Purge Log Dump Device
Feb 22, 1999
Suppose I am appending to my transaction log dump device every half hour,thus adding 48 log dumps per day. How can I purge my transaction dump device to only keep the last 1 week's worth of these logs. I do not wanted to issue an INIT in the command, because this will wipe it completely. I noticed an EXPIREDATE and RETAINDAYS parameter for the DUMP command. Can I use these to selectively purge the backup device or will these allow the device to be wiped clean also?
Thanks in advance,
Ed Molinari
Emerald Solutions
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Mar 27, 2000
I'm having trouble doing backups of several databases (on a single server) to one device (a disk file).
I created a script with each DUMP statement and when I run it from the query window, it works
just fine. But when I create a stored procedure out of the same script, I get errors because the
second DUMP statement is trying to access the device that is already being written to by the
first DUMP statement.
If I split them apart into different stored procedures, then they seem to overwrite each other and
I end up with only the last database backed up.
I'm trying to put this into a task and that is why I need to put it into stored procedures.
Is there a synchronous/asynchronous setting or parameter that I should be using? For now, I'm
just dumping each to separate devices, but this is a little sumbersome, since I have four
databases to backup for each day of the week. Which gives me a total of 28 separate
devices.
I'm sure there is a better way of doing this. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thank you in
advance.
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Aug 11, 2005
When you create a dump device, then add backups with the NOINIT arg, the space taken up on the device grows, is there a way of removing individual backups from the device without (i guess) purging the whole lot by running WITH INIT?
I can get a list of the files by running the RESTORE WITH HEADERONLY, but I can't see how to remove individual ones.
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Feb 16, 1999
I'm trying to capture the info that gets passed back from the 'load headeronly from logbackup' command in a script that I'm writing. The MS Transact-SQL reference specifies that this info is passed back in a table, a row for each dump on the given dump device. I'm looking for the SQL construct that will allow me to capture this info as variables in my script for processing. I've tried to create a temp table that mirrors the info returned and insert into this table by executing the load command but syntactically it is not correct(with that syntax the compiler assumes that the load command is a stored procedure and can't locate it) Specifically, I'm trying to capture info from the dump transaction with no_truncate command.
It appears the dump info does not go the the msdb..sysbackuphistory table when the no_truncate option is used. This dump info can only be obtained thru the load headeronly command. Any thoughts on how to code the sql to capture this info?
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Mar 3, 1999
I issued the following statement on my database as my log file showed 100% full.
However after running this command and also running it again after expanding the size
to almost double the value of both my database log and data devices it still shows the log as being 100% full.
DUMP TRANSACTION <database> WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY (and also used the NO_LOG option).
So can anyone tell me whats going wrong here? I should note that I am still able to enter data into the database without
any errors.
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Nov 17, 1998
I have a database in development in SQL Server 6.5 that needs to be occasionally deleted and rebuilt from a script when table structures are changed. I found that when very complex queries were performed, the 2 MB default size of tempdb filled up and returned errors, so I went to the Enterprise Manager to expand tempdb, learned that I had to first expand a device to expand tempdb into, and foolishly chose to expand tempdb into the same device space used by my application, instead of into one of the system databases. Now when I try to delete the device in preparation for its rebuild, the Enterprise Manager responds with an error message saying the device can't be deleted because it contains system tables. Is there any way to get the expanded portion of tempdb out of my application device so that the device can be deleted, without reinstalling SQL Server?
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Jun 19, 2006
Basically I've been using Visual Studio 2005 for a few weeks now moving a Pocket PC project from 2003 to 2005. When I hit the Start Debugging Button every time until today the project would rebuild and deploy to my pocket PC allowing me to debug etc but now I get
The remote connection to the device has been lost.
Please verify the device conection and restart debugging.
I used to get this problem in VS2003 sometimes and just like the numerous posts on different sites that I've looked at the problem eventually goes away and I'm none the wiser. One guy said that he found that if he went to bed the problem was resolved when he came back!
My PDA running Windows 2003 2nd Edition is directly connected to my PC via a USB port. I've rebooted my PC and done a soft reset on the PDA but it didn't help. I'm using ActiveSync 4.1.
Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?
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Apr 14, 2006
Hi to All
when i m trying to execute following code
backup database web
to disk = 'c:inetpubwwwrootackupmybakup.bak'
with format
I m Getting Error like :
Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot open backup device 'c:inetpubwwwrootackupmybakup.bak'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
This error is Generated only when i m trying to access folders within "wwwroot" but not in any other folders , even command runs success fully for "wwwroot" folder . !!
but not for any subfolders of wwwroot.
Can Any One Help Me ??
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Aug 29, 2007
Hi Everyone.
i have a big database and for each table i have Active field (N/Y) and i wanna delete all record the active N. how i can do that without delete from each tables and looking to details tables before. our database have a complex relations.
please any solution.
thanks alot.
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Oct 26, 2003
All, I records that have two columns, date col and time col.
I am trying to write a SQL statement to extract the rows that fall within a range of time.
Eg current date/time + 10 hours and
current date/time - 10 hours.
Kindly advise how can I do that.
Thanks.
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Jul 23, 2004
I'm assuming that the .ldf file houses all the transaction logs, well mine is getting quite large (like 6 times the size of my .mdf) and I'm wondering if there is a way to purge logs back to a specific date. Can anyone give me some direction? Thanks
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Feb 8, 2005
Is there any way to purge/truncate a database where the dataase is full or does not have free space ?
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May 14, 2007
Hi all I have table with about 67 million records
that are marked for deletion.
I know that I can
DELETE from table
WHERE ToBeDeleted='t'
But this may be too big a task for the server considering the amount
of data to delete at once. And if it runs out of resources and errors then nothing gets deleted....
Is there a way to segmant or loop so i can delete like 100k records at a time?
Many thanks in advance
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Dec 13, 2007
A client of mine just asked about Archiving and Purging their data (based on different time constraints). For isntance, certain data would get archived after 3 years over to a different database, others purged all together. My thoughts off the bat are store procedures run on a job schedule.
Any other thoughts or ideas?
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Aug 9, 2006
Hello,
I would like to use the built in logging feature to log to a text file.
Is there a way to purge the log peridically (only keep enties for the last 30 days, etc).
Thanks,
Michael
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Jun 9, 2006
Greetings,
I have a SQL Server 2005 database which is populated with test data. I need to copy this database to a new instance and then purge the copied database of it's contents for the next round of testing.
I know there exists a Copy Database Wizard w/in the SQL Server Management Studio; I'm assuming I need to perform this first, then purge the existing data w/in the copy. The Copy operation looks pretty straight forward, but I haven't a clue on how to perform the purge.
Can someone help?
Regards,
Loopsludge
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Apr 25, 2002
Anyone have anything hints on getting the option of DELBKUP to work. I have a maintenance job that backs up the database. Also set to delete backups older than 1 day. This doesn't seem to be working.
Any thoughts.
Thanking you in advance.
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Oct 5, 2004
Hi
We are running SQL Server 2000 and making full database backups using a maintenance plan. The transaction logs are being backed up via a separate plan.
However, the transaction log backups aren't purging but the database ones are. They are both run under the same id and both write to the same directory. Old text reports also get purged fine. I've got 'Delete older than 1 week' ticked for everything.
Can anyone think of anything else to check ?
Thanks
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May 21, 2007
greets all, ive got a table with batches of records. each group of records has a batch id as part of the PK in the form BTCXXXX where XXXX is an auto-incremented number. so lets say i have 100 batches of 20k records per batch in the table. so the distinct batch ids are BTC0200 (oldest batch) through BTC0300 (newest batch).
i only want to keep the 90 most recent batches in the table at any given time.
is it ok to just subtract 90 from the last batch id and do something like:
DECLARE @batch_id char(10)
SET @batch_id = 'BTC' + batch_num-90
DELETE FROM ITEM_BATCH
WHERE BATCH_ID < @batch_id
i want to cover if the table has more than 90 batches and if the table has less then 90 batches. is this a feasible approach?
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Dec 14, 2006
Hi,
Not sure if this question makes sense, but is it necessary to purge old data in msdb tables used by the db mirroring monitor job?
I'm just wondering if an insert into the data table every minute of the day would still be needed a month from now. I'm thinking this data would be useful for the purpose of "alerts" and to have access to its recent history, but other than that, is it recommended (or necessary)? Would these records keep accumulating until manually purged?
TIA.
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Nov 4, 2015
We have staging table in which data is dumped from files . The staging table is truncated for every load . In order to retain data from staging table we are creating staging_purge table which hold the staging data. what is the fastest way to copy data from staging to purge table without impacting the load process.
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Jan 25, 2007
Hello,
I have a database that I am setting up in SQL Server 2005. Initially, I am doing very large imports of data. Every time I run an import, I am having the increase the size of my transaction logs, and now they are approaching 2 GB. Should these be purging themselves? I have to keep increasing the max size of the log so that I can get my data in. While this will work for now, it is not a long term solution, because I can see the log size growing quite large and the amount of space on the server obviously isn't infinite. Is there a setting that I can change so they will automatically purge? If not, how do I purge this information myself?
Thanks so much!
Christine
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Jul 23, 2002
Hello all,
I hope someone can help me with a big problem... I'm using Citrix Resource Management Services with a SQL 2000 database. Their are 15 citrix servers which are all reporting to the SQL database.
The database is expanding very quickly and is becoming slower and slower.
My question is: I want to schedule a purge of old records on a friday afternoon, like this:
WEEK 1 - MON / FRI
WEEK 2 - MON / FRI (Friday's purge records week1)
WEEK 3 - MON / FRI (Friday's purge records week2)
etc...
Is this possible? if yes how do i do this !??!
Thank you very much for any info!!
Daan
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Jul 11, 2014
I do have very old versions of duplicate store procedures on my databases. I know there is no "safe" way to do this using DMVs, so I am planning to combine that with a trace. But I would like to get others opinions about that.
Here's the DMV I am planning to use:
SELECT
CASE WHEN database_id = 32767 then 'Resource' ELSE DB_NAME(database_id)END AS DBName
,OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(object_id,database_id) AS [SCHEMA_NAME]
,OBJECT_NAME(object_id,database_id)AS [OBJECT_NAME]
,cached_time
,last_execution_time
,execution_count
[Code] ....
I will save that on a local table and run it every 5 min maybe? Or at an interval equal or lower than PLE?
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Apr 13, 2006
I'm missing something basic...
Trying to create a new job from sql server 2005 Management Studio. The nifty wizard under Management provides options to create backups, and clean history, but I cant seem to find out how to create a job to purge old backups.
Looking at the commnand line Sql Server Agent Job shows:
/SQL "Maintenance PlansFull Backups" /SERVER "JFSLIB-DEV" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF
But as you can see, doesn't help a novice like myself, as it appears to be command options to run the "integration" package.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Jan 9, 2014
I am attempting to do a rather simple purge task on a very large table. This task will need to take place daily and delete records older than 6 months out of the database. On first pass this will delete well over 130 million rows. I thought the best way to handle this is create a proc and call the proc from a SQL Agent Job that runs nightly. Here is an example of the script:
CREATE PROCEDURE usp_Purge_WCFLogger
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
EXEC sp_rename 'dbo.logs', 'logs_work'
GO
SELECT * INTO dbo.Logs_Backup FROM dbo.Logs_Work WHERE TIMESTAMP < DATEADD(month, -6, GETDATE())
[Code] .....
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Jan 28, 2008
I've got a large MS Sql Server 2000 database that has 15 indexes, with roughly 180 million rows representing 240 GB worth of data. Due to the massive size of the database we are trying to purge it down to a smaller dataset, about 40 million rows, in order to speed up the query performance and to be able to defrag the indexes (which are 30-50% fragmented). To complicate the matter, this table is also a publisher in a transactional replication setup, with one subscriber. Also, the system needs to be up constantly so I'm only allowed about a 3-5 hour period to take an outage a week.
So far I've tested several methods of delete following all best practices (batch deletes, using indexes in delete's where clause), and have come up with deleting/commiting 500 rows at a time. The problem is that it still takes 3-4 seconds to delete this many rows, on a 8 GB RAM, 4 processor machine that is not currently used or replicated.
I'm at a loss on a way to pare down the data with a delete as the current purge script will take 7 hours a day for about 3 months. Another option I'm considering is to do a truncate and copy the data back over from the replicated database, but again this has its own set of problems, i.e. network latency and slow inset times. Yet another option would be to create a replica of the table on the production db, copy the data to it, then rename the table.
Any one have experience with purging such a massive amount of data? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Feb 23, 2008
Hi, I have added a new SQL Server database to my project and I was wondering how to do generate a SQL dump of the database, tables, and queries? I couldn't find any utilities in Visual Studio 2008 Pro. I also couldn't figure out how to create indexes using VS. Thanks!
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May 29, 2008
Dear all
I am working with database programming and maintaining
from last 3 years and this days i want to sit for 70-431 exam.
if some one have the dump of 70-431 please send it to my mail
shohan_mcp@yahoo.com
thanks
shohan
mcp
shohan
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Oct 26, 2005
I am trying to dump my mssql DB so I can upload it to my web server.
I am using SQLDump v3.0b1 from sourceforge.net.
My problem is, when generating the dump file, any value greater than 1000 in a money column is set to 1.0000 in the dump file.
Does anyone know of a better program I should be using or a way for me to correct this?
My DB is huge and it would take far too much time to go through the dump file and correct the changed values.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanx
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Mar 6, 2000
Hi,
I need a good suggestion from you.
1. I need to create a replication enviroment. In that i want to snapshot the database as and when i want from my Java program, so that selective tables are updated with latest data. Is there anyway i can do with out creating native replication methods.
2. Is there any way with out creating a snapshot or replication. I need to copy the data from my master database to child database(my reporting database) with out straining much my master database
Thanks in advance
Regards Jagannadh
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May 18, 2000
Hi guys & gals
I get the following error when doing a dump on a 6.5 database.
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Page '697569' of database 'FOREX_UPLOAD' in the database has the PG_DMPTRLR bit set.
Page '698121' of database 'FOREX_UPLOAD' in the database has the PG_DMPTRLR bit set.
Page '698233' of database 'FOREX_UPLOAD' in the database has the PG_DMPTRLR bit set.
***
I have run SP5 as suggested,and can see that more of the db has been dumped than before but still I get the error
I get no errors when doing dbcc's.
Any ideas???
Rgds
De Waal
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Oct 5, 2000
Hi people
when doing a dump on a Win2000/SQL7 database from and NT4/SQL6 machine I get the following error:
SqlDumpExceptionHandler*****
EXEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SqlServer is terminating the process.
Can anybody tell me why?
What should I do?
Tks
De waal
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