Hi,
my log files are growing like anything. One of my log file size is 20GB.
How i have to reduce the log file size.
If i run DBCC command is it come backs...
Pls tell me the way how i have to find the free space and reduce logsizes.
After taking backups also my log file sizes are not reducing.
Thanks!
Kavira
The TEMPDB transaction log file keeps growing.The database server is new and the transaction log was presized to 1 GB on installation. After installing a number of databases, the log file grew over a day to 38GB. Issuing a manual checkpoint was the only way to free some space to allow it to be shrunk back to a usable size. The usage of the file is still going up.
I am struggling to find what process is causing the log to be used so heavily. Looking at the log reuse wait desc for tempdb returns "Nothing" and tempdb itself isn't being used very much or growing in size.
When you have the autogrowth turned on for log files. What happens when you put a max file size on it? Will just overwrite the old logs to keep the file at the max size or will it just create a new file every time it hits the max size?
Thanks!
Hi All,
I ran the following query to get the log file sizes for all databases:
select (size*8.00)/1024,filename from master..sysaltfiles
When I compared the results from this query with the transaction log properties in EM, not all of the sizes match.
For example, EM shows the transaction log size for tempdb to be 2 MB but the results of the query shows that transaction log size for tempdb is .5 MB. Which query can I run to get the numbers that would match between two? Thanks.
Admin is kind of new to me. Could someone recommend how to reduce these file sizes?
In Dev, my MDF is 16 MB, LDF .5 MB.
I run a script to recreate the schema and insert rows on the Host.
When downloading a db backup from the Host and restoring it to Dev, my MDF is 24 MB, LDF 25 MB.
The same dataset grew by ~35 MB!!!
Any advice is welcome. Thank you. Rick
I am in the middle of capturing a workload to try and tune a SQL instance and was wondering what kinds of sizes people capture in terms of traces. I am only 1 day into a capture and I believe a typical workload would be a week long capture and I am already at 10GB of files. I am only capturing rpc_completed and sql_batch_completed.
What sizes of workloads do other people capture and then where do you analyse them, do you have particular dedicated server for this kind of thing as at present I am looking to use my local PC. Also what rollover file sizes do people tend to use, I am currently using 1GB.
I have one .mdf and two .ndf files on the same drive. The .mdf file size =275GB, one .ndf file size = 300GB and other .ndf file size = 135GB. Is this normal to have 3 different file size? if not what can I do to fix this? I don't have option to make all files to initial size equal to 300GB as a .ndf.If I have to add a .ndf file (in case of running out the above drive), what initial file size should I set up for new file on new drive? And how data gets distributed across all 4 files (including new .ndf on different drive)?
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SQL Server 2000 Std.
Thanks!
I have a database of 22 gb in sql 2000, my database option is set to full recovery mode, the problem i'm having is the tran log is growing too fast, this morning it was 24 gb, more than the database size. Can anyone help how I can keep it in a managable size?
Thanks in advance!!
Hi all
I have a DB with 1 data file, 1 log file and 1 index file.
data file is 3 GB but index file is 12 GB.
Index file is growing big day by day.
This cause performance of DB down.
What should I do to prevent index file become bigger and size of index file smaller?
Thanks in advanced
Thi Nguyen
My log file was 2x the size of my actual Database which is obviously too large on a DEV box. I know that my data can be easily recovered so I actually do not even want/need a log file.
After doing some investigation I found that I should turn my database into "Simple Recovery Mode" and after this I used a few scripts to truncate my log file. Things at this point looked great!
Unfortunately my log File is still growing even with this 'simple recovery mode'. So how do I stop this craziness from occurring?
I even unchecked the box 'allow autogrowth' on the database! However, I eventually get errors when creating records in the system because it complains about running out of room in the log file.
Code:
The transaction log for database 'ReportingDB' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases
I'm using SQL Server 2000 and need to restore a large database onto a different node. The problem is the original database has a 74 gb first datafile and the node where I need to restore it doesn't have a single drive that big. I'm trying to use a backup of the original database and restore it into an existing database on another node and am using the move options to put the files in the right places.
Is there a way I run the restore to split the 74 gb datafile across drives on my target node?
Thanks for any help.
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Thanking You
R.Mall
I am running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express.
The transaction log of the main database has gotten huge and I just noticed it because the disk is nearly out of free disk space.
The database data file is 46MB and the transaction log is 210GB. This happended because autogrowth was on, and no limit was set I suppose.
So my goal is to knock this thing down to size, and set the max size of the transaction file to like 5GB.
I CANNOT do a backup of the transaction log because I do not have enough free space for such an operation. I tried doing:
DUMP TRANSACTION dbName
No luck, got the following error: Backup or restore requires at least one backup device.
Can I just stop the service and manually DELETE the transaction log file?
Thanks for the help.
Hello, we are running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express edition (9.0.32).
Recently I just noticed that the database log file of our main database is HUGE. The database data file is only 50MB and the log file is 210GB.
Any idea what is causing this? Seems to be getting bigger with time, in the last 7 days seems to have grown by 100GB. I noticed the following settings under the database:
Autogrowth: By 15 percent, unrestricted growth
Does that seem right? Thanks.
Dear All,
I am using Append to media backup option in 2000 Version. The size of backup is growing. how can I best create the maintenace plan to clear the history or clear the old files in BACKUP (.bak) file but still be able to restore point in time from same physical file. I
Is there any side effect of doing that.
Thanks,
Hello,
I have got another annoying problem. The MDF file size on one of the machines is growing really fast. We zip the mdf/ldf files every day from all the machines in the dataentry dept. On this particular machine, the mdf file size is growing by about 1GB per day. However, when the file is zipped, the zipped file size comes closer to the zipped files from the other machines.
I have tried doing this:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/lost_data_sql_server.asp
on it as well, but didn't solve my problem.
Any ideas as to what it might be? and how to solve this problem?
Thanks in Advance.
J!
I'm having a problem. When I use the SQL query to make a backup of the database, it worked fine. But everytime I use it, the backed-up file's size kept growing in size. Say I have the file, test.bak whose filesize is 450 MB then I run a new backup to overwrite the existing test.bak file, it just end up as 900 MB. If I run it again, it become 1350 MB and so on.
Is there a way to prevent that from happening?
I have a Problem like the Following ..
On 24th my Mdf size was 10GB,when i checked now the Mdf size was increased suddenly to 30GB.
solution to decrease the Size and as well as where can i check the reasons behind that..
I have an 19 gig database that somehow has a 100gig log file. The DB MUST BE in full recovery mode, I backup the transaction logs EVERY hour and shrink nightly. but for some reason my logfile WILL NOT SHRINK.
HELP,
I've used both the DBCC Shrinkfile (xxxxxx) and DBCC ShrinkDatabase (xxxxx) and these don't seem to work. I Have No current backup, I have Not capacity for addtional 100 gig worth of backup drive or off-site tape.
I have an instance with 4 datafiles for tempdb each set at initial size of 4G and growth rate of 100MB. After some time the initial file sizes seem to have changed automatically. They now read 3962,100,3688 and 2847 respectively. Is this something done by SQL Server itself? I cannot imagine that it was done manually.
I don't think there was a restart after the initial sizes of 4G were set, could this be related to the problem?
Hi there,I have a data manipulation process written in a Nested Stored procedurethat have four levels deeper. When I run these individual proceduresindividually they all seems to be fine. Where as when I run them alltogether as Nested proces (calling one in another as sub-procedures) Logfile is growing pretty bad like 25 to 30GB.. and finally getting kickedafter running disk space. This process is running around 3hrs on a SQLserever Standard Box having dual processer and 2gb ram.This procedures have bunch of bulk updates and at least one cursor ineacch procedure that gets looped through.I was wondering if anybody experienced this situation or have any clueas to why is this happening and how to resolve this?I am in a pretty bad shape to deliver this product and in need of urgenthelp.Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..Thanks in advance*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
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In my case to reduce the log file what I need to do.
I upgraded from SQL 6.5 to SQL 7 last month, and so far, everything's
been going fine.
However, I'm not using my old SQL 6.5 backup scripts, which, when the
backup was done, would dump the transaction log with TRUNCATE_ONLY, shrinking
the log size.
My SQL 7 server is set up with a Maintenance Plan which does everything,
including backup, but the log file seems to be growing and growing. I'm
up to 4.5 gigs now, for a database with a data file of 3.5 gigs.
How do I "dump transaction with TRUNCATE_ONLY" on a SQL 7 database?
Thanks,
Todd Wallace
I have merge replication setup up for 6 SQLCE Subscribers.
I have noticed that the MSmerge_tombstone table is growing
at a fast rate regardless of any changes to the data in
the database. It seems to be consistantly adding 50 rows
of data to the table every 2 minutes. As the table grows
it causes the SQLCE subscirbers to fail with the following
message:
ERROR: -2147467259
SQL Server Reconciler failed: Run
ERROR: -2147200925
: Failed to enumerate changes in the filtered
articles.
ERROR: 0
: {call sp_MSsetupbelongs
(?,?,?,?,?,0,?,?,1,?,?,?,?,?,?)}
ERROR: 0
: The merge process timed out while executing a
query. Reconfigure the QueryTimeout parameter and retry
the operation.
I'm sure that this is due to the size of the
MSmerge_tombstone.
Should the MSmerge_tombstone table grow at this rate?
36,000 rows every 24hrs!
I understand there is the sp_mergecleanupmetadata Stored
procedure but if i use this does that mean that because i
have to reinitialise all the subscribers, they are going
to have to pull down the whole subscription again.
I have since Changed a settings to make subscription
expiration date to 8 days instead of never expires but
we're still getting 50 rows added every 2 minutes
SQL SERVER 2000 SP3
Hope someone can shed some light on this for me.
Thanks.
.
Anyone here with a ready to go sqlscript that lists all db's, files, sizes, owner etc? I guess it's a combination of sp_databases, sp_helpdb and sp_helpdb [db].
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hi,
i'm planning to create a DB of about 1TB of text.
can SQL EXPRESS handle this sizes of data? what about SQL 2005?
does it matter if i put all the data in 1 table?
Thanks.
Hello,
I was told a while ago that your Log should be 2 times the size as your data. Is this a good rule of thumb?
Lee
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