I have inherited a number of databases which were substantially over sized when they were set up. I'd like to reduce both the log and database files to be smaller than their original sizes, what's the easiest way to do this? If anyone has any experience of doing this please reply.
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i have a database that becomes to big after a few days. is there a chance to say if the table reaches a number of lines or a special memorysize, delete (or better archive) the oldest entries?
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I have a production database of a size of 70 GB. Half of the data was archived and deleted from the current database. What is the best way to
reduce the size of the database, as we cannot shrink an entire database to be smaller than its original size? Thanks a lot!
Hello. I am wondering how to effectively reduce the size of my database. After viewing the individual table sizes, I have come to realize that nearly 99% of the database's size is due to images. I am told that too much binary data is not good. How can I go about reducing the size of my database (possibly the images themselves)? I'd appreciate any help.
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Currently we take full database backups nightly for our SQL Server 2000 data warehouse systems. The backups take a very long time over 20 hours and we would like to find a good way to reduce these backup times. How can I change our backup plan to reduce the long backup run times. Data size is 1 TB for our data warehouse database server.
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Hello,A while back I dropped a text column from a SQL Server 7 databaseroughly 3GB in size. I expected the size of the database to decreaseby around 1GB, but no change occurred. After searching usenet, Idiscovered that SQL Server 7 has no way of reclaiming that space, butthat there is some command that can be run in SQL Server 2000 thatwill reclaim it.I have since migrated this database to SQL Server 2000, and am nowtrying to figure out what that command is, but cannot locate anyusenet posts about it... also tried searching books online, but can'tfind anything that way either.Does anyone know what I should run?Thanks,Tom
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got a 9gig DB which when backed up using the gui comes to 5gigs.When backed using the SQL "backup database" command it comes to 20gigs.Can someone suggest a good reason for the difference?
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I'm wondering what would be the best approach to designing a database that will have different products one of them being T-Shirts of different sizes... for example 1 t-shirt design might only have 2 available sizes while another may have 4. I'm kinda stumped on how to approach this cuz there is multiple products like CD's, DVD's, Magazines etc which is pretty straight forward, but the T-shirts have this "variable" to it.
What i'm really wondering is should i have 1 main "Products" Table or should i have a separate table for the t-shirts? Should there be a column for each available size?
Currently my database has a "products table" that has foreign keys to "Product Type", "Artists", "Genre"
The database is basically for a record company
If anyone has designed a database similar to this i'd love any insight or even possibly to see a database diagram
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Does anyone has a script which gives all databases names and thereallocated, used sizes in SQLserver2k. I want to schedule this to create adaily report.Thanks,Nasir
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to capture the sizes of all Databases into a Permanent Table and include the Date.
It works when inserting into a #Temp Table.
When I try inserting into a permanent table it returns NULL.
The following code needs modified to create a permanent table and store the Date:
CREATE TABLE #databases ( DATABASE_NAME VARCHAR(50), DATABASE_SIZE FLOAT, Date VARCHAR(100) )
INSERT #Databases EXEC ('EXEC sp_databases');
SELECT@@SERVERNAME AS SERVER_NAME, DATABASE_NAME,
DATABASE_SIZE AS 'KB',
ROUND(DATABASE_SIZE / 1024, 2) AS 'MB',
ROUND((DATABASE_SIZE / 1024) / 1024, 2) AS 'GB',
CONVERT(date, getdate()) AS Date FROM #databases
DROP TABLE #databases;
The below query works perfectly fine, except that it produces many outputs instead of one continuous table that can be easaly converted to xml / csv by copying it from the "Results" window.
What I need is a query that will produce a single result for all the tables in all the databases on the server.
The results:
The query:
DECLARE @begin INT = 1, @end INT, @sql NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @CREATE_TEMPLATE VARCHAR(MAX);
DECLARE @DBNAME VARCHAR(255);
DECLARE @SQL_SCRIPT VARCHAR(MAX);
SELECT @end = COUNT(name) FROM sys.databases
SET @CREATE_TEMPLATE = '
[Code] ....
Morning forum,
I'm having a problem to which I'm sure the answer is simple...
All I want is a list of databases on my server with their allocated size and the free space within. Something similar to the first table that sp_spaceused gives you but on a server wide scale.
As I say, I'm sure there's a simple solution out there, but alas Google has failed me.
Thanks in advance,
Dan.
Hi,
Does anyone has query to give all table sizes on a database?
Appreciate your help.
Thanks
Hi,I have the following three tables below containing Resources,Categories and a link table so each Resource can belong to one or moreCategories. I would like to create a view (ResourceID, ResourceName,CategoryID, CategoryName) that includes one row for each Resource withjust one of the Categories that it belongs to.Resource table- ResourceID- ResourceName- etc..Category table- CategoryID- CategoryName- etc..ResourceCategory table- ResourceID- CategoryIDCan anyone help? Thanks.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi used "dbcc shrink file" to reduce the log file of a database.the query analyzer says "successfully executed" but the log file doesn't seem to reduce..am i missing something?
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The transaction log of the databse i am using has grown up to 7GB...(previously the setting was unrestricted file growth...now changed to restrict file growth to 7 GB approx.)
now this 7GB space is not needed....i would like to reduce the size to around 2 GB...how can i achieve this?i observer that on the properties i can only increase the size and not decrease it...also i am using transactional replication..this server is the publisher to four subscribers..
Hi guys, how are you?
Ive got a little question, i hope you can help me up
in sql server i have 3 tables
Code:
user
id_user - autoincremental int, primary key
username - varchar 30
car
id_car - autoincremental int, primary key
carName - varchar 30
user_car
id_user - int, foreign key
id_car - int, foreign key
what i want to do, is to
1.- insert a row in User,
2.- insert a row in Car
3.- using SCOPE_IDENTITY, to insert a new row in user_car that relates the ids of the last added car with the last added user.
But i need that to be done in one single transaction.
Once that is done, i have another question
how can i do the same but where i can add a variable number of different cars? in other words, i add 1 user and then add 5 cars, then create 5 rows in the user_car where i have the id of the last added user with the incremental id of the last 5 added cars
how can this be done in one single transaction, i cant make it in 3 transactions cuz it would cause me a lot of trouble. Any help?
my transaction should be something like this
Code:
insert into user(username) values('user1');
insert into car(carName) values('car1');
insert into user_car(???,???)
but im not sure how to do this in one single transaction
Hi,
If I understand it correctly, you only need an LDF file to restore to a point in time after the last full backup? If this is so, then Could the LDF file not be reduced in size on perfoming a full backup?
Most of the time it's not an issue as there is enough space on the HDD, but is it possible to reduce the ldf file size periodically (manually would be fine). Is changing the recovery mode from FULL to SIMPLE and then back to FULL an option?
If so, is anyone able to tell me how, exactly, I can do this? ... I've sifted through the documentaion to no avail ... :eek:
Many thanks
Rob
I am trying to reduce the size of my tempdb using the DBCC SHRINKFILE command and get the following error.
DBCC SHRINKFILE: Page 1:1164376 could not be moved because it is a work table page.
How can I get around this so I can shrink the db?
Hi all,
I have started to look at the way our production DB has been defined and set up, with the view to improving performance.
The DB is now 11gb, and the original size was set up as 3000mb, the rest has been take in 10% additional extents.
Now, back in my DB2 DBA days, this was a bad thing to have any data spread across extents as they may not be contiguous. I am assuming that is the same with SQL Server. Can someone confirm/deny this?
If this is the case, how can I get the DB back into one primary partition?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
If I have a transaction log in a database of size 1GB ( space allocated is during creation of database) currently only 300 mb of its space is used i.e. nearly 700 mb is free. If I want to reduce physical file size of transaction log by 200 mb and release it for operating system then How can I do it???
View 4 Replies View Relatedi am new to sql server. i recently found the transaction log size of my database has reached 109 MB. how can i reduce it. a transaction log backup was sceduled daily at 12.00 noon nad full backup monthly.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI created few jobs that would archive the production DB and delete the archived data...
but it looks like the DB size is not reducing!!! Some times it looks like the size has increased!!
I think this is because of the log file size has increaded by the DELETE operations....But what can I do for this???
Please Help!!
Having difficulty achieving an end-result in transforming the results of a rowset query into XML.
Here is simplified test code that displays my problem:
declare @TimesheetHdrs table (EmpID int,EntryYear smallint,EntryPeriod tinyint,AdminNotes varchar(max),UserNotes varchar(max))
declare @TimesheetDtls table (EmpID int,EntryYear smallint,EntryPeriod tinyint,ProjCode varchar(25),ActCode varchar(25),ExpendCode varchar(10),EntryDate date,EntryQty decimal(7,2))
declare @Projects table (ProjCode varchar(25),ProjName varchar(200))
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The result of the above code is the following:
Code:
<root>
<timesheet empid="1" entryyear="2012" entryPeriod="1" adminnotes="These are the admin notes" empnotes="These are the user notes">
<project projnum="TestProject" projname="The really big project for our best customer">
<activity actcode="000103020200302302322" actname="Demolish the 55th story of the main tower">
[Code] ....
Notice how there is a tremendous amount of redundancy in the XML. I was hoping to come up with an XML result of the following, which transmits the same data, without the redundancies.
Code:
<root>
<timesheet empid="1" entryyear="2012" entryPeriod="1" adminnotes="These are the admin notes" empnotes="These are the user notes">
<project projnum="TestProject" projname="The really big project for our best customer">
<activity actcode="000103020200302302322" actname="Demolish the 55th story of the main tower">
<expenditure expcode="1" expname="Regular Hours">
[Code] ....
The length of a column is 20(varchar),
When i m trying to execute select column name it gives all 20 characters.
My requirement is - is there any option by which i will be able to see only 10 characters ?
I'm trying to insert all the rows from a table to a new table.
(insert A select * from AA)
The reads on Profiler shows ar really high value (10253548).
First I created a unique clustered index and the reads shows (3258445), then I created a non clustered index expecting to have lower reads. Instead the reads shows (10253548).
I read creating indexes helps reduce reads. But it's not happening.
Any ideas what is going on?
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I am working on a personal project and am drawing a complete blank(too much celebrating last night?) on the SQL term that is used toeliminate multiples of like data when it is returned from thedatabase.ie, instead of ....redblueredgreenit would return ...redbluegreenSorry for the trouble and thanks.
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We currently have an e-commerce app written in .NET with SQL Server backend and built-in CMS that works just fine. We are now implementing a service to remove the need for the CMS by automating the synchronisation of the e-commerce database with a back-office database (non SQL Server). The problem we have run into is that during some of the larger updates to the website (i.e. new product information), the e-commerce system is experiencing timeouts. The synchronisation service uses transactions while performing updates and so I am assuming that the timeouts are being caused by the transactions locking tables and data.
What steps can I take to try to reduce these locks? The transactions are as short as possible so I do not think we can reduce the amount of processing each transaction deals with. I was looking at different isolation modes, Snapshot in particular, to reduce the locks, but would like some advice from someone who may have dealt with this type of situation before I start messing around here. (The synchronisation service uses the default ReadCommitted level, BTW)
Any advice you have to offer will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Stephen.
I have a Log file grown to 28 G.
TASK: I want to claim the hard disk space.
I want to use
--backup Log DB-NAME with truncate_only
--dbcc shrinkfile(DB-NAME_Log,1)
Is there any risk involved in above steps, and OR would any experienced Folk like to share his or her idea to the Task as above.
Many Thanks,
Hi All,
Is it possible to reduce the automatic failover time on MS SQL 2005? It seems to take around a minute on my servers.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
I have a database who is in full recovery mode. I have four maintenence plans setup: database backup, log backup, optimization and integrity checkup. The last two plans run weekly and the first two run daily. I found that the log size often increase to a dramatically size in a very short period, almost same size as the database file (4G). Further I found that the size seems increase a lot after the last two plan runs.
My question is that the optimization operation(reconstruct index page) will write any reocord to log file? Is this possible a reason?
Now the log file occupy too much disk space (90% of space can be free). What I should do? Shrink database weekly?
Thanks
Anyone here with a ready to go sqlscript that lists all db's, files, sizes, owner etc? I guess it's a combination of sp_databases, sp_helpdb and sp_helpdb [db].
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