I have 2 harddisk in my computer and I have SQL 2005 Express on 1 of them (let's say C:), however, my C: is going to be full soon! Once it is full, is it possible to create a table on my other harddisk which the server can recognise?
I have a situation where I would like to set up one DB server instance for US and anther one for AUStralia. The Instance should share the same data base/hardsisk. One of the instances will be running in using US time zone and anothe one in Australia time zone. There will be 2 Application instaces one poinint to each SQL Server instance. This applications does write into the database
So the underlying requirment is to have 2 database server running in differnet time zones but accessing the same disk/set of data What is the best way to do this? Is it linked servers?Girish
I monitor a few "perfmon" counters which includes under the "system" object, "bytes transmitted/sec" and "file read bytes/sec". Every once in awhile, these counters will skyrocket, which can also be verified by the hard drive lights flickering like mad.
The only software installed on the machine is SQL Server 2K.
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could monitor within SQL 2K what process or user is using all of these cycles. If anyone could shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated. Specifically, I would like to find out which database/query is doing this to minimize in the future as this affects all of the other connections.
Our MSSQL 2000 server crashed yesterday and one database cannot be restored. the latest backup we have is june. We can only recover the MDF file from the harddisk and according to our admin, it cannot be restored anymore because no proper shutdown was made.
We have here a WinForms Application on laptops that uses SQL Express as its database. Initially all was going well, then it was decided that the laptop Hard Drive should be encrypted. Thats when the fun started.
It is now very hit and miss as to whether we can connect to SQL and service pack 2 will not install.
So now to the question :-
Does anyone know if there are any compatablity issues with SQL 2005 Express and hard disk encryption (particularly BeCrypt).
Hello,I am trying to recover a SQL Server 7 database from another hard diskdrive that has a corrupted Windows 2000 Advanced Server installation. Iam not able to repair the corrupted Windows 2000 Advanced Serverinstallation but the file system is intact. I have installed a new copyof SQL Server 7 onto a new hard disk and have used the sp_attach_dbsystem stored procedure to attach the database from the old hard driveinto the new installation of SQL Server 7 on the new hard drive. Thedatabase shows up in the Enterprise Manager View and all the data andstructure are there, but when I try to run a Web site that uses ODBCconnections to the database I get the following error:ODBC Error Code = 08001 (Unable to connect to data source)[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]Specified SQL servernot found.I have double-checked that all the NTFS permissions, ODBC DSNs, and WebServer settings are correct and when I run the SQL Server ODBC drivertest at the completion of each ODBC DSN setup, it is successfull.1) Why am I getting this ODBC error?2) What steps have I missed in the recovery process?3) If I have done something wrong recovering my database, can I stillrecover it since I still have: a) The old master database file and logfile; b) The old database (non-master) file and log file; c)A backed-up(Enterprise Manager -> Right Click A Database -> All Tasks -> BackupDatabase) copy of the old database (non-master) file; ?My System Specifications:-Windows 2000 Advanced Server-SQL Server 7-IIS 5.0-Cold Fusion Server 4.5 Professional Full EditionThanks For Your Time,Nathan
Hi, My server went dead(problems with the hard disk), but I have a copy of the whole sql server directory including the database in a external hard disk. I have a new server now and I would like to copy this database (with the reports from reporting services too) from the external hard disk to my new server. can anybody help me please? Thanks.
Note : I have a plain copy of all the sql server directory with all the files including the database not a SQLServer backup done with the wizards.
hello,all I am new to Sql 2000,I installed sql 2000 database in C disk,but Now I found my C disk space is smaller than before,So I want to move my databse(include data and structure) from C Disk to D Disk(its space is very large) . is it possible to do it ? if its can be done ,do I need to change my asp.net program source code (exp: chaneg my crystal report connectstring ) ? thanks in advanced!
It is obvious that putting multiple database files on different physical disk is better for performance, but what about splitting the data on different files on the same disk?
I have got a database of about 20GB and only a single data file. will I benefit from splitting this file to multiple files on the same disk?
Is there a way for multiple SQL 2005 instances in a cluster to share drives for user databases.
Once we install our instances in the cluster using seperate disk resources. Can we then have multiple instances share the same physical disk for user databases only. This is for a test environment.
outside of restore manageability, can multiple filegroups enhance performance when only one disk is attached? I guess I should also ask if it can hurt?
I have two use cases and am a bit unclear after reading lots of material on the subject.
My first use case is an OLTP consisting of a very stable set of "configuration" tables and a volatile transaction intake table with RI on the stable tables. I thought about putting the volatile table in it's own filegroup due to it's behavior but am second guessing myself after seeing that every author on the subject seems to hint that filegroups are only relevant when they map to different disks.
My second use case is an archive (readonly) that I will "range" partition due to volume. My first instinct was to create one filegroup for each partition but again I'm wondering what that will buy me in an environment with only a single disk.
If I return the Average, Minimum, and Maximum values for the counter Physical Disk: Avg. Disk Queue Length, and those values are 10, 0, 87 respectively, which value do I use to compute the Avg. Disk Queue Length for a 4 disk array(RAID 10): Average, Minimum, or Maximum? The disk(lun) is on a SAN.
-- Initialize Control Mechanism DECLARE@Drive TINYINT, @SQL VARCHAR(100)
SET@Drive = 97
-- Setup Staging Area DECLARE@Drives TABLE ( Drive CHAR(1), Info VARCHAR(80) )
WHILE @Drive <= 122 BEGIN SET@SQL = 'EXEC XP_CMDSHELL ''fsutil volume diskfree ' + CHAR(@Drive) + ':'''
INSERT@Drives ( Info ) EXEC(@SQL)
UPDATE@Drives SETDrive = CHAR(@Drive) WHEREDrive IS NULL
SET@Drive = @Drive + 1 END
-- Show the expected output SELECTDrive, SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS TotalBytes, SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of free bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS FreeBytes, SUM(CASE WHEN Info LIKE 'Total # of avail free bytes : %' THEN CAST(REPLACE(SUBSTRING(Info, 32, 48), CHAR(13), '') AS BIGINT) ELSE CAST(0 AS BIGINT) END) AS AvailFreeBytes FROM( SELECTDrive, Info FROM@Drives WHEREInfo LIKE 'Total # of %' ) AS d GROUP BYDrive ORDER BYDrive
I am trying to setup a test cluster and am having an issue. When I try to create the resource of a physical disk it takes both the drive e: and drive q: and doesn't seperate them into two physical disks as resources. This means when I try to associate the quorum disk it links the to physcial disk resource of drive e and q. Then when I try to install SQL2k5 I get the warning about installing SQL on the quorum disk. Am I missing something? Is there a way to seperate e and q onto two physical disk resources so I can specifically associate the quorum to q and the sql to e or should I be setting the quorum disk to a majority node set? Thanks in advance.
I have a three tier system using SQL server 2000, we are currently experiencing IO bottle necks on our SCSI Raid 10 array, which holds the Data and the logs in separate partitions.
So my options as I understand it are:
Get Enterprise edition
or
Get another physical raid 10 array and separate the logs and data i.e. data on one array and logs on the other array.
I would like to try the latter but I am totally unsure how much difference this will make or whether it will make any difference at all.
Does anyone know how much performance increase I will get from using two arrays as opposed to one?
Any other advice on this scenario would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, I need to use a top and a join in the same sql. To get 10 top refnr from orders_refnr. That works fine to I use this: SQL = "SELECT TOP 10 refnr, antal = COUNT(refnr) FROM orders_refnr INNER JOIN produkter ON (orders_refnr.refnr = produkter.referensnummer) GROUP BY refnr ORDER BY antal DESC" But I need to be able to get information from more fields than the field refnr. How can I specify more fields? I need to get other fields from produkter. Please helt I´m really stucked.
I have gotten some criticism from coworkers regarding this test and just wanted to see what you guys think. I realize the wording could use improvement and any criticism towards making it easier to understand is much appreciated.FWIW - I had to solve this problem on the job so I feel it is a real-world test that helps me understand how people think and if they try to find alternate solutions.Thanks!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Given a table that has over 100,000 records…SUBSIDIARY=========PARENT_IDINTCHILD_IDINTULTIMATE_PARENT_IDINTCLEANUP_INDBIT…where each PARENT_ID can have multiple CHILD_ID values, but the PARENT_ID should not equal the CHILD_ID. After an initial data load, the ULTIMATE_PARENT_ID and CLEANUP_IND columns contain NULL values (see page 2 for sample data).ULTIMATE_PARENT_ID is defined as the topmost parent in the chain for the particular CHILD_ID record, so if the chain was only 2-level’s deep the ULTIMATE_PARENT_ID is the CHILD_ID’s PARENT_ID’s PARENT_ID.Please write an answer for all three questions below:A)Which of the following queries should you run first?B)Write an optimized query to identify the ULTIMATE_PARENT_ID for each CHILD_ID and set its value into the ULTIMATE_PARENT_ID column.C)Write a query to identify ALL of the circular references and mark each record that is a circular reference by updating the CLEANUP_IND column to 1.~~~~~~~~~ Page 2 ~~~~~~~~~ Sample Data, remember though this table has over 100,000 records and the parent-child chain can go n-levels deep – where n is not known.PARENT_IDCHILD_IDULTIMATE_PARENT_IDCLEANUP_IND1024512NULLNULL362300NULLNULL887541NULLNULL10221024NULLNULL546887NULLNULL5122305NULLNULL112967NULLNULL697123NULLNULL901452NULLNULL2300666NULLNULL334445NULLNULL512903NULLNULL884554NULLNULL313313NULLNULL554884NULLNULL112119NULLNULL967555NULLNULL2305333NULLNULL33336NULLNULL541546NULLNULL10301020NULLNULL112999NULLNULL
hi, I have NT server which has drive c: 500 MB and drive d has 44 GB.
I know that the person who set up this server did not give enough space to the c drive, here is the problem. I am running sql server 7.0 which has 30 GB of data in the d drive. I need to reconfigure the NT hard drive so I can allocate 2 GB for C drive and 42 GB for D drive.
What is the best, safe method to accomplish this task.
After experiencing a hard drive failure i have reinstaled MSSQL7 on one drive and have a database which I need to recover on separate physical drive. How can I go about doing this?
Hi, I have ran 1. xp_fixeddrives and got the result drive MB free ----- ----------- C 1708 D 16311 2. I ran Backup Wizard in EM and able to see only above drives
3. But if ran backup in EM able to see more than 10 Drives(like C,D,H,I,J,M,N and etc). Why I can able to see those difference?. How do I find out exactly how many drives are there in this server without directly going to that server?. I appreciated your valuable answere. Thanks, Ravi
Hi, I'm looking for a way to check the free space left on the hard drives and then if needed send an alert to notify when we need to free up some space. I played around with the performance monitor and realized I could do it that way but I think you would have to leave the performance monitor running all the time and I'm not sure if I want to do that. I also read about the xp_fixeddrives proc that displays how much free space is available but then I don't know what to do from there? Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to do this.
Right, I have this database that I need to sort, I'll give you an example:
ID Name Value 2312 Sega 200 5678 Blizzard 215 3412 Bullfrog 210 6798 Nintendo 195
Now, what I need to do is to sort it, perform calculations on and I need the list to be sorted with a predefined post as the top result, say like this one time:
ID Name Value 3412 Bullfrog 200 2312 Sega 210 5678 Alizzard 215 6798 Nintendo 195
as you can see sorting it alphabetically would lead to
5678 Alizzard 215 3412 Bullfrog 210 6798 Nintendo 195 2312 Sega 200
(or the other way around if you play with asc/desc) by id would be
2312 Sega 200 3412 Bullfrog 210 5678 Alizzard 215 6798 Nintendo 195
There aren't any top or bottom values sort of speak for the posts I want to be on top, so...how to sort this like this?
3412 Bullfrog 200 2312 Sega 210 5678 Alizzard 215 6798 Nintendo 195
the order after the top one is irrelevant.
Now...I know I could sort this by doing something like
"Select * FROM blablabla WHERE Name = 'Bullfrog'"
and then doing "Select * FROM blablabla" and then just bypassing that post in asp/php code or whatever, but that would be a pain for me to do as I have to perform some massive calculations and the code would be alot larger then needed be
Its a brain teaser allright...can you help me out?
I was wondering if anyone played around with changing the allocation unit size when formatting the hard drive the SQL server is running on. I would think that setting it higher to account for the larger size of the database files would help, but I'm not sure.
I am using this stored procedure in sql. I have 6 tables. One is called employees. This is what I need to be able to do. A user enters a new employee into a winform, picks a role, division, manager, technicalskill set and applications from the drop down lists and hits save. The employee table should be the only one updated and has these columns only.( firstname, lastname, dvisionid, managerid, roleid,techskillsid, and appID). At the moment what is happening is its saving the firstname, lastname correctly, but the rest of the ID columns are null. It is updating the other tables with the string entered but what I need is the emplyee table to update with the corresponding ids. Is this alot more complicated then i thought? If I try to replace the role with roleid etc, it will just tell me I can't convert string to int which is understandable. How do I do this?
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_InsertEmployee @Firstname nvarchar(50), @Lastname nvarchar(50), @Role nvarchar(50), @Manager nvarchar(50), @Division nvarchar(50) AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON;
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEES (FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME) VALUES (@FIRSTNAME, @LASTNAME) INSERT INTO [ROLE] ([ROLE]) VALUES (@ROLE) INSERT INTO MANAGER (MANAGER) VALUES (@MANAGER) INSERT INTO DIVISION(DIVISION) VALUES (@DIVISION) END GO
My C# code is like this:
SqlCommand sqlC = new SqlCommand("sp_InsertEmployee", myConnection);
Hello, I am experimenting with indexes and hope people can shed lighton some of my problems.I am using SLQ 2000 on Win 2000 Server. Using the following query fordiscussion;--------------------------------SELECT TOP 1000000E.EUN_Numeric, -- Primary KeyE.EUN_CODE, -- VarCharE.[timestamp] --,--E.Model -- Computed column (substring of EUN_CODE)FROM dbo.Z1_EUNCHK E--WHERE E.[timestamp]DATEADD ( wk , -48, getdate() ) AND-- E.[timestamp]< DATEADD ( wk , -4, getdate() )ORDER BY E.[timestamp] DESC-----------------------------------Problem 1) If I set up a single Index on the TimeStamp (plus the PK onEUN_Numeric) then there is not improvement in performance.It is only when I set up an Index on the Timestamp,EUN_Numeric,EUN_Codethen I get a good improvement. This is also thecase with the "where" clause added. I am using query analyser. Theimprovement is 14 secs to 3 secs (mainly with the removal of the sortprocess)Why?My expectation is that if my query uses [timestamp] column then surelyan index only on this is adequate.Problem 2) Introducing the simple computed column into the query takesthe time to 15 secs (with Sort processes involved).Why does revert back to sorting process when previous the index wasused ?Regards JC......
I have a 75 GB hard drive and a 300 GB. I want to mirror the 75 to the 300 and use the extra space as data storage. Is this possible if I partition the 300 and then mirror the hard drives.
How can I do this with vbscript, or C# ? - Copy backup files down from a network share, into the data directory of my local sql 2005 instance - perform a restore using the files copied from above - Execute a dts package
More info: Our databases are scripted and exist on the typical development, and testing enviroments. So as I get ready to start a new application, I want my local sql instance to be updated based on structure changes as well as data. So I have to apply the changes from the scripted sources and pull over the data. I would naturally like to automate this.