I have an 80 gig server. My client has sent me a backup of their db. The actual data file is 47 gigs. The client didn't truncate the transaction log, and on the backup , it is 37 gigs.
Question : when restoring this to my dev box, do I need to restore the transaction log, or, is there a way to truncate it so the 37 gigs isn't transferred to the server?
Thanks
I did a full backup of a db from one server(Express2005) and trying to restore it to a different instance of SQL2005 on the same development machine. (Also had some fulltext columns if that means anything)
Many failures but finally got it to report all was successful except the icon in Object Explorer shows (Restoring...) with no indication of any real activity going on. It's a tiny database with hardly any data in it.
Just not sure what the heck is going on there. It also won't let me into the database until this the (Restoring...) goes away.
Any advice on how to get this thing finished out?
The log file for my database in SQL Server 2005 is huge. How do I get empty it or in effect shrink it or start it over?Thanks
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I have a TRANSACTION table with 150 million rows.
I have a USER table.
Each user has about 600 records in the TRANSACTION table.
The TRANSACTION cluster index is on USERID + RECID . The second index is on USERID + Fieldx + Fieldy.
The TRANSACTION table gets about 1.4 million inserts in a normal day and about 40,000 updates.
I want to go through the USER table and delete all users who have not visited me in a while.
I want to do this without substantially hindering performance in a production environment. I can perform this over a week period or two if needed.
The best way I thought of doing this was to grab x amount of users in a cursor and loop through deleting their corresponding TRANSACTION records.
Does anyone have any ideas on a better way. What is going to happen to my indices during this time ?
Thanks !!!
I am creating a database for an application through script. After the tables, views, and sp's are created, the database is populated with data. After all of this (and before the application is even run), the log file is about 700MB. If I shrink the database, it takes the log down to 1MB. The mdf file is about 165 MB before and after it has been shrunk.
I have two questions:
1. Is there something I should look for in my database scripts or is there a setting that could prevent this from being created so large.
2. Is there a script I can run in my sql code after the database has been created and populated to shrink it.
Thank you for your help
I have transnational replication setup on two environments, on one server distribution database is tiny, but on the second server the distribution database is 5 times bigger, and taking up lot of space, both environments have almost same size of data.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI am actually a newbie to asp.net and i m using ASP.net 3.5 i.e, VWD 2008. i am using it for the first time as my tool to develop a website for my final year project. i am planning to develop an online job recruitment site like www.monster.com. Rigth now i am confused how will i manage my database. i've learned to use databinding concept of SQL SERVER in VWD 2008 but will it be enough to handle such huge # of Job postings and employers and as well as Resumes in pdf of word format? or do i have to create a separate databse in SQL Server and to connect it with my website? i am confused at the moment. please help me in this matter.
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Jigzy
Hi.
I am trying to put a hugh chunk of text into my database for example information to a particular product which has more than 2000 characters. I had saw this datatype "nvarchar(MAX)" in SQL Server 2005 and was wondering if i can use this to store my text.
Thanks
Hi
I have a table (Sql server 2000) which has 14 cost columns for each record, and now due to a new requirement, I have 2 taxes which needs to be applied on two more fields called Share1 and share 2
e.g
Sales tax = 10%
Use Tax = 10%
Share1 = 60%
Share2 = 40%
So Sales tax Amt (A) = Cost1 * Share1 * Sales Tax
So Use tax Amt (B) = cost1 * share2 * Use tax
same calculation for all the costs and then total cost with Sales tax = Cost 1 + A , Cost 2 + A and so on..
and total cost with Use tax = Cost1 +B, Cost 2 +B etc.
So there are around 14 new fields required to save Sales Tax amt for each cost, another 14 new fields to store Cost with Sales Tax, Cost with Use tax. So that increases the table size.
Some of these fields might be used for making reports.
I was wondering which is a better approach out of the below 3:
1) To calculate these fields dynamically while displaying them on the User interface and not save in DB (while making reports, again calculate these fields dynamically and show), or
2) Add new formula field columns in database table to save each field, which would make the table size bigger, but reporting becomes easier.
3) Add only those columns in database on which reports needs to be made, calculate rest of the fields dynamically on screen.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Hi
I have a table (Sql server 2000) which has 14 cost columns for each record, and now due to a new requirement, I have 2 taxes which needs to be applied on two more fields called Share1 and share 2
e.g
Sales tax = 10%
Use Tax = 10%
Share1 = 60%
Share2 = 40%
So Sales tax Amt (A) = Cost1 * Share1 * Sales Tax
So Use tax Amt (B) = cost1 * share2 * Use tax
same calculation for all the costs and then total cost with Sales tax = Cost 1 + A , Cost 2 + A and so on..
and total cost with Use tax = Cost1 +B, Cost 2 +B etc.
So there are around 14 new fields required to save Sales Tax amt for each cost, another 14 new fields to store Cost with Sales Tax, Cost with Use tax. So that increases the table size.
Some of these fields might be used for making reports.
I was wondering which is a better approach out of the below 4:
1) To calculate these fields dynamically while displaying them on the User interface and not save in DB (while making reports, again calculate these fields dynamically and show), or
2) Add new formula field columns in database table to save each field, which would make the table size bigger, but reporting becomes easier.
3) Add only those columns in database on which reports needs to be made, calculate rest of the fields dynamically on screen.
4) Create a view just for reports, and calculate values dynamically in UI and not adding any computed values in table.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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
We have a Customized share point application with Very minimal data usage and we have used only 5 to 6 lists and libraries only in the share point.
Configuration is
Clients -- fire wall --- Load Balancer ---- WF1 and WF2 --- SQL DB
ROUTING IS VIA FIRE WALL.
SUDDENLY THE SITE GOT DEAD SLOW AND UNABLE TO TRACE THE PROBLEM AS EVERY THING LOOKS FINE.
Checked with the firewall Team and they stated its fine from their end & even we have verified the counters, CPU, Memory & Page life expectancy, buffer counters all looks good and even we do not have huge data in the database. We have only 50 concurrent users are working...
I did tried the encryption on server "A" for database "AdventureWorks2012". Then I tried to restore to server "B". There was the certificate issue, and I thought "of course : it's encrypted ! Let's deactivate it". So here I go "ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2012 SET ENCYRPTION OFF".I look at sys.databases : not encrypted.I backup using no encryption, I verify using msdb.dbo.backupset : not encrypted.
I move my backup to my other server where encryption was never configured (so no certificate, nothing...), and I have the error :
Msg 33111, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Cannot find server certificate with thumbprint '0xFA130E58C999C4919B8975999C83A75A403B11D8'.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
I want to restore a database (from an encrypted .bak file) - but *not* over the live original if you take my meaning. Encryption is the standard AES-256 that comes with Sql Server 2014 btw. I don't want the original touched/altered in any way. I would like to capture a success message if possible.I can extract the physical device name of the database in question using the following code:
SELECT physical_device_name, *
FROM msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily
WHERE media_set_id =(SELECT TOP 1 media_set_id
FROM msdb.dbo.backupset
WHERE database_name='MyDatabase'
AND type='D'
ORDER BY backup_start_date DESC)
I would like if the newly restored database was rename to something different than 'MyDatabase' (as shown above) and has different logs than the original. If possible, and capture a success message when restored.
I have a Subscriber database updated using transactional
replication and want to create a copy for development & testing. The Distribution database is running on the
same 2005 instance as the Subscriber and the Publication database on another
server running SQL Server 2005.
If I use a TSQL script to run the restore, the database is
restored to a usable state but I get the following messages:
Msg 15247, Level 16, State 1, Procedure
sp_MSrepl_check_job_access, Line 112
User does not have permission to perform this action.
The replication agent job [job name] was not removed because
it has a non-standard name; manually remove the job when it is no longer in use.
(I€™ve removed the job name from the message)
RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 46219 pages in
935.413 seconds (0.404 MB/sec).
It looks like an attempt is being made to restore
replication information too. I note that
the RESTORE statement has a KEEP_REPLICATION options which implies (I would have
thought) that by default the replication information is not be restored.
Incidentally, before implementing replication, backing up
the live database and restoring the backup to a new database took < 7
minutes but running the same process with a Subscriber database backup takes
about 15 minutes.
I€™d be interested to know if anyone has any idea what I€™m
overlooking or doing wrong.
ThanksTim
1) We have got the database dump (.bak) file in one machine and we need to restore this to another machine where the SQL server (version 7) is running. But in the restore option there is no way to choose any mapped or shared drives in remote machine. Any pointer to resolve this problem?
2) Can you set up a database if you have the .mdf and .ldf files?
I am running SQL 7 on two seperate NT4 servers, a production server and a standby server. Both servers are configured for Mixed Mode authentication. If I back up a database on the production server, do I also need to back up the master database and restore it. My reasoning behind this is that users' login details will be held in the sysxlogins tbl in the master, while their access rights will be held in the sysusers tbl in the database I am backing up and restoring. If I back up and restore a database without backing up and restoring the master db as well, will the connection between the system login and the database user be broken.
Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi there...
can any one help in following situation.
Suppose in a network I have two sql server ABC and XYZ and XXX (NT server) on same sub net.
1) I take a backup from server ABC on XXX (NT).(ie.. backup on network)
2) Can I restore database in XYZ which was backed up by ABC? How???
3) Suppose My ABC machines fails and I have to again install SQL Server 7 on it, will I be able to restore database from XXX(NT)? how???
regards,
zak
Currently have large database in three devices, named Cabinet cab2 and cab3. Cab3 device has been expanded twice. We are upgrading the hardware and would like to get the database into one device named cabinet and clean the mess up our vendor initially created for us. Any Ideas/steps on how this could be accomplished??? TKS Jerry
View 2 Replies View RelatedUsing SQL 7.0, has anyone backed up a database and restored on to a different database without the device files being moved around.
For example, With SQL 6.5 we used to backup PROD (source) database and restore to TRAIN (target) database. It worked just great regardless whether the databases are located on the same drive or not. We loved it and used it to refresh TRAIN from PROD on a weekly basis.(using sql Enterprise Mgr)
However, in SQL 7.0 when we attempt this procedure the database and log files of the TRAIN (target) are getting relocated to the drive location of PROD (source) database. Very strange.
Though thru object transfer i.e. import ,we can import data from PROD(source)
to TRAIN (target) database, but it is very slow and takes lot of time and performance degrades for source database (PROD)
Any input on above will be appreciated if backup / restore thru
enterprise mgr or TSQL procedure works in SQL 7.0 for restoring another database which is also on different drive i.e PROD (source) database on
drive C and TRIAN (target) database on drive E.
Thanks
Rajiv
While this may be in the wrong forum, I thought that I should try here first.
One of the developers that works for this company would like to restore a sample database to the SQL server after installing our software.
Is there a command line command that can be issued to restore/create a database with a file (.bak) of an SQL database (sample)? If this can't be done, can it be done with VBScript or something similar?
SQL is not my strong point, and neither is development. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA.
Joe
Hi,
Two of my hard drives went down yesterday. and with it went the Sql server database.The data recovery guys recovered the back up database (.bak) file.I have since reinstalled SQL Server 2000 and now when i try and restore the .bak file it says the Microsoft tape back up file set is not valid when i try and open the .bak file.
Whats the right way to add my databse to the SQl Server2000 using my .bak file and if anyone has come across the error they could help.
Thanks
L
hey...
when i try to restore my database... they gave an error. the database is still in use.. is there a way to kill all the connections to that database ?
Hi,
A while back, I used SQL Server 2000 to back up a database. Now, I am wondering if there is a way to restore this backup into a SQL Server 2005 environment as I no longer use SQL Server 2000?
Thank you
Hi all,
Our Application is made to work with different database. I have a few query
1. There is option of restoring for only table, the tables can be mention during runtime, how to acheive same in sql
2. During restoring if already same data exists, it throws an exception , based on the exception we display the message data already exist. In sql any option is available to check the data exist or not
3. Can sql create the column during runtime.
Thanks
theres two .mdf files
game_log.mdf
game_data.mdf
is there a way to restore a database with these files but not with .bak (backup) files? i couldn't connect to database so i reinstalled sql server 2000 and this time i could connect to the sql server fine but when i tried to restore the database, it wouldn't work when i set it to transcation log and it shows an error
The preceding restore operation did not specify WITH RECOVERY or WITH STANDBY. Restart the restore sequence, specifying WITH NORECOVERY or WITH STANDBY for all but the final step. RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
please help, thank you
Hello,due to some testing my SQL Server crashed. I have to reinstall it and ...For now I only have .mdf file and nothing else. My question is: is there anypossibility to restore this .mdf file for SQL 2000? I have some useful datain this file and there will be nice to use it.Best RegardsMarciN
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to restore a database backup file to the default data directory in a specific SQL 2005 instance using T-SQL?
I know that you can use the command RESTORE DATABASE, but that will restore the database files back to it original location. I also know that I can use the WITH MOVE option also, but is there a keyword or some special notation that I can use to make sure that the data/log files are moved to the default data directory for a specific SQL 2005 instance?
I am trying to avoid cases where the original file location does not exists in the current file system.
Thanks in advance,
Rodney
i was using mssql 2000
how can i restore my database on another server without affecting the data stored on that server,
or
would there be a wizard where i can compose a query of the design of the whole database and run those on another server to update its structure
Hi everyone,
I made a backup for my Bilgiler database and then by relying on this back up, I erased my Bilgiler data base. so now I tried to restore this Bilgiler database by using Enterprise Manager however I could not succeed.
How can I overcome this ?
Thanks
We have a daily process, which copies millions of rows of data from one DB to another over Linked Server. Just checking on the best practise, are there more efficient ways than the Linked server to copy millions of rows of data from one DB to another? I checked bulk insert but that transfers the data from the file to DB not DB to DB.Â
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I am taking the error message which is in the below side,while restoring a database.(I am using sql server 2005)
The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'db1' database. (db1 is the database name.)
Can you help me?
Hi
I have a .db file from another server and i am trying to install it at home and get this lengthy error message ( 9 lines long )
Microsoft SQL-DMO ODBC SQL STATE 42000
The physical name ( path blah blah may be wrong)
how do i change the physical path of the .db file i'm trying to restore??
thx