Hello,
First of all - sorry for may be stupid question, but as I am not a
Win* administrator and my field is *nix, I am a little bit stuck with
a problem, presented to me by one of the customers. He has few windows
boxes with some webfile and (most important) - mssql database. And he
asks for a backup. I found some company, which offers us IBM's Tivoli
software, but my opinion is that they want a little bit too much for
it and also, from my *nix experiece, I know there should be many
other products, probably cheaper and better. If not - we will use
that Tivoli. So we need to backup mssql data and some files
somewhere. The best would be on some ftp.
Can anyone please suggest a good and simple way of making such kind of
backup?
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hi i am using html checkboxes to let user to select categories in which search has to be done. there are 4 checkboxes for 4 categories. this query i have checked in query anakyzer. this query is working and displaying results.acc to this query user has selected "3 checkboxes" and entered "airports" to search. SELECT * FROM tbl_Arab_Newsletter WHERE (Month(month) = '2' AND year(month) = '2008') and (cat_number = 1 or cat_number = 2 or cat_number = 3) and (story like '%airports%' ) i have written code like this. strSQL = "SELECT * FROM tbl_Arab_Newsletter WHERE (Month(month) = '"& m &"' AND year(month) = '"& y &"')"strSQL = strSQL & " and cat_number = 1" end if if cat2="on" then 'check box 2 is enabled means this conditionstrSQL = strSQL & " and cat_number = 2" end if if cat3="on" then 'check box 3 is enabled means this conditionstrSQL = strSQL & " and cat_number = 3" end if if cat4="on" then 'check box 4 is enabled means this conditionstrSQL = strSQL & " and cat_number = 4" end if strSQL = strSQL & " and (story like '%" & search & "%')" but this statements are not working. how to write the if conditon acc to the query. pls help and if dont mind pls give me the correct code. thank u.
Please suggest correct answer (A,B,C,D) for the following Question
You are developing an application for a worldwide furniture wholesaler. You need to create an inventory table on each of the databases located in New York, Chicago, Paris, London, San Francisco, and Tokyo. In order to accommodate a distributed environment, you must ensure that each row entered into the inventory table is unique across all location. How can you create the inventory table?
A.Use the identity function. At first location use IDENTITY(1,4), at second location use IDENTITY(2,4), and so on. B.Use the identity function. At first location use IDENTITY(1,1), at second location use IDENTITY(100000,1), and so on. C.CREATE TABLE inventory ( Id Uniqueidentifier NOT NULL DEFAULT NEWID(), ItemName Varchar(100) NOT NULL, ItemDescription Varchar(255) NULL, Quantity Int NOT NULL, EntryDate Datetime NOT NULL). D.Use TIMESTAMP data type.
Give the suitable answer for the below question and explain the answer.
1.You have designed the database for a Web site (or online ticketing agency) that is used to purchase concert tickets. During a ticket purchase, a buyer view a list of available tickets, decides whether to buy the tickets, and then attempts to purchase the tickets. This list of available tickets is retrieved in a cursor. For popular concerts, thousands of buyers might attempt to purchase tickets at the same time. Because of the potentially high number of buyers at any one time, you must allow the highest possible level of concurrent access to the data. How should you design the cursor?
(A). Create a cursor within an explicit transaction, and set the transaction isolation level to REPEATABLE READ. (B). Create a cursor that uses optimistic concurrency and positioned updates. In the cursor, place the positioned UPDATE statements within an explicit transaction. (C). Create a cursor that uses optimistic concurrency. In the cursor, use UPDATE statements that specify the key value of the row to be updated in the WHERE clause, and place the UPDATE statements within an implicit transaction. (D). Create a cursor that uses positioned updates. Include the SCROLL_LOCKS argument in the cursor definition to enforce pessimistic concurrency. In the cursor, place the positioned UPDATE statements within an implicit transaction.
hey can anyone suggest me how to write the efficient( a bit faster) stored proc to generate alternative usernames( with logical variations like the one of hotmail ) if provided one is already present in database... :)
INSERT INTO @students SELECT1 , 10 UNION ALL SELECT1 , 11 UNION ALL SELECT2 , 12 UNION ALL SELECT2 , 13 UNION ALL SELECT2 , 14 UNION ALL SELECT3 , 15 UNION ALL SELECT4 , 16
-- query starts here
SELECT t.teacher_id FROM @teachers t LEFT OUTER JOIN @students s ON t.teacher_id = s.teacher_id GROUP BY t.teacher_id HAVING COUNT(s.teacher_id) = ( SELECT TOP 1 COUNT(s.teacher_id) FROM @teachers t LEFT OUTER JOIN @students s ON t.teacher_id = s.teacher_id GROUP BY t.teacher_id ORDER BY COUNT(s.teacher_id) ) -- query ends here
But the problem with this query is, i am using two outer joins on the same query and on the same tables....
If teacher table and student tables have few thousands of records, this query will not perform good....
Please suggest another way of writing the query which can perform well....
I am new in sqlserver UDF, I am written a UDF but it showing error CREATE FUNCTION udf_DayOfWeek(@dtDate DATETIME) RETURNS VARCHAR(10) AS BEGIN DECLARE @rtDayofWeek VARCHAR(10) SELECT @rtDayofWeek = CASE DATEPART(weekday,@dtDate) WHEN 1 THEN ‘Sunday’ WHEN 2 THEN ‘Monday’ WHEN 3 THEN ‘Tuesday’ WHEN 4 THEN ‘Wednesday’ WHEN 5 THEN ‘Thursday’ WHEN 6 THEN ‘Friday’ WHEN 7 THEN ‘Saturday’ END RETURN (@rtDayofWeek) END GO
Error Incorrect syntax near '‘'. Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure udf_DayOfWeek, Line 16 Incorrect syntax near 'END'.
Error: 0xC02020A1 at Data Flow Task, Source - mysourcefile [1]: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "myBadColumn" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". Error: 0xC020902A at Data Flow Task, Source - mysourcefile [1]: The "output column "myBadColumn" (157)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "myBadColumn" (157)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Two questions: 1. How to tell SSIS not to stop for one bad row. Getting the good rows is more important than one bad row.
hello all Plz can u suggest m how can i find substring like i want to show first 50 characters and i dont want that my last 50th character should end with full word .. word should be complete it may b 53 or 54 th character for example :m using : substring(Remark,0,50) as Remarkand it returns : this is .................................. boobut i want thi is ....................................book.complete sentense plz suggest me how is this be don in SQL query.thax alot
I am trying to recreate the same functionality Google has in regards tosuggesting words (not names), when you misspell something it comes upwith suggestions.We have a list of words in the database to match against.I've looked at SOUNDEX but it is not close enough, DIFFERENCE is evenworse.The only way I can get SOUNDEX to be more accurate is withSELECT [word]FROM [tbl_word]WHERE ( SOUNDEX( word ) = SOUNDEX( 'test' ) AND LEN( word) = LEN('test' ) )I've been looking at Regular Expression matching which I reckon wouldprovide more accurate matches. Not sure how that will affectperformance, as we could be talking about 20,000 records.Or also been looking at the Double Metaphone algorithm.Is there something else that I am missing, anyone know what to use in asituation like this?Thanks in advance.
our company is looking for a good training for SQL server 2005. Majority of attendies will be .NET developers, but some will be technicians who need backup, replication, maint., etc. training. All are pretty familiar with sql server and have experience with SQL 2000. So, it should not be for beginners. Intermediate and advance topics.
Whom you can suggest? Do you have experience with them?
I'm getting this message on my third automated backup of the transaction logs of the day. Both databases are in full recovery mode, both successfully backed up at 01.00. The transaction logs backed up perfectly happily at 01:30 and 05:30, but failed at 09:30.
The only difference between 05:30 and 09:30's backups is that the log files were shrunk at 08:15 (the databases in question are the ones that sit under ILM2007, and keeping the log files small keeps the system running better).
Is it possible that shrinking the log files causes the database to think that there hasn't been a full database backup?
On the SQL Server the Event Viewer shows the same messages and errors every evening between 22:05:00 and 22:08:00. The following information messages are shown for every database:
"I/O is frozen on database <database name>. No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup."
"I/O was resumed on database <database name>. No user action is required."
"Database backed up. Database: <database name>, creation date(time): 2003/04/08(09:13:36), pages dumped: 306, first LSN: 44:148:37, last LSN: 44:165:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{A79410F7-4AC5-47CE-9E9B-F91660F1072B}4'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required."
After the 3 messages the following error message is shown for every database:
"BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP LOG <database name>. Check the backup application log for detailed messages."
I have added a Maintenance Plan but these jobs run after 02:00:00 at night.
Where can I find the command or setup which will backup all databases and log files at 22:00:00 in the evening?
SQL Server 2008 r2 - 6 GB memory...I attempted a backup on a 500GB database but it was taking way too long. I checked the resources on the box and saw the CPU at 100%. I checked the SQL Server activity log and saw a hung query (user was not even logged on) that had multiple threads so I killed it and now the CPU utilization is back to normal.
Trouble is, now all of the threads in the activity monitor for the backup show 'suspended' and the backup appears to be not doing anything.
I use the Transact-SQL BACKUP statement in Visual Basic to backup my local MSSQL Database. It give me this error
Error 3041
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE [BCFPC] to BCFPCBKP
I already created a backup device called BCFPCBKP and it is backup to the disk.
I tried to run the same BACKUP statement in SQL Query Analyzer and it worked fine. I tried to run my VB application in another PC. It worked fine when i use this command remotely. Can anyone tell me what's the problem?
Using Ola Hallengren's scripts I do a full backup of a database on a Sunday. Then differential backups every 6 hours and log backups every hour. I would like to keep a full week of backups based off the full backup done on Sunday. Is there a way for me to clear out the diff and log folders after the successful full backup on Sunday nights?
Data got deleted on Friday evening, need to have database restored to FRiday afternoon and also some data has been entered on Monday, which needs to be there.
Windows 2003 backup utility uses the shadow copy option that allows it to copy open files. Therefore, can I use this utility to backup the .mdf and .ldf files for my SQL 2000 database? I can then attach the .mdf files if I need to restore the database to another server. Can anyone tell me if this is safe? I've tried it and it worked but I'm worried there maybe some lurking danger in using this approach.
We take a full backup in the early morning and hourly transaction log back during the working hours for one database in the production server. The application team made certain changes to the design of the said database in their development server. The backup from the development server was restored to the production server during working hours. After the restoration should we take a full backup before next transactional logbackup? Would the transactional log backup with out a full backup after the restoration of a database be valid?
I've written a custom script to delete backup files from location. But unable to modify now to count the number of files are deleted. How to modify the script...
/* Script to delete older than N days backup from a specific directory */
USE [db_admin] GO IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup GO
Using SQL Server 2005 Server Management Studio, I attempted to back up a database, and received this error:
Backup failed: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Backup and file manipulation operations (such as ALTER DATABASE ADD FILE) on a database must be serialized. Reissue the satement after the current backup or file manipulation is completed (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Program location:
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup.SqlBackup(Server srv) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlManagerUI.BackupPropOptions.OnRunNow(Object sender)
Backup Options were set to:
Back up to the existing media set
Overwrite all existing backup sets
I am fairly new to SQL 2005. Can someone help me get past this issue? What other information do I need to provide?
I'm looking to schedule a maintenance plan for my databases which I have done.I'd like this database to be copied to another folder and the name altered to include the file name and the current date time stamp.Is this possible in the scheduled maintenance plan?
I have a database that is just over 1.5GB and the Full backup that is 13GB not sure how this is since we have compression on for full backups and my other full backups are much smaller than there respective databases...Now my full backup is taken every Sunday night and the differentials are taken every 6 hours after the full backup. Now I have been thrown into this DBA role with little to no experience just what I have picked up and read. So my understanding of backups are limited but what I think I understand is that we take a full backup and the differential only captures what changes in the database so my question is why is my database 1.5GB but my differential is 15.4GB? I have others database that are on the same instance and don't seem to have this problem. I also just noticed that we do not rebuild the index before a full backup like we do on other instances...
This is probably a simple question but I have to ask it anyway. When backing up I can backup to a file on my local drive but I also can create a device to the same location on my local drive. Is this doing the same thing. If I so desire to backup to the local drive(bear with me) what is the difference between creating a device and a file called mybackup or just choosing to backup to a file called mybackup? Should I always create a device? I know these are dumb question but....
How do we know the list of all the backups that are present in a particualr backup device like file# and time of backup taken etc for the purose of restore?
When I run : RESTORE HEADERONLY FROM BackupDeviceName
it doesn't give that info. Can anyone tell me the exact command to list all the files of a backup device so that I can restore the right one?? Thanks. Shalini.
If my backup starts at 8PM and take 1 hour to complete, will the changes made to the database during that hour be captured in the full backup?
Stated another way, will my backup be a snapshot of: a) 8PM when the backup started b) 8PM with some of the changes made between the hour c) 9PM when the backup finished?
Anybody know the exact way SQL Server handles that logic?
I am using the Simple recovery model and I'm taking a weekly full backup each Monday morning with differentials taken every 4 hours during the day.
On Wednesday afternoon, a programmer ran a process that corrupted the db and I had to restore to the most recent differential. It was 5pm in the afternoon and a differential backup had just occured at 4pm. No problem, I figured.
I restored the full backup from Monday morning and tried to restore the most recent differential backup. The differential restore failed. Since I had used T-SQL for the initial attempt, I tried using Enterprise Manager to try again.
When viewing the backup history, I see my initial full backup taken on Monday plus all the differentials. BUT, on closer inspection, I noticed another full backup in the backup history that was taken early Tuesday morning. I can't figure out where this Tuesday morning full backup came from. It wasn't taken by me (or scheduled by me) and I'm the only one with access to the server. My full backups are usually named something like HCMPRP_20070718_FULL.bak. This erroneous full backup was named something like HCMPRP_03a_361adk2k_dd53.bak. It seemed like it was a system generated name. Not something I would choose. To top it off, I could not find this backup file anywhere on the server and when I tried to restore using this full backup, it failed.
Does anyone have any clues as to where this full backup might come from? Does SQL Server trigger a full backup on its own if some threshold is reached?
I ended up having to restore using the differential taken just before this erroneous full backup and lost a day of transactions.
