A while back I dropped a text column from a SQL Server 7 database
roughly 3GB in size. I expected the size of the database to decrease
by around 1GB, but no change occurred. After searching usenet, I
discovered that SQL Server 7 has no way of reclaiming that space, but
that there is some command that can be run in SQL Server 2000 that
will reclaim it.
I have since migrated this database to SQL Server 2000, and am now
trying to figure out what that command is, but cannot locate any
usenet posts about it... also tried searching books online, but can't
find anything that way either.
hi 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?
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.
I have a database consisting of two main tables and 12 sub tables.
This was leading to increase in database size. So we thought of storing the sub tables data in the main tables in form of xml in a column of varchar(2000) type.
So we created a new database that only had 2 tables and we stored the data of the sub tables in the new column of the main table.
Surprisingly we saw that the database size increased rather than decreasing .
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???
i 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.
I 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???
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?
Can anyone help me reduce a transaction log. It is currently at 2.5GB because it was set to autogrow with no backup !?
I need to drastically reduce it and have backed it up and tried dbcc shrinkfile...but...it now says space used is 120MB but current size is still 2.5GB.
At this time I am only playing with the applications that generate the data and send it to the database. Without doing too much, and with deleting most data tables that were created, my transaction log file has grown over a gigabyte. I tried using the SQL server management studio (express) to shrink the database (tried shrinking files, too) but that did not make the file smaller. Right now there is hardly any data in the database (6 tables, a dozen columns and rows each) so it must be old transactions that are kept in the log. How do I get rid of the old data and make the file size smaller? Thanks. Kamen
In one of my SSRS report under body properties default size (width = 34.54712cm , height = 20.92853cm ). I've tried to reduce the size to width = 26cm ,height = 18 . once i changed. the width its going to the same orginal size again.
In a title of a column of a table, I put a too long text, with sorting, but when I spread (display) the report has a problem on text of the title of the column there.
The probleme settles (arises) when I activate the sorting to post (show) the image of sorting.
With the data example below I am trying to consolidate the duplicate rows by flattening the dealer and billcode, or putting those values in each of the columns instead of creating separate rows...
74 MARTHA PATNE RIPLEY 1 23,327,76 ROTTINGDAM AAC SPRINGFIELD 3052 USA MPATRIP@AMERICANALARM.COM,MPATRIP@COMCAST.NET,PRIPLEY@ONECOMMUNICATIONS.COM
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.
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.
I have a table with multiple column and has millions of rows in it(say about 50 millions ) and its in production. What is the best way of dropping the a column from the table without impacting the systems performance. Remeber this table will be used some application to get some data out of it.
I'm creating a VB program that does some DB manipulations.
I need a programmatic to drop the Identity property (not the column data) so that the field will be just an Integer with the old data...
It seems like the only way is the EM way (creating a temp table with no identity on the column, copying the data into it, deleting the old table, and re-naming the temp...) I'm looking for a more inovative way, or possibly a way to automate the process (so I'll be able to do this for all tables in a database in a modular way).
I am trying to drop the "allow nulls" characteristics on an existing table column. I know that there are not Nulls currently in this column, nor will there ever be. How do I get rid of that "allow nulls" checkmark on an existing table structure? Thanks, Craig.
I have a query that produces unique rows. However, some of the unique rows have the column called testname that has the same test listed more than once. All I want to do is drop the older testname and keep the testdate column.
Select Distinct TestID, TestDate, TestName
From third.test
I want to keep testdate in the query....guessing I need to put in to a temp table then drop the oldest one somehow by doing a subquery using Select Max....
How do i drop/remove the identity property for an existing column in all Tables where the Identity column is a primary key. The Script below was used to find all the tables that have an Identity Column as a primary key in a database. Now i want to remove the identity property from the Identity Columns that have a primary key in the database.
select pk.table_name, c.column_name,
from information_schema.table_constraints pk
INNER JOIN information_schema.key_column_usage c ON c.TABLE_NAME = pk.TABLE_NAME
and c.constraint_name = pk.constraint_name
where constraint_type = 'PRIMARY KEY'
and COLUMNPROPERTY(object_id(pk.table_name), column_name, 'IsIdentity') = 1
I have a web form that is an interface for a database. The code was working fine until a field needed to be added. So I added the new field, updated the data adapter and data set, and when i enter the data into the field, all of the old fields are getting updated, but the new ones aren't. I am at wits end as to why. Can someone please help!!! I am using VS Studio 2000 ASP.NET and C#. The code is below. The bold items are the new fields.using System;using System.Collections;using System.ComponentModel;using System.Data;using System.Drawing;using System.Web;using System.Web.SessionState;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;namespace TrafficDept{/// <summary>/// Summary description for AddOwner./// </summary>public class AddOwner : System.Web.UI.Page{protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button1;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator RequiredFieldValidator3;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection sqlConnection1;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox TextBox1;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox TextBox2;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter daAddOwner;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOtherOwnerLName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Panel namePanel;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOtherOwnerMI;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOtherOwnerFName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbSecondOwnerLName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbSecondOwnerMI;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbSecondOwnerFName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button4;protected SiteCubed.EditWorksProfessional tbNote;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Panel notePanel;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList ddlStatus;protected PeterBlum.PetersDatePackage.DateTextBox tbRegDate;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator RequiredFieldValidator2;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOwner;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator RequiredFieldValidator1;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOwnerMI;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbOwnerLName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator RequiredFieldValidator4;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbBusinessName;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbAddress;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbRegNo;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbPreviousOwner;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbPOwnerAddress;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox tbPORegNo;protected PeterBlum.PetersDatePackage.DateTextBox tbTransferDate;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList ddlMeans;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button3;protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button2;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand sqlSelectCommand1;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand sqlInsertCommand1;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand sqlUpdateCommand1;protected System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand sqlDeleteCommand1;protected TrafficDept.dsAddOwner dsAddOwner1; private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e){// Put user code to initialize the page here}#region Web Form Designer generated codeprivate void Button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){Response.Redirect("AddOthers.aspx");}private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){daAddOwner.Fill(dsAddOwner1);dsAddOwner.OwnershipRow drOwner = dsAddOwner1.Ownership.NewOwnershipRow();drOwner.Plates_ID = int.Parse(Session["PlatesID"].ToString());drOwner.Status = ddlStatus.SelectedItem.Text;drOwner.Current_Legal_Owner = tbOwner.Text;drOwner.Owner_CurrentLegalOwnerMI = tbOwnerMI.Text.ToString();drOwner.Owner_CurrentLegalOwnerLName = tbOwnerLName.Text;drOwner.Owner_CurrentBusinessName = tbBusinessName.Text;if (!tbRegDate.xIsEmpty)drOwner.Date_of_Registration = DateTime.Parse(tbRegDate.Text.ToString());drOwner.Address_of_Current_Owner = tbAddress.Text;drOwner.Reg_No_for_Current_Owner = tbRegNo.Text;drOwner.Previous_Owner = tbPreviousOwner.Text;drOwner.Previous_Owner_Address = tbPOwnerAddress.Text;drOwner.Reg_No_for_Previous_Owner = tbPORegNo.Text;if (!tbTransferDate.xIsEmpty)drOwner.Date_of_Transfer = DateTime.Parse(tbTransferDate.Text.ToString());drOwner.By_Means_of = ddlMeans.SelectedItem.Text;drOwner.Owner_SecondaryLegalOwnerFName = tbSecondOwnerFName.Text;drOwner.Owner_SecondaryLegalOwnerMI = tbSecondOwnerMI.Text;drOwner.Owner_SecondaryLegalOwnerLName = tbSecondOwnerLName.Text;drOwner.Owner_OtherLegalOwnerFName = tbOtherOwnerFName.Text;drOwner.Owner_OtherLegalOwnerMI = tbOtherOwnerMI.Text;drOwner.Owner_OtherLegalOwnerLName = tbOtherOwnerLName.Text;drOwner.Owner_Notes = tbNote.Text;dsAddOwner1.Ownership.Rows.Add(drOwner);daAddOwner.Update(dsAddOwner1);Response.Redirect("AddOthersTP.aspx");}private void Button3_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){//daAddOwner.Fill(dsAddOwner1);//dsAddOwner.OwnershipRow drAddOwner = dsAddOwner1.Ownership.NewOwnershipRow();namePanel.Visible = true; }private void Button4_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){notePanel.Visible = true;}}}
After I drop the database, I backed up the master database, I recreate the database with new name. When I tried to do the import on the command level, It gives me the error: Attempt to locate entry in the sysdatabases for database 'db1' by name, failed -- no entry found in that name.
I am trying to run a dymanic DROP DATABASE <dbname> command in a stored procedure called from ASP.NET. I typically connect from the .net using a SQL builtin account. I am getting this error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot drop the database 'db_testco', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
The database is there for sure asI can browse it via the Studio manager. What permission do I need to set for my .net login to allow it to drop ? I tried adding the Delete permission to the database and still no go...
i would like to drop a distribution database after disabling both susbscriber and publisher .but i get a message saying distribution database is still in use .and as far as i can tell its there is no one using it .also stopped sql agent but no luck . and when i do select @@ servername i get servername is null how do i correct it .
Is there a way in SQL to drop any users from a database. I am trying to schedule some nightly DB maintenance and some users are still in there sometimes. I need to be able to kick the out to do dbcc checkdbs, etc. Is there a way for me to do this without stopping the SQL services?
