DB replication can set db recovery model to simple ,why db mirror can not db recovery model to simple.
DB mirror must be set to full recovery model.
As far as I know, whatever db mirror and db replication ,there is a log reader to read the log in the ldf file DB mirror and DB replication are almost the same principle to replicate the db to another db server.
We have the following scenario,
We have our Production server having database on which Few DTS packages execute every night. Most of them have Bulk Insert stored procedures running.
SO we have to set Recovery Model of the database to simple for that period of time, otherwise it will blow up our logs.
Is there any way we can set up log shipping between our production and standby server, but pause it for some time, set recovery model of primary db to simple, execute DTS Bulk Insert Jobs, Bring it Back to Full recovery Model AND finally bring back Log SHipping.
It it possible, if yes how can we achieve this.
If not what could be another DR solution in this scenario.
Thanks Much
Tejinder
We are using a .bat script to restore several client dbs onto our sql server 2000 db. We want to set the client dbs from full recovery to simple. What command should I use in the .bat file to make this change?
.bat file ==
:: Second, restore data from SQL Server backup file to SQL server...
isql -E -S ao3ao3 -Q "RESTORE DATABASE CBSN FROM DISK = 'D:MARS_SYSDATAUPDATESCBSNCBSN.BAK' WITH MOVE 'MEDISUN_BCNV_Data' TO 'D:SQLDATACBSN_data.mdf', MOVE 'MEDISUN_BCNV_Log' TO 'D:SQLDATACBSN_log.ldf',REPLACE;"
We have a fairly large database that we use to store mom alerts and it stopped alerting as it's transaction log became full. I suggested to the owner of the database to set the simple recovery model so the log could automatically be truncated. However, it appears that the database is frequently reaching it's limit (of 3gb) and I'm having to set the limit even higher on a daily basis. Can anyone tell me why this is occuring? I understood that when the log file reaches 70% it should automatically shrink?
Kind Regards
Mike
I have convert all databases to Full from Simple Recovery model.
As per documentation, it looks like simple.
Based on your experiences , do you think of any problem may come while doing this ?
Any impact on application performance after this ?
Is this work perferened to do when no body using system ?
Thanks
On SQL 2000 or SQL20005 will a database's log file automatically be truncated if the database is on simple recovery model?
The reason I ask is that we have a database (simple recovery) that keeps growing its logfile each weekend which causes disc space problems.
I am kinda new to SS but from the reading in BoL I've done was under the impression that for simple recovery model log records are only needed until the transaction has been written to disc and committed, and that SS will handle truncating obsolete records from the log where necessary.
I'm doing DBCC SQLPERF(logspace) which shows this first thing on a Monday morning:
Database Name Log Size (MB) Log Space Used (%)
-------------- --------------- ---------------------
myDB 4841.93 99.19465
Note the size of the log file - the data file is only 700MB!
Issuing a DBCC OPENTRAN doesn't show any open transactions, and a CHECKPOINT doesn't do anything to reduce the log space used (which if there were dirty records in the log still not written to disc this ought to do shouldn't it?).
The database is only written to as a replication subscriber.
Any suggestions what would be causing the log file to fill up?
At the moment I'm resorting to BACKUP LOG myDB WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY and considering scheduling this as an hourly job over the weekend - any reasons why this could be a bad idea?
Many thanks,
Moff
When I create a database, is there a way to make sure that the default recovery model is Full instead of Simple?
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Hello,
I have a question regarding the backup for the database in Simple Recovery Model.
In this Model, I know we can restore only to the last full backup or can use differential
Backup, if implemented as a part of backup.
But my point of confusion is about the backup of '.ldf' file, should those file should be backed up in the
Maintenance Plan, if yes does it help in reducing the size of Log file?
Do we need the backup of '.ldf' in phase of Restoring?
As I mention my database has Simple Recovery Model, but the size of log file is around 20GB,
Could not understand why as in this Model, normally it automatically truncate the Log file?
Help me to clear my these doubts,
thanks,
My trancaction log is 25GB and my database file is 39GB. I justswitched to the 'Simple' recovery model from the 'Full' recovery model.When if ever can I expect the size of the transaction log to reduce insize? Is there anything else that I should do to aide with thereduction?Thanks,Peter
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What steps can I take to mitigate this in future? I've read that this is caused by long running transactions which fill the log for DR purposes. Should I put the database back into full mode and backup/truncate daily.
The auto-growth is set to 128MB which is very low.
One of our database is in simple recovery model, and usually generating more than 220 GB log file (.ldf) every week. We are shrinking log file many times to release the space.
But as its not advisable I am looking for any other options. I suggested to change the recovery model to Full and start T-log backup, but client dont want to change recovery model.
Is there any way to manage Log file of Simple recovery model to maintain disk space?
Will full backup truncate log file ?
We have a sql 2005 x64 database (datawarehouse related), essentially a work area for us, that we truncate and re-populate via BCP weekly. (We don't backup the database at all) . From the perspective of data-import speed what is the best recovery model to use: Bulk-Logged or Simple? (I have read sql 2005 BOL and don't find it partcularly clear on this point.)
Barkingdog
P.S. Anyone know of an article listing "best practices" for high-speed data import?
Can the deleted records be recovered in Simple Recovery model database? Are the delete logs present there?
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I have two questions here.
Question 1:
If I am using Database Mirroring for my production database in SQL Serever 2005, can I do mirroring on the mirror database?
Principal Database -- Mirror -- Mirror A -- Mirror -- Mirror B
Can this be done?
Question 2:
Can I do 2 mirroring on a single principal database? If can, which mirror database it will goes when the failed over happen? can the other mirror switch to mirror the failed over database?
Principal Database -- Mirror -- Mirror A
-- Mirror -- Mirror B
Please advise. Thanks
I have three win2k8 r2 servers. 2 are running SQL 2008 r2 and are mirrored. The 3rd server is a witness server. Every so often we get errors and failovers of the mirror. The communication errors are between the witness server and sql servers. No errors between SQL servers. There seem to be no network issues and happen randomly.
Event id 1474 and 1479.
The mirroring connection to "TCP://witnesssrv:5022" has timed out for database "DB" after 30 seconds without a response. Check the service and network connections.
Database mirroring connection error 4 'An error occurred while receiving data: '64(The specified network name is no longer available.)'.' for 'TCP://witnesssrv:5022'.
Hello,
I'm having a problem with two mirrored databases, using SQL Server 2005 SP2, that autmatically failed over last night for unknown reasons. I was trying to fail them back over to the primary SQL server because it says the mirror is disconnected and out of sync. Other databases failed over too, but I was able to fail those back over without a problem. It's just these two. I removed the mirror from the secondary server thinking that this would allow me to restore the database back on the primary server, but that didn't help.
These two databases show a status of (Principal, Disconnected / In Recovery) and I still cannot do anything with the two databases on the primary server. When I try to pull up the properties for them, I get the following error:
"Database <Name> is enabled for Database Mirroring, but neither the partner nor the witness server instances are available: the database cannot be opened.(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 955)"
I cannot delete, detach, Alter or do anything with the databases. If I could just delete them that would be fine so I can just do a restore, but I can't seem to do anything.
Does anyone know what I can do to resolve this problem.
Thanks in advance!
-Jay
Hi, all.
here is the situation.
we designated one server as a mirrored server. this server will host all mirrored databases from different principles in different server using certificate.
1) Server A (Principle) Server B(Mirrored)
2) Server C (Principle) Server B(Mirrored)
I was able to set up mirroring between A and B. But unable to set up mirroring between C and B.
My question is "Can I grant connect on endpoint to two different host logins?"
For example, on the server B
I created two different logins for Server A and C in order to assign different certificates to two principle servers.
For Server A.
create login server_A_login with password = 'djkkajnxks';
go
create user server_A_user for login server_A_login
go
create certificate server_A_cert
authorization Server_A_user
from file = 'c:certificateserver_a_cert.cer'
go
GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::Endpoint_Mirroring TO [server_a_login];
GO
For Server C.
create login server_C_login with password = 'djkkajnxks';
go
create user server_C_user for login server_c_login
go
create certificate server_c_cert
authorization Server_c_user
from file = 'c:certificateserver_c_cert.cer'
go
GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::Endpoint_Mirroring TO [server_c_login];
GO
when I set up like this and try to start mirroring, I am getting error from server c saying, "the network tcp:serverb.corp.com can not be reached or does not exist"
But mirroring between server a and b is OK. I set up them first, then between c and b.
any ideas?
thanks,
I need to migrate my SQL server Mirror Database to a new server. my current setup is as below
1. server A principal (192.168.1.100)
2. server B Mirror (192.168.1.200)
Now i have a new server (Server C) to replace server B as below
1. server A principal (192.168.1.100)
2. server C Mirror (192.168.1.300)
My question is how to migrate mirror db to new server without any affect or downtime on principal server.
note: SQL SERVER 2008R2 EE(64BIT), Win2008R2 EE 64bit.
Hi,
I've a very basic doubt about database mirroring. I did setup a database mirroring session with the help of SQL Server Management Studio between the server A (db1) and B(db1). When is stop database mirroring by using the command button "Stop Mirroring" available in the mirroring page of SQL Server Management Studio , the mirror database{ B(db1) } goes to state "Restoring...". After stopping the mirroring i'm not able to access the mirror database.
Can you please tell me how to bring mirror database B(db1) to operation mode so that we can start working with that database?
Regards,
Gopi
I have configured active passive cluster in production environment. And we also have a dr which we have configured with asynchronous mirroring with no witness. Currently active node(node
a) is in sync with dr. When failover happens and the second node(node
b) becomes active, the mirror is broken and goes to disconnected mode.
But when we failback again to node a mirror is connected again and is in sync again. In our setup we have active passive cluster and a standalone server as dr.
When I try to setup mirror on a SQLserver dbase using windows Authenticated login I get error:-
Login failed for user 'SERVERBAdministrator'. (Microsoft SQL Server , Error: 4060).The login connect string however on selection of SERVERB from SERVERA has a greyed out option for using Windows Authenticated login which clearly shows Username: SERVERAAdministrator.It is odd that the error coming back is showing SERVERBAdministrator on the rejection. (somehow the machines got swapped over in the authentication) The strange thing is if you use the SQLserver studio on SERVERA to connect to SERVERB using the object browser and Windows authenticated login it all works fine without errors. clearly the Mirror software is using some other means/privs of login to establish the connection.
The two machines SERVERA and SERVERB are in the same Domain (DOM1) but they are not using a domain user account.They are using Administrator user on both independent machines. The SQLSERVER install specified both Windows and sqlserver logins. The mirror is to use Windows authenticated login.Is there some login priv we are missing The sqlserver security has allowed this type of login......
We have a pair of SQL 2005 SP2 with Rollups clusters. We have a series of DB's that we are migrating from an existing SQL 2000 cluster. I have scripted the process, however on one of the test DB's, it goes to "In Recovery" as soon as I issue the Set Partner statement. There are other DB's on the same cluster mirrored with no problems. As we have a bunch of DB's to migrate, I want to figure out what would cause it to start a recovery. After the initial restores are done, it is in "Restoring" for a status so everything works up to that point.
Thanks
Jon Macy
I have created a Endpoint with "Mirroring Server" on the mirroring instance. Due to the keyword server i am not able to drop the endpoint now.
Also am not able to configure a mirror in a windows workgroup also( the two systems principal and mirror are under same network ). I have followed many ways as per msdn articles and other blogs.
I am not able to connect to the mirror server.
I have tried giving the ip addr and the port no, also the computer name:port no, computername.local:port no etc. Both the systems are running on sql server 2008 only
I always get the error as Connection cannot be established to the destination.
(I have also enabled the ports in firewall by creating inbound and outbound rules)
The issue probably lies in NAMING server address i guess.
Hi everybody,
I have a mirroring set up for around 30 databases in a 64 bit - 2 powerfull servers scenario - wih latest sp2 + hotfix. Mirroring works perfectly most of the times but when the principal is getting busy during the busy period of the day all of a sudden the processor on the mirror jumps to 100% and stays there for a long time - there are no live databases on the mirror server - all the databases are in mirrored mode. The principal server processor is less than 5% all the time. The network load between the principal and the mirror is also in normal limits. The principal server is dedicated to SQL but the mirror has other things too but the other processes use up maximum 15-20% of the CPU and when I stop SQL Server in one of those moments when the CPU jumps to 100% everything comes back to normal so it's clear that the issue is SQL on the mirror.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Stefan
We have a SQL server 2012 database with size 200mb and Transaction Log has gone up to 34GB.
We have SQL server Mirror is enabled and principal database is running with Full Recovery Model.
How can I truncate/Shrink Log files? Will it impact on existing mirroring setup? I am very much new to SQL server.
Hi guys , I would like to know what's the exactly results able to get in this following scenario.
Server A : Principal
Server M : Mirror
Server W : Witness
1) Firstly, disable server M, following by server W. So probably i will unable to connect to Server A eventhough it acts as a principal.
2) Next, if I enable either server M or server W , what will I able to get actually ? Is it the mirroring works like the article which written in Microsoft page ?(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/dbmirror.mspx#ETPAE)
At here, I get an error message and unable to continue the mirroring section. ( "Database EMS is enabled for Database Mirroring, but neither the partner nor witness server instances are available: the database cannot be opened." or "Database 'EMS' is being recovered. Waiting until recovery is finished." )
3) If I enable both server M and server W, the mirroring continue to work again.
Can I have any assistance on (2) issue? Thx for the assistance.
Best Regards,
Hans
We have an AG scenario where we are using WFC on a 2 node cluster. We are then using AG for mirroring the databases to both nodes and have a listener.
What I want to do next is to establish another copy of the database at a remote location. But I don't want to add the 3rd system to the WFC. I am not a big fan of WFC and I have seen it causes many more problems. The 3rd system will be in a remote location and the network not 100% reliable. I have seen in the past that it causes the entire cluster to hang and causing my production to crash which I don't want.
I there a way to add a 3rd node to the mirror configuration. I don't know if I can add a 3rd node to the AG unless it is part of the same cluster.
I know I can configure log shipping, I am fine with it but in the source, I have no control of which node the DB will be. I am not sure if a log shipping scenario can be configured using the listener instead of the physical host.
To configure database mirroring
After connecting to the principal server instance, in Object Explorer, click the server name to expand the server tree.
Expand Databases, and select the database to be mirrored.
Right-click the database, select Tasks, and then click Mirror. This opens the Mirroring page of the Database Properties dialog box.
To begin configuring mirroring, click the Configure Security button to launch the Configure Database Mirroring Security Wizard.
but i do not see any "Mirror" Option in the "Tasks" menu.
Why ?
I want my database to be mirrored . is it possible to mirror it on the same machine.
I have tried to create a named instance but while trying to configure its not visible.?
Am using SQL SERVER 2008
I have a 2 node cluster having 4 cores each wherein having 3 instances of SQL 2008 R2 enterprise comprising of 60 databases, 20 on each instance. I need to setup mirroring for each of the databases to a secondary server having 4 cores and 3 instances.
What i understand is that in this case the mirror server will be providing max of 512 worker threads and the 60 mirror databases would consume 240 threads.
What all needs to be checked for looking into the feasibility of going ahead with a async mirror setup as mentioned above.