I have a table 300+GB. it holds 10 years of Data. I need to delete 5 years of data and put it to another server so I can have more space.
If I delete 5 years of data, Transaction log gets so huge and size of the database even gets bigger because of the .ldf file which even gets bigger! I think I can shrink the log file and the data file. Is this the best way to do it?
currently stuck with an issue where I need to reclaim the unused table space in SQL server.
ISSUE: Due to database size issue we have moved all the images from database to filesystem and want to reclaim the unused space now....I have tried shrinking the database and rebuild the indexes but didn't see any difference in the table or database size.
Similarly I have identified many Non clustered indexes on big transactional tables(~ 4 million records) that where not used since GO live 1 year back, so I wanted to drop these indexes to cut down the performance and maintenance overhead , so my question is will dropping these indexes reduces the database size?
best method to my issue regarding unused space. SQL SERVER 2014 BI EDITTION..I have a table that showed 62% Data, 7% unallocated, and 29% unused space.I ran the ALTER TABLE <table name> REBUILD, which changed it to 32% data and 67% unused.What I do with this table monthly and what I believe is causing this unused space issue is this:Every 1st of the month I get a csv file that holds around 3.2 million rows/15 columns of data. About 3 gbs every time.It's 13 months of data. I remove the last 12 months from the current table and import the new 13 month data.I do this twice a month and have no choice because the data is constantly updated and why we get it twice a month.So I am deleting around 6 gbs of data a month as well as adding around 6 gbs of data a month.
I believe this is why I end up with so much unused space, but just found the REBUILD command, which worked but now a small hit on performance and have too much space in the current table. I have read several times that shrinking the file is no good, but what other way to get rid of the extra space in this table? Also, the table doesn't have any indexes or primary key because of duplicates.
We have a database. It is enabled for mirroring. We need to delete the old records. That is around 500k records from a table. But it has foreign key relation. How to do in Production servers these kind of deletes?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to reclaim space after rebuilding indexes(shrinking is not an option).
View 9 Replies View RelatedHello,I tried to make what one reply advice to recover the disk space afterDROPed columns but it doesn't work. I did DBCC DBREINDEX to the tablebut nothing changes.Any other solution?Ignacio
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have deleted nearly 30 million rows from a table. But however when I used the sp_spaceused command to calculate the data occupied by the table I don't see any difference in the data size of the table. In fact the data has increased to few MBs after the deletion, but not much.
View 8 Replies View RelatedHi,This is probably an easy question for someone so any help would beappreciated.I have changed the columns in a table that where nvarchar to the samesize of type varchar so halve the space needed for them.I have done this a) becuase this is never going to be an internationalapplication, b) we are running out of space and c) there are 100million rows.I have done this with the alter table statement which seems to work butthe space used in the database hasn't altered.I'm presuming that the way the records are structured within the tablethere is just now more space free inbetween each page???Is there a way or re-shrinking just an individual table and free upsome of the space in there or am i missing the point somewhere?Thanks in advance,Ian
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am writing a query to return some production data. Basically i need to insert either 1 or 2 rows into a Table variable based on a decision as to does the production part make 1 or 2 items ( The Raw data does not allow for this it comes from a look up in my database)
I can retrieve all the source data i need easily but when i come to insert it into the table variable i need to insert 1 record if its a single part or 2 records if its a twin part. I know could use a cursor but im sure there has to be an easier way !
Below is the code i have at the moment
declare @startdate as datetime
declare @enddate as datetime
declare @Line as Integer
DECLARE @count INT
set @startdate = '2015-01-01'
set @enddate = '2015-01-31'
[Code] .....
I have a SQL Server 2012 DB in Full recovery mode that has never had a TLOG backup. the log is huge 200+GB.
I tried doing a transaction log backup but there is not enough space on the Disk.
How can I reclaim this log space in SQL Server 2012?
Does there a way or script to find the rows, space used by the specific tables based on every year.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhat is the best way to forecastestimate space for non-clustered index on a table?
Example :
Table name : Test123
Row : 170000000
Reserved : 18000000 KB
Data : 70000000 KB
Index: 40000000 KB
Note: Test123 already has clustered index and 2 non clustered indexes.
I have many large tables with millions of records in a SQL Server database. They all use an Identity column which is the clustered index. We haven't been deleting any records until recently because disk space is now becoming a problem.
Assuming I delete a lot of old records, I'm thinking that the freed up space in the data pages won't be reused. New records will be added at the end of the table because of the Identity column being the clustered index. So the table will keep getting bigger even though there is lots of free space.
Assuming I'm right, then how do I recapture this unused space? Is an alter table rebuild the best way? Or rebuilding the clustered index?
hello there,
what is the code to Delete all rows in a Table????
thanks in advance
I need to delete some specific rows in Table1
int1 must have the value 1
int2 must have the value 1
int3 must have the value 0
and now we get to the difficult part - first character in the field [Cost No] have to be different from the letter 'B'. [Cost No] have the datatype varchar(20)
I expected the code to look something like this:
DELETE Table1
FROM Table 1
WHERE ([Int1] = 1) AND ([Int2] = 1) AND ([Int3] = 0) AND ((LEFT([Cost No]), 1) <> 'B')
But I get this error message:
The left function requires 2 arguments
What am I doing wrong and what should the right code look like?
I have the following information in a table. What I would like to do is pull out all the visits for each customer that are less than 30 days apart.
Customer# VisitDate
9082012-07-28 00:00:00.000
9082013-09-20 00:00:00.000
9082013-12-23 00:00:00.000
9082014-01-10 00:00:00.000
9082014-01-27 00:00:00.000
9082014-02-16 00:00:00.000
9082014-05-21 00:00:00.000
9082014-05-30 00:00:00.000
9082014-10-01 00:00:00.000
9082015-02-28 00:00:00.000
9082015-03-22 00:00:00.000
9272012-02-16 00:00:00.000
9272014-12-14 00:00:00.000
9272014-12-23 00:00:00.000
Is there is 'fairly' simple query to delete duplicate rows from ANY table ?
A script which removes duplicates from a table, when a table_name is supplied.
I have a table of languages, identified by a lang_id column as follows:
LANG_IDLANG_NAME
deDeutsche
enEnglish
plPolski
trTurkish
czCzech
I also have a RESOURCES table of phrases (for translation purposes) similar to this:
res_id res_lang res_phrase
AccessDenied en Access Denied
For some rows in the resources table I do not have all language codes present so am missing some translations for a given res_id.My question is what query can I use to determine the RESOURCE.RES_IDs for which I do not have a translation for.
For example I might have a de, en, cz translation for a phrase but not a pl phrase and I need to identofy those rows in order that I can obtain translations for the missing RESOURCE rows.
i have 6 read only tables that every night all the data gets dumped and a new updated copy of the data is copied over. the tables range from 500,000 rows to almost 4 million. i have indexes set up on the fields i use to query against. my questions are
1.since i dump all the data every night and replace it, do i need to rebuild the indexes every night or is that done after the data is reentered?
2.i want to use a fill factor on the table since it is read only, but will dumping the data every night and reinputting it have adverse affects with a fill factor?
3.should i be shrinking the database or defragging it everynight cause of my data dumps and reloads?
thanks in advance
spiral
How can I quickly delete thousands of rows in a table (SQL2000) according a query and without blowing up the log file? For instance executing the query:
Delete from transactions
WHERE transactiondatestamp < DATEADD (m,-4,GETDATE())
increases my log file to almost 6GB before job was done an normal size was re-obtained. In addition it took a long to time to get the job done.
With the command truncate table I cannot use query unfortunately but this would be faster.
Anyone has an idea?
mipo
I have an SQL tables [Keys] that has various rows such as:
[ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer]
1 Key1 Key1 InHouse
2 Key2 Key2 External
3 Key1 Key1 InHouse
4 Key1 Key1 InHouse
5 Key1 Key1 InHouse
Obviously IDs 1,3,4,5 are all exactly the same and I would like to be left with only:
[ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer]
1 Key1 Key1 InHouse
2 Key2 Key2 External
I cannot create a new table/database or change the unique identifier (which is currently ID) either. I simply need an SQL script I can run to clean out the duplicates (I know how they got there and the issue has been fixed but the Database is still currently invalid due to all these duplicate entires).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
I have an SQL tables [Keys] that has various rows such as:
[ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer]
1 Key1 Key1 InHouse
2 Key2 Key2 External
3 Key1 Key1 InHouse
4 Key1 Key1 InHouse
5 Key1 Key1 InHouse
Obviously IDs 1,3,4,5 are all exactly the same and I would like to be left with only:
I cannot create a new table/database or change the unique identifier (which is currently ID) either. I simply need an SQL script I can run to clean out the duplicates (I know how they got there and the issue has been fixed but the Database is still currently invalid due to all these duplicate entires).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Hi,
I have a table which has around 50,000 rows.
Can I delete the rows older than one year?
If no, Can I delete the last 25,000 rows (older rows) from the table?
Can you assist me with the SQL Statement to do this?
Thanks
Santhosh
hi there!
I have encounter the problem when trying to delete the rows..with the error message
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with contain no primary key, and no dependency
I have several databases to deal with, all with + 250 tables. The databases are not identical and do not conform to a specific naming convention for table names. Most but not all tables have a column called "LastUpdated" containing a date/time (obviously). I'd like to be able to find all rows within a whole database (table by table) where the date/time is greater than a specified date/time.
I'm looking for a reliable query that will return all the rows in each of the tables but without me having to write hundreds of individual scripts "SELECT * FROM [dbo.xyz] WHERE LastUpdated > '2015-01-01 09:00:00:000'", or have to look through each table first to determine which of them has the LastUpdated field.
one of my database data file is 100 GB and the log file is 500 GB.DB is in full recovery model and the transaction logs happen once in 6 hours.Even then, the Database log file isn't reducing in size.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to how to delete duplicate rows from a table. I have been doing this:
SELECT * INTO TempUsersNoRepeats
FROM TempUsers2
UNION
SELECT * FROM TempUsers3
This way I end up with a total of four tables (the fourth table being the original Users table) and I was hoping that there was a way that I could do this all within the the original Users table and not have to create the three TempUsers tables.
Thanks,
Ron
I have a table:
declare tableName table
(
uniqueid int identity(1,1),
id int,
starttime datetime2(0),
endtime datetime2(0),
parameter int
)
A stored procedure has new set of values for a given id. Sometimes the startime and endtime are the same, in which case I update the value of parameter. Sometimes I add a new time range (insert statement), and sometimes I delete a time range (delete statement).
I had a question on merge, with insert, delete and update and I got that resolved. However I have a different question regarding performance of the merge statement.
If my target table has hundreds of millions of records and I want to delete/update/insert a handful of records, will SQL server scan the entire target table? I can't have:
merge ( select * from tableName where id = 10 ) as target
using ...
and I can't have:
merge tableName as target
using [my query] as source on
source.id = target.id and
source.starttime = target.startime and
source.endtime = target.endtime
where target.id = 10
...
This means I cannot filter the set of rows in the target table to a handful of records where id = 10.
How can we monitor the all tables in all databases and send notifications to the team.Is there a way to check to find the no of rows and size of a table last month and find out growth % now
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a table that contains rows that I would like to delete based on a field and it's contents.
What is the correct syntax to script the removal of these rows based field parameter?
Hi Guys!
This SQL statement, though carefully written to delete only selected rows, deletes the entire A_Shift_Times table:
DELETE FROM A_Shift_Times
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM
Users
WHERE
(A_Shift_Times.time_in >= CONVERT(DATETIME, '2000-05-29 00:00:00', 102)) AND
((Users.User_Password LIKE N'mrr%') OR (Users.User_Password LIKE N'work%')))
What gives? What am I doing wrong here?
Hi,
I export one table to Excel using Export Wizard. Second time I have used this creator I have checked option "Delete rows in destination table" because table already exists in Excel file.
During execution I get an error:
"Error 0xc002f210: Preparation SQL Task: Executing the query "DELETE FROM 'MyTable'" failed with following error: " and here is my translation from my language: "Deleting data from linked table is not supported by this version of ISAM"
I have also saved this package to a file and here is the full connection string to my Excel file:
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:Documents and SettingsprzemekPulpitmyfile.xls;Extended Properties="EXCEL 8.0;HDR=YES";
Few days ago I have been using SQL2000 on the same machine and the same export was working properly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Przemo
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[dbo.ServiceLog] Script Date: 07/18/2014 14:30:59 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER proc [dbo].[ServiceLogPurge]
-- Purge records dbo.ServiceLog older than 3 months:
-- Purge records in small portions to avoid locking production tables
-- for a long time. The process takes longer, but can co-exist with
-- normal usage of the tables.
[Code] ...
*** Getting this error below when executing the code ***
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ServiceLogPurge, Line 45
Incorrect syntax near 'Failed:'.