Restoring To Another Server Issue With Data File Sizes
Apr 4, 2007
I'm using SQL Server 2000 and need to restore a large database onto a different node. The problem is the original database has a 74 gb first datafile and the node where I need to restore it doesn't have a single drive that big. I'm trying to use a backup of the original database and restore it into an existing database on another node and am using the move options to put the files in the right places.
Is there a way I run the restore to split the 74 gb datafile across drives on my target node?
Thanks for any help.
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Feb 26, 2015
I have one .mdf and two .ndf files on the same drive. The .mdf file size =275GB, one .ndf file size = 300GB and other .ndf file size = 135GB. Is this normal to have 3 different file size? if not what can I do to fix this? I don't have option to make all files to initial size equal to 300GB as a .ndf.If I have to add a .ndf file (in case of running out the above drive), what initial file size should I set up for new file on new drive? And how data gets distributed across all 4 files (including new .ndf on different drive)?
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Mar 18, 2015
I have an instance with 4 datafiles for tempdb each set at initial size of 4G and growth rate of 100MB. After some time the initial file sizes seem to have changed automatically. They now read 3962,100,3688 and 2847 respectively. Is this something done by SQL Server itself? I cannot imagine that it was done manually.
I don't think there was a restart after the initial sizes of 4G were set, could this be related to the problem?
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Jun 29, 2015
I have question about tempdb needs to be configured 100GB 64kb block size.its fresh installation.
how to allocate the file sizes.still im not sure how many log files needs to be created with 100GB equals to 64KB block size.
what is 64KB block size and how to divide the logfiles 64KB into the 100gb or 50GB?
what is 64 KB cluster has 128 sectors?
tempdb drives should be formatted with a 64K allocation? how many files needs to created for good performance with 50GB or 100GB? ot 1TB
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Jun 25, 2007
I got a .bak file from my friendI want to restore the data base in my system(presently I don’t have any database in my system).But while I try to restore itI am getting an error“System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Directory lookup for the file "D:Microsoft SQL Server 2005mydatabase.mdf" failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)�I have installed Microsoft sql server in a different directory not in D: where he is installedI can successfully restore the back up files of data base on my own systemBut not the backup files created from others systems
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Mar 26, 2008
Hi all,I have installed sql server express edition and using this with asp.net website application. It was working fine,I am using .mdf file as database in app_code folder of asp.net website application, but now there is one issue which is with a particular table records.In this table some of the columns has got the same value for all records in the table. so, now i want my previous(original) data as backup, but unable to do so. I am using third party tools for recovery. Can anyone please guide me to resolve this issue.Thanks in advance
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Apr 28, 2008
When you have the autogrowth turned on for log files. What happens when you put a max file size on it? Will just overwrite the old logs to keep the file at the max size or will it just create a new file every time it hits the max size?
Thanks!
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Nov 8, 2000
Hi,
my log files are growing like anything. One of my log file size is 20GB.
How i have to reduce the log file size.
If i run DBCC command is it come backs...
Pls tell me the way how i have to find the free space and reduce logsizes.
After taking backups also my log file sizes are not reducing.
Thanks!
Kavira
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Jul 21, 2006
Hi All,
I ran the following query to get the log file sizes for all databases:
select (size*8.00)/1024,filename from master..sysaltfiles
When I compared the results from this query with the transaction log properties in EM, not all of the sizes match.
For example, EM shows the transaction log size for tempdb to be 2 MB but the results of the query shows that transaction log size for tempdb is .5 MB. Which query can I run to get the numbers that would match between two? Thanks.
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Oct 1, 2007
Admin is kind of new to me. Could someone recommend how to reduce these file sizes?
In Dev, my MDF is 16 MB, LDF .5 MB.
I run a script to recreate the schema and insert rows on the Host.
When downloading a db backup from the Host and restoring it to Dev, my MDF is 24 MB, LDF 25 MB.
The same dataset grew by ~35 MB!!!
Any advice is welcome. Thank you. Rick
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Jul 30, 2014
I am in the middle of capturing a workload to try and tune a SQL instance and was wondering what kinds of sizes people capture in terms of traces. I am only 1 day into a capture and I believe a typical workload would be a week long capture and I am already at 10GB of files. I am only capturing rpc_completed and sql_batch_completed.
What sizes of workloads do other people capture and then where do you analyse them, do you have particular dedicated server for this kind of thing as at present I am looking to use my local PC. Also what rollover file sizes do people tend to use, I am currently using 1GB.
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Jul 20, 2005
Is there a fairly quick and dirty way to shrink the file size allowedfor a DB on SQL server after the DB is in use?Our old DBA allowed 3 gb for log files and we don't need nearly thatmuch. However, the space is still being used and reserved. Can Ishrink that "maximum" and clear up the space?I don't want to just copy all the tables and primary keys and open anew one with the new data, though that is plan A right now.I cant just change sysfiles, it yells at me.
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Apr 3, 2007
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to restore a bak file which came with code for a tutorial. I think it is safe to restore, but sql server 2005 express has the following problem when I try to restore it.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express------------------------------
Restore failed for Server 'BOBSQLEXPRESS'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.3042.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Restore+Server&LinkId=20476
------------------------------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The operating system returned the error '5(Access is denied.)' while attempting 'RestoreContainer::ValidateTargetForCreation' on 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDashboard.mdf'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.3042.00&LinkId=20476
The links given for help have no information about the problem and I'm not really sure where I should be looking to solve this. I'm a newbie to databases so if you could provide a step-by-step answer that would be best. Thanks in advance.
Robert
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Mar 23, 2000
Hello,
I was told a while ago that your Log should be 2 times the size as your data. Is this a good rule of thumb?
Lee
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May 13, 2004
I am moving a database from one server to another. I am going to replace the old server to the new one. I heard that you can move the datfiles and put them in the same directory, and sql server will pickup the datafiles based on the system tables. Is this possible, and what are the steps to get this to work. Thanks for the help in advance.
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Aug 22, 2007
I'm working on a restore procedure for the case where all MDF filesare missing, but the LDF files are all intact. A full backup is doneevery 24 hours, and a log backup is done every 3 hours. Afterrestoring the last full + log backups, is it at all possible to usethe LDF files to recover data from that point up to a newer point intime?I've found a post which explains how to do this on SQL Server 2000<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...s.ms-sqlserver/browse_thread/thread/3ef5c7cbc0a83334/f3b0c70811d35ed7>, but step 4fails with the following error message:BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current databasebackup.
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Aug 1, 2015
I have been restoring database backup from server1 to Server2 and both database name is same till today. But I had an error today. I verified path, location and access everything is there but no luck to resolve.
CODE:-
USE Master;
GOÂ
SET NOCOUNT ON
-- 1 - Variable declaration
DECLARE @dbName sysname
DECLARE @backupPath NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @cmd NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @fileList TABLE (backupFile NVARCHAR(255))
DECLARE @lastGEFullBackup NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @backupFile NVARCHAR(500)
DECLARE @GEFullPath NVARCHAR(1000)
[code]....
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Feb 20, 2015
I am restoring a database with 10yrs worth of data which have monthly partitions but i would like to keep only 5yrs of data after the restore is done, what is the best/faster approach to delete the 5yrs data without deleting the partitions as that may cause the db in accessible.
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Sep 5, 2007
We have 2 SQL Server 2k5 servers running the same build - 9.0.2047 . When I backup any database from one server and attempt to restore it to the other, the log file generally increases by 100 fold. It errors out after I try to restore a 100MB db and it tries to create a 9.8GB log file. This happens both when I use the GUI to restore and when I restore from a T-SQL script. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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Apr 17, 2015
I need to recover some data in a table but i'm not 100% sure the right way to do this safely.
I'll need to query the two tables to compare the before and after but how do i go about restoring/attaching the backup database to SQL without causing conflicts?
If I restore, I assume this would just overwrite which is obviously the worst thing that can happen. if i attach the backup, how does this affect the current live DB? how do i make sure that it's not getting accessed and mistaken for the live DB?
The SQL server is 2008 R2 running as a VM.
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Nov 14, 2001
How can I get the table sizes for data and transaction logs just like we had in SQL Server 7.0 on the first screen of the Entreprise Manager?
I remember having a bar showing used space in blue and unused in magenta. I bet there are a couple of functions that can be added in a script that will retreive this info.
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Nov 14, 2001
How can I get the table sizes for data and transaction logs just like we had in SQL Server 7.0 on the first screen of the Entreprise Manager?
I remember having a bar showing used space in blue and unused in magenta. I bet there are a couple of functions that can be added in a script that will retreive this info.
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Aug 4, 2015
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.Â
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] ....
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Apr 10, 2006
Hi,I'm new to sql but have a website running it on a hosted site. I want to have a local copy of the site running here for testing. I have everything set on my local machine to run it including MSDE and Enterprise Mgr.I've created a blank db with the same name,username and password on my local machine. From my host I received a dbname.bak file which they said I should just restore to my local machine. This sounded simple but I have no idea how to do this. When I right click on the db file within Ent.Mgr I see the Restore option but I can figure out how to designate the dbname.bak file as the source. I also see an option to import but that isn't any better.Does anyone have some simple directions which will show me the proper steps and where I should be to do this? I'd really appreciate it. I assume it's simple but not having ever done it it has me stumped.Thanks!
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Aug 10, 2000
"Restore Now" button is greyed out after choosing to "Add File". I know I've done this before, can't figure out the problem.
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Aug 25, 1998
I have a .dat file from a SQL Server 6.5 database and am trying to restore it on my server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information, please let me know. If it`s not obvious, I`m new to SQL Server so try not to gloss too much over the details.
Thanks,
Nelson
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Jan 12, 2004
Tried restoring a database from .bak file through Enterprise Manager and also by usng the following code :
RESTORE DATABASE DBB
FROM DISK = 'c:DBA.BAK'
WITH
REPLACE,
RECOVERY,
MOVE 'ap0data' TO 'c:mssqldataapm_data.mdf',
MOVE 'ap0Log' TO 'c:mssqldataapm_log.ldf'
But, I get an error :
Server: Msg 3156, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
The file 'd:mssql7dataapm.mdf' cannot be used by RESTORE. Consider using the WITH MOVE option to identify a valid location for the file.
I have got the two filenames i.e."ap0data" and "ap0log" by using the command "restore fileslistonly from disk = c:dba.bak".
Can anyone help me to do the things rigtly ?
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Jul 27, 2007
I have tried unsuccessfully to attach a database that doesnt have its corresponding log file.
Is this possible in SQL 2005?
Please help.
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Apr 22, 2008
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.
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Mar 2, 2001
I have a MSSQL7 data file mydata_data.mdf that I would like to load into my MSSQL7.
When I try to restore to my database, I got an error message saying MSSQl does not recognize the file as a valid backup file.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Apr 2, 2008
I am using MS SQL 2005 Express. I have a database with two filegroups, the PRIMARY default filegroup, and then filegroup X. I have a backup of the PRIMARY filegroup only, and am trying to restore it to my database. When I select the .bak file to restore from, I am NOT given any 'backup sets to restore' - I therefore cannot select the filegroup to restore it. Can anyone advise? (NOTE - I have backed up the transaction log on the database I am restoring to already)
Thanks
MArco
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Jan 8, 2008
Here is the problem in details :
It’s a classical ASP ( not .net ) website and it has a sql server 2000 backend database. I’m moving the website to a new windows 2003 server with sql server 2005 standard edition.
The hosting company ( Godaddy ) of the website refused to give me the mdf & ldf files for security reasons so they only allow to give .bak files.
I restored the database to sql server 2005 using the .bak file , the sql server has SQL server authentication, and everything seemed to be nice.
The problem is :
The database has a user name and he is the owner of the database schema. When I try to login with it the sql server says invalid login.
How to change the PASSWORD of this user after the backup?
I tried other scenarios to solve the problem but with no hope…. Some of them were:
•I added a new user to the SERVER security node, and I mapped it to the database schema, it worked fine BUT : all SQL statements in the code are like “ SELECT * from table� not “SELECT * FROM scehma.table�… so I don’t think the user was mapped correctly?
•I tried to delete the old user, but sql server said that he is the owner of the schema.
The only solution I have now is to change all sql statements in the code to be like “SELECT * FROM schema.table “… which will be a GREAT PAIN.
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Jul 20, 2005
Hello.Can anyone tell me if a SQL Server 2000 database can berecovered only from the MDF and log files ?I have no backups.Thanks in advance
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