How To Change Initial Log File Size On Mirrored Database
Oct 23, 2015
I have a database I need to copy from a Prod server to a Dev server. There is not enough space on the Dev server. In looking at the size of the files on the Prod server, the Initial Size property for the transaction log on the Prod server is set to 100,000 MB though the log is using nowhere near that.
This is a mirrored database so the recovery model is "full". I know that to change the initial log size, I have to put the database in 'simple" recovery model. Is this possible? Can I just:
1. Pause the mirror
2. Switch recovery model to simple
3. Change the initial size property to something smaller.
4. Shrink the transaction log
5. Change the recovery model back to full and resume the mirror?
I honestly don't know if the transaction log is needed on the Dev server. Meaning I may just be able to restore the transaction log to a different location on the server and delete it so that new one is created.
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Apr 14, 2015
I need to increase the file size for a mirrored database. I am new to using mirroring for replication. Will increasing the file size break the mirror?
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Sep 4, 2007
I am trying to resize a database initial log file from 500M to 2M. I€™m using€?
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
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Any help with this process?
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U ->Tempdbdata having tempdb.mdf file
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I have set up mirroring in high availability mode (principal, mirror, and witness).
After setting up mirroring, I needed to adjust the size of a column in one of my tables. I did so with the following command
ALTER TABLE OrderOptimizer.dbo.rCodes ALTER COLUMN CodeDescription VARCHAR(8000).
The column was initially VARCHAR(128)
When I look at the table structure it shows that the column is now VARCHAR(8000), however I can only enter 128 characters into the field.
I forced a failover to look at the table on the mirrored version. It too showed that the column was VARCHAR(8000).
If I open the table I can enter more than 128 characters into the field, however when I refresh, it is truncated to 128 characters,
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I have H Drive with 12 GB size.
The Transaction log file of my Database is given in H drive.
i.e H:Krishna_log.LDF.
My database initial setting for the Krishna_log.LDF is 10 GB.
so currently I can see 10 gb file occupied in the H Drive.
very soon my database Krishna_log.LDF is going to increase 10%.
Even though If do Backup/Shrink, it will reduce to the initial to 10 GB.
So all I need is, change the initial size of the
Krishna_log.LDF from 10 GB to 5 GB.
Pls give your suggetions...(I dont mind to shutdown,Restart the Sql server do these changes to achive this Task).
Thanx in advance.
Regards,
Krishna
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Mar 3, 2000
We had a runaway query which built the size of tempdb to 24000mb. Then someone changed the unrestricted file growth property to restricted growth while the size was 24000mb. Now I can not reduce the initial size. I have set the property back to unrestricted file growth. I have shrunk the tempdb and available space is almost 24000mb. I have stopped sqlserver. I even deleted the existing tempdb.mdf & tempdb.ldf files. But when SQL server is restarted, the initial size is set to 24000mb. It will not let me reduce the size. Is there anything short of manipulating the system tables to reduce the size back to 500mb?
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Hi All,
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Jan 27, 2007
Folks:
Is there a way to decrease the initial size of a database/log file? I've noticed you can increase it, but if you decrease it, after you confirm the change and go checking again, you will see nothing happened.
Is there a way? Am I missing anything?!
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Jul 23, 2007
Hi,
Currently my db size is only 6 GB but the transaction log file initial size was set to 20 GB and has grown much way beyond the db size with the autogrowth feature turn on. The database was originally a test/development DB and was migrated to a production server including the log file. This probably caused the accumulation of transactions on the log.
We run backup everyday and tried to shrinkfile and file size did not change.
Can I change the "initial size" setting of the transaction log without causing any problems? Do I need to stop the service before I made the change assuming I made the change after the backup run? Or can I change it on the fly?
Thanks in advance.
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Feb 12, 2008
Hi, I wish resize the allocated space of my DB.
It's 245GB, but the DB is 50GB.
I tryed this query:
use master
GO
ALTER DATABASE mydb
MODIFY FILE
(NAME = 'mydb_data',SIZE= 50000)
GO
but I receive an error:
Msg 5039, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size.
Can you help me?
Thanks
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I am trying to a trace to find traffic against the tables, no such luck.
Web applications are playing against it for queries but there should be no UPDATEs beign applied. I can only suspect that other unknown applications are performing operations but have yet to find unexplained connections.
Are there any other reasons why this type of log file activity would happen merely due to queries or stored procedure calls?
Lets also state, "mirroring, indexing, replication" are not at play. I know logging "Full" is not necessary as "Simple" should suffice but I am still hunting down why UPDATEs might be getting through. I realize I might adjust the migrated SQL 2000 security model to deny updates to find what breaks but would rather not take that iniative yet.
The installation is a fresh SQL 2005 Standard setup with SP2 applied; the databases were upgraded.
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Hi all,
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Any coments will be greatly appreciated :)
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Aug 25, 2004
Hi,
We currently have a fairly new SQL server 2000 db (currently about 18mb is size) as a backend to an application (Navision). Performance seems to be below what it should be.
The db is increasing quite rapidly in size, with a lot of data scheduled to be loaded onto the db and also more and more shops and users coming onto the system with alot more transactions going onto the db.
The initial setup of the db has the database File properties set to "Automatically grow file" by "30%" and has an unrestricted file growth.
The server that the db sits on is high spec and very large disk space.
Because the database will be expanding alot and thus reaching its maximum space allocation and then performing a 30% increase in size (which I guess affects performance quite a bit??) quite regularly.
Is it best to set the intitial size of the db to a alot bigger size in the first place as we have large disk space availiable and also set the % increase bigger also.
any advice on best performance would be much appreicated.
Regards,
David
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CREATE DATABASE Dummy
ONÂ
PRIMARY
( NAME = Dummy_data,
  FILENAME = 'D:....DATADummy.mdf',
  SIZE = 250MB,
  FILEGROWTH = 25MB )
LOG ON
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Hello,
I'm having couple of DB that are mirrored.
my concerne is regarding the Log file size.
I'm running the following steps:
BACKUP DATABASE [DBName] TO DISK = N'Backup_File' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT, SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
then
BACKUP LOG [DBName] TO DISK = N'Backup_File' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
if I try to run a SHRINKFILE (DBName_log, 20)
I receive the following info:
Cannot shrink log file 2 (DBName_log) because all logical log files are in use
I'n a bit tense using a
BACKUP LOG [DBName] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
as it's part of a mirroring.
but I need to reduce the size of the log file.
thank four your suggestions
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Mar 20, 2007
I'm getting this error while trying to insert records into a SQL Server Compact Edition database. I have pasted my connection string that was used when creating the database as well as for accessing that same database from my Windows application.
Thanks for any help any of you can give!
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Feb 18, 2008
Hello,
I am developing a smart device application with Visual Studio .Net 2005 and SQL Server Compact Edition database. And also using merge replication to synchronize the data from the mobile device to the SQL Server.
My database size is around 350MB. So when I am trying to synchronize this is the error message that I get.
" The database file is larger than the configured maximum database size. The setting takes effect on the first concurrent database connection only.[Required Max Database size ( in MB; 0 if unknown)=129].
I tried changing the Max database size in the connection string and my connection string looks as follows and still did not have any luck.
connstr= "Data Source=Storage CardItems.sdf;Max Database Size=500;"
Any help regarding this would be appreciated.
Thank you
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Apr 20, 2007
Hi,
I am facing problem of memory size of database file.
I am using SQL Server Express Edition for my application which will log point values after every second.
I have two table in my database
PointValues1_500 with the following columns
DateAndTime of type DATETIME with cluster index
Val1, Val2, Val3 ----- Val500 of type NUMERIC(18,6)
PointValues501-1000 with following columns
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Val1, Val2, Val3 ----- Val500 of type NUMERIC(18,6)
According to specification provided by microsoft DATETIME takes 8 bytes and NUMERIC(18,6) takes 9 bytes and 132 bytes per row for internal usage. So, it will take 4710 bytes approximately per row including index (if i am right).
When I put 60 rows in each table data file size is increased by 1 MB which should be 4710 * 60 (rows) * 2(tables) = 0.6 MB approx. I this scenario i am losing 0.4 MB memory that will cost me a lot if i have point values for 1 hour = 3600 rows per table.
Please give me a suggestion how to overcome this lost.
Best Regards
Haseeb Ahmad
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