How To Backup, Or Store Different Versions Of A Database?
Aug 11, 2006
Hello,
I am working on a project. We do not have a DBA, so I am performing some of these tasks.
I recently created a new database with about 10 tables. I have set up the key and primary key relationships between the data files.
How do I save the database through differenct stages of it's evolution? Suppose I populate the database, but later on decide that I we need to re-start from scratch and go back to the new database I created that is not populated. How do I save different versions of a database through it's evolution/progression?
Currently i am working with Sql Server 2005 and i am taking daily backups which is going append same backup file <DB_NAME>.BAK.
Now i am trying to restore this bkp with a new database name and with 2 days before date image.When i am trying to do that, sql server is not showing the versions of the backups.
I work at a place which is currently running SQL 2000, but they areplanning to migrate to 2k5. I was thinking that this is the perfectopportunity to fix all the weaknesses we have had in our data model forthe longest: primary keys and foreign keys with different names, use ofcharacter columns for boolean fields, use of integer columns fortoggles, no referential integrity, etc.So, even if I create my Utopian perfect data model and modify all ofour data loaders to use it, our live website must use the old incorrectversion because there is way too much work involved in redoing thecode.My question then becomes: if I have a correct version, how easy andwith what approach would one take the data in the correct one andmirror it to the poorly designed schema?
I have a problem when i restore my .DAT_BAK file. I am getting error like "The backup set holds a backup of a database other than existing database. Restore Database is terminating abnormally".
I tried by using
RESTORE DATABASE <DATABASENAME> FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK' WITH MOVE 'VZAI_DATA' TO D:PROGRAM FILES..MSSQLTEST.MDF', MOVE 'VZAI_LOG' TO D:PROGRAM FILES..MSSQLTEST.LDF', REPLACE
And also i tried like
RESTORE DATABASE <DATABASENAME> FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK'
WITH REPLACE
When i use like this,
RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = 'D:DATAMYTEST.DAT_BAK'. I am able to get the output as LogicalName, PhysicalName, Type, FileGroupName, Size, etc.
I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
We take a full backup in the early morning and hourly transaction log back during the working hours for one database in the production server. The application team made certain changes to the design of the said database in their development server. The backup from the development server was restored to the production server during working hours. After the restoration should we take a full backup before next transactional logbackup? Would the transactional log backup with out a full backup after the restoration of a database be valid?
I have a database that is just over 1.5GB and the Full backup that is 13GB not sure how this is since we have compression on for full backups and my other full backups are much smaller than there respective databases...Now my full backup is taken every Sunday night and the differentials are taken every 6 hours after the full backup. Now I have been thrown into this DBA role with little to no experience just what I have picked up and read. So my understanding of backups are limited but what I think I understand is that we take a full backup and the differential only captures what changes in the database so my question is why is my database 1.5GB but my differential is 15.4GB? I have others database that are on the same instance and don't seem to have this problem. I also just noticed that we do not rebuild the index before a full backup like we do on other instances...
I need to grant select, insert, update, and delete permission to an object residing in Database "X" from a store procedure in database "Y". I have already tried USE database statement. Any suggestion. Thanks Maroof Khan
I should restore a SQL Server 2005 Database from backup. The backup contains three files, named user.bak0, user.bak1 and user.bak2.
How is the syntax of the restore filelistonly and the restore database ... ?
I usualy write restore filelistonly from disk = 'path and filenam.bak' restore database. zy from disk = 'path and filename.bak' with replace, move..... move....
This works but I cannot use it with a splitted backup file. The files are much too big to put together to one file.
Hi All,I am facing this issue very frist time. I add a logical device asfollowing:USE masterGOEXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'AdvWorksData','C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQLServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBACKUPAdvWorksData.bak'-- Create a logical backup device, AdvWorksLog.USE masterGOEXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'AdvWorksLog','C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQLServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBACKUPAdvWorksLog.bak'-- Back up the full AdventureWorks database.BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks TO AdvWorksData-- Back up the AdventureWorks log.BACKUP LOG AdventureWorksTO AdvWorksLogThe database backup is completed successfully but log's backup failswith the following messages:Msg 4214, Level 16, State 1, Line 1BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current databasebackup.Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.We are moving from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. I have ensured that databasehas full recovery mode on. We are using SQL 2005 on Windows 2003 ServerSP1.Further more, I also created a plan to test it, and plan also failswhen backing up the logs.Can anyone shed some light on this issue.Thanks in advance.Najm
I have a MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 9.0.2153 which manages my BizTalk Server 2006 Databases. The BizTalk server installer automatically creates a job named Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) which should back up the databases and transaction protocolls.
The SQL Server Agent runs under domain-administrator account which has full access to my backup directory D:ackups.
The job executes the following steps:
Step 1: BackupFull:
Command:
exec [dbo].[sp_BackupAllFull_Schedule] 'd' /* Frequency */, 'BTS' /* Name */, 'D:Backups' /* location of backup files */
Step 2: MarkAndBackupLog
Command:
exec [dbo].[sp_MarkAll] 'BTS' /* Log mark name */, 'D:Backups' /* location of backup files */
My challenges are:
1. The job doesn't back up my databases(D:Backups is empty after executing the job)
2. I get every time the following error in error protocol of the job:
BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Fehler 4214) BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Fehler 3013).
I have already switched the Databases from full to simple recovery mode and vica versa, it didn't help. Also, the above stored procedures doesn't include neither the TRUNCATE nor the LOG parameters for the logfiles so I wasn't able to solve this issue by adjusting these flags.
I am using sql server 2000 and windows server 2003 standard edition: My database backup job is failing due to lack of disk space. I am taking the backup onto E drive and the available free space on E drive is 6.85 GB and there are no other drives I can use for the database backups. The size of mdf file is 21 GB and that of ldf file is 4.2 GB. The transaction log back up job of that db ran fine. This database recovery model is Full and Auto shrink is not checked. There is one primary filegroup for the database. In this situation, I am thinking of the following option: 1. Backup the db and log files onto another network shared drive. If I want to still use the same server E drive to backup the db and log files instead of using another network shared drives. how can I do that. Please let me know the best way of handling this issue. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I neglected to backup the transaction log as part of the process of backing up the database. Now i only have the backup file for the database and no transaction log backup. When i try to do a restore on the database, i get the error on a "tail log missing" message (which i'm assuming is that it's looking for the t-log backup?).
Is it possible to restore or even restore to a new database? I'm only looking to retreive data from 2 tables within the backup file.
We replicate a SQL2000 database (DataBaseA) to a SQL2000 database (DataBaseB) by using the Restore function and hasn't change its logical name but only the physical data path and file name. It is running fine for a year. We use the same way to migrate the DataBaseB to a new SQL2005 server with the Restore function and the daily operation is running perfect. However, when we do the Backup of DatabaseB in the SQL2005, it just prompt the error message
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup of full-text catalog 'DataBaseA' is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the reason that full-text catalog became offline and bring it online. Or BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Please note we left the DataBaseA in the old SQL2000 server.
Please help on how we can delete the Full-text catalog from DatabaseB so we can do a backup
I'm just using TEXTBOX control to save data into my DB. My question is, if I have multiple lines of sentences, it does not store as what it looks like. For example;
Hello, Mike
It stores into the database as "Hello, Mike" and if I read from the database, it does not have seperate lines and shows it like this; Hello, Mike
How can I store the contents into database and make the contents as original? (Sorry for the poor English, but I hope you understand it.)
mo tu we th fr _______________________morning |___|____|_____|__X__|____|afternoon |___|_X__|_X__|__X__|____| evening |___|____|_X __|__X__|____|Hey guys, i have to store the values of the above table into the database however i have know idea how to design the table. Could you guys give me some suggestion.Currently i come up with the below solution.OpenTime---------------OpenTimeIDDateIDTimeIDDate------------DateIDDateNameTime-----------TimeIDTimeName
how can I store a filename in the database, i have some GIF files which i want to show up on report, how can i specify those filename with a path in the database. i tried manually entering the path c:Dataimages.gif but it didnt work. Can someone pls tell me how to do it.
Hi Anyone Knows I want to store SQL 2005 Existing Database into SQL Server Through .Net.if i give Database Name in .Net and that Database automatically stored in SQL Server 2005.P(including that Existing Database Tables and Stored Procedures).Please Help me.
Hi all, I want to find working duration between two datetimes in c#.i'm using following code... DateTime starttime = Convert.ToDateTime(Session["StartTime"]); DateTime endtime = DateTime.Now; TimeSpan duration = endtime - starttime; DateTime period = new DateTime(duration.Ticks); i want to store this duration in database through stored procedure, i've give datetime datatype to duration but it is giving error in conversion of TimeSpan to DateTime..Please help... Thanks
I have a problem I 'get stuck on it. i hope someone can help me. I have a SQLServer table with an ID-field with a primary key and identity on it, and a couple of other fields with defaultvalue "" and NOT nullable When i like to update an record in an formview of ASP 2.0 and fill in all fields everything is updated and everything goes fine but when I leave one field blank then I get the message 'can not enter null value in column X' even when I place in the Updateparameter in my code <asp:Parameter Name="Name" DefaultValue="" /> ASP tries to update an Null value when i place an space as default value like <asp:Parameter Name="Name" DefaultValue=" " /> everything goes fine exept there is an space in my database.
How can I update my record, and leave some textboxes emtpy AND where my fields are NOT nullable
I'm getting desparate of this. make my fields nullable is not an option because this is a 'customerswish' Please help
I want to know how do we store null in the database
i know Null is unkown value
but it has to be something so the SQL server can know its null ( computer only knows 0s and 1s )
is it pointers and null does not have a pointer? or do we store something physically?
an example : we have string(varchar) column that has this value in it "Joey Tribbiani" that means in the hard disk we will see 14 bytes "Joey Tribbiani" in there, if we changed the value to "Monika" the 14 bytes will be replaced by 5 bytes "Monika", if we changed to empty strike then we will have 0 bytes ""
now if changed it to become NULL what is going to happen to the hard disk, what is going to be in there physically??
hi everybody,can anybody help me out by telling me how could I store images in a database, and how to insert new images at run time to a database and thanks
Hi FriendsCan anyone tell me how to store uploaded files from the user to the SQL database and later give an option of downloading the file probably in the form of a GridView control. How do we write code to allow the user to download the uploaded files. I have written code to upload and store the files into a folder, however, I'm not able to collect data from the folder later and the folder is only accessible offline using the server system which I do not want to happen. Can anyone help me with this?Thanks
hello all, I have a multi line textbox and want to store the content of the textbox to a database. I want to preserve the linefeeds so that I display the message as it is typed by retrieving it. Can anyone please explain how to store the linefeeds to the database. Once i store the linefeeds to the database, I can restore them using the Replace("","<br/>) method. But I can't figure out how to store the 's in the database in the first place. Thanx in advance
