Recovery :: Primary Log File Is Not Available For Database
May 6, 2015
We are doing restoring in a different data center and keep sending log backups and restore from there.Recently we want to bring a new volume to the sql server and move all databases to the new volume, then the problem comes, I did a test that I cannot simply change the drive letter, i.e. old disk letter x, new disk letter y, then I turn off all sql instances and move all databases(restoring status) to disk y, then get rid off disk x, resign x to disk y, so now new disk has old letter x now. then I continue the restore log against latest log backup, it returns the error.
Msg 3446, Level 16, State 2, Line 4
Primary log file is not available for database 'TestDB' (7:0). Â The log cannot be backed up.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
Is there a way to do this? or SQL Server doesn't support this change.
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Oct 3, 2007
hi
i was deleted a record from my database, but i want to recover my deleted record via log file, how to do ?
thanks
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Jul 9, 2014
Last week I backed up my SQL Server by using BE 2012. I named the file "SQL Server BAK" which contained copies of my SQL Server databases. A few days ago I lost some part of my data due to accidental deletion. I backed it up, so I tried to restore the database from the .bkf file. The problem comes here, when I try to to restore my .bkf file, it becomes inaccessible.what causes this?
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Nov 5, 2007
Hi all,
I downloaded and ran AdventureWorks.msi into my SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) one year ago.But I did not know how to attach it to my SSMSE then. Last week, I deleted it from the "Add or Remove" of Control Panel and I downloaded the new AdventureWork.msi and installed it my SSMSE. Today, I tried to use the Database Explorer of VB 2005 Express for the first Stored Procedure programming. I clicked on AdventureWorks.mdf and I got the following error: One or more files do not match the primary of the database. If you are attempting to attach a database, retry the operation with the correct files. If this is an existing database, the file may be corrupt and should be restored from a backup. Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'CENADe1enxshc'. Log file 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDataAdventureWorks_Data_log.ldf' does not match the primary file. It may be from a different database of the log may have been rebuilt previously. Please help and advise me how to correct this problem.
Thanks,
Scott Chang
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Nov 3, 2015
Have a database that's in "Simple" recovery mode whose .ldf has grown to 270GB. Â This database is a data warehouse so "full" is not required. Â I put it in simple mode a month ago and shrunk the log down and now it's filled up the disk.Â
What steps can I take to mitigate this in future? Â I've read that this is caused by long running transactions which fill the log for DR purposes. Â Should I put the database back into full mode and backup/truncate daily. Â
The auto-growth is set to 128MB which is very low.Â
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Aug 6, 2007
I really needed to move the tempdb file to another hard drive, so I used this bit of code.
USE master
go
ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev, FILENAME = 'E: empdb.mdf')
go
ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = templog, FILENAME = 'E: emplog.ldf')
go
Now sql server manager won't even start. The log files says
"tempdb.mdf is not a privary database file. CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created.
WARNING: problem activiating all tempdb files. See previous errors."
Any ideas on how to make this program work again, without reinstalling it?
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Aug 8, 2007
Hi Everone,
I need help on how to produce a SQL Server Database Primary Data File, i have read the Visual C# 2006 book by Deitel and Deitel unfortunately the book does not say how to produce the forementioned data file. The software that i currently have to help me produce this data file is Visual C#, J#, Web Development, SQL Server 2005 and Office 2007.
I have a good understanding of databases from studying SQL and Oracle but i am not sure which is the best software to use to produce the Primary Data File, ideally i would like to use Access from my Office 2007 package.
Many thanks for your help in resolving this problem.
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Apr 29, 2008
I've just applied CU7 to a set of SQL2005 SP2 servers with no problems, except on one server.
I've now fixed the problem, but couldn't find description of it elsewhere so post it here in case it helps anyone else with the same problem.
Here's the problem I had. The server is Windows 2003 with two instances of SQL 2005 SP2 (9.00.3186)
1) Ran the patch (SQLServer2005-KB949095-x86-ENU.exe)
2) C: drive ran out of space whilst patch was running against instance A
3) Cleared down space on C: drive
4) Patch had hung, after 45 minutes of no activity I killed it
5) Re-ran patch, it reported instance A as upgraded already and just upgraded instance B
6) After reboot instance A failed to start. Instance B started with no problem.
The service was failing to start with the following recorded in the log:
Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3239.00 (Intel X86)
[€¦]
spid5s The resource database build version is 9.00.3186. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
spid5s Error: 5173, Severity: 16, State: 1.
spid5s One or more files do not match the primary file of the database. If you are attempting to attach a database, retry the operation with the correct files. If this is an existing database, the file may be corrupted and should be restored from a backup.
spid5s Error: 5173, Severity: 16, State: 1.
spid5s One or more files do not match the primary file of the database. If you are attempting to attach a database, retry the operation with the correct files. If this is an existing database, the file may be corrupted and should be restored from a backup.
spid5s Log file 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.2MSSQLDATAmssqlsystemresource.ldf' does not match the primary file. It may be from a different database or the log may have been rebuilt previously.
spid5s The log cannot be rebuilt when the primary file is read-only.
spid5s Error: 945, Severity: 14, State: 2.
spid5s Database 'mssqlsystemresource' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details.
I think that the patch must have got part-way through instance A, enough to mark it as being patched, but not far enough to patch the mssqlsystemresource system database (note the version numbers in the log above - 9.00.3239 vs 9.00.3186).
The hotfix log records an error opening the registry, but the detailed log was overwritten by the subsequent (successful) run of the hotfix so there€™s no more detail available.
To fix this I copied in the mssqlsystemresource mdf and ldf files from instance B (which wasn€™t patched the first time round, and was subsequently patched successfully). From what I understand mssqlsystemresource is read-only and holds copies of system sprocs etc, so a copy will suffice. Plus I am assuming the SQL Server is clever enough to complain if it€™s not happy with the instance of the file.
Note that the problem recorded elsewhere for this error, where mssqlsystemresource or other system DBs have been moved from their original installation folders, was not the cause here.
Not sure if this is the 'correct' fix, but it got Instance A up and running. Obviously YMMV
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Sep 17, 2015
Pages on a full recovery model database corrupted, need to ensure data loss is minimal for restore operation am thinking about restoring the latest full backup.
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Oct 12, 2015
I've got log shipping set up, and everything seems to be working fine, but the log files are not being deleted from the primary server despite configuring log shipping to retain them for 3 days. Â I see no errors concerning the log shipping, but did not configure a monitor. What process is responsible for deleting the older log backups, and how can I look for errors. Â I could simply set up a jog to delete the older files, but that will only mask the issue.
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Sep 28, 2015
As per our client requirement we want to set synchronization time from primary replica to secondary replica after 20 minutes. Is it possible in MSSQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012?
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Jul 16, 2015
I have 3 synchronous AlwaysON replicas: A, B and C. A is primary, B and C are secondary and both are set to Automatic recovery. How can I understand, which of them (B or C) will become primary when A goes offline? Well, Actually my final DB system should support following configuration:
1) Normally - A is primary B and C are sync secondary.
2) if A fails, B automatically becomes primary, C remains Sync secondary.
3) if A goes online, it becomes primary againÂ
4) C becomes primary only after A and B fail (and there still should be cluster quorum!)
As I understood, first of all i should configure quorum the following way: A-0, B-1, C-1, folder-witness-1.
The problem, again, is: I cannot understand how to configure which replica becomes primary when AG fails over.
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Sep 25, 2015
I want to redirect the logshipping primary backup folder to another drive, how to change the configurations steps to move the primary logship folder to another location within the same server!
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Nov 1, 2015
We have an issue with a 3 node SQL 2012 Always on availability group. Normal operation is node 1 (primary replica) with node 2 and node 3 as secondary replicas.After some patching, SQL wasn't running on node 1 hence the AG flipped over to node 2. This went unnoticed for some time and the transaction log for one of the AG databases became full on node 2 and node 3. (I think this is because it couldn't commit the transactions on node 1 so couldn't truncate it's t-log?) The DB is using synchronous replication btw.So I started SQL on node 1 and flipped the AG back to node 1 (with a data loss warning but I accepted this).Now the issue is that on node 2 and 3, the DB in question is stuck in a "Reverting / In Recovery" State. I've tried various commands such as ALTER DATABASE SET ONLINE, RESTORE DATABASE WITH RECOVERY etc but these fail stating unable to obtain a lock on the DB.
The weird thing is that on node 1 the state of the DB is "synchronised".how to resolve this issue on node 2 and 3? I've left them overnight (in case they were rolling back transactions, the DB is fairly large) but nothing seems to have happened. remove the DB from the AG in node 2 and 3 and add it back in again, ie recreate the replication?
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May 29, 2015
We have several Sql Server 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups set up in our test lab and use a combination of SCDPM and Maintenance Plans to back up the databases in them.Â
Our applications always work well regardless of which of the physical servers are, at any given time, designated the "Primary" for a database. Automatic failover works fine.
There are other applications, such as SQL Server built-in backup and System Center DPM that only work properly when the databases are currently hosted where originally intended.
During the normal course of Windows Updates, etc., machines will occasionally be rebooted in the middle of the night. When they come back up, we would like them to "reclaim" the databases that properly belong to them, in an orderly fashion of course (when the "Synchronization State = Sychronized"). We have lots of these test servers and we do not have staff watching the servers in the middle of the night.
Is there an automatic way to accomplish this?
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Sep 2, 2007
Greetings, I have just arrived back into the country (NZ) and back into ASP.NET.
I am having trouble with the following:An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file (file location).../Database.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
It has only begun since i decided i wanted to use IIS, I realise VWD comes with its own localhost, but since it is only temporary, i wanted a permanent shortcut on my desktop to link to my intranet page.
Anyone have any ideas why i am getting the above error? have searched many places on the internet and not getting any closer.
Cheers ~ J
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May 10, 2007
I have a customer they are running raid 5 on a windows 2000 server one of the drives went bad. The customer replaced the drive and raid rebuilt the drive, every thing seamed to be fine but there is one database file that cannot be attached to SQL. The file is 15G so I know there is information the error states that the file is not a Primary file. Any clue on how to fix this?
mdf file size 5,738,944 KB
ldf file size 10,176 KB
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Apr 25, 2008
We have the following scenario,
We have our Production server having database on which Few DTS packages execute every night. Most of them have Bulk Insert stored procedures running.
SO we have to set Recovery Model of the database to simple for that period of time, otherwise it will blow up our logs.
Is there any way we can set up log shipping between our production and standby server, but pause it for some time, set recovery model of primary db to simple, execute DTS Bulk Insert Jobs, Bring it Back to Full recovery Model AND finally bring back Log SHipping.
It it possible, if yes how can we achieve this.
If not what could be another DR solution in this scenario.
Thanks Much
Tejinder
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Apr 29, 2014
Why shrinkfile empty file does not redistribute data evenly in the primary file group with multiple files:
Please run the script attached to see what the end result is.
This is what I set up last night on my test machine.
1) Create database [FGTest] size 200MB
2) Create table called TEST on primary
3) Insert 40MB of data into test
4) Create another file group called temp in primary size 200MB
5) Shrinkfile('FGTest',emptyfile) so that all data is transfered from FGTest into temp file group.
6) Add another 2 files called DATA2 and DATA3. Both are 200MB.
7) We now have 3 empty files that I want data distributed evenly on. FGTest, DATA2 & DATA3
8) Shrinkfile('temp',emptyfile) to move all the data from temp over the 3 file groups evenly
I would expect at this stage to have the following:
FGTest = 13MB,
DATA2 = 13MB,
DATA3 = 13MB
(40MB of data over 3 files should be about 13 MBish in each file)
What I actually end up with is this:
FGTest = 20MB
DATA1 = 10MB
DATA2 = 10MB
It looks as though SQL Server is allocating 50% of all data to the original file and then 50% evenly over
the remaining files in PRIMARY.
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May 30, 2008
The server is not being backed up and a user deleted an important folder, that a process depends on. The folder was too large to fit on the recycle bin and therefore was deleted.
Anyone happen to know a good third party tool that performs data recovery and is RAID compatible?
Thanks,
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Feb 20, 2002
I have successfully restored my old MSSQL7.0 database from a computer that crashed - but the database is several months old. I do, however, have the most recent log files (*.ldf) - the actual log file and NOT a backup log file. Is there any way i can update my restored databse with the most recent .ldf files?
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Sep 22, 2005
Hi,
Server drives become faulty and after the recovery of the server the SQL server installation was gone from the system drive. Residing on a different drive, the mdf and ldf files of a database were saved. Unfortunately, when trying to attach the files to a new SQL server installation there is a message 'I/O error (torn page) detected during read at offset 0000000000000000 in file E:SQLServer2KMSSQLDatadb.mdf'.
The available backup files are not restorable returning 'An internal consistency error' upon restoring. So, the hope is with the mdf and ldf files. Does anyone have any idea what can be done specifically with the mdf/ldf files? Any recovery software to be recommended?
Thanks!
AV
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Sep 22, 2005
Hi,
Server drives become faulty and after the recovery of the server the SQL server installation was gone from the system drive. Residing on a different drive, the mdf and ldf files of a database were saved. Unfortunately, when trying to attach the files to a new SQL server installation there is a message 'I/O error (torn page) detected during read at offset 0000000000000000 in file E:SQLServer2KMSSQLDatadb.mdf'.
The available backup files are not restorable returning 'An internal consistency error' upon restoring. So, the hope is with the mdf and ldf files. Does anyone have any idea what can be done specifically with the mdf/ldf files? Any recovery software to be recommended?
Thanks!
AV
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Feb 8, 2006
I have a SQL Server (Express) database that I use in a Visual Studio (Visual Basic) 2005 application.
The application is of the Decision Support type, that routine deletes the contents of some of the database tables and then re-populates them with new data. There is no reason for keeping the "old" contents and no reason to restore the old content.
(It does this using "BULK INSERT" statements, as in:
"BULK INSERT SharePrices FROM "C:SharePrice.txt")
Because of all the data replacing, the log file gets huge quickly. I don't need the log file at all.
(I suspect that the logging is also taking up time unncessarily.)
Is there any way I can set the database not to have a log file at all, or to have a small log file?
(I've tried deleting the log file from SQL Server Management SQL Express, but get a message that there has to be a log file.)
When I restrict the log file size, my application returns error messages that the log file is too small, and the application can't do what it needs to do.
I have already made sure that in the database that the recovery mode is set to "Simple" and that "AutoShrink" is set to true.
I've tried manual "Shrinks". These work. However, as soon as the application accesses the database, the log file gets huge again.
I realise I may have to do (unnecessary) backups before/after my bulk insert statements. If so, I'd appreciate some help on how to do this from within a Visual Basic 2005 application. (I'm actually using the Data Access block from the Enterprise Library for my data access.)
I'd really appreciate your help.
Kind regards
Reg Bust
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Apr 10, 2008
I have a warm standby (secondary server) receiving log shipping files.
The database has 5 files all in the primary filegroup. Two of the files need to be moved from one hard drive to another. Whats the best way / process to accomplish the move and re-establish the log shipping recovery status?
Thanks
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Apr 1, 2008
Hello,
Any body helop me in such respect that my log file was corrupt. I have mdf file only. Is there any tool to recover data from mdf file or export data to any other db.
thanks
Mansoor .net developer
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Aug 7, 2015
Log shipping was configured 6 months back. A Transaction log file got corrupted today. How to resolve this?
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Jul 19, 2007
I am having a problem restoring to a new or different database than the backup file being restored was created from. I understand the Move commands, and have figured out how to get this to work by mapping the data and log files from the backup file to the files defined for the restore target database.
The problem is with the full text catalog that is part of the backup.
Here's the T-SQL I'm executing, and the error I receive:
T-SQL:
RESTORE DATABASE New_DB
FROM DISK = 'C:ackupOld_DB.bak'
WITH RECOVERY, REPLACE,
MOVE 'Old_DB' TO 'C:SQLDataNew_DB.mdf',
MOVE 'Old_DB_log' TO 'C:SQLDataNew_DB_log.ldf'
Error:
Msg 1834, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The file 'C:SQLDataFTDataftKeyWords0007' cannot be overwritten. It is being used by database 'Old_DB'.
Msg 3156, Level 16, State 4, Line 1
File 'sysft_ftKeyWords' cannot be restored to 'C:SQLDataFTDataftKeyWords0007'. Use WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file.
Msg 3119, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Problems were identified while planning for the RESTORE statement. Previous messages provide details.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Not sure what to do about this, any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Mar 20, 2008
Hello,
I have a question regarding the backup for the database in Simple Recovery Model.
In this Model, I know we can restore only to the last full backup or can use differential
Backup, if implemented as a part of backup.
But my point of confusion is about the backup of '.ldf' file, should those file should be backed up in the
Maintenance Plan, if yes does it help in reducing the size of Log file?
Do we need the backup of '.ldf' in phase of Restoring?
As I mention my database has Simple Recovery Model, but the size of log file is around 20GB,
Could not understand why as in this Model, normally it automatically truncate the Log file?
Help me to clear my these doubts,
thanks,
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Oct 9, 2007
yes,I have an error, like 'The database file may be corrupted. Run the repair utility to check the database file. [ Database name = SDMMC Storage Cardwinpos_2005WINPOS2005.sdf ]' .I develope a program for Pocket Pcs and this program's database sometimes corrupt.what can i do?please help me
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Aug 5, 2015
I was looking to change the file growth setting in our AlwaysOn environment databases.We have a single availability group, one primary and one secondary replica. I learned that when changing the file growth setting on the primary databases (data file), the change flows though to the database on the secondary replica.However after doing the same with the log files, the file growth setting changed on the primary but the change did NOT propagate to the secondary.
Is the solution to apply the change directly to the secondary?here's the T-SQL code I used:
ALTER DATABASE myDB
MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'myDB_log', FILEGROWTH = 512MB );
GO
SQL Server 2012 (11.0.5532)
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Jul 30, 2015
My understanding is that the log file is not supposed to grow if the database is under simple recovery mode.I am in a situation where the log grows if do any inserts that involve millions of rows.How do i make sure that it does not grow?
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Sep 15, 2015
One of our database is in simple recovery model, and usually generating more than 220 GB log file (.ldf) every week. We are shrinking log file many times to release the space.
But as its not advisable I am looking for any other options. I suggested to change the recovery model to Full and start T-log backup, but client dont want to change recovery model.
Is there any way to manage Log file of Simple recovery model to maintain disk space?
Will full backup truncate log file ?
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