I have a SQL Server that generates a reasonable amount of log data in the SQL Event logs. I'm finding it difficult to use this data as the individual log files become rather large i.e. several hundred MB before they rotate.
What I would like to achieve: Set a constraint like: Each log will rotate when it reaches [XX]Mb in size and the files will be kept through [Y] rotations.
I can't seem to find how to do this through Enterprise Manager. I've had a decent look through google and there seems to be no info on this forum....can anyone point me in the right direction?
I have got another annoying problem. The MDF file size on one of the machines is growing really fast. We zip the mdf/ldf files every day from all the machines in the dataentry dept. On this particular machine, the mdf file size is growing by about 1GB per day. However, when the file is zipped, the zipped file size comes closer to the zipped files from the other machines.
I am trying to resize a database initial log file from 500M to 2M. I€™m using€?
ALTER DATABASE <DBNAME> MODIFY FILE ( NAME = <DBLOGFILENAME, SIZE = 2 ) "
And I'm getting "MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size." I tried going into the database properties and setting the log file to 2M, but it doesn€™t keep the changes.
The company for which I work did not have a DBA until I started a few weeks ago. Whoever installed SQL2K used the wrong CD so they have been running Personal Edition on their servers. I have installed a new SQL2K standard instance and have restored everything except the jobs and DTS packages. Can the msdb from the Personal edition be restored to the standard instance?
I have a log file that is approximately 50 GIG. I backed up just the log and the file size of the .bak is 192 GIG . Why is this? Shouldn't it be closer to the 50 GIG.
Normally I wouldn't let log grow this much. But we are in process of getting new server up and running and don't have backups going yet. They are working on getting that up and running this week.
So I did a log backup to give me back some log space for now but was concerned when I saw the size of the .bak file.
When I view media contents of the backup device it shows one tranaction log back up and size of 192 GIG.
What is up with this. I know in SQL 2000 the log backup files where never this big. they were about the size of the log itself.
I installed sql 2005 a while back. Then I recently found out my file system was fat32 (I don't understand why the hardware people did this...) and I had to convert to NTFS. Naturally the sql service no longer worked so I uninstalled inorder to reinstall now I can't reinstall it I keep getting this message
native_error=5039, msg=[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]MODIFY FILE failed. Specified size is less than current size.
Is it possible to downgrade SQL from Enterprise to Standard Edition, or do you have to remove the previous installation (uninstall) and reinstall. Meaning you would also have to restore all user databases? Thanks.
I have one db test with one .mdf and .ldf file...mdf file size is 100mb and for some reson i removed all the tablesfrom that .mdf file and transfer it into new secondary file so all thetables moved into secondary file now i want to reduce the first .mdffile from 100 mb to 50mb is that possible,it's showing 90mb is free.Please reply
We€™ve got almost 250 old dts packages which simply loading data into Sql tables from plain files or at the reverse point. Most of them are defined with fixed fields and its fixed positions one after one. We don€™t want to migrate them using Import wizard, on the contrary we€™re producing them from the beggining taking advantatge of SSIS architecture to the full. And now, we€™re trying to imagine how to migrate automatically that valuable info from Sql Server 2000 to Sql Server 2005 without efforts€¦ You know, any program be able to move that detailed info to SSIS.
So we would avoid to select again all these positions per each file -very tedious and we're lazy
I don€™t see how except, of course, migrate them directly
Let me know if you need further explanations or more clarity on that.
The table describes the tire and also the history of movement of the tire from one tire_position to another on same or a different truck. I need to capture the rotation of the tire. Rotation can be captured from changes in tire_position or changes in Truck_ID columns.
Rotation frequency is 0 if both tire_position and truck_ID stay thesame till the tire is scrapped (disposition_to = C )
If only one of them changes, rotation frequency is count the number of times it changes
If both change, rotation frequency is the maximum of the count of the two. So if truck_ID changes 2 times and tire_position changes 3 times. The rotation frequency is 3.
Obviously, if both change same number of times, rotation frequency can be coun anyone of them.
So I need to have a new column added to this table for the rotation frequency.
Checking them manually, the rotation frequency for the each serial_number is: 2361 is 4, 4853 is 3, 3007 is 1, 2743 is 2, 3949 is 2, 3995 is 2, 5666 is 1.
I am a newbie in using MS SQL server with analysis services. There seems to be no 'cross-validation' tool in MS SQL which is frequently used in data mining and even statistics. Is there anyone having similar difficulties? Is there any solution like a small scripts to divide the given dataset with multiple folds? Your valuable comments and feedbacks would be appreciated.
Is it possible to align a text box to display text with rotation? For example can I display it rotated 90 degrees left so that it reads from the bottom towards the top of the page? All I can find is left/right alignment and top/middle/bottom alignment. I want to rotate the text.
I need to run an SQL job if a specific file exists. Actually, that specific files gets created different time in different day. I need to run the job when the file arrives. Is there any way to do this in SQL? I have done this in seagate scheduler but I need to do it in SQL. Please help!!!!!!!
Hello I was very happy to have found the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=491642&SiteID=1 that explained how to get the text to display Bottom-to-Top/Left-to-Right.
The solution was to setup a function that creates a bitmap the text to be displayed. This works well and correctly displays the text image in HTML and PDF. (Excel, XML and CVS won't export backgroud images).
To extend the solution to wrap text it requires a few additional lines...
Code Snippet Function LoadImage3(ByVal stText As String)
stText = stText.PadRight(10) stText = stText.PadLeft(10) Dim iMaxLength as Integer = 180 Dim iMaxWidth as Integer = 180 Dim f As Drawing.Font = New Drawing.Font("Arial",7, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point) Dim bmpImage As New Drawing.Bitmap(1, 1) Dim MyGraphics As Drawing.Graphics = Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpImage)
Dim imageSize As Drawing.SizeF = MyGraphics.MeasureString(stText, f) Dim i As New System.Drawing.Bitmap(iMaxWidth, iMaxLength) Dim g As Drawing.Graphics = Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(i) Dim rectF1 As New Drawing.Rectangle(-(iMaxWidth/2),-(iMaxLength/2),iMaxWidth,iMaxLength ) g.FillRectangle(Drawing.Brushes.White, 0, 0, i.Width, i.Height) g.TranslateTransform((iMaxWidth/2), (iMaxLength/2) ) g.RotateTransform(270.0F) 'flip the image 270 degrees
g.DrawString(stText, f,Drawing.Brushes.Black, rectF1) g.DrawRectangle(New Drawing.Pen(Drawing.Color.White, 1), rectF1) g.Flush() Dim stream As IO.MemoryStream = New IO.MemoryStream Dim bitmapBytes As Byte() i.Save(stream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) 'Create bitmap bitmapBytes = stream.ToArray stream.Close() i.Dispose() Return bitmapBytes
End Function
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We have an application with replicated environment setup on sql server 2012 . Users will have a replica on their machines and they will replicate to the master database. It has 3 subscriptions subscribed to the publications on the master db.
1) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with no sql server on it. After the initial synchronization(used replmerge tool) the mdf file has grown to 33gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studion . Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 84 gb with little empty free space available.
2) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with sql server 2008 on it. After the initial synchronization(used replmerge tool) the mdf file has grown to 49 gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studio , Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 90 gb with 16 gb free space available.
3) We set up a replica(which uses sql server 2012) on a machine with sql server 2012 on it. We have dropped the local database and recreated the local db and did the initial synchronization using replmerge tool. The mdf file has grown to 49 gigs and ldf has grown to 41 gigs. I went to sql server management studio , Right click and checked the properties of the local database. over all size is around 90 gb with 16 gb free space available.
Why it is allocating the space differently? This is effecting our initial replica set up times.
i am new to visual studio 2008, but comprehend pretty well. (i use to steal code from .bas files and whatnot in 5th grade in vb4 for aol ''progz'') anyway, all i wanna do is create a simple single form window as my first project with vs 2008. i have a huge list of movies, and i would like a form to help me list what titles i have, and their location (friends house, cd book 1, book 2, movie tower, etc.) and i would like to be able to add to the list, delete, edit location, from my form. right now i got as far as designing my interface, and started to add a database. i cant even get pass that because..
i goto add item from my menu bar.. add item.. local database..
then the configuration wizard comes up and says an error occured while retrieving the information from the database:
Hi, does anyone know how to access the *.evt file (SysEvent.Evt) from SQL in order to import a data from a file into a server table?
When you run EventViewer there is an option to save the log file as *.csv file and then use it. I want to eliminate this step (or make it automatic) and get the data into SQL right away.
I need to write a process to get file size in kb and record count in a file. I was planning on writing a c# console app that takes the file path and name as a param however should i use a CLR?
I cant put a script in the ssis when it's bringing the file down because it has been deemed that we only use ssis for file consumption.
What is the recommended size and file growth for a database and log file? We will be storing approx 10000 records a day.Currently we have the following:
CREATE DATABASE Dummy ONÂ PRIMARY ( NAME = Dummy_data, Â Â FILENAME = 'D:....DATADummy.mdf', Â Â SIZE = 250MB, Â Â FILEGROWTH = 25MB ) LOG ON ( NAME = Dummy_log, Â Â FILENAME = 'D:....DATADummy_log.ldf', Â Â SIZE = 50MB, Â Â FILEGROWTH = 5MB ) ; GO
I have a database whose log file size is 4 time greater then data file size, and its continuously growing day by day. Recently face limited disk related issue.
Is there any way to truncate log file???
What is impact on db if i truncate log file???
Is there any way to prevent this file continuously growing???
i'm trying to write this script that check my database file and log size(in MB) and insert them into a table.i need the following columns dbid,dbname,compatability_level,recovery_model,db_size_in_MB,log_size_in_MB. i try to write this a got stuck. select sysdb.database_id,sysdb.name,sysdb.compatibility_level, sysdb.recovery_model_desc,sysmaster.size from sys.databases sysdb,sys.master_files sysmaster where sysdb.database_id = sysmaster.database_id
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?
My SQL Server 2005 SP4 on Windows 2008 R2 is flooded with the below errors:-
Date  10/25/2011 10:55:46 AM Log  SQL Server (Current - 10/25/2011 10:55:00 AM) Source  spid Message Event Tracing for Windows failed to send an event. Send failures with the same error code may not be reported in the future. Error ID: 0, Event class ID: 54, Cause: (null).  Is there a way I can trace it how it is coming? When I check input buffer for these ids, it looks like it is tracing everything. All the general application DMLs are coming in these spids.
I have been testing with the WMI Event Watcher Task, so that I can identify a change to a file. The WQL is thus:
SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent within 30 WHERE targetinstance isa 'CIM_DataFile' AND targetinstance.name = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\AdventureWorks.bak'
This polls every 30 secs and in the SSIS Event (ActionAtEvent in the WMI Task is set to fire the SSIS Event) I have a simple script task that runs a message box).
My understanding is that the event polls every 30 s and if there is a change on the AdventureWorks.bak file then the event is triggered and the script task will run producing the message. However, when I run the package the message is occurring every 30s, meaning the event is continually firing even though there has been NO change to the AdventureWorks.bak file.
Am I correct in my understanding of how this should work and if so why is the event firing when it should not ?
Server 2003 SE SP1 5.2.3790 Sql Server 2000, SP 4, 8.00.2187 (latest hotfix rollup) We fixed one issue, but it brought up another. the fix we applied stopped the ServicesActive access failure, but now we have a failure on MSSEARCH. The users this is affecting do NOT have admin rights on the machine, they are SQL developers. We were having
Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Object AccessEvent ID: 560 Date: 5/23/2007 Time: 6:27:15 AM User: domainuser Computer: MACHINENAME Description: Object Open: Object Server: SC Manager Object Type: SC_MANAGER OBJECT Object Name: ServicesActive Handle ID: - Operation ID: {0,1623975729} Process ID: 840 Image File Name: C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe Primary User Name: MACHINE$ Primary Domain: Domain Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7) Client User Name: User Client Domain: Domain Client Logon ID: (0x0,0x6097C608) Accesses: READ_CONTROL Connect to service controller Enumerate services Query service database lock state
First of all i would like to thank everyone for there time and efforts in this web page I am new to the feild of DBA and i have some uncleared points that i would like any one to make them clear for me Why the transactions log file size is not decreasing after the truncation of log? is there any thing i have to do or is it normal way?
