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
I'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 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 RelatedThe problem is that I have (for example) following data
AA AA LH
BB BB ML
CC CC QA
DD DD PS
in space delimited file and i want to populate a database using SSIS and it is not working. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Today we received an issue on an application database on internal free space on the DB is 0% that was designed with as below
name   fileid   filename   filegroup   size   maxsize   growth   usage
XX   1   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX.mdf   PRIMARY   68140032 KB   Unlimited   0 KB   data only
XX_log   2   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX_log.LDF   NULL   1050112 KB   2147483648 KB   102400 KB   log only
XX_2   3   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX_2.ndf   PRIMARY   15458304 KB   Unlimited   0 KB   data only
XX_3   4   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX_3.ndf   PRIMARY   13186048 KB   Unlimited   0 KB   data only
XX_4   5   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX_4.ndf   PRIMARY   19570688 KB   Unlimited   204800 KB   data only
XX_5   6   I:DataMSSQL.1MSSQLDataNew XX_5.ndf   PRIMARY   19591168 KB   Unlimited   204800 KB   data only
2 of the secondary data files had its autogrowth enabled to unrestricted with 200MB and 3 of the data files including primary had its Autogowth turned OFF. Application use is complaining that there is no internal freespace on the DB.
What fails to understand us is that when the Auto growth was already TURNED OFF on 3 data files ( 1 primary and 2 secondary ) still why was the application trying to increase the space on the .mdf and .ndf files; as well when the Autogrowth is TURNED ON on 2 of the secondary data files, why was the DB not able to expand these file groups when the autogrowth is already turned off on 3 of its  other files.
What more data i need to ensure i submit an analysis to this.
Hello,
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.
How to check the free space in a DB file using TSQL?
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I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes
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.
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
I am using SQL Server report 2008/2012 (SSRS) and my report viewer contains body content with 3 Row groups.
While printing the report, Â data print with blank space and move to continue data to next page.Â
Departure flight : 70 rows
First Page           : 42 rows printed
Second Page     : 23  rows printed  [ Supposed to be print 28 ,  if the total count of records more than 23 and less than 42 then the page print only 23 records ]
Third Page          : 5 rows printed
Departure flight : 42 Â rows
First Page           : 42  rows printed [Report max. record allowed to print 42 rows so if total record is 42 then print perfectly ]
Departure flight : 26 rows
First Page           : 23 rows printed [Supposed to be print 26, if the total count of records more than 23 and less than 42 then the page print only 23 records ]
Second Page     : 3 rows printed
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.
The problem is that I have (for example) following data
AAAA AA ALH
B BBB MIL
CCCCCC CAC Q
D D P
in space delimited file and i want to populate a database using SSIS and it is not working. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
P.S. the only way to recognize colums is through spaces b/w the data.
Recently maintenance was done removing some tables from the original filegroup in one drive of our SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition 64bits to another created on a separate physical drive. I was expecting the full amount of data moved to the secondary filegroup to show up as unused on the primary filegroup but that doesn't seem to be the case. Do I have to do anything after the move to release that space, not to disk, but to the database as unused?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhile i execute dbcc sqlperf(logspace); I get following values.
Database NameLog Size (MB)Log Space Used (%)
master 16.17969 13.30275
tempdb 7.429688 61.7245
model 0.7421875 45.78947
msdb 5.554688 25.87904
distribution 2808.93 0.8172179
BANKDB 23438.87 48.20037
WSMIRSDB 109.7422 4.839111
For database BANKDB , Log Space used(%) is 48.83% and Log size is about 23438.87 where as my database size of BANKDB is 60 GB. FULL database and Log back is done every day night one time. My database is performing slow now.
Do we need to take log backup frequently like once a 1 hour so that Log space used will be less. Same query is taking more time to execute than before in same database is it because of log file has increased.
I do index organize and rebuild once a week and stats apply nightly.
Is it correct once log space size is increasing more than 10%. Do we need to take log backup?
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" for the database "tempdb" in SQL instance "MSSQLSERVER" on computer "XYZ" is running out of space.
tempdev Initial size : 133,100 MB Growth: By 10 percent, Limited to 140000 MB
templog Initial Size : 5,475 MB Growth: By 10 percent, Unlimited
Hello, I attempt to export a CSV formatted file from SSRS and if the field is not containing data, a space is added to the field.
output:
4, ,1, , , ,
desired output:
4,,1,,,,
I know it is just a property setting. If someone can instruct me on the correct setting to adjust, I would greatly appreciate your help!
I executed the below query and getting the capacity values only for master database.All other DB shows NULL values for spaceused. I'm actually looking for a query to get all the capacity information other than using temp table and the procedures. Is there any way using SQL query ONLY.
select
db.[dbid] as 'DB ID',
db.[name] as 'Database Name',
af.[name] as 'Logical Name',
convert(decimal(12,2),round(size/128.000,2)) as FileSizeMB,Â
convert(decimal(12,2),round(fileproperty(db.name,'SpaceUsed')/128.000,2)) as SpaceUsedMB
from sys.sysdatabases db
inner join sys.sysaltfiles af
on db.dbid = af.dbid
Below is the output
DB ID Database Name
Logical Name FileSizeMB
SpaceUsedMB
1 master
master 4.00
3.44
1 master
mastlog 2.00
[Code] ....
the text file format use the length of character to define the field
for example,
0001130130HAUT BAGES AVEROUS 03
9 chars <0001130130> is a field
1 char <H> is a field
20 chars <AUT BAGES AVEROUS 03> is a field
one record by one record store in db
no space, no symbol, no line break between each record
----------------------------------------------------------
I try bcp method, but some error happens. Please give me suggestions. thx
I run the following code in query analyzer.
BULK INSERT Chain.dbo.POLL59
FROM 'D:POLL59.DWN'
WITH (FORMATFILE = 'D:cp.fmt')
?????
it shows the error
Server: Msg 4839, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot perform bulk insert. Invalid collation name for source column 4 in format file 'D:cp.fmt'.
***
For your information
data file
000000011301220051222000192000000000011301320051222000030000000000019067420051222000000001<there are many space >
bcp.fmt file <I use tab to separate and use ascii>
8.0
4
1 SQLCHAR 0 4 "" 1 PLUEVT ""
2 SQLCHAR 0 9 "" 2 PLUSKU ""
3 SQLCHAR 0 8 "" 3 PLUFRD ""
4 SQLCHAR 0 9 "" 4 PLUPRC ""
!!!!
I try to edit collation name in Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_CI_AS or others, but the error also happens.
I have a SQL Server 2012 DB in Full recovery mode that has never had a TLOG backup. the log is huge 200+GB.
I tried doing a transaction log backup but there is not enough space on the Disk.
How can I reclaim this log space in SQL Server 2012?