate fre space from end of the file". Didn't truncatethe file. I believe there was no empty space at the end of the file.2. Next I chose the option to "shrink file to 5GB". And to my horror thedata file instead of taking just 5GB took the empty spaces also and the sizeof the used data file went to 8GB.Any idea what's going on?TIA,SP
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having a problem backing up my database and TLog files due to alack of local diskspace. The db file is about 30GB and the TLog isabout 20GB each on a different hard disk. Each disk doesn't haveenough available space to accomadate a backup. I also can't shrink thefiles because part of that procedure would require a backup.Question: Can I use a redirected drive for the backup media? Is therea way to trick SQL into allowing this? If the answer is no, doesanyone have a suggestion as to want I should do? I am in the processof requesting more disk space,but that could take a while.Thanks,
View 3 Replies View Relatedone of my database data file is 100 GB and the log file is 500 GB.DB is in full recovery model and the transaction logs happen once in 6 hours.Even then, the Database log file isn't reducing in size.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Full database backup upto previous day and transaction logfile of Today transaction. my database has crashed. I have restored previous day's Full backup. I have faced difficulty to restore today's transaction from today's transaction log. What are the steps to restore full database back and one day's transaction log file. Note: there is no differential database backup and transaction backup.
View 8 Replies View RelatedHello,
I am trying to run SSIS project which is failing on one of the dataflow. This dataflow should create in Destination approximately 209,405,240 records. My flow is failing and the reason for it €“ size and log file.
This is the error I am getting.
An Ole db record is available. Source: €œMicrosoft SQL Native Client€? Hresult 0x80004005 Description: €œThe transaction log for database €˜tempdb€™ is full. To find
out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases.
An ole DB record is available. Source: €œMicrosoft SQL Native Client€? Hresult 0x80004005 Description: Could not allocate space for object €˜dbo.DataPoint€™. €˜PK_DataPoint€™ in database €˜DatabaseName€™ because the €˜primary€™ filegroup is full. Create disk space by deleting unneeded files, dropping objects in the filegroup, adding additional files to the filegroup, or setting autogrowth on for eisting files in the filegroup.€?
Please let me know what can I do about it? Should I change some properties? How do I make it work and have better performance?
Thanks.
On SQL*Server7, is there a system table to find out the transaction log space used? DBCC SQLPERF (logspace) must be using a undocumented system table.
Thanks.
Hi,
I have 4 drives in my HDD namely C,D,E,F
On Each Drive, i have my Database Data, Log and Index File.
I wanted to know the Allocated Space / space used in the Database Data / Log or Index File.
What if i am not able to login to Database then how will i determine the used space / free space in the DB File or Log File or Index File.
Thanks in advance.
-- Chetan
How to check the free space in a DB file using TSQL?
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I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Hi There
I would like to write sql to check that space used by any given data file in SS2000.
sp_spaceused only returns the total space used by the DB or object in the DB, not for a specific data file.
DBCC SHOWFILESTATS does give me this information , but it is not documented in BOL, i would prefer not to use an undocumented command to ensure future use in later versions. Is DBCC SHOWFILESTATS an undocumented T-SQL command ? If so what documented t-sql command will provide me with this information ?
I could query system table's and work this out , but as mentioned this may not not work in future versions of SS.
Thanx
I need to be able to obtain the storage space used for database log files through T-SQL commands.
I can do this in version 6.5 but have been unable to accomplish this in version 7.0.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Hi All,
One of the drives that stores the database file is close to running out of space. The chance of me getting more space added to this drive any time soon are really low. What are other options I have?
Thanks.
Hi All,
One of the drives that stores the database file is close to running out of space. The chance of me getting more space added to this drive any time soon are really low. What are other options I have?
Thanks.
Hi,Received the following error during index creation of the tables. Thedata & log files are set to 'unrestricted growth' and enough spaceavailable on the disk. Any reasons?___________Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (80040e14): Could not allocatenew page for database 'Ultimareports'. There are no more pages availablein filegroup PRIMARY. Space can be created by dropping objects, addingadditional files, or allowing file growth___________ThanksJohn Jayaseelan*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently SQL admin since our ordinary SQL folks are at summer vacation.
Yesterday SCOM alerted that File Group is running out of space on one not so critical database "The file group "PRIMARY" for the database "loganalys" in SQL instance "MSSQLSERVER" on computer "sqlserver2" is running out of space".
I logged in to the SQL server and checked the database in question. It is a very large DB with a size  of 577 GB.The storage on which the database files resides has 123 GB free space so that isn't the issue.
The database is set to autogrowth 1 MB at a time (unrestricted) so that doesn't seem to be the issue either.However, in the database properties under General, it says Space avaliable: 570 MB.
I guess that this may be the issue, that this is under some treshold for SCOM to alert on.I have looked at the other databases and they have everything between 0,25MB to 270MB space avaliable (they are all set to autogrowth 1 MB, unrestricted).
I am not sure what this means and if I have to do something about it?
Hi There
As part of monitoring i want to hourly check the data file percentage used for each database, to monitor growth and know in advance when a data file will be full.
However i do not want to write a job for ever single database , this instance may have up to 100 databases that = 100 jobs.
So i want to write a job that checks the percentage space used for all databases.
My first dilema is that i cannot loop through databases dynamically, by that i mean if i use a cursor that loops through database names, and i dynamically build sql the say 'USE @DBNAME' and execute it the cursor context stays local you do not actually change database context.
So how do i loop though databases, i have found
sp_msforeachdb, however this is undocumented in BOL.
Secondly how do i check the percentage of space used for the data file or files for a database, i could use DBCC SHOWFILESTATS, however this is also not documented in BOL.
Obviously i would rather use documented methods.
So bottom line what tsql could i use to check the percentage of file space use for all databases?
Thanx
The system I had developed is having a data flow as following:
Source received as file, .dat file
For better performance I€™m doing little transformation between .dat file to SSIS Raw file then from Raw files doing Type2 and Type3 mappings to adhere the business rules and loading the data to destination tables.
The .dat file I receive (there are many file some where around 25 file) is dumped in a folder as €œsource€? and the Raw file are in other folder as €œSSIS files€?.
My concern is the source folder size is 6GB and the same files converted in SSIS raw files format present in SSIS FILE folder and the size of this folder is 10GB.
Why is that so? Where as there€™s no extra data and the transformations between source and SISS files are like substring for the different date format and data type conversion.
Any ideas, your help in this would be appreciated.
Thank you
Hello all
as indicated by my stupid question, I am very new to sql. our vrsion is 2000 and I'm talking about in enterprise manager, the database that was created is not showing up in the list of db. Although I can see the file in explorer.
The problem I€™m having is when I try to attach the database €œmailarchive3Q2007_data.mdf€? it is also looking for the log file €œmailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf€? . The log file was removed by someone else off our system. I have a backup of the file but it is too large to restore now (160 gig) when the system was first set up the recovery model was not set to simple so the log just grew till it filled up our drive. I no longer have the drive space necessary to restore the log file and shrink it. So what do I do now? I need some kind of €œmailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf€? file to attach the database in enterprise manager.
Hope sombody can help.
thanks
Mike
Hi,
In sql 7.0 , i would like to create a database with the size of 10Gb, in my server couple of databases already exist.
How do i know how much free space is there in File group.
we are having only one file group i.e PRIMARY.
Could anyone pls tell me about this.
Thank u.
--kavira
We've got an alert setup on our production database to warn us when the log file(s) exceeds 7 gigs. The Alert is triggering:
"The SQL Server performance counter 'Log File(s) Size (KB)' (instance 'Lexus') of object 'SQLServer:Databases' is now above the threshold of 7000000.00 (the current value is 7057656.00)."
However, according to the file system, the database properties screen files, and properties tabs, the log files combined are at under 5 gigs so this alert should not be going off.
The scary part is, when going to right-click on the database, choosing "tasks" and going to "Shrink > Files", the "Free Space" shows negative numbers for the first log file:
Log 1
Currently Allocated space: 118.69 MB
Available Free Space: -5323.24 MB (-4485%)
Log 2
Currently Allocated space: 4853.13 MB
Available Free Space: 411.20 MB (7%)
Has anybody ever run into this? Should I be worried that there is a bigger issue at hand?
Thanks!
Hi all
My Transactional log size increased to 39GB, it is in full recovery mode,
To regain the space, i have done the following
BACKUP LOG DB_NAME WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
DBCC SHRINK_FILE (LOG_FILE_NAME,500)
But not able to regain the space in the hard disk.
No Transactional backups to truncate the log file were setup.
Can you please tell me why the space was released and what should i do further to clean up the sapce
We are receiving following alerts frequently about 1:40 AM in the morning. We have backups running on 11:00 PM everyday and rebuild job running at 2:00 AM. Not sure the exact cause of this error.
Error:
The file group "PRIMARY"Â for the database "tempdb" in SQL instance "MSSQLSERVER" on computer "XYZ" is running out of space.Â
tempdev Initial size : 133,100 MB Growth: By 10 percent, Limited to 140000 MBÂ
templog  Initial Size : 5,475 MB   Growth: By 10 percent, Unlimited
This script can be used to shrink a database file in small increments until it reaches a target free space size.
It will loop to execute the DBCC SHRINKFILE command to shrink the database file by the desired increment until it reaches the target free space.
It is often better to shrink database files in small increments so that it can make continuous, incremental progress, instead of trying to shrink by a large amount in one command. This makes it easier to shrink a database that must be shrunk by a large amount, and makes it easier to interrupt without losing all progress.
-- Shrink_DB_File.sql
/*
This script is used to shrink a database file in
increments until it reaches a target free space limit.
Run this script in the database with the file to be shrunk.
1. Set @DBFileName to the name of database file to shrink.
2. Set @TargetFreeMB to the desired file free space in MB after shrink.
3. Set @ShrinkIncrementMB to the increment to shrink file by in MB
4. Run the script
*/
declare @DBFileName sysname
declare @TargetFreeMB int
declare @ShrinkIncrementMB int
-- Set Name of Database file to shrink
set @DBFileName = 'MyDatabaseFileName'
-- Set Desired file free space in MB after shrink
set @TargetFreeMB = 1000
-- Set Increment to shrink file by in MB
set @ShrinkIncrementMB = 50
-- Show Size, Space Used, Unused Space, and Name of all database files
select
[FileSizeMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round(a.size/128.,2)),
[UsedSpaceMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round(fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed')/128.,2)) ,
[UnusedSpaceMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round((a.size-fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed'))/128.,2)) ,
[DBFileName]= a.name
from
sysfiles a
declare @sql varchar(8000)
declare @SizeMB int
declare @UsedMB int
-- Get current file size in MB
select @SizeMB = size/128. from sysfiles where name = @DBFileName
-- Get current space used in MB
select @UsedMB = fileproperty( @DBFileName,'SpaceUsed')/128.
select [StartFileSize] = @SizeMB, [StartUsedSpace] = @UsedMB, [DBFileName] = @DBFileName
-- Loop until file at desired size
while @SizeMB > @UsedMB+@TargetFreeMB+@ShrinkIncrementMB
begin
set @sql =
'dbcc shrinkfile ( '+@DBFileName+', '+
convert(varchar(20),@SizeMB-@ShrinkIncrementMB)+' ) '
print 'Start ' + @sql
print 'at '+convert(varchar(30),getdate(),121)
exec ( @sql )
print 'Done ' + @sql
print 'at '+convert(varchar(30),getdate(),121)
-- Get current file size in MB
select @SizeMB = size/128. from sysfiles where name = @DBFileName
-- Get current space used in MB
select @UsedMB = fileproperty( @DBFileName,'SpaceUsed')/128.
select [FileSize] = @SizeMB, [UsedSpace] = @UsedMB, [DBFileName] = @DBFileName
end
select [EndFileSize] = @SizeMB, [EndUsedSpace] = @UsedMB, [DBFileName] = @DBFileName
-- Show Size, Space Used, Unused Space, and Name of all database files
select
[FileSizeMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round(a.size/128.,2)),
[UsedSpaceMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round(fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed')/128.,2)) ,
[UnusedSpaceMB]=
convert(numeric(10,2),round((a.size-fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed'))/128.,2)) ,
[DBFileName]= a.name
from
sysfiles a
CODO ERGO SUM
Any idea of a function or procudure the returns the free space of a data file so I can see when I need to reclaim free space.