Hi.. We have a MSSQL application and the DB file (not the log file) seems getting bigger over this few year and right now you are running almost out of space. May I know how does the other company deal with this kind of situation?
i am sure other company data is getting bigger as well and it has been longer time than ours. How to deal with it ?
Hi all,
I have a serious problem:
I created 1 database with 2 file group : 1 primary and 1 index.
- Primary file group includes 1 data file (*.mdf): store all tables
- Index file group includes 1 index file (*.ndf): store all indexes
Most of indexes are non-cluster indexes
After a short time using, data file is 2GB but index file is 12 GB.
I do not know what problem happened in my database.
I have some questions:
1/ How so I reduce size of index file ?
2/ How to know what is stored in index file?
3/ How to trace all impact to index file?
4/ How to limit size growing of index file?
Thanks in advanced
Thi Nguyen
Hi my database .ldf (log file) size is very big. How can I decrease the size of it?
Thanks.
I am using SQL 7, SP1 / NT 4. The .LDF file has grown to 1.1GIG; I ran a DBCC SQLPerf(LogSpace), the used portion of the log is 2%. When I run a DBCC Shrinkdatabase and DBCC Shrinkfile, the log file does not reduce in size. How do I get the virtual log files that are not active released back to the system? Is there a way to tell if all the virtual log files are active, therefore, not reducing the size of the file? Any help is greatly appreciated.......
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View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I know this topic has been discussed in the past, but I still don't quite get it. So please be patient with me
database size created with automatically growth of 10% with unrestricted file growth.
database size = 5 Gb used 4.5 GB (taskpad)
transaction log=8GB used 54MB (taskpad) 7.5 GB free
database run in FULL mode
full backup nightly, transaction log backup every 30 min
What should I do to free up the space that are not used in the transaction log.
Thanks for your help.
Database log of my DB is around 2GB.The database is using FULL recovery option.I want to reduce the file size of the log cause it takes up a lot ofspace.I'd do a full database backup, then backup the transaction log as well.... both backup performed with a check on the option "clear inactiveentries from transaction log".But after I backup, the database log is still 2GB.What should I do to reduce the database log file size?Should I use?:==============================Dump Tran databaseName with no_logDBCC shrinkdatabase(databaseName, 30)==============================Is that safe to be used in production server?Peter CCH
View 14 Replies View Relatedhi, i'm a newbie in SQL Server and have recently setup a test SQL 7 server. I used all the defaults at the beginning, and now the MDB file is about 500MB and the LDF file is of similar size.
i'm still trying to figure out how to reduce the size of the transaction log file. Currently I only have full backup of the database once a week, and there is no backup for transaction log.
as of this moment, the transaction log is of not much use to me, but I really want to get it reduced as i'm running out of disk space.
and i'd also greatly appreciate if someone could suggest a good DBA practice on the proper setup/handling of transaction logs (how to balance the disk-space usage AND be able to use the transacton logs for proper roll-over during a recovery process).
i'd soon be setting up a SQL 7 server where about 10 active users are expected at any one time. I've read that the transaction log file should be about 40% to 50% of the estimated size of the database file, and should be allowed "auto-grow". So what happens if the more space is required by the transaction logs? Does a full-backup purge the transaction logs (like the way they do in Exchange Server)?
Thanks!
Hi,
My transaction log file's physical size has exceeded 2GB. How can I reduce that?
Is there any way by which this file size can be controlled?
We have a database which was created with an initial file size of 10 gig. Currently it is only using 2 gigs.
We have developers that want to have a copy of the database on their desktops, but do not have 10 gigs free space.
What is the best way to get them a copy of the database while reducing the footprint?
My Database plan is as follows:
Full Database backup every night, Full recovery mode.
T-Log backups , every 4 hours.
both are appended to media,
there are no active transactions,
but Log file will not shrink or reduce in size.
what would you suggest.
Thanks,
HELP !!! I have a 1.2GB transaction log that I cannot reduce. I have tried SHRINKFILE, SHRINKDATABASE, restoring the file into a new data base, etc. The log file is only using 15MB and will not release the remainder to the OS
Any and all suggestions would be helpful
Thanks, Chad
I have issue with my DATA file ( MDF) .. The usage is 99.87% for database DB1 . File size is 3 GB . How do I reduce it ?
I have tried to shrink it by changing the recovery from FULL to SIMPLE and set it back to FULL .
I notice the index Defragmentation is high ..
Can I change the Initial Size into 1 GB for example ?
I am working on SQL Server 2008 and there is a problem in my SQL Server log file. I am seeing this from last 8 days, my log file size increasing continuously while i have set it on Simple Recovery model. Is there any method from which I can reduce the size of my log file and also I want to know, how the Recovery models affect to the size of a log file?
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Is it possible to reduce the file size of an image when the user uploads it into a sql server image field.
i.e Crush it from 500K to less.
Regards,
RG
I have a huge MDF File - 120 GB File (Had setup as 1 MDF initially) -- Did not anticipate that the DB would grow to that size!!
Anyways.. I heard that the general performance woul grow if i had them as "File Groups"..
Is there anyway - to split the existing MDF file into Mutliple files as a File Group?
Where should i start? Can someone please direct me..
I have one of our production Accounting Databases starting from 2 GBnow grown into a 20 GB Database over the period of a few years...I have been getting timeouts when transactions are trying to updatedifferent tables in the database.. Most of the error I get are I/Orequests to the data file (Data file of the production dbAccounting_Data.MDF).I would like to implement the following to this Accounting database.I need to split the Data file into multiple files by placing some ofthe tables in different file groups. I have the server upgraded to beable to have different drives in different channels. I can place thesedata and log files in different drives so it will be less I/Oconflicts..I would like to have the following file groups..FileGroup 1 - which will have all database definitions (DDL).FileGroup 2 - I will have the AR Module tables under here..FileGroup 3 - I will have the GL module tables under here..FileGroup 4 - I will have the rest of the tables under hereFileGroup 5 - I will like to place the indexes under here....Also where will the associated transaction files go?I would like to get some help doing this. Is there any articles / helpavailable that I can refer to. Any suggestions / corrections/criticisms to what I have mentioned above is much appreciated...!Thanks in advance....
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi all,
In my server .mdf is 370 MB and .ldf is 3739 MB. I took the full backup. I want to reduce the size of the .ldf file. Can anyone suggest me how to reduce the log file size.
Thanks in advance,
Seenu. S
my ssis package downloades the text file from Ftp. iT downloades for ex 5 files.
I want to split the file to smaller file after downloades. If the size of file is more then 600 mB then I want to split it into 6 files.
please suggest if any task in SSIS can perform this or any other way.
I have one db test with one .mdf and .ldf file...mdf file size is 100mb and for some reson i removed all the tablesfrom that .mdf file and transfer it into new secondary file so all thetables moved into secondary file now i want to reduce the first .mdffile from 100 mb to 50mb is that possible,it's showing 90mb is free.Please reply
View 1 Replies View Relatedidp data: 55% full (Total: 4600 MB Used: 2515 MB Free: 2085 MB)
idp log: 88% full (Total: 3500 MB Used: 3073 MB Free: 427 MB)
Normally the "data" is bigger than the "log" would you say this is a problem and how can one reverse the problem?
How can I split this incoming file into separate txts. I want to cut out each Header/detail row section into a new txt. What I mean by header/detail row:
incoming txt file:
http://www.webfound.net/split.txt
basically want to cut out each section like this:
http://www.webfound.net/what_to_cut.txt
http://www.webfound.net/rows.jpg
and a kicker...each new txt name must use a certain field (based on x numbers in header row) followed by another field whcih is the date form the header row. somethign like this:
SUBSTRING(InputFieldBigString,LEN(InputFieldBigString) - 59,4) == "HD" + SUBSTRING(InputFieldBigString,LEN(InputFieldBigString) - 1,8) == "HD" + .txt
I need some hand holding here, it's my first time trying to do something so complicated in SSIS 2005. If I can first just get the txt split into multiple, that would be a big help.
Hi,
We just put on our main accounting (50 GB total, 8 GB largest table - GLTRAN) database on a new Windows Advanced 2003 server with 8 GBs of memory. Everything is essentially the same as the old box, aside from the fact that it's on Windows Advanced 2003 Server and it's using LUNS as the E: drive where the SQL database is kept. It runs fine for the most part, excpet this one report takes literally 20 times longer to run than on the pld box.
It's SQL Enterprise 2000 SP4 (also the same). Are there new config options for SQL when running on a 2003 server? Or is it how the OS is handling the SQL service? I'm perplexed. It's not indexes. I still have the old box and load the current dbase to it for testing purposes and the report runs like lightning on it.
Thanks,
Dave
Is there something else begger than that ?? as to be in binary !! for my image..
thanx.. because 8000 is not big enought..
Hi
How can i create a case statement with a bigger and smaller than sign in it. I keep on getting an error.
Here is the piece of code i'm working on and simply enough, the idea of what i am trying to accomplish.
Code Snippet
SELECT Weight.Weight,
Height.Height,
(Weight.Weight/(Height.Height*Height.Height)) AS BMI,
CASE BMI
WHEN (BMI < 18) THEN 'Under Weight'
WHEN (BMI < 25) THEN 'Healthy Weight'
END AS 'BMI Grouping'
Any Help will be greatly appreciated
Kind Regards
Carel Greaves
Hi,
I´m trying to transfer a large amount of data from Oracle 8 to Sql Server. For each table, I have an OleDBSource with DataAccessMode Command (select with one inner join), Data Conversion and OleDBDestination. Sometimes I´m getting an ORA-01555 snapshot too old error, so I´d like to set a bigger rollback segment, but don´t know how. Please, can anybody help me?
Thanks
Janca
I have an input file with fixed-width columns that I want to import into two tables.. 5 of the input columns go to 1 table and the remaining 15 go to another table. What's a good way to do this in SSIS?
TIA,
Barkingdog
I know this should be simple but I can't figure it out. I am reading in a csv file to a conditional split task, all I want to do is split the file based on a field. Some values in field will have a suffix say ABCD while others wont. So my conditional split says Right(FieldA,4)=="ABCD" which then splits file in two directions or at least it's meant to. Problem is that it does not work. I think it has something to do with the field type in the csv file although I have tried using a Data Conversion task but to no avail all the field values with ABCD suffix are ignored by my conditional split and head off the same way as other values. Funny thing is is that if I manually add a value to the file with a suffix of ABCD and run task again then the conditional split works on the manually added row and all rows with suffix of ABCD. It's like it does not recognise previous values as string until one is added manually.
Thanks
I have one really long .sql file I'm working on. It's actually a data conversion type script. It's gotten really cumbersome to work on as long as it is. I would like to split up various logical parts of script into their own .sql file.How can I have one file .bat, .sql or whatever call each .sql file in the order I specify? Hoping this is easy. Thanks
View 3 Replies View RelatedDo anyone have an idea of how to split one report (Report subscribed for automatic delivery) into many file based on the volume of the data retrieved (records1-50 first file, 51-100 second file ect.,).
Say for example I have an employee and department table. The report is designed to provide a list of employees for a given department. If the department contains more than 50 employees then the report is exported individual file for every 50 employees.
Can anyone suggest a way to do this€¦
Regards,
Krishna
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ' 80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Updated or inserted row is bigger than maximum size (1962 bytes) allowed for this table.
database:microsoft 6.5 SQL
How can I solve this problem
thanks,shay
I'm importing about 15 million rows of data from an access file to an MSSQL database. Some of the fields in the Access file are of DataType "text". The destination fields in the SQL DB are of type varchar(50), and none of the text fields in the access file actually use anything other then English characters. I put in a "data conversion" item to handle the switch from "text" (which usually trys conversion to nvarchar by default) to varchar.
The import works, and the resulting table ends up weighing about 1.2 gigs. HOWEVER, the log itself is a crazy 7-8 gigs heavy. I have no idea why the log size bloats this much. I can backup/shrink later in the package, but this 8 gig could easily push the hard drive over its limit at some point before completion and I'm looking for a better alternative.
Database is on "simple" recovery mode. The combined size of the db, before the operation, log + data, is maybe around 5 meg.
Incidentally, I tried with out the intermediate data conversion step, and a similar thing happened - log finishes up about 7 gig, table is 1.2
Seems ridiculous that the log should grow faster then the table. Any ideas why??
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SSRS Kills Kittens.
OK, so I have:
- 500 GB DW
- 5 GB in smaller DBs
- 220 GB TempDB
- 350 GB in Log files.
My machine is Fujitsu Primergy 64 cores (with HT) and 192 GB RAM.
I have several IO locations:
- 540 GB in-server HDD 15k RAID10
- 1 TB HDD 15k RAID10 on SAN (separete controller)
- 2 TB HDD 15k RAID10 on SAN (same controlller as below)
- 800GB SSD RAID10 on SAN (same controller as above)
Data warehouse has 2 fact tables that are absolutely crucial and quite large.
Now i want to organize DB into several Filegroups and put them on different drives. Filegroups I'm thinking of:
- FILEGROUP1: for 1st crucial Fact Table
- FILEGROUP2: for 2nd crucial Fact Table
- FILEGROUP3: for tempDB
- FILEGROUP4: for dimensions data
- FILEGROUP5: for the rest of facts data
- FILEGROUP6: for dimensions indexes
- FILEGROUP7: for the rest of facts indexes
- FILEGROUP8: for 1 log file of one smaller DB (its in full-recovery and its quite large)
- FILEGROUP9: for the rest of log files
- FILEGROUP10: others
How should I organize them across available drives? I was thinking about sth like:
800 GB SSD: FILEGROUPS 1-3
2 TB RAID10: FILEGROUPS 5+7+8
1 TB RAID10: FILEGROUPS 4+6+10
540 GB in-server: FILEGROUP 9
I know that having multiple filegroups on the same drive is pointless regarding performance, but in future i could actually add some more drives, so i want to separate them now.
Also - how much files per filegroups should i create? Considering 1 or 2. Except TempDB where I am going for 4.