I have a recommended configuration for production server. But, is there any guidelines for determining the test server configuration when compared to production. I know test server need not be as powerful as production, but I am not sure how to decide the test server configuration. Any help would be appreciated
View 3 RepliesI am getting following error when trying to install SQL express 2005 on XPSP2.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to WMI configuration on the machine SIGMA-805539A79 Error:2147944122 (0x800706ba).
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=70342
I tied re-installing WMI using http://blogs.msdn.com/jpapiez/archive/2004/12/09/279041.aspx link but could not get it working.
Do i need IIS installed? Its not installed on this box...
please suggest something... i am stuck...
Thanks,
I have just finished installing SQL 2005 Ent Edition on Win 2000 Adv Server, SQL2005 SP2, and SP2 Hotfix KB934458. After the installation, I could see and configure all services via SQL Configuration Manager and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tools. This worked for a couple of days and now both configuration tools no longer detect SQL2005 components. SQL Server Surface Area Configuration issued an error that said "No SQL Server 2005 components were found on specified computer. Either no components are installed, or you are not an administrator on this computer. (SQLAC)". SQL Configuration Manager did not list any installed services. I don€™t know what caused this. Anyone has any idea? Please help! Below is the Installation Report which shows installed components.
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The following components are installed on this server
DEV
Analysis Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Database Engine
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Reporting Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
QA
Analysis Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Database Engine
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Common components
Integration Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Notification Services
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
Workstation Components
[Version: 9.2.3042.00 Edition: Enterprise Edition Patch level: 9.2.3054 Language: English (United States)]
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We are setting up a test lab environment with 100 machines. Â We want one master testing db that gets replicated to each to run scripted application tests nightly. Â
My goal is to minimize the amount of work to move this thing to each of the 100 test machines. Â I am wondering if we need to even have the sql local and invest in a monster db server with 100 copies of the db we restore and each test machine point to their own db on that server, or if I should use db mirroring or something to get the master test db to each of those machines instead.
Now that we have a good programming model in SSIS - the question is whether to write automated unit tests for your packages, and would it generally be a good idea for packages?
Also - if yes to write tests - then where to find more informations regarding How to accomplish that?
hi every one,
i need to test SSIS pacakge which will import data from different database where record count is around 5 millions.
iam planning to test it through c# code as well as manually also.
SSIS source : consist of 7 tables
SSIS destination :consist of 7 tables
Using c# code iam trying to run ssis package through batch file.
i am putting expected rowcount, column count in an excel file and comparing same with destination tables by writing query implementing ADO.Net concept.
am i going right way ,can any one suggest best and productive way to test the ssis package .
what are the other things i need to test it.
do any one can add test cases to it.
S.No
Test Case
1
Verify all the tables have been imported.
2
Verify all the rows in each table have been imported.
3
Verify all the columns specified in source query for each table have been imported
4
Verify all the data has been received without any truncation for each column.
5
Verify the schema at source and destination
6
Verify the time taken /speed for data transfer
7
Fields truncated due to difference in length of the field at destination.
Regards
Arif shareef
I need to restore test DB from production backup but once it is restored I would need all the permissions of sql logins and windows AD account intact in test Db as it was before.
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I am new to BI. Can someone please tell me step by step how to setup BI test enviroment at work?
Thank you so much.
How can I test a stored proc that is in my SQL Server Express 2005 database? I don't see anything in VS 2005 or a Query Analyzer in SSMS express. Thanks
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I'm currently having a problem connecting to my SQL Server6.5 test
server. (Not the hottest problem since it is only the test server, but
it sure would be nice to use it.) I was able to connect to it from my
desktop (Win95 machine) up until this morning. I get the following
error when I try connecting "A connection could not be established to
PIGLET- DB-Library. Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does
not exist. General network error. Check your documentation."
Does anyone have any idea what this should mean to me? I do have the
server running and I am able to perform actions there, but not from my
desktop. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Toni Eibner
Hi all,
We have configured a DR server for our Production Server for Database Mirroring.
But, before bringing DR Server into live, we will setup Mirroring between our DR & TEST Server for Stress Testing on new DR Server.
So, What is best way to Stress test the DR Server, before bringing DR Server into Live.
Thanks.
Howdy;
I've tried this in the 'tools' area, but that didn't work too well. I suspect, I will have to generate a T-SQL code then schedule it as a job. Why I can't just drag and drop with basic desires, is beyond me, but THAT probably does exist.
anyway here is the problem
[this server has many databases, on SQL 2000 sp2]
1. User only wants me to use Monday morning's full backup, which is good in that it doesn't include transaction logs.
2. Restore that data overtop/into Developement db. = good, no data to worry about damaging.
3. User does NOT want me to do this by hand, but schedule it.
ok,
a. must do a RESTORE WITH FILELISTONLY from [?] what ?, master? and if I user the *.bak of the production, it has
a coded date field in the name entry SO, I would, I guess, have to generate all sorts of wonderful code to find the date and build a file name. Why, because using the FROM DISK = 'F:MSSQLBACKUPDBPRODUCTION_yyyyddmm.BAK' is not going to work with a wild card.
Can I do a file lookup using a 'PRODUCTION' prefix into a variable, then use that or should I look for latest file date [remember there are several database backups here], or ????
then. How does one schedule such a T-SQL. Do I save it to some text file, and invoke it using a job scheduler.
any help appreciated.
IS there an easier way.
rik
We have both a production SQL 7 server, QA, and Development. From time to time, I want to move just the data from the production server to the other 2 servers without modifing the objects that may have been changed such as stored procedures and rights. Is there a way using the SQL tools provided that we can just move the data. Becuase also what happens is that the rights to the objects change which means my developers no longer have access to the tables for selects in QA since the changes where overwritten by production where they do not have the rights.
Thanks
Ricky Kelley
HiI am trying to connect an application to a remote sql server database, however it does not appear to eb configured for remote connections. Does anyone know a connection string of a database I can connect to , soem sort of learnsers database sort of idea ?Thank you.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking to purchase tool where I can perform the stress test on SQL 7.0.
Any recommendation will be appreciated.
I am trying to copy a production db (26.5 gigs) with a 3 gig log from production to a test server. The Prod db name is EDD_Cat which resides on one logical drive for the data (.mdf) and another logical drive for the log (.ldf). The test server does not have the same physical raid allocation. The only way that I can get that much space is to spread the data across 3 logical drives. I have preallocated a database called EDD_CatT with the same total physical db size. I have not been successful in restoring from a sql backup device (copied from production) to the new test db. Here are my tsql statements and error:
Restore Database EDD_Catt
from Iloc01bkp
with File=2,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'D:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat.mdf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'E:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat2.ndf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_dat' to 'F:Mssql7DataEDD_Cat3.ndf',
Replace,
Move 'EDD_Cat_log' to 'G:Mssql7DataEDD_Log1.ldf',
Replace
start db restore
---------------------------
2001-01-02 12:23:31.610
(1 row(s) affected)
Server: Msg 3257, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
There is insufficient free space on disk volume 'E:' to create the database. The database requires 20447232000 additional free bytes, while only 1732972544 bytes are available.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
I also tried using EM but basically got the same type of error.
I could do this with SQL 6.5 as long as the db size was the same or larger.
Any advice/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. BOL and the manuals that I have seem to only give examples that have one file for the data and another for the log but I could not find one that gave an example of what I am trying to do.
Thanks much for your time
Calvin Matsumoto - State of California
I need to create a test load a MS SQL Server 7.0 server of 250 users.
Does anyone know of any application(s) that can do or any processes
that can mimic a load such as this?
Hello
Can anybody give me an idea or a script which can be used to Restore a production Database to Test Database on another server. As I need to do this 3 days a week, I would like to make this automated.
Thanks
I have been asked to perform a performance stress test on a SQL server with new hardware that we are going to be receiving.
How have some of you performed your stress analysis against new or existing hardware?
This hardware that I am going to receive will have to be configured within a high availabilty environment. I want to take this opportunity to really put a beat down on this server.
Thank you all for your suggestions.
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has a neat (preferably automated) method of creating small testing databases from large production instances.
My requirement would be to copy the schema and a subset of configuration data from a production database into a test database. The subset of data would be a full copy of a subset of tables, rather than a subset of data within one or more tables. There is a mixture of SQL2000 and SQL2005 servers involved in this requirement. I'm familar with the scripting mechanisms of Enterprise Manager and Management studio and DTS packages, sufficent to perform a process like this manually, but want to productionise and schedule this process to be performed automatically.
I'm sure this must be a commonly performed task, so I'm interested to know if anyone has a "best practice" for this requirement.
Thanks,
Bill
Hi,
I use SQL Server 2005 Dev Edition and am not new to making databases (then again, I've had enough experience and my dad does the same thing).
I am (unfortunately) a university student and for my dissertation I am going to produce a SQL Server database with a strong emphasis on data mining.
Obviously, for the data mining to be useful at all I need to produce loads and loads of test data.
Fair enough, and there are applications which do this, such as EMS Data Gen, but can anyone recommend me any other data gen utilities? EMS Data Gen has poor handling of unique attributes, and as I am doing a car manufacturer this will give me problems when I come to the registration number attribute.
Also, why are utilities for SQL Server (and Oracle at that) so expensive? This makes it out of my reach and makes it difficult to build a truly good database that will net me good marks, and demotivates me. :(
Lastly, please feel free to recommend to me any utilities for SQL Server - such as performance monitors, backup utilities. Anything. But if they are priced utilities, they have to be sensibly priced (<£100), because I cannot yet afford to pay >£1k on such utiltiies.
Thanks
I currently have a test sql server database and I am trying to refresh it with the production sql server data - to get the production current data.
If I copy the production database.mdf file and the database.ldf file from the from the production server and replace it with the test database database.mdf file and database.ldf files and then restart the database, would this give me the production current data, please advise. - If not could you please advise on how I could get the productions current database.
Many thanks for your help.
Hi All:
Please advise me about restore a master database from production to test server.
The reason to do this because I need to test and evaluate some login in master database.
I tried to restore master database to test server, but I got some errors regarding about user databases are not exists in test server. I don't want to restore user databases, I only need master database for evaluate user login.
Again thanks for your advice.
Hi --I was wondering if this is a bug when I add new data in my table SSIS Confiurations and give wizard a new Configuration filter the package configuration wizard can not see the new values --the old values from the previous configuration are still showing---is there any known workaround or forced refresh I can do
thanks in advance Dave
Background:
SQL Package Configurations are most important because they provide the possibility of a central configuration store for your entire enterprise!!!!!!!! and is in my mind the only way to go
http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/knight_reign/archive/2005/01/24/6843.aspx
Wizard results:
Name:
ETL
Type:
SQL Server
Connection name:
ETLConfiguration
Any existing configuration information for selected configuration filter will be overwritten with new configuration settings.
Configuration table name:
[dbo].[SSIS Configurations]
Configuration filter:
PT_CUST_ABR
Target Property:
Package.Variables[User::gsPreLoad].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsPostLoad].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsLoad].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsFlatFilename].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsFileName].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsCDOMailTo].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gsCDOMailSubject].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::giRecordCount].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::giFileSize].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::giBatchID].Properties[Value]
Package.Variables[User::gdFileDateCreated].Properties[Value]
Package.Connections[MyDatabase].Properties[ServerName]
Package.Connections[MyDatabase].Properties[InitialCatalog]
USE [ETLConfiguration]
GO
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[SSIS Configurations] Script Date: 05/23/2006 13:34:35 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SSIS Configurations](
[ConfigurationFilter] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[ConfiguredValue] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL,
[PackagePath] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[ConfiguredValueType] [nvarchar](20) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
I would like to know what procedures are required to transfer passwords from my Production server to my Test server.
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Is there any Tool available To Test Stored procedure in SQL server?
Thanks in Advance
Abin
Hi,
Is there any tool available to migrate the data from the SQL Server
test database to SQL Server production database. Data Migration should
be based on a condition which can be given as an input for a table by
the user. The dependant tables also should be migrated based on the
condition. i.e data subsetting based on the matching conditions.
Ex : Salary > 2000
The rows of the table which matches the condition alone need to be
migrated for the corresponding table. Also its dependant table's
rows should be migrated based on the given condition. Please help me
with a tool which can automate this.
Thanks,
Smitha
I have a Windows 2003 Server running SQL 2005. The server has 32 GB of memory and I have enabled AWE in SQL. I have also configured the min and max SQL memory as 1 GB and 28 GB, respectively. However, this server currently has very low activity so I'm not sure whether my AWE-related changes worked. SQLSERVR.EXE process takes up about 100 MB of memory. Is there any tool or scripts that I can use to memory stress SQL to confirm that AWE is really in effect ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI€™m trying to resolve an issue and wonder if anybody has ever run into and possibly had a resolution for.
I wrote a custom conflict resolvers to manage data at the column level. What I needed to do to achieve this was to use a remote query to the mobile subscriber that raised the conflict. I€™m trying to put in a rule that if there are any issues connecting to the subscriber I want to use the default conflict resolver and move forward. Here is my issue, it seems there is no way I can test a connection without getting a critical error that I can€™t seem to trap. Example
I was trying to do
Select * from [linkedserver].[database].[dbo].[incident]
If @@error <> 0
use default conflict resolver
What I did to test this was I changed the linked server authentication to an incorrect password to get the following error that there is no way to trap.
Server: Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 1
Login failed for user 'sa'.
Does anybody have an idea how to trap this? In SQL 2005 there is a stored procedure
sp_testlinkedserver to handle this but I need this to work in SQL 2000 also, it seems many people have ran into this issue on the web and I tried to get the one where sqldmo is used to test connection but that will not work since I wont always know the password. I would like to just check the @@error value after trying to run a remote query.
Thank you,
Pauly C
The prerequire componets for my program are:
1.sql server 2005 engine
2.sql server 2005 reporting services
3.sql server 2005 analysis services
4.sql server 2005 integreted services.
so how can i detect wheter the destination computer has installed the above components or not?
CREATE TABLE #tblTemplateBlocks
(
TemplateID int,
BlockID int,
OrderID int
[Code] ....
I have a table called TemplateBlocks which contains which Blocks are on a Template. In this example - just one template - with three Blocks.
Table tblFields contains a list of Fields that are on each TemplateID/BlockID. In this example there are 3 fields on each TemplateID/BlockID pair.
Before I can use a template, I have to check that, in tblFields, for each Template/BlockID pairing - one of the fields must be set as the Stage Base (I cannot have 2 fields as StageBase or no fields as StageBase). In the example data above, the data would be okay as each Template/BlockID pairing has one row where StageBase is true.
Having checked that each Template/BlockID pairing has a StageBase, I need to check that each row where StageBase is true has a value for the WeekStart column and that, taking into account the order of the Blocks in tblTemplateBlocks, the values in WeekStart for each TemplateID/BlockID pairing are getting progressively bigger.
So, for example, the example data above would fail because the third TemplateID/BlockID pairing has no value for the WeekStart column in the row where StageBase is true.
If I added a value of 2 for WeekStart in the row for the third TemplateID/Block that has a StageBase of true - again the data would fail because, taking into account the order of the Blocks - the values for WeekStart would be 0,3,2 and these numbers need to increase.
0,3,4 would be fine.
0,3,10 would be fine.
0,3,3 would fail.
I can do this easily using a cursor or two - but how to do this without cursors.
I've been tasked to generate some test data (a few thousand rows) into a new table in a new database. This database is a whole new idea, so I can't write a query to pull pieces of data from other databases. I cannot consider any third party tools, such as what Redgate or Idera has to offer. I can't consider free tools such as what I've found on GitHub. I've been instructed to restrict myself to Visual Studio 2013 and whatever I can get that works within that.
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I was had just finished creating the architecture for a test databse using sql express 2005 and have been able to get the browser and sql service started just fine. However, When I try to create an oledbconnection or oledbadapter to the database using the Microsoft SQL Server engines I get the following error: I have tried using a direct path to the database in the server name and the computer's name itself. Everything is on the local machine and I have not started remotely connecting. [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).] SQL Server does not exist or access denied. I am using windows authentication and have also specified the direct patht to the database in the attach database file: Thanks for the help.
Shullaymahl