I must release a new Db on 4/1 into an isolated small network (pier workgroup) and my choices are MSDE or Express. I'm new to both (MSDE yesterday, Express today). I am familiar with SQL Server and prefer using the tools with Express, but is it stable enough to use in this type of production environment?
View 5 RepliesI will be hosting my website in the next few months and doing more testing and I was having trouble finding a place to host the site that allows enough space for my sqlserver2005 database. I am estimating that the database will be around 40-50GB. Most hosting companies only give about 500MB for the database. Does anyone know of a company that provides more space? Also, is SQL Express production ready, or is it just for developing applications? If it is production ready, is there any "major" performace impact in using it over the full version. The reason I am asking is because hosting companies only give 500MB for a database, but alot more space for the web page. If I can put the SQLExpress file in the App_Data folder, then I will have more space. Does this even sound like it will work? Opinions are appreciated!
View 9 Replies View RelatedHello,
Is SQL Server 2005 mirroring production ready yet. We have two servers and plan to set up mirroring between them. We have the Standard Editon installed on them.
Is Standard Edition sufficient or does it need Enterprise Edition?
Thanks in Advance,
Sarath R
Hello,Is the multiple instances capability of SQL2K mature enough for aProduction system?We're looking at upgrading our hardware but the proposed solutioncalls for consolidating two currently separate SQL Server's onto onemachine with two CPU's.Of the current two servers, one is for OLTP (~800Mb) and the other forreporting (some ad-hoc, some canned queries, 2-3Gb). We purge the OLTPdb nightly and archive the purged data in the reporting server whereit stays for a couple of months before getting purged from there.Maybe I'm being overly cautious here but the OLTP system is especiallytime-sensitive. If anything causes it to slow down significantly welose $$$.Thanks,Martin V.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan someone at Microsoft comment on this article, specifically, how it relates to SQL Replication? Will SQL Replication fall into the category of what this article describes, or only the mirroring feature?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello All, i am trying to create a normal ASP.NET application using VS2005. Yesterday i was adding tables.. entering data from within "View Table Data" tab, but today i am unable to do any data insertion or updating except by entering the insert or update statement by hand. When updating data of existing record or trying to add new data, it reports that "Cell is readonly!". I did not modify any settings or configuration and actually did nothing to set it to readonly! I am quite confused to be honest and writing sql statements by hand is kinda time consuming for me if i want to update a single field. What can i do to re-enable data modifications from VS2005 without reporting readonly? Thanks,Rakan
View 1 Replies View Relateddo i need a host with MS SQL SERVER? how do i upload my database? hmm
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just set up a server with Windows 2003 Standard x64. I have a copy of SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition that I got from the Microsoft Launch event. On the back of the case, it gives version requirements for both the x86 and x64 versions. When I went to install it, it didn't ask me which one I wanted to install. When I look on the CD, I see different installers for x86 and x64 for various pre-requisites, like MSXML. As I'm installing SQL Server I see that it is installing most things to "C:Program Files (x86)" which is where 32-bit programs go.. I decided to let it finish. Most of the binaries and everything, include sqlservr.exe, are in the Program Files (x86) folder, but it did install a few things in Program Files, so it must be aware of the difference.
I checked task manager and, I see that the sqlservr.exe and SQLAGENT90.exe are NOT 32-bit processes. So, great, they're running natively in 64-bit mode! But when I look at the server options in SQL Server Management Studio, the patform is listed as NT INTEL X86. The memory page also shows an option to use AWE which according to the documentation is only available and relevant to 32-bit installations.
SO I'm pretty confused. Almost everything points to this being an x86 installation, but the running processes are running natively in x64. Does anyone know what's going on here?
I just tried to run the x64 version of SP1 for SQL 2005, and it told me that it cannot update x86 products, so I guess that clinches it. I'm still pretty confused and annoyed though. If this isn't x64, how can I get an x64 version of the same product, and will my license key work?
We are using SQL Server CE 3. So far, the product gets an A for ease of installation and its ability to deal with complex queries and but fails in a number of other areas. This is causing mjor project overruns.
1. Speed is a major concern. Small simple queries take an unreasonable tme to execute. This has required fundamental changes to current design patterms and a major re-write.
2. Bugs: Set identity_insert tablename on: tablename appears to be case sensitive (10 hours to track this beasty down)
3 Vista seems to have its own issues - refusing to cast fieldnames for simple column names
eg 'Select UID as DepositID ...' returns a "DepositID" under Windows XP but returns "UID" under Windows Vista.
Does this mean there is a different engine operating in the Vista environment. [I have since tracked this to a quirk in the SDAC interface ]
All this in a product we are intending to ship in the near future.
Ar others having these / similar problems?
Is there a register of known issues and workarounds?
Is the product under active repair / development ?
Why is behaviour different under Vista?
I created a little test application with SQL server. After everything was tested successfully I builded a setup file with Installshield. I installed the setup file on a different mashine. Everything runs without problems, but when I make entries to the database and I reopen the application no entry is saved. I am new to SQL server.
thx for any help
I am getting alerts as Availability group not ready for automatic failover , how to check and resolve the issue ?
How to check the databases status whether they are in sync unsync in High availability ?
We're using ADO disconnected recordsets. On SQL 2000, we could update these on the client (without propagating the changes to the server) even if the underlying view or table was non-updatable.
When running our apps against SQL 2005 (using the same client-side environment), we can no longer change any attributes of those disconnected recordsets, that connect to a non-updatable database object (the rest of the app runs fine, we can update all updatable database objects through disconnected recordsets) . Does SQL 2005 respond to such calls differently from SQL 2000, so that ADO recordsets are built in a new way (which makes them read-only in our setting)?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Rene
how to resolve and trouble shoot the availability group is not ready for automatic failover in sql2012
View 4 Replies View RelatedI cannot understand how this was allowed to happen, but I can recreate the situation all day long. Someone, please tell me that I have missed an obvious solution to this;
With a fresh install of SQL 2005 Express (SP2) I have 4 databases installed and two service-based applications running. One of the service applications uses/requires three of the four databases and the second service application uses/requires the fourth database.
On boot, with the above described services set to depend on SQL Server service startup I get repeated failures on initial database access. Looking at the event log reveals why (in sequence):
SQL Server Startup...
Event: Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on...
Event: Server named pipe provider is ready to accept connection on...
Event: Server is listening on [ 'any' <ipv4> 1911]
Application Service Startup...
Event: SQL Server is not ready to accept new client connections. Wait a few minutes before trying again. If you have access to the error log, look for the informational message that indicates that SQL Server is ready before trying to connect again
Moments Later:
Event: SQL Server is now ready for client connections. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
Now, its clear that the SQL service has started, and that this opens the floodgates for dependant services to start, each of which is told - essentially - to go away and come back once the SQL server has **really** started. With the accompanying suggestion to 'look for the informational message that indicates that SQL Server is ready' in the event log.
Am I reading the situation right so far?
In response to this, with my developer way of thinking, I could probably script the startup of application services rather than have them start automatically at boot or some such insane idea. But its not really the way that I had planned to spend the next few hours of my life, and it seems to me that I should not have to do such a thing.
Our in house service application (one of the two described) is in fact robust enough (just enough) to survive and to try the connection periodically, accomplishing a successful startup even with no database available.
The second of the two services is external and is unfortunately unable to start with no database available (Business Objects XI CMS). The normal means of making this service robust against database outages is the service restart procedure setting. But since the service doesnt ever start successfully, this doesnt work (learn something new every day - the restart is literal. It does not provide an initial startup retry and the service must have been started and fail for the retry to kick in)
Now, im not trying to bash anyone over this situation and regardless of the inflexible nature of the external service application and the general sillyness of the SQL server startup sequence - i mean c'mon... we are started but not ready? How about dont report startup until after you are ready? - the end result is that I need to come up with a solution to this problem.
I cant imagine that this is the first time that this behaviour has been questioned and I have to believe that there will be a simple, reliable workaround. I will keep looking for myself, but if any of this sounds familiar and you have a suggestion, your response will be greatly appreciated.
Hi,
I have a package which reads an XML file from a certain folder and parses it.
I deployed my package onto the server. Copied XML files on the D: drive the following folder on the server.
Dim reader As New Xml.XmlTextReader("D:AppsRequestClientsClientsStatus.xml") is fine.
But
Do While (reader.Read())
generates "The Device is not ready"
I think it is still trying to read it from my desktop on which I don't have a D drive.
Any help is appreciated.
When I execute the following transaction log backup TSQL in SSMS
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn';
I get this error:
Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Cannot open backup device 'D:Database_BackupTransProductDB.trn'. Operating system error 21(The device is not ready.).
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
BACKUP LOG is terminating abnormally.
I also have a daily database backup job that puts the backup file under this directory.
D:Database_BackupData
So I changed the path to this and it still fails.
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'D:Database_BackupDataProductDB.trn';
However if I change it to this path, it works:
BACKUP LOG ProductDBÂ
TO DISK = 'MyServerDataProductDB.trn';
This turns out to be the path I used a few weeks back when I backed up the log for the very first time. Â But I now wanted to store my transaction log backups in D:Database_BackupTrans. Â
1. Created a database with a couple of tables with no data.
2. Taken a full database backup - db.bak.
3. Deleted the database.
4. Restored the database db.bak and filled the tables with some data.
5. Taken log backup - dblog.trn
BACKUP LOG <dbname> to DISK='D:Demodblog.trn' WITH NO_TRUNCATE, INIT
6. Dropped the database again.
7. Restored the database again from db.bak.
8. But when I am trying to restore log file dblog.trn on this database, i keep getting this error :
The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
Hi folks
I attended one of the SQL Server 2005 "Ready to Launch" parties a couple of years ago and was given a complimentary SQL Server Standard Edition CAL along with a copy of the SQL Server 2005 Standard setup DVD.
As there's no mention in the "Ready to Launch" pack of an included Server license I was wondering whether it is possible to install a copy of SQL Server 2005 on a standalone server and use the single CAL in a Production environment without having to purchase a Server license? The pack does include a Product Key - is this the Server license?
Thanks
Chris
Hi, I attended the Technet Ready to Launch event and obtained the dvd set, but when I tried to install the sql product, the software won't take the product key (the key is the same as the studio product). Anyone experience the same?
View 16 Replies View RelatedHi all,
Can anyone give me a ready-made sample script to display a search reslut from a database?
My intention is to give a dynamic web page for the search in the BookStore website.
The result will show the following:-
First the picture of the book.
To the right of it, 'Title' field, below that, 'description' field
It should be created programatically as the contents are in the database.
I tried several ways, but could not succeed. I have the BookID, Title, BookPicture, and the Description fields
Thanking you in advance,
Tomy
I missed the ability to restore based on a time (10/23 6pm) due to our purge cycle in our production environment, but I was able to obtain the 10/18 full backup, the 10/23 differential backup, and the 4, 10/23 trans. log backups. I moved all the fore mentioned files to a staging environment, and now I am trying to restore all of the files to 10/23 6pm and I get :
"The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward" error.
I have a simple class libarray that I have compiled into DLL using csc.exe
Source code is as follows: -
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;
namespace RTFTextParser
{
public class ParseText
{
[SqlFunction(DataAccess = DataAccessKind.None)]
public static String ParseRTFText()
{
return "Imtiaz";
}
}
}
When I try to run the following
CREATE ASSEMBLY RTFTextParser FROM 'E:Class1.dll'
I get the following error
Msg 6501, Level 16, State 7, Line 1
CREATE ASSEMBLY failed because it could not open the physical file 'E:Class1.dll': 21(The device is not ready.).
We are using sql server 2005 Enterprise Edition with service pack1
I got the following error messages in the SQL log
The operating system returned error 21(The device is not ready.) to SQL Server during a read at offset 0x00000000090000 in file '....mdf'. Additional messages in the SQL Server error log and system event log may provide more detail. This is a severe system-level error condition that threatens database integrity and must be corrected immediately. Complete a full database consistency check (DBCC CHECKDB). This error can be caused by many factors; for more information, see SQL Server Books Online.
fcb::close-flush: Operating system error 21(The device is not ready.) encountered.
I got these errors for about 2 hrs and after that I see these messages in the sql log
Starting up database ' '
1 transactions rolled forward in database '' (). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
0 transactions rolled back in database ' ' (). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
Recovery is writing a checkpoint in database ' ' ( ). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
CHECKDB for database '' finished without errors on (local time). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
Can anyone please help me in troubleshooting this issue. Why this migh have happened.
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
How easy it is to deploy a solution that uses SQL Express on Development, but a MS SQL database on the production server (host)I am using the membership provider of ASP.net 2.0 Many thanks.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSomeone please explain what is a Production Database. Is it a database to which data is keyed in from many data-entry operator terminals?
TIA
Where are all of the Production DBAs?
Is there such a thing as a Production DBA in the SQL Server world or is this an outdated concept? Is there a market for people who specialize in database administration as distinct from software development or general network admin? I believe there are such people in the Oracle world, is the SQL Server world different in this regard? Can anyone give me suggestions about how to go about filling such a position?
I am a New York City area employer seeking to fill a position that I think would be ideal for a DBA with 3-5 years of experience in a production environment. The salary would be somewhere between $50K and $60K.
The position involves administering a SQL Server cluster and SAN running our core business application, plus several ancillary SQL Server installations. The application that we are implementing is a third-party product, so no real development is being done at our site. It is, however, fairly complex and requires customization and we do have significant reporting and EDI requirements, so strong T-SQL skills are required.
We are a medium-sized operation, with 900 employees and an eight person IT Dept; the organization’s main focus is insurance not IT, so candidates with a lot of experience might not find it challenging enough, but I think it would be an excellent opportunity for a candidate who might be stuck in the back of a large IT Dept. who wants to move up to a more visible position in a smaller organization.
I would think that there would be a lot of people in this category and, indeed, we have received a lot of resumes, but few of them are from the type of candidate that I had in mind. Most of the resumes are from people whose main focus is development or, if they have had experience in a production environment, have had 10+ years and are seeking salaries way beyond what we can pay. As for the former, I would not automatically reject someone whose prior experience was as a developer—and these skills would certainly be useful to us--I would just be worried that they wouldn’t be happy if they weren’t spending all of their time developing.
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Hello !
I just deleted a stored procedure in order to replace it with a corrected version (DotNetNuke).
Now I had the following problem : When I try to create the SP with the following :
IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE id = object_id(N'{databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}GetUserRolesByUsername') AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1)
DROP PROCEDURE {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}GetUserRolesByUsername
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.GetUserRolesByUsername
@PortalId int,
@Username nvarchar(100),
@Rolename nvarchar(50)
AS
IF @UserName Is Null
BEGIN
SELECTR.*,
U.DisplayName As FullName,
UR.UserRoleID,
UR.UserID,
UR.EffectiveDate,
UR.ExpiryDate,
UR.IsTrialUsed
FROM{databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}UserRoles UR
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Users U ON UR.UserID = U.UserID
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Roles R ON R.RoleID = UR.RoleID
WHERE R.PortalId = @PortalId
AND (R.Rolename = @Rolename or @RoleName is NULL)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
IF @RoleName Is NULL
BEGIN
SELECTR.*,
U.DisplayName As FullName,
UR.UserRoleID,
UR.UserID,
UR.EffectiveDate,
UR.ExpiryDate,
UR.IsTrialUsed
FROM{databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}UserRoles UR
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Users U ON UR.UserID = U.UserID
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Roles R ON R.RoleID = UR.RoleID
WHERE R.PortalId = @PortalId
AND (U.Username = @Username or @Username is NULL)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECTR.*,
U.DisplayName As FullName,
UR.UserRoleID,
UR.UserID,
UR.EffectiveDate,
UR.ExpiryDate,
UR.IsTrialUsed
FROM{databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}UserRoles UR
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Users U ON UR.UserID = U.UserID
INNER JOIN {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}Roles R ON R.RoleID = UR.RoleID
WHERE R.PortalId = @PortalId
AND (R.Rolename = @Rolename or @RoleName is NULL)
AND (U.Username = @Username or @Username is NULL)
END
END
GO
I get the following error :
"Syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error"
Thanks a lot for any advice !
Regards,
Fabianus
my favorit hoster is ASPnix : www.aspnix.com !
I looked around microsoft.com and here, but I don't see a target date for the production version. Is that info posted anywhere?
Thanks,
Ned
We have developed a project with many SSIS packages. Now we are in a stage where we are deploying this into production.
The operaitons team has asked us what are the things they need to known and do to make sure that the production system of SSIS keeps running.
Can you help me in comming up with a detailed list which I can give to the operations/admin folks so that they can ensure that this project keeps running?
I would appriciate any help in this matter.
regards,
Abhishek.
Hi,
I€™ve got an issue concerning setting the background color of a particular cell of my matrix.
This is how my report is designed and should be shown:
My Report
Public
Private
Total
Category
SubCategory
x
x
x
SubCategory
x
x
x
Total
x
x
X
The expression of the background color of my count cell is
=iif( InScope("SubCategory"),"Transparency","#c0ffc0")
Everything works well in development mode when I click on Preview, the report is shown as I want.
But In Production this is how my report is shown
My Report
Public
Private
Total
Category
SubCategory
x
x
x
SubCategory
x
x
x
Total
x
x
X
I don€™t understand why the Total column returns false for the InScope("SubCategory")," statement and that only when my report is deployed on the production server.
Thanks in advance
Hi all,
I have a asp .net 1.1 application running on the intranet which uses SQL Server 2000.
The application is in production and everytime I want to do some changes, i do the changes on my
development machine then I copy the application dll on the server.
The problem is that I'm using Stored Procedures for all my Select, Insert and Delete statements.
These stored procedures are live on the server so I can't do the modifications locally and test them then copy to the server.
How can I do modifications without affecting the production server and the users ???
thanks.
ok ok, stop laughing. for real, is there any programatic way of doing this? whom ever created this database i inherited (SQL 2000) created the LDF and DATA files on the same drive and in the same folder for that matter. just trying to do a little disaster magament.
thanks
matt
we have a situation where modifications to the stored procs and views keep happening in the development databse environ while there is a live production database also up and running.
periodically we need to ensure that the development and the production are in synch where all changes made to dev are transferred to prod. however the entire prod database obviously cannot be overwritten as it contains production data. therefore what we need to do is to transfer all SPs and Views from the development to prodn. ( we do not prefer incremental transfers as there are many SPs and views and we can never really be sure that all changes have been transferred )
the obvious way is to script out all SPs and views in dev and run the scripts in prodn. but what we encountered was the enterprise manager does not script out the objects in heirarchical sequence - ie parent objects first and then the objects that refer the parent objects. this leads to errors when running the scripts as the objects required for the creation of a SP, say another SP run from within that SP , may not have been generated by then as the "contained" SP is lower in the alphabetical order in which SQL server scripted out the objects.
finally we had to look at each and every error and manually set the process right.
moreover in the way we did things the "sysdepends" table got all screwed up and therefore we can no longer depend on enterprise manager to show dependencies within the database.
is there any elegant way of going about this ? we also tried transfer manager in DTS but it also gave the same error. moreover can the sysdepends table be rebuilt from scratch ?