SQL Server 2000 Cannot Shrink LDF
Oct 26, 2007
use borden_europe
set nocount on
print @@version
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX( 'borden_europe' , 'recovery' )
select * from sysfiles
dbcc loginfo ('borden_europe')
dbcc opentran ( Borden_Europe )
backup log Borden_Europe with truncate_only
DBCC SHRINKFILE(borden_europe_log, 1)
dbcc loginfo ('borden_europe')
Yields this output:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: )
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SIMPLE
fileid groupid size maxsize growth status perf name filename
------ ------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------------------
1 1 204336 -1 20 1081346 0 Borden_EUROPE e:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLdataBorden_Europe.mdf
2 0 7889 -1 20 1081410 0 Borden_EUROPE_log d:program filesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLlogsBorden_Europe_log.ldf
FileId FileSize StartOffset FSeqNo Status Parity CreateLSN
----------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------
2 32309248 8192 78110 2 128 0
2 32309248 32317440 78109 0 128 0
(2 row(s) affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
No active open transactions.
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
Cannot shrink log file 2 (Borden_EUROPE_log) because total number of logical log files cannot be fewer than 2.
DbId FileId CurrentSize MinimumSize UsedPages EstimatedPages
------ ------ ----------- ----------- ----------- --------------
5 2 7889 7889 7888 7888
(1 row(s) affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
FileId FileSize StartOffset FSeqNo Status Parity CreateLSN
----------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------- ----------- ------ ---------------------------
2 32309248 8192 78112 2 64 0
2 32309248 32317440 78111 0 64 0
(2 row(s) affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
View 3 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Jul 26, 2007
I have a client db that has a transaction log of over 38 gig. I backed up the db, backed up the log, and even truncated the log. It will not let me shrink the DB log file.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
Help,I have a database that has a data file of 2GB and a log file of 31GB.In enterprise manager, when I choose shrink it says there is 30GB ofunused space. When I shrink the database, it does not shrink,(however it says it has completed).I've done a complete backup, tried shrink again, no dice. I thenbacked up the database (which the backup was 1.9GB), deleted thedatabase and made a new database with 2,048MB for the data and samefor the log file.When I restore, the log file jumps up to 31GB again. When I check thespace when I use the shrink, it again says I have 30GB of unusedspace.How on earth do I get this file to shrink?I've been able to shrink other databases, but not this one.TIARob
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 3, 2007
Hi,
Currently we have a variety of SQL 2000 (and 2005) database servers, we are having issues with the maintenance plan of a few SQL2000 boxes where they no longer have enough hard disk space to do a full index-rebuild on the system.
Now we want to re-build the databases indexes approximately once a week, or maybe a little less often, in the past this has worked fine with maintenance plans.
However, we now have issues because we have some databases in offline mode, and we are quite low on disk space with no plans for hardware upgrades anytime soon.
The temporary solution is to turn the index rebuilds off.
I have been working on a script that will:
Cycle through each database and within that database:
Go through each table
Run a DBCC DBREINDEX on the table
Move on to the next table
Once the reindexing of one database is complete
IF the database is not in simple mode
Backup the transaction log
Run a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE with the required amount of free space
Go to the next database until all are complete.The logic is quite simple but so far this has not worked, it would appear something is locking the transaction log until the script exits.
Now the script works fine excluding the shrinkdatabase, I always get:
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator. [SQLSTATE 01000]
Shrinking database: inf_dev target percentage: 10 at: Aug 2 2007 5:33PM [SQLSTATE 01000]
Cannot shrink log file 2 (INF_PROD_Log) because all logical log files are in use. [SQLSTATE 01000]
Where I'm indexing the INF_Prod database.
A DBCC LOGINFO shows something along the lines of:
Code Snippet
BACKUP LOG successfully processed 45162 pages in 152.607 seconds (2.424 MB/sec). [SQLSTATE 01000]
FileId FileSize StartOffset FSeqNo Status Parity CreateLSN
----------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ----------- ----------- ------ ---------------------------
2 253952 8192 29618 0 128 0
2 253952 262144 29621 0 64 0
2 253952 516096 29620 0 64 0
2 278528 770048 29619 0 64 0
<cut cut>
2 9043968 370737152 0 0 0 29800000001528500007
2 9043968 379781120 29802 2 64 29800000001528500007
2 9043968 388825088 29801 0 64 29800000001528500007
Clearly there is something in the log file towards the end.
However, I don't know why this is happening as I'm running the script in the master database and I've backed up the transaction log of the database I'm working on.
I've tried doing Full backup + Transaction log + Shrink, it fails.
I've tried waiting 10minutes in the script + shrink, it also fails.
However, if I open a query analyzer and do a backup log, then a shrink it works perfectly every time.
However in the script it always fails no matter what I do.
Where am I going wrong here?
Regards,
Gareth
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
Hello,I am hoping you can help me with the following problem; I need to process the following steps every couple of hours in order to keep our Sql 2000 database a small as possible (the transaction log is 5x bigger than the db).1.back-up the entire database2.truncate the log3.shrink the log4.back-up once again.As you may have determined, I am relatively new to managing a sql server database and while I have found multiple articles online about the topics I need to accomplish, I cannot find any actual examples that explain where I input the coded used to accomplish the above-mentioned steps. I do understand the theory behind the steps I just do not know how to accomplish them!If you know of a well-documented tutorial, please point me in the right direction.Regards.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 7, 2007
How to shrink LDF in SQL Server 7 ?
We are using SQL Server 7 under Windows 2000 Advance Server with current Service Pack.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 5, 2007
If you have problems shrinking a transaction log no matter what commands you issue, here's a way to shrink the tranlog:
1. Right click on the properties of the database and go to the options tab.
2. Change the recovery mode to simple.
3. Right click again on the database - go to all tasks - shrink database.
4. Shrink the database.
5. Change the recovery mode back to what you had it as.
I found this out by trial and error as I could not find any documentation on it and no matter what I tried, I could not get the transaction log to shrink.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jun 10, 1999
For some reason (I'm sure it was my code) my transaction log segments grew to a huge size (>1 GB each). They are normally in the area of 150 MB each, so I wanted to shrink them back down. But I have one transaction log segment that won't shrink! I'm a relatively new administrator, but I've tried shrinking the database (which worked for all but one segment) and truncating the logs, I've tried issuing a CHECKPOINT, I've tried stopping and restarting SQL Server, but I can't get that last segment to shrink to a normal size. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Robin
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 4, 2007
First of all thanks for taking interest in this thread.
I have database in Microsoft SQL Server and its size is appx. 427 GB. It consists of data from 2006. Everyday I expire data of 2-3 days and then try to shrink database as much as possible.
But it frees only 2-3 MB after 7-8 hours process. And in that database there some files which do not shrink even I put one of them on shrinking for whole day.
And as per company policy, I am only allowed to expire data which are 15 months older.
I am facing very much problem as my daily import and publish activity some times got failed for that reason.
If anyone knows the solution please tell me the solution.
View 14 Replies
View Related
Jun 19, 2015
I wrote a custom procedure to shrink the db log files alone. It works well always but yesterday in one of the server the job execution was failed.
Error msg:
: The log for database 'ReportServer$DB' failed to grow while shrink in progress. Please retry. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 50000) Error 9020, Severity 16, State 2,
The code is v simple. It just shrinks the db log files of all user dbs.
I also checked and confirm you that against all dbs the auto-shrink feature is disabled.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 28, 2015
I have some questions :
1.Is it OK to shrink Master, model ? the transaction log for those databases are full .
2.Is it OK to set the Recovery model of Database MODEL as SIMPLE ? at the moment it is in FULL recovery model and the transaction log is Full too
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 12, 2015
how to shrink log files in SQL 2014 alwaysOn ?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 10, 2012
I am trying to reorganise the log files on a server, (long story short they are fragmented so I want to shrink and reset the initial size and growth) and I am unable to shrink them. When I run the following:
use test
DBCC SHRINKFILE(test_log, TRUNCATEONLY)
--or
use
DBCC SHRINKFILE(test_log,2, TRUNCATEONLY)
I get the following message:
Msg 8985, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Could not locate file 'test_log' for database 'test' in sys.database_files. The file either does not exist, or was dropped.
I get this message for every database on the server. I got the logical name of the file using sp_helpfile and have checked it against sys.masterfiles, sys.database_files and sys.sysaltfiles, all match up and confirm the name 'test_log'.
I rebooted the server last night and was able to shrink the first couple of .ldf's I tried so I presumed it was fixed. This morning when I try again i get the sanme error, I don't see anything in the SQL server or system logs that indicates a change.
I am able to add new log files and remove log files, however if I add a new log file (test_log2) and then try and truncate that file I get the same error.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Apr 30, 2015
I would like to know what happens if i shrink the database with truncate only option and do a full backup or transaction log backup ? are the full backup or transaction log backup valid? I know that the performance of the database is bad if i shrink the database. What happens to full backup or transaction log backups?
View 9 Replies
View Related
May 15, 2006
We are using SQL Server 2005 (SP1). I have created a maintenance plan that backs up up the datebase every night. The problem is that the transaction log is continuing to grow. I have been told that a full backup will automatically truncate and shrink the transaction log. However, this is not happening. How can I truncate and shrink the transaction log after a full backup as part of our maintenance plan. Thank you.
View 29 Replies
View Related
Jul 27, 2015
I have a database that I am trying to recover space from, it consists mostly of unallocated space, but I can’t seem to get that unused space released.
Database size: 40,245.13 MB
DatafileMB: 38,063.63, DataAvailableMB: 37,085.15
LogfileMB: 2181.51
Sysfiles shows:
fileidgroupidsizemaxsizegrowthstatusperfname
114872144-112820SomeDB
202792332684354561010486420SomeDB_log
The DB is in simple recovery mode. There are no open transactions (used dbcc opentran).
The server is running SQL Server 2014 and the DB is in compatibility mode SQL Server 2008 (100). It was upgraded to 2014 a month or two ago.
I have tried to re-size the log to 100mb, but any way I have tried (none gave errors), the log file remains the same size. I have tied to shrink the log file (through the UI and via DBCC commands) without success; no errors, but also no change in file size.
I have checked Log Reuse Waits, just in case, and as expected it showed “NOTHING” (select log_reuse_wait_desc, name from sys.databases)
I tried running a checkpoint, but that did not allow any resize or shrink to work.
I have tied creating large transactions to move the used point in the log file, in case this was the issue. I did this by creating tables that I drop after large inserts. While it shows me that the log space % used increased, the log file still does not allow the space to be reduced.
The following is what I was using for the transactions to get the log used.
BEGIN TRAN
select a.* into testtable from sysobjects a, sysobjects b, sysobjects c
ROLLBACK TRAN
Each insert creates 93,576,664 rows.
Running dbcc SQLPerf(logspace) :
DBLogSize(MB)LogSpaceUsed(%)Status
SomeDB2181.534.204890
Running dbcc loginfo:
RecoveryUnitIdFileIdFileSizeStartOffsetFSeqNoStatusParityCreateLSN
0211437342728192602640
02114373427211437424645701280
Do I just need to continue running large transactions until the log space used gets high enough to get the “end point” in the log to really move? Is there an easier way to accomplish this (I have several DBs that have the almost identical problem), what I am using moves the Log Space Percent Used about a percent on each execution.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Feb 24, 2005
Hello, i have a question that the sql server 2000 is install in window 2000 server. If i want to update to window 2003. Is that any problem in sql server 2000. I am worry about whether we will have problem after update. What i need to do? Many thanks.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Feb 28, 2008
Hi All,
I would like to know, how the datetime will be stored in the sqlserver datetime column.
Because some time i am giving the date in dd/mm/yyyy and sometime mm/dd/yyyy.
while give the date in mm/dd/yyyy works fine but not in the another case. and also while i execute a query on query analyser it shows the datetime in
yyyy/mm/dd format.
So anyone can please tell me how the dates will be stored in the datetime column of sqlserver database?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Dhanasekaran. G
View 2 Replies
View Related
Sep 14, 2004
I am currently running SQL Server 2000 Standard on my production system, and I am looking to upgrade the system to Windows 2000 Adv. Server. I would also like to upgrade SQL Server 2000 Standard to SQL Server 2000 Enterprise to utilize more than 2GB of memory. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to upgrade the system, and please provide some feedback on your experiences with the upgrade. Thanks in advance.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
We are experiencing a problem with Sql Server 2000 linking to anAccess 97 file. We have two machines that link to this .mdb file, andwe recently upgraded one to newer hardware, SP3a, MDAC 2.8, etc. Thelink on this upgraded machine no longer works, giving this message:Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Cannot open a database created witha previous version of your application.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ].The link on the older machine still works. We decided to tryconverting a copy of the file to Access 2000 to see if the newerpatches/drivers/whatever no longer supported 97. We set up a link onboth machines to this file, and they both work. However, on theupgraded machine, the following error is receievedServer: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: System resource exceeded.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'ICommandText::Execute returned 0x80004005: ].when making 1-3 connections to the the linked server, while the oldermachine supports at least 7 simultaneous queries connecting to thelinked server and still hasn't produced that error.Does anyone have any idea if there is a known issue with linking toAccess 97/2000 files under MDAC 2.8, Jet 4.0, etc? Any light anyonecan shine on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
What is the limitation of memory that SQL Server 2000 Standard can usewhen running on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server platform?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 15, 2006
Hi, I need to know if somebody knows like making the update of Standard SQL 2000 to Enterprise. Greetings.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Mar 15, 2006
Thanks in advance. What is maximum SQL Server database (*.mdf) file size with SQL Server 2000 as part of Microsoft Small Business Server 2000? (Database files were limited to 10 GB in SBS 4.5 with SQLServer 7.0... has this changed?).
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 21, 2005
Can you install Sql Server 2000 Developer Edition with MSDE 2000 release A already installed?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Feb 17, 2004
My objective is to use Enterprise Manager to move (copy) my SQL db from the server to my windows desktop computer.
I downloaded MSDE and am having trouble installing it, no doubt because I do not understand the documentaion (ReadMeMSDE2000A.htm).
When I try to run setup, I get that message that says:
"A strong SA password is required for security reasons. Please use SAPWD switch to supply the same."
Considering my purpose, do I need a "strong" SA password? If not, how do I get around it? If yes, how do I set it up?
I am a Mac user so I have poor windows skills, please make it as painless as possible for me, thanks!
Ron
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 16, 2006
venu writes "Hi,
Am very new to MS SQL adminstration
Can anybody help me out how to work on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Release A just for the practice.
The activity which am going to workout on MSDE is below.
How to install SQL(on XP)
How the layout will be(like if i insall MSDE what are all Application will be and how they depends on each other)
How to create/delete tables if so, how can we do it either by GUI or CUI
just i need a clarifications reg same
Thank you,
venu"
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 23, 2005
Hi,Simple question: A customer has an application using Access 2000frontend and SQL Server 2000 backend. Data connection is over ODBC.There are almost 250 concurrent users and is growing. Have theysqueezed everything out of Access? Should the move to a VB.Net frontendtaken place ages ago?CheersMike
View 4 Replies
View Related
Oct 8, 2007
Hi,
Just upgraded some development desktops to Vista Business. However we need
to still connect to some older remote windows 2000/SQL 2000 servers.
Trying to setup an ODBC system DSN on our Vista Business local desktop we get the
following errors -
-START ERROR WINDOW-
Connection Failed:
SQLState: '01000'
SQL Server Error: 772
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]ConnectionOpen
(SECDoClientHandshake()0.
Connection failed:
SQLState: '08001'
SQL Server Error: 18
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SSL Security Error
-END ERROR WINDOW-
Any help greatly appreciated as this is stopping us from making
database/table connections etc. We've checked the firewall setup and all is well there.
PS - we can still connect fine using XP or windows 2000 desktops and their
local DSNs.
View 8 Replies
View Related
May 27, 2008
Parameter
Access 2000/XP
SQL Server 7.0
SQL Server 2000
MSDE 2000
Number of instances per server
n/a
n/a
16
16
Number of databases per instance / server
n/a
32,767
32,767
32,767
Number of objects per database
32,768
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
2,147,483,647
Number of users per database
n/a
16,379
16,379
16,379
Number of roles per database
n/a
16,367
16,367
16,367
Overall size of database (excluding logs)
2 GB
1,048,516 TB
1,048,516 TB
2 GB
Number of columns per table
255
1024
1024
1024
Number of rows per table
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
limited by storage
Number of bytes per row
(Excluding TEXT/MEMO/IMAGE/OLE)
2 KB
8 KB
8 KB
8 KB
Number of columns per query
255
4,096
4,096
4,096
Number of tables per query
32
256
256
256
Size of procedure / query
64 KB
250 MB
250 MB
250 MB
Number of input params per procedure / query
199
1,024
2,100
2,100
Size of SQL statement / batch
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
64 KB
Depth of subquery nesting
50
32
32
32
Number of indexes per table
32
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
250 (1 clustered)
Number of columns per index
10
16
16
16
Number of characters per object name
64
128
128
128
Number of concurrent user connections
255
32,767
32,767
5
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jun 6, 2002
I have a SQL 7.0 sp3 server and I am trying to shrink a production database for use on other servers. The database/log sizes are 9601mb / 138mb with 772mb / 128mb free. I truncate a table that contains binary data. After this the database/log sizes are 9601mb / 138mb with 6634mb / 111mb free. The next step is to use EM to issue a shrink db. After this the database/log sizes are 6807mb / 378mb with 9.56mb / 365mb free.
After the use of truncate the the data in the datafile is about 2967mb.
After the shrink db the data in the datafile is about 6797mb.
The size of the data grew after the shrink db was issued. I looked at the tables and the space is largely associated with two tables that have a binary field, but the number or rows are still the same. I ran a checkdb just to make sure that there was not a problem and no problems were reported. I have used this process many times and this is the first time I have come up with these results. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Glen
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 17, 2001
if I shrink the db will it enable me to create another db with that space released by the first db?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2000
How can i shrink my log file? It is like 900 megs and i
was it to be more like 400 megs.
Please Help
Melissa Sener
Project Manager
Square Yard
View 5 Replies
View Related
Sep 27, 2002
Hi, My name is Alexander and cames to ask about Sql Server log.
Do you know why sometimes the log not truncate? All time
comes increasing!
I setup "Automatic Shrink" and it swims happens. If you can help me!
Thanks in advanced
View 3 Replies
View Related
