I have a database with 2 log files VE_log and VE_log2 (the split is left from legacy system with limited disk space). I want to eliminate the 2nd log.
I've tried SHRINKFILE (EMPTYFILE), which of course reduces the file to the default minimum pages, SHRINKFILE (TRUNCATEONLY), SHRINKDATABASE (VE), and in every case the ALTER DATABASE REMOVE FILE command fails cause the log isn't empty.
Ideas???
Thanks,
Al
I'm converting DBs from SQL7 to SQL2K; the previous owner & server issues had created secondary data and/or log files. The size of the databases, and the configuration of the new server, do not warrant those secondary files. In restoring the databases from SQL7 to SQL2K, either by detach/copy/attach or backup/restore, is there a method for deleting the secondary files without, of course, losing any data?!
TIA,
Al
Hi all..!If I want to split an SQL DB into several physical files (as its 500GBdisk ran out of space, won't even run shrinks any more, and we boughtanother 500GB disk to add to the PC)then what is the difference between:Adding another File to the primary group which will reside on the newgroup;Adding another file in another group.We do not want to set any db objects (Tables, indexes)to a secondary file, as this will involve lengthy data movingoperations. We would like the DB to continue working from where it isutilizing the added space in a contigous (striped) manner.Will striping occur in both cases? as I understand striping it meansthat our stuck SQL Server will awake back to life as it will now have500GB more data for its DB, even though we haven't set any of itsobjects (tables, indexes) to explicitly use the secondary NDF file onthe new disk?or will it only utilize the new space if we set some objects to resideon that NDF?for example if we run large queries which crash now (due to lack ofspace) when we add the second drive will they start to work as theprocess will grow striped from the full drive to the new drive, even ifall the queries' source tables are all still set to the old drive?Thanks for any replies?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have for delete queries which I run separately. Could I have a one statement to run instead.
DELETE FROM dbo.PatientHistory
FROM dbo.PatientHistory INNERJOIN TEST_PATS ON dbo.PatientHistory.PatientGuidDigest = TEST_PATS.PatientGuidDigest
DELETE FROM dbo.PostcodeScores
FROM dbo.PostcodeScores INNERJOIN TEST_PATS
ON dbo.PostcodeScores.PatientGuidDigest = TEST_PATS.PatientGuidDigest
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I am new to SQL and I haven't written any scripts in the past. I thought I would give it a go. Basically, I am trying to write a script that will check if a database has more than one log files, free the VLFs that belong to the secondary log files and then remove them. I created a database named rDb as this link suggests and followed the steps.
[URL] ....
It works. However, I want to have to run just 1 script that will do the entire job. This is what I have gotten so far and it doesn't work:
create table #tempsysdatabase(
File_id int,
file_guid varchar(50),
type_desc varchar (20),
data_space_id int,
name nvarchar (50),
state int,
[Code] ....
HI, I have a dataflow that has two raw files as source and I would like to merge them upon a range condition:
RawFile1.Date <= RawFile2.Date
Usually, using tables, I would have used a lookup with partial cache to achieve it. Now, since we cannot use lookup transform with raw files, I was wondering how I could achieve this using raw files as source. Is it possible to merge raw files using merge or merge join?
Thank you,
Ccote
I have some simple files but they are failing because the delete history task is failing as it is looking for files in a non existent directory.
It is looking for files in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.INSTANCEMSSQLLog whereas it should be looking in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLLog
how I can get this corrected so I can get the Maintenance Plans to run correctly.
I have tried deleting and recreating the Plan but to no avail
Hello,
I need to generate a report, which should display 4 reports. Two tables and some charts. I have all these reports (I mean the .RDL files) individually. I can render the reports separately. But, now the need is to combine these reports in the one RDL file. Is this possible? If yes, how?
Also, I tried to create a stored procedure, which would call all these 4 SP inturn and provide 4 result sets. I thought of have an RDL by calling only this SP which would give 4 result sets. But infortunately, it gave only the first SP's result set. So, I have to combine the 4 RDL files into one to show on the Reporting Console. Can anyone please help me in this? Help would be grately appreciated.
Thanks a lot. Let me know if the question is not clear.
Mannu.
I have an export file that updates each night and dumps into prices.txt
I have to send them to an ftp site that processes them automatically if they're formatted correctly. They contain the same header information (saved in header.txt) and footer information (saved in footer.text). I then combine them all
header.txt + prices.txt + footer.txt = glpcwholesale.prn
The script below is what I have so far but it isn't working and errors out on line 23.
Any help would be great.
Function Main()
' OpenTextFile Method needs a Const value
' ForAppending = 8 ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Const ForAppending = 8
' Create the File System Object
Dim objFSO1, objFSO2,objFSO3,objFSO4
Set objFSO1 = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFSO2 = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFSO3 = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFSO4 = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Creating string references to file locations
Dim strDirectory, strFileHeader, strFilePrices, strFileTrailer
Dim strFileGLPC
strDirectory = "C:DataGarrowPRN"
strFileHeader = "header.txt"
strFileTrailer=" railer.txt"
strFilePrices="prices.txt"
strFileGLPC='glpcwholesale.prn"
'Creating File Objects Text File Reference
Dim objFileHeader, objFilePrices, objFileTrailer, objFileGLPCWholesale
Set objFileHeader = objFSO1.OpenTextFile _
(strDirectory & strFileHeader, ForReading, True)
Set objFilePrices = objFSO2.OpenTextFile _
(strDirectory & strFileTrailer, ForReading, True)
Set objFileTrailer = objFSO3.OpenTextFile _
(strDirectory & strFilePrices, ForReading, True)
Set objFileGLPCWholesale = objFSO4.OpenTextFile _
(strDirectory &strFileGLPC, ForWriting, True)
Do While (objFileHeader.AtEndOfStream <>
True)
objFileGLPCWholesale.WriteLine(objFileHeader.ReadL ine)
loop
objFileGLPCWholesale.Close
Set objFileGLPCWholesale = objFSO4.OpenTextFile _
(strDirectory &strFileGLPC, ForAppend, True)
Do While (objFilePrices.AtEndOfStream <>
True)
objFileGLPCWholesale.WriteLine(objFilePrices.ReadL ine)
loop
Do While (objFileTrailer.AtEndOfStream <>
True)
objFileGLPCWholesale.WriteLine(objFileTrailer.Read Line)
loop
objFileHeader.Close
objFilePrices .Close
objFileTrailer .Close
objFileGLPCWholesale.Close
SET objFileHeader = NOTHING
SET objFilePrices = NOTHING
SET objFileTrailer = NOTHING
SET objFileGLPCWholesale = NOTHING
Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success
End Function
I have the need to delete old backup files via TSQL job. Found this solution online:
PushD "
emoteservershareDIFF" &&(
forfiles -m *DIFF*.sqb -d -1 -c "cmd /c del /q @path"
) & PopD
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
I read , When sql server Database having multiple data files within single filegroup then sql server writes data in multiple proportional file algorithm where the amount of data written to a file is proportionate to the amount of free space in that file, compared to other files in the filegroup.
so if there is no filegroups created and multiple secondary files are attached in databse , is there same way data stored and writes data in multiple files by the same algorithm or any different way.
I€™ve created with the help of some great people an SSIS 2005 package which does the follow so far:
1) Takes an incoming txt file. Example txt file: http://www.webfound.net/split.txt
The txt file going from top to bottom is sort of grouped like this
Header Row (designated by €˜HD€™)
Corresponding Detail Rows for the Header Row
€¦..
Next Header Row
Corresponding Detail Rows
€¦and so on
http://www.webfound.net/rows.jpg
2) Header Rows are split into one table, Maintenance Detail Rows into another, and Payment Detail Rows into a third table. A uniqueID has been created for each header and it€™s related detail rows to form a PK/FK relationship as there was non prior to the import, only the relation was in order of header / related rows below it when we first started. The reason I split this out is so I can massage it later with stored proc filters, whatever€¦
Now I€™m trying to somehow bring back the data in those table together like it was initially using a query so that I can cut out each of the Header / Detail Row sections into their own txt file. So, if you look at the original txt file, each new header and it€™s related detail rows (example of a cut piece would be http://www.webfound.net/rows.jpg) need to be cut out and put into their own separate txt file.
This is where I€™m stuck. How to create a query to combine it all back into an OLE DB Souce component, then somehow read that souce and split out the sections into their own individual txt files.
The filenames of the txt files will vary and be based on one of the column values already in the header table.
Here is a print screen of my package so far:
http://www.webfound.net/tasks.jpg
http://www.webfound.net/Import_MaintenanceFile_Task_components.jpg
http://www.webfound.net/DataFlow_Task_components.jpg
Let me know if you need more info. Examples of the actual data in the tables are here:
http://www.webfound.net/mnt_headerRows.txt
http://www.webfound.net/mnt_MaintenanceRows.txt
http://www.webfound.net/mnt_PaymentRows.txt
Here's a print screen of the table schema:
http://www.webfound.net/schema.jpg
i have created a new login in primary server and provided dbowner permission to primary db.how do i transfer this login to secondary server and assign the same permission to secondary db ?
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We have set up Log shipping between Primary and Secondary DB. The secondary DB is right now option: Standby/Read-Only. I can not take Backup of Secondary DB now.
Shall we disable Log shipping and change the DB Option to Multi-user mode and take backup? or any different method, without disabling log shipping?
please advice. Thanks in advance.
Jay
I need to delete all the *.txt file in a specific folder modified date is older than 2 months,. How can I do this in a stored procedure?
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I have a SQL 2005 server I inherited and am trying to clean up. I am unable to delete some log files. The databases they were associated with do not exist in sysdatabases. However, when I try to delete them I get the message they are in use. There are no other instances attached to this server.
Any help is appreciated.
I need to delete all the *.txt file in a specific folder modified date is older than 2 months,. How can I do this in a stored procedure?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to setup an automated process to delete all the files older than a month in a particular directory on a network drive, how is that possible? Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks.
Sheila.
hi,
i want to delete the backup files older than 15 days. how can i do this?
Actually i backup the db and log using the TSQL, and the backup files are in d:ackup folder. I tried sqlmaint,xp_sqlmaint but its not running .
Any idea? thanks in adv.
kumar
can I use xp_cmdshell to delete files older than lets say 30 minutes? can anyone show me what the command will look like?
Thanks
Shahab
Hi everybody,
Can anyone help me out in deleting files more than n- hours from a physical folder using xp_cmdshell ....
how can I delete files, which are allready imported into a database. I have a folder with 600,000 files . All Files should be in a database. And I want to delete the files that are found in the table with filename . How can I make the ?? The Filename and physicals Name is the same so i can say table.filename=physical.filename.
View 20 Replies View RelatedI've been tasked with coming up with a process to delete old files out of a certain directory. It's prefered to have a configuration file to go in and be able to change the number of days to retain files (7 for delete files older than 7 days for example). I've been told I can do this with SSIS. Can anybody point me in the right direction to do this in SSIS or even in DOS? I don't know ActiveX scripting if that's what's needed in SSIS. I prefer doing something like this in DOS but not sure it's possible to automate. Any help is appreciated.
Van
I wish to delete remote files on an FTP server after I download them. I want to download files daily and delete them daily after I finish downloading. I am trying to use the FTP task to do this but I get an error when it tries to delete files from specified location. It says:
"Unable to delete files using FTP Connection Manager" The FTP connection manager contains the FTP connection string and password. I have unchecked the passive mode box. Can someone help me with this error,
Thanks
Annie
I already did the following but still it wont delete the log file because it is not empty- DBCC SHRINKFILE('logfilename',EMPTYFILE) - DBCC SHRINKFILE('logfilename',TRUNCATEONLY)- ALTER DATABASE databasename REMOVE FILE logfilename
View 4 Replies View RelatedHello,
How to delete old files stored in a directory using dos script?.
I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks,
Ravi
Folks:
I want to delete files on windows from a directory which are 2 days old. I understand we can do that using xp_cmdshell. Anybody with a script would really help me.
Thanks !
Ok in SQL 2000 this is within the maintaince plan, where as i have to create a seprate one for sql 2005 being i assume the 'clean up history' I choose the backup andrestore option choose 2 weeks and then run the job once created it runs sucssessfully but yet it dosnt delete a thing. I have backups going back almost 2 months now.
What on earth am i not doing?
Thanks in advanced
I created a backup device and a job to backup a full dbs and transaction logs. When I first created the backup statement it was created with RETAIN DAYS = 10
Its been 15 days and the ones created after 10 days appear to be marked for deletiong but I am obviously missing a statement in my backup statement or in another job I need to schedule to come through and delete the old files from the backup device. Please help me figure out what this statement needs to be.
All the backups and T-log backups are written to one device which is one file.
Thanks
Scott
is it possible to delete a source file(*.txt) when a SSIS package is done with it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi all,Can anyone help me with a script which would delete files ormove them to a different folder at some scheduled time..!Please.....!!!Thanks in advance...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have several maintenance plans setup and working in SQL/2005 (sp2 9.0.3042) on several servers; however, the .txt maint plan output files will not delete on any of the servers. The backups run fine, the old database and transaction log backup files delete fine (.bak and .trn); but, the .txt files won't go away unless I delete them by hand. I tried copy/paste the scripted command (xp_delete_file) and it runs with no errors but does not delete the old .txt files. ( This server was upgraded from SQL/2000 -
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 1,N'E:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLLOG',N'txt',N'2007-07-09T10:59:38'
)
I do NOT specify a period (.) in the file extension dialog box. Any ideas before I setup a .cmd batch file and schedule it instead?
Thanks in Advance,
DeWayne
Hello,
I have two FTP Tasks configured in my SSIS package. One is for "Receive files" and the other is set for "Delete remote files." Both use variables for the source/destination paths. My remote path variable contains a wild card in the name field such as /usr/this/is/my/path/*.ext and it is working to FTP all the .ext files to my working directory. I then rename the files and want to remove the original files from the FTP server. I use the same variable as the remote path variable in the delete as I do in the receive.
Using the same FTP connection manager for both tasks I am always getting a failure on the delete. The FTP connection manger is setup to use the root user. Using a terminal I am able to open an FTP connection to the server and remove the files manually. There doesn't seem to be any detailed documentation on the FTP Task configured for Delete remote files so I'm hoping someone might have some insight to the problem.
I receive the same message for each of the files that was downloaded:
Error: 0xC001602A at MyPackage, Connection manager "FTP Connection Manager": An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: 550 usr hisismypathdatafile1.ext: No such file or directory.
The attempt to delete file "usr hisismypathdatafile1.ext" failed. This may occur when the file does not exist, the file name was spelled incorrectly, or you do not have permissions to delete the file.
With the root user/working manually I'm not understanding the permission reason, the file does exist and is spelled correctly.
Dan