I€™m using LTO3 tape drive (400GB) the used media is for LTO2, currently I€™m looking for LTO4(1.6TB) but I need the backward compatibility to support LTO3 tapes so I can go for LTO2 media or LTO3 media.
I need to know the size of the database backup (Ms SQL2005 SP1 x64-bit, on Ms Windows 2003 R2 x64-bit) on the tape drive. I can see the backup size of the database but not the size on the tape which is using hardware compression.
i have a tape drive where i backup database every weekends, and i have a tape which shows that set created and size column displays -0 bytes. what does that mean , i also want to know how much space is left in the tape drive so that i can backup accordingly
I have a SQL 2005 Server (SP1) running on Windows 2003 server machine. Now windows can detect the tape drive attached to the system as 'HP StorageWorks DLT VS160'. Even 'ntbackup' detects it and is able to backup data to the tape drive. However, SQL Server is unable to detect the tape drive. The tape does not show up in the Backup Devices in Server Objects and hence I'm unable to take backups directly to the tape via SQL Server. How do I get SQL 2005 to recognize the tape drive?
I am setting up a new SQL Server that has an external HP 920 SAS Ultrium tape drive attached to it via a p400 sas card.
I am running 2003 R2 x64 with 2005 SQL Server x64, and I am trying to set up my DB backup plan but for some reason I can't get SQL to recognize my tape drive, alhough it is listed in device manager.
i have taken full database backup on tape drive one week ago,by automated scripts ,now when i check the maintenance plan history , it says the task failed and gives a message that unable to open the \. ape0 ,with error
([Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)] Error 3201: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open backup device '\. ape0'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. )
We are currently trying to restore a copy of our production database to a different server. Unfortunately SQL does not see the tape drives and we are not able to add them. The tape drives are installed and visible in device manager. I have updated all drivers and firmware but still no luck. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks
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Hi, How do I check what is the actual DB size that is currently being use? e.g. I set 10 GB as initial size. A few days and a few transactions later, how can I know how much was used since it is still under 10GB and checking the physical DB file will not tell me anything.
Hi Everybody, I like to compute the actual physical database file size using queries.
From the EM database properties, the file size shown is not matching with the master..sysaltfiles.size
Ex. Actual file size is 12MB and 1MB for MDF & LDF respectively. 'sysaltfiles' shows 1464 & 96 resp. Since they are shoing it as 8K Pages, 96*8 = 768KB is not matching with 1024KB for the LDF file. Is there any overheads (additional space from the physical file for file headers) allocated?
Sql Server has many data types. For Example: smallint Integer data from -2^15 (-32,768) through 2^15 - 1 (32,767). Storage size is 2 bytes. I want to know that If it contains like 0 or 100 or 1000 or -200 or -2000 or more or less. What will its actual size? 2 bytes or change with the value. Please also mention the reference with your answer. if available.
Howdy folks! (I feel im creating too many topics...but all my questions are unrelated :-/)
Dev environment: SSCE, Native c++ OLE code, Win CE 5
I have a routine that calculates the size of a set of columns in order to create a byte buffer for retrieving data from an IRowset and inserting it into a custom class. This method works great for all data types except ntext. When I look at the column information from an ntext field, the DBCOLUMNINFO::ulColumnSize member holds 536,870,911 (the max length of an ntext type). Obviously I dont want to allocate 1GB of memory for each ntext column. Is there anyway (natively) to determine the actual number of characters in a field?
I have a view in SQLServer 2005. It took 30 sec. to finish. Then I deleted 4500 records from one table that is used in view. It took 90 sec. to finish now. I did a comparison on Actual Execution Plan between before I deleted data and after I deleted data, they are almost same, only different is Actual Number Rows become less after deleted data. So, I wonder why data become less but time become more. When I look closely on the Actual Execution Plan, the ridiculous thing is, there are only Estimated Operation Cost on each step, no Actual Operation Cost. I guess there are something wrong with optimizer because reuse same Execution Plan, but how can I tell which step wrong without Actual Operation Cost.
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
I am trying to resize a database initial log file from 500M to 2M. I€™m using€?
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
And I'm getting "MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size." I tried going into the database properties and setting the log file to 2M, but it doesn€™t keep the changes.
I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
 1: TempDB keeps getting filled.  Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore 2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?Â
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there
Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.
How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?
How to backup half of dbs from a server on C drive and the other half on D drive and vice versa, first half on D drive and other half On C drive using only one job and one stored procedure??
Using scheduling from job add 2 schedules to the job so first schedule backup first half to C and second half to D , the second schedule backup first half to D and second half to D.
hi, We have a service provider that handles the SQL database for us. And every month we will receive a Tape backup of the updated database from them for in house development purpose.
Anyways, I tried to restore the Tape backup I recently received and I kept on getting this error message: "The media family on device 'Tape0' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family. Backup or resotre operation terminating abnormally."
I have set the Complete Database backup and the Overwrite option for this particular restore. Please help, any idea is apperciated.
Hi, Does Any one know How to find out How much space left in a Tape Drive? Is it possible with Win nt OR Win 2000? or It required some special utility. Any one know please suggest, Thanks Nil.
Just for background info: I am trying to take a backup of a DB made from a Server(#1) located on a client site and restore to a server that is in house Server(#2). Both servers are running SQL Server 6.5 and all configuration settings are the same except Server(#1) has (DB Lib Ver 6.50.213) and Server(#2) has (DB Lib Ver 6.50.201).
When I try to restore the DAT tape (backup made from Server #1) onto Server #2 I get these errors in this order: 1st --[DB-Library] Unexpected EOF from SQL Server. Connection broken.-- 2nd --Error 605 [SQL Server] Attempt to fetch logical page 72915 in database 'DBname' belongs to object '0', not to object 'sysobjects'.--
Does anybody have any ideas and what could be causing these errors? Would the different DB-Library versions cause these errors?
I know the tape isn't corrupt because the tape can be used to restore on Server(#1).
I want to store 98.3, 0.4 or 103.4 like numbers in a SQL database, but I'm having a hard time selecting the correct data type. Also what should be the precision and scale. What is a precision and scale? Please help......
Does anyone know if it is at all possible to restore a single database from tape if no backup jobs have been ran or setup for this database. However, the server itself has been backuped to tape. So I would like to restore this database from the server tape backup. If so, how do I accomplish this?
Hi I Have 8 small databases around 10 to 30 MB each. I am taking tape backup. Full database backup Daily. Now problem i am facing that i am not able to schedule this process because when it complete one database backup, tape automatically come out. So due to this reason i am not able to schdule this job. If any one has solution for this please suggest. Thanks. Nil.
Perhaps this maybe a silly simple questions SCENERIO: Say i want to make a nightly backup of the Masterdb and the same for a user database. One that kicks off at 8 and the other at 9. For soem reason I am having difficult time with this.. Some help please??
We have Dell Optiplex GX1 PCs with Seagate ST22000 IDE tape backup devices, running NT Workstation or NT Server and SQL 7.0 with SP1, NTSP5. SQL 6.5 will backup successfully to these devices, but SQL 7.0 will not. The most common error message is 18257, Device or media does not support ... 42000 Syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error...
I have a COTS database on MSSQL 6.5, no service packs... I used sp_help_revdatabase to create the same database on a different server, using the same data and log device sizes and paths. I scripted the database, tables, stored procedures, and user defined datatypes, created them on the new server, and tried to restore a tape dump from the previous server to the new database. It would say "restoring", but then "DBLibrary is dead or connection broken", when I click OK to this message, it sais "restore complete" then the database appears grayed out and reads "loading".
