I have a SQL 2005 server I am working on for a client and the issue is this. The original install was put on the servers c: partition. When they ran out of space they moved all of the databases to a different drive. They still run into problems when they run maintenance plans. Half of them fail as drive c: runs out of space.
Is there a temp directory or file that needs to be moved and if so how do I do this? Do SQL system databases grow when a maintenance plan is run? Do the system databases need to be moved as well? I assume that these changes will require down time but I would like to avoid that if possible.
I am new to SQL and I have looked everywhere but have found no solutions. I would think there must be a temp directory where data is stored during the job.
Am using Windows Server 2008R2,In this Server C:/ drive space is getting increase day by day as per my knowledge i have to format that system.If is there any other chances to get space and remove unwanted things from my Server.
I got a space issue on F drive Total drive capacity 581 GB Now free space is 4.4 GB ONLY F:MSSQLDATA..NDF---163072128(163 GB) F:MSSQLDATA...MDF--441785344(441 GB) I am trying to shrink the database to get some free space on F: drive but "USSVC_LADadmin" is executing delete statement on this database. so I could not perform any activity at this time Please suggest how to proceed further?
Hey - I know that I can find space information about SQL Server. Allocated space, free space, used space, data space, etc... BUT is there a way that I can query how much total/available space is on the actual drive? For example, let's say that I have SQL installed on the D drive of a Server; i also have another application on that drive. I know that I can query how much room SQL Server is using, but can i query how much total/available space is on the drive? Any help appreciated.
I'm running a security application that generates a lot of events. I have gone in over the past couple days and deleted large numbers of old events in an effort to reclaim space on the D: drive where the SQL DB for this app resides. I did this throught the app itself... through its GUI front end.
I'm not having any impact. There is not a file on the same drive where the deleted events are being directed to. If all these events are going away, why does my used space on the drive not shrink? I came at it from another tack, creating sql queries to delete old events from the same app. I did this through queries in the SQL mgmt studio. The tasks (multiple) completed successfully, and the report on the # of rows 'affected' showed that it was a substantial number. No decrease in the windows drive space being used. Any tips?
I wasn't able to find the answer to my question by searching the forum. I would very much appreciate if anyone would help me.
I need to install the SQL Server Workgroup trial. I wasn't able to find the workgroup trial so I was trying to install the enterprise instead. (If anyone knows how to get ahold of the workgroup trial that would be a help too)
I keep getting the following error when running the SQLEval.exe:
There is not enough space on drive C: to extract this package
I did an internet search on this error and it seems there is a bug that requires the amount of free space not be a multiple of 4. I currently have 13.2 GB free space and I have tried adding and removing files, to no avail. I have tried downloading the file in a few different versions in case the file was corrupted, and rebooting etc, but still I keep getting the same message. I only have one drive!!!
as indicated by my stupid question, I am very new to sql. our vrsion is 2000 and I'm talking about in enterprise manager, the database that was created is not showing up in the list of db. Although I can see the file in explorer.
The problem I€™m having is when I try to attach the database €œmailarchive3Q2007_data.mdf€? it is also looking for the log file €œmailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf€? . The log file was removed by someone else off our system. I have a backup of the file but it is too large to restore now (160 gig) when the system was first set up the recovery model was not set to simple so the log just grew till it filled up our drive. I no longer have the drive space necessary to restore the log file and shrink it. So what do I do now? I need some kind of €œmailarchive3Q2007_log.ldf€? file to attach the database in enterprise manager.
In our SQL Server database we will have a table that will be populated with about 2000 recordsper day. That is 2000 records per day for 5 days per week. Currently the computer we are using has about 50 gigabytesof available hard drive space on it. We are concerned that maybe we will need a bigger hard drive,based solely on the number of records entered into this table per day. The problem is I don'tknow how to calculate how much hard drive space we need. I think I read that using varchar,sql server 2005 really optimizes a database. Here is a typical example of data in ourdatabase. I put dots on three lines between the first and last sample record to justillustrate that there are many records in between. Basically we only need 8 months of data at a time in the table and then we can purgerecords older than 8 months.Can someone help me approximate how much hard drive space I might need for 8 months of data,given the following sample record in the database? Sample: -->34.5 4.08 10.6 .0012 Sample Table in my DB just for illustration: (PPsquare inch) (Diameter) (Weight gm) (coeffOfSatFriction) 34.5 4.08 10.6 .0012...21.7 3.54 6.22 .019
On the drive that SQL server is install on which is the C drive the amount of space is 495mb, can the amount of space be a potential problem, I am so used to looking at the drives that contains the data and log files and the backup.
So My question is should I also concern myself with the drive the sql server itself is installed on?
I have a database which has log file size 300 GB. As the drive is filling up i need to clear the space on the drive, for that i have to shrink the log file.Â
Unfortunately i dont have option to take backup of the database.And i am not able to shrink the file now. Is there any way to shrink the log file with out taking backup of it ?
Why wont the installer for SQL Server let me install onto a drive other than the C drive? I am trying to install the Client tools only, but it insists on making me install to C. I need to install to a different drive for space reasons. I had SQL Server 2000 client installed, but I have since uninstalled it and tried the SQL 2005 install again and every time it wants to use the C drive.
If anyone knows a why to make this work I would greatly appreciate it.
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
I need to move all log files for my SQL 2005 databases to another drive. I don't wish to shrink the files, I need to move the logs to another drive spindle. I did find an article (Article ID: 224071) that describes moving both the database and logs using sp_detach and then sp_attach. What is the best way just to move the logs to another drive on the same server, and that keeps the databases in their original location? Thanks.
I created two partitions for my hard drive. The C drive which holds all of the Windows 2003 server operating system files and E drive which will be just for data and applications. The C drive is only 30GB while the E drive is 119GB. I need to be able to install in the application on the E drive. I already tried creating a folder on the E partition named program files with the sql2005 folder in it when I go through the installer package. SQL server still wants to be installed on the C drive. Is there anyway I can change this so it gets installed on the E partition. Thank You
I am trying to install the SQL Sever 2005 Workgroup Edition software that came with our Small Business Server 2003 R2 system. I would like to install to the d: drive because space on the c: drive is limited. Can I do that? If so, how?
I created two partitions for my hard drive. The C drive which holds all of the Windows 2003 server operating system files and E drive which will be just for data and applications. The C drive is only 30GB while the E drive is 119GB. I need to be able to install in the application on the E drive. I already tried creating a folder on the E partition named program files with the sql2005 folder in it when I go through the installer package. SQL server still wants to be installed on the C drive. Is there anyway I can change this so it gets installed on the E partition. Thank You
Trying to install SQL Server 2005 beta version on partition disk drive sayF: (Other than local disk drive c:),Does anyone know how can I do this? During the installation, it never asksme on which drive it install to nor browse button is there to browse thedisk drive for installation...Any help???ThanksJ.
I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition onto my PC on the D: drive. I do not have write privelleges to the C Drive. All I want to do is point the executable to install to another drive like D: or E: etc. Is this possible with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition setup executable file.
Just to let you know I have changed the template.ini file in the source folder to reflect the following (I tried both with and without quotes)
I've downloaded the sql server 2005 management studio express executable to my second hard drive, as there is no room on my main drive
However, when I try to install, the program shows me both drives, and shows that there is not enough room on my main drive, but it does not allow me to change the installation to my second drive.
I have previously installed the main sql express product to my second drive with visual studio. There's loads of room.
Can anyone give me a clue as to why this might be happening.
I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
 1: TempDB keeps getting filled.  Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore 2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?Â
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there
When I'm using SQL server 2005, and ODBC drive €œSQL Native Client€? I get an error when executing the below given code. Error Message: €œTransaction cannot start because more than one ODBC connection is in use.€?
But this works well with SQL Server 2000 with ODBC drive "SQL Native Client" and in SQL server 2005 also when I used ODBC drive €œSQL Server€?.
I used aTrgConn.Execute(€œBegin Transaction€?) and it's working properly. But unfortunately I cannot use this method, because I want to run the same code with Oracle ODBC as well. Is this a known issue in SQL Native client drive with SQL server 2005? Do you know a solution for this?
Please Help..............
Thanks in advance.
Code:
Dim aTrgConn As New ADODB.connection Dim aCmdIns As New ADODB.Command Dim aCmdUpd As New ADODB.Command
aTrgConn.Open sConnStr
Set aCmdIns.ActiveConnection = aTrgConn Set aCmdUpd.ActiveConnection = aTrgConn
I have 2 different servers that run nightly backup jobs to a network drive using the UNC format. I am noticing the larger databases encountering the following errors on a regular basis
Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1. '\fnfssql3SQLBackupsMNSQL05<database>.BAK'. Operating system error 64(The specified network name is no longer available.). BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE <database>. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.
There are 5 databases on this server all backed up by the same job and 3 of them wortk fine and 2 of them fail so it is not a permissions problem. Have there been any problems with backing up to a network drive in 2005?
I've only been doing sql 2005 for a couple of months with minimal training so there's a lot I don't know. What I'm trying to do is load a nested table (industry & customer totals) based on a value from the table it's nested in. This is the relationship of the data. I have at the highest group, an industry code, then a customer, then the part and then the fiscal year. What I'm trying to accomplish is to get a group total (footer) for the (1) industry code and (2) the customer code. This footer would contain the fiscal years (ascending) and their monthly totals. I would like to take the industry code from table one and pass it to the select statement in the dataset that feeds the nested table. I've read this is not possible to load a dataset field into a parm but I've seen where some people know how to work around this. If you reply, please explain in simple terms. Thanks!
industry Customer Year OCT NOV DEC 001 - Signposts M12345 Part 1 2006 5 6 2 2007 0 3 1
Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.
How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?
Hi, I am trying to do this: UPDATE Users SET uniqueurl = replaceAllEmptySpacesInUniqueURL('uniqueurl') What would be the syntax. Any help appreciated. Thanks
I am generating a Report from Sql Data Source in Sql Server 2005 and viewing the Report in Report viewer control of Visual Studio 2005. The data in the Data Source contains string with multiple spaces (for example €œ Test String €œ) but when they get rendered in Report viewer control, multiple spaces gets converted to single space €? Test String €œ.
I tried following solutions 1) Replacing spaces with €œ €? 2) Inserting <pre> tag before the string and </pre> tag after the string (Also tried <Pre> instead of <pre>)
But in all the cases result is same. The Report Viewer control is showing €œ €? instead of space and €œ<Pre>€? tag instead of preserving spaces.
Please provide me a solution so that spaces can be preserved in Report Viewer.
As a normal sql user we are not able to get the disk space information by executing 'xp_fixeddrive' extended stored procedure. We are able to get the result using sa user and windows authenticated user.
