Good day. I am a non-programmer but one tasked to "check" on the recent error in our company's systems.
In summary, most, if not all Tables were deleted from the different databases. Add to that, the logs prior to the event were also lost or deleted. Yes we do have back ups but restoring wasn't that simple. Another domain server was corrupted causing further delays in the restoration.
This is the second time it has happened and the events were 31 days apart. We would like to identify the causes for our preventive actions. Is there a hardware/software problem that may have caused these? Of course, we would like to rule out that it was done intentionally... but if you guys think otherwise, i'd like to further ask how we can validate the theory.
can anyone please point me in the right direction as to how to go about rebuilding the transaction log files on a database?
here is the scenario:
1 - transaction log drive failed and transaction log file is basically gone.
2 - database file is fine.
3 - backup is too old or for all intents and purposes non-existent.
the server initially showed the database as suspect. the database was detached and an attempt was made to attach it with a recovered copy of the transaction log file but apparently it was too corrupted and the server didn't like it.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
by the way, after looking at some of the posts here, i tried ApexSQL Log and Red-Gate Rescue bundle but these tools seem to require a database to at least show up on the database list, even if it is suspect.
the database doesn't even show up on the list since it was detached.
I got severe data corruption issue today when I copied a SQLServer2000 database from our remote server to my local PC through enterprise manager. The new copy on my local PC did not have any records in the user tables, and when I looked at the remote server, the records gone either with only table skeletons and procedures there. The mdf file on the remote server is emptied at all, but that on my local PC still has 50MB. I think there are data in this file, but the ldf log was also emptied, but I cannot recover it -- I do not have backup and the ldf file was also emptied.
I ran checkdb, and it did not tell any error but show that all the user defines tables has zero records.
I wonder whether there is now any way to recover the data. They are important and I really dont want to lose them.
I have a Db that is 1.7 gigs. The table data takes approximately 200megs. The transaction logs were truncated. Where else can this large size be coming from and how can I confirm?
DB is generally small. ~25 tables, 100 SPs, 10 views, etc.
Note:
I have 4 queues using SQL Notifications, but when selecting from them results in no data.
I detached db from SQL 2000 and attached it to a SQL 2005. However only 5 of the 10 tables showed up. Any reason for that. Anybody has seen this before? I even backed up db on 2000 and restored on 2005 and still the same number of tables showed up. BTW, the db belongs to a GFI application.
I have a database that I have been working on that is on a remote server for a website. I recently had them back up the database so I can work on it locally. After some time I managed to get the backup working, well sorta.
Originally the database was a access 2000 database. This soon proved not to be up to the task. The server people converted the database to sql 2000 and everything is working on the site. However my backup has a problem. In the manager I can see all the tables that were there before. But when I go to run a query on the database through CF the only tables that it can see are tables that were created after the access conversion. I have gone in and checked permissions and set every table and every column to public and still cannot see the missing tables. Any help?
Hi,I'm using "select [name] from sysobjects where OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1" to get all user-defined tables(about 17000tables)and found out there are tables missing in sysobjects.How can I refresh/rebuild sysobjects table?is there a better way to get a list of user-defined tables?thanks,
We are trying to find out the difference between tables in CUSTOMER database and CUSTOMER_coded database. The goal is to find out if there are any columns missing in each table of CUSTOMER_coded database.
We need the list of tables in CUSTOMER_coded database that misses some column compare to its peer in CUSTOMER database (list of columns being missing also).
I googled, but I get only all the columns in tables of database.
I need missing columns of all the tables when we compare these 2 databases( CUSTOMER and CUSTOMER_coded databases).
Hello. You can compile a proc with a non-existant table. proc compiles do fail though on exsiting tables with non-existing columns.
Anyways, question is, how can you scan thru all procedure code to find tables that do not exist in the database? Is there any new DM feature that provides this info? Meaning, if I have a proc and inside it, refer to a table name that does not exist, I want to know the proc will not execute clean. Can the deferred name resolution be turned off somehow?
Im wondering if it is possible to write a procedure that check two identical tables for any missing records. The table design is excatly the same, but some records (of the 40,000) have not copied over to the second table.
I recently moved the db to a new server using detach and reattach sproc. However the moved db in its new location does not have any of the tables or sprocs that I created. As I understand it, information on the databases on the server is stored in the master db. Could it be that the tables are not showing up because the master db on the new server knows nothing of the new db? Must I also copy the master from the other server, perhaps? Has anybody come across this before? TIA D. Lewis
I have two tables of book information. One that has descriptions of thebook in it, and the isbn, and the other that has the book title,inventory data, prices, the isbn.Because of some techncal constraints I won't get into now, I can'tcombine them both into one table. No problem. Things are going fine aslong as there is a description in the one table to corrispond to theisbn and other data in the other table.However, about half of the products are not yet entered into thedescrition table. I'd like to run a sql query that pulls up all theisbns that don't exist in the other. In other words, I'd like to get aquery that tells me exactly which isbns do not yet have descrition datain them. I know there is some sql that says to search from one filewhere the number does not exist in the other, but it slips my mind. Cansomeone help me on this please?Thank you!Bill*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
I have several databases set up for transactional replication to another instance of SQL Server 2005 for fail over purposes. Today, I restored one of those replicated databases to my development machine and discovered two surprising problems:
1) The Default Values settings in the replicated tables are missing. They are there in the publishing tables, just as they were before I set up replication. However, they are not in the subscribing tables. Now, this is not such a big issue, since I tend to send all default values in insert queries as necessary.
2) The second problem is a more of an issue, since I use auto-numbered Identity columns in my tables (yes, I know that's just plain lazy...). Anyway, in the replicated tables, €œIs Identity€? is indeed set to yes, but despite that fact that there are thousands of records with incrementally unique IDs, SQL server is trying to insert a record starting with 1. This, of course, throws a PK constraint error.
Obviously, if I am use them for failover purposes, these replicated databases need to be identical in every way.
So, what did I do to cause this situation, and how to I fix it?
In my case I have to log the errors raised by any task in a package to either windows event log, text file or SQL server. Also I need to send an email notifications to a group of people telling them about the error.
Now can I use SSIS package logging for logging the errors into the required destinations. I mean right clicking on the package and selecting Logging, then adding the required log providers and enabling the events for logging into those. I think I have to upfront select the log providers to log the error, I will not have the liberty to log the error to the destination, the name of which is passed as a variable to the package. This is okay with me though.
Now what will a custom log provider help me to do in this case. Also can I somehow configure my package to call the send mail task everytime an error is raised.
Also, one more option can be developing a package that only does the error handling. It will take in the paramters or the error codes and descriptions, the destination to write to and a flag to send mail or not for that particular type of error.
I have received some data out of a relational database that is incomplete and I need to find where the holes are. Essentially, I have three tables. One table has a primary key of PID. The other two tables have PID as a foreign key. Each table should have at least one instance of every available PID.
I need to find out which ones are in the second and third table that do not show up in the first one, which ones are in the first and third but not in the second, and which ones are in the first and second but not in the third.
I've come up with quite a few ways of working it but they all involve multiple union statements (or dumping to temp tables) that are joining back to the original tables and then unioning and sorting the results. It just seems like there should be a clean elegant way to do this.
Here is an example:
create table TBL1(PID int, info1 varchar(10) )
Create table TBL2(TID int,PID int)
Create table TBL3(XID int,PID int)
insert into TBL1
select '1','Someone' union all
select '2','Will ' union all
select '4','Have' union all
select '7','An' union all
select '8','Answer' union all
select '9','ForMe'
insert into TBL2
select '1','1' union all
select '2','1' union all
select '3','8' union all
select '4','2' union all
select '5','3' union all
select '6','3' union all
select '7','5' union all
select '8','9'
insert into TBL3
select '1','10' union all
select '2','10' union all
select '3','8' union all
select '4','6' union all
select '5','7' union all
select '6','3' union all
select '7','5' union all
select '8','9'
I need to find the PID and the table it is missing from. So the results should look like:
Two of my databases are still listed under the "Database" folder in SQL Express, yet all objects are now gone. Tried detach/attach and says it works OK - yet no tables, etc.
The odd thing is that I CAN access the tables from Visual C++ Express, and all looks well (data, etc).
When I look at Properties for one of the DBs, and then click on "View Connection Properties" under the "Options" section, the error message pops up:
"Cannot show requested dialog.---------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90ToolsBinnVSShellCommon7IDESqlManagerUi.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (mscorlib) ".
Also still throwing an error upon startup, "Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click continue the application will ignore this error...Cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent"
Clues?
Thanks
S
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I have a sql sever 2005 express table with an automatically incremented primary key field. I use a Detailsview to insert new records and on the Detailsview itemInserted event, i send out automated notification emails. I then received two automated emails(indicating two records have been inserted) but looking at the database, the records are not there. Whats confusing me is that even the tables primary key field had been incremented by two, an indication that indeed the two records should actually be in table. Recovering these records is not abig deal because i can re-enter them but iam wondering what the possible cause is. How come the id field was even incremented and the records are not there yet iam 100% sure no one deleted them. Its only me who can delete a record. And then how come i insert new records now and they are all there in the database but now with two id numbers for those missing records skipped. Its not crucial data but for my learning, i feel i deserve understanding why it happened because next time, it might be costly.
the logs on our database keep locking up and return and file size of 0. Does any know of a way to dump the log file. I tried: Dump Transaction log to .... but it did not want to work any ideas.
I'm running a SQL Server 2005 Express installation. Now I notice that the SQL Server logs (under Management in Mgmt Studio Express) are empty - no logs are in there, neither under Current, nor under the "archived". Do I have to switch on logging explicitly?? (I'm logging on as "sa".)
Hi,I'm using SQL Server Management Studio Express and I have made a website that uses a database with stored procedures.When running pages in my webpages it cost around 2 seconds to load each page.Thanks too long!! But where is the problem???I like to see a list of all executed stored procedures with there execute time (for each page).In this way I can check if the problem is here.How can I get a logfile like this?Thanks!
What is the best way to clear the transaction logs. My backup job each night is ending because it says it is running out of disk space and I need to clear up the transaction logs. Any help is appreciated. I see many different options (trucate option, auto shrink, etc.), just need some assistance tosome more specific best approaches. Thanks
I have August22 full backup and August22 and August23 transactions log backups . I want to get the August23 and August23 full backup. So I performed a restore backup with August22 full backup and all the August22 trn backups. Then I backed up giving it August23 name and repeated the process with the August23 trn backups. But, I get an error saying that the transactions haven't been rolled foward far enough. But, I am not missing any trns! I will really be grateful if anyone would help. thanks.
Im having issues truncating my transaction logs. I have logs in excess of 40 gigs. All the info in the BOL is very vague. Any assistance would be apreciated.
Currently, my client is allowing all the developers to log in as sa and most servers have a NULL sa password. Not a good idea. I am recommending them to move to integrated security with NT groups and to move away from using the sa login altogether. Then to secure the sa login, actually give it a password (something cryptic). I also wanted to set up an alert whenever someone logs in using the sa password. How can that be accomplished? A trigger on the sysprocesses table would work but seems a little risky.
I am currently trying to export from SQL to notes via NotesSQL.I have set up the necessary ODBC data sources & DTS job. I am encountering errors when I attempt to execute the DTS package . I.e "job failed" - How do I drill down to aquire more detailed error logging on the package to find out exactly what's wrong with DTS?
I've truncated and shrunk the database and now, it says that the size of the db is 14 mb and 8mb is free. However, on the file system, the mdb and ldb files together adds up to 14 mb. How can I free up the 8 mb for other usage?
In Enterprise Manager, Management and then SQL Server Logs, when I clicked on Current or Archive#1 or 2 etc, nothing happens. This has been going on for the past 3 weeks does any one knows what is causing such problems?
When I'm in EM, there is one log that when I click on it to view it hangs my EM. All other logs (current and others) I can click and view just fine. I'm on my way out to the server to see the log in the file directory but what could cause this?
