The Log File For My Database Is Huge
May 20, 2006The log file for my database in SQL Server 2005 is huge. How do I get empty it or in effect shrink it or start it over?
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Database Script Creates Huge Log File
Mar 20, 2008I am creating a database for an application through script. After the tables, views, and sp's are created, the database is populated with data. After all of this (and before the application is even run), the log file is about 700MB. If I shrink the database, it takes the log down to 1MB. The mdf file is about 165 MB before and after it has been shrunk.
I have two questions:
1. Is there something I should look for in my database scripts or is there a setting that could prevent this from being created so large.
2. Is there a script I can run in my sql code after the database has been created and populated to shrink it.
Thank you for your help
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What steps can I take to mitigate this in future? I've read that this is caused by long running transactions which fill the log for DR purposes. Should I put the database back into full mode and backup/truncate daily.
The auto-growth is set to 128MB which is very low.
What Should I Do With The Huge Log File
Oct 11, 2004Hi all,
I found my database log file is 26GB and the database file is just about 280MB. We are doing full backup everyday. However, my sql server seems running very slow now and please advise:
1. How can I decrease/truncate my log file?
2. Would the huge size of the log file be the reasons slowing up my sql server?
3. Would anyone give me direction knowing more on the transaction log?
Thank you and appreciated!
Log File HUGE!!
Oct 30, 2007Hi guys, its my first post! Its also like my first time really diving into sql. We are using sharepoint on site here along with sql server 2005, one of our log files is 255 GBs and needs to be made smaller very fast!! We are almost out of disk space and the log is growing fast.
I am very new to sql and dont even know where to go to enter commands, so youll have to bear with me here. I've read about truncating and shrinking and some other things, I am just worried and dont want to mess anything up. I know this is probably a simple task, but like I said, with the truncate command I was reading about, I dont even know where to go to type it in!!! If someone could please help it would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.
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Jan 28, 2008I have a .bak file of 72gb. But my database size is only 32gb, I got this value from sp_spaceused?
Anyone know why the .bak file is so big?. Is it possible to reduce the size? How could i reduce it?
http://www.sqlserverstudy.com
Huge LDF File
Nov 13, 2007
Hi
this is regarding SQL Sever 2000. ( it was upgraded form sql7). its log file is increasing in very high manner. say 40 gb, 50 gb and now 57 gb. Mdf file is around 15 mb. we created back up and tried to restore to another system. its asking 57 gb free space. how to proceeed with file recovery. we have backups but it askes more space for log file. how to retrieve the data.
rgds
Pramod
SQL Backup File Is HUGE!!!
Sep 25, 2004One of my databases is approxiamtely 1.5 GB's but when I run a backup the backup file explodes to 38GB's.
What is the proper usage of Shrink Database, is this safe or is there another method to reduce the size?
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May 12, 2000I am using SQL Server 7 and have about 5 databases. One of them has a data file of about 10 Meg, and most of the others are larger. I do a nightly backup to both a local and mapped drive. On both, the size of the backup file for this database is more than 500 Meg, but the rest appear to be an appropriate size. Does anyone know why this would be happening? The database works fine, it does not get a lot of insert/delete activity and I run DBCC every weekend. If anyone has any ideas I would sure like to hear from them.
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Feb 21, 2001I have a huge log file (285M) on SQL Server 7.
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May 19, 2007Hello all,
I have inherited a SQL 2000 server, and am therefore an absolute beginner of SQL2000.
I know this has been covered before, but I don't know how to use the KB as I don't know how to run the commands/script.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272318/
I can no longer backup the SQL database because the 'transaction log backup' file is about 17GB. The SQL database is only about 2GB! The partition that it is backed up onto fills up every day.
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Nov 15, 1999Help,
Have a user who needs many data changes to a huge table with over 2 million rows.
He hopes to do this by running a series of queries.
Last time our log grew gargantuan. I know 7.0 is wonderful & dynamic, but after
an hour of rambling through books online I'm more confused than ever.
Is there a way we can code into his query at intervals any hard coded checkpoints
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Thanks,
Mark Blackburn
mark@mbari.org
Insert Huge Text File Into SQL Server
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Primary objective is to make do for now.
Question About Log File Size When Alter Huge Table
Oct 31, 2005I have the next question, and i would like to hear what do you thinkabout, and if is there a better solution for "my problem"here is the question, I have a huge table with 60GB of data (imagefiles). The problem happen always when i try to ALTER the structure ofthe table. For example I change a field char(3) to char(4)...thesqlserver then performs the "alter table" command...that must besomething similar than "insert into the new table + drop the actualtable" and for that I need about 60GB o space for my LOG file, andtakes hours to complete the operation.Is this the only way to alter a single field in my table??I would like to heard you opinions...Thanks..ALberto
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HELP: How To Avoid Ridiculous System Resource Issues When Connecting To A Huge Excel File
Sep 20, 2007Hi all,
I have a 400MB Excel file that I consume from another automated process (don't ask). I copy this file down locally to my server, and I am attempting to create an SSIS package that points to this file via a connection manager. My computer starts gobbling up massive amounts of memory (devenv.exe gets up to about 800MB or so, then drops back down to 100MB) even when I attempt to rename the connection in the connection managers tab.
I have set all BypassPrepare to TRUE and ValidateExternalMetadata properties to FALSE, and still it can take up to 3 to 6 minutes for BI Dev Studio to respond. My specs:
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2GB RAM
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May 21, 2007I have an 80 gig server. My client has sent me a backup of their db. The actual data file is 47 gigs. The client didn't truncate the transaction log, and on the backup , it is 37 gigs.
Question : when restoring this to my dev box, do I need to restore the transaction log, or, is there a way to truncate it so the 37 gigs isn't transferred to the server?
Thanks
Huge Deletes In A Huge Table
Apr 3, 2000SQL 7 SP1 NT4 SP5
I have a TRANSACTION table with 150 million rows.
I have a USER table.
Each user has about 600 records in the TRANSACTION table.
The TRANSACTION cluster index is on USERID + RECID . The second index is on USERID + Fieldx + Fieldy.
The TRANSACTION table gets about 1.4 million inserts in a normal day and about 40,000 updates.
I want to go through the USER table and delete all users who have not visited me in a while.
I want to do this without substantially hindering performance in a production environment. I can perform this over a week period or two if needed.
The best way I thought of doing this was to grab x amount of users in a cursor and loop through deleting their corresponding TRANSACTION records.
Does anyone have any ideas on a better way. What is going to happen to my indices during this time ?
Thanks !!!
An Attempt To Attach An Auto-named Database For File (file Location).../Database.mdf Failed. A Database With The Same Name Exists, Or Specified File Cannot Be Opened, Or It Is Located On UNC Share.
Sep 2, 2007Greetings, I have just arrived back into the country (NZ) and back into ASP.NET.
I am having trouble with the following:An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file (file location).../Database.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
It has only begun since i decided i wanted to use IIS, I realise VWD comes with its own localhost, but since it is only temporary, i wanted a permanent shortcut on my desktop to link to my intranet page.
Anyone have any ideas why i am getting the above error? have searched many places on the internet and not getting any closer.
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Jun 14, 2006Hi.
I am trying to put a hugh chunk of text into my database for example information to a particular product which has more than 2000 characters. I had saw this datatype "nvarchar(MAX)" in SQL Server 2005 and was wondering if i can use this to store my text.
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Database Table Design For Huge Number Of Columns
Jan 24, 2008Hi
I have a table (Sql server 2000) which has 14 cost columns for each record, and now due to a new requirement, I have 2 taxes which needs to be applied on two more fields called Share1 and share 2
e.g
Sales tax = 10%
Use Tax = 10%
Share1 = 60%
Share2 = 40%
So Sales tax Amt (A) = Cost1 * Share1 * Sales Tax
So Use tax Amt (B) = cost1 * share2 * Use tax
same calculation for all the costs and then total cost with Sales tax = Cost 1 + A , Cost 2 + A and so on..
and total cost with Use tax = Cost1 +B, Cost 2 +B etc.
So there are around 14 new fields required to save Sales Tax amt for each cost, another 14 new fields to store Cost with Sales Tax, Cost with Use tax. So that increases the table size.
Some of these fields might be used for making reports.
I was wondering which is a better approach out of the below 3:
1) To calculate these fields dynamically while displaying them on the User interface and not save in DB (while making reports, again calculate these fields dynamically and show), or
2) Add new formula field columns in database table to save each field, which would make the table size bigger, but reporting becomes easier.
3) Add only those columns in database on which reports needs to be made, calculate rest of the fields dynamically on screen.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Database Table Design For Huge Number Of Columns
Jan 24, 2008Hi
I have a table (Sql server 2000) which has 14 cost columns for each record, and now due to a new requirement, I have 2 taxes which needs to be applied on two more fields called Share1 and share 2
e.g
Sales tax = 10%
Use Tax = 10%
Share1 = 60%
Share2 = 40%
So Sales tax Amt (A) = Cost1 * Share1 * Sales Tax
So Use tax Amt (B) = cost1 * share2 * Use tax
same calculation for all the costs and then total cost with Sales tax = Cost 1 + A , Cost 2 + A and so on..
and total cost with Use tax = Cost1 +B, Cost 2 +B etc.
So there are around 14 new fields required to save Sales Tax amt for each cost, another 14 new fields to store Cost with Sales Tax, Cost with Use tax. So that increases the table size.
Some of these fields might be used for making reports.
I was wondering which is a better approach out of the below 4:
1) To calculate these fields dynamically while displaying them on the User interface and not save in DB (while making reports, again calculate these fields dynamically and show), or
2) Add new formula field columns in database table to save each field, which would make the table size bigger, but reporting becomes easier.
3) Add only those columns in database on which reports needs to be made, calculate rest of the fields dynamically on screen.
4) Create a view just for reports, and calculate values dynamically in UI and not adding any computed values in table.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Configuration is
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SUDDENLY THE SITE GOT DEAD SLOW AND UNABLE TO TRACE THE PROBLEM AS EVERY THING LOOKS FINE.
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I checked my server forum and they said I had to name a database:
Example: Database=(unique name);
But this didn't work either.
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How To Convert SLQ Server Express Database File To SQL Compact Edition File?
May 29, 2007Hi all,
I have a database name MyDatabase (SQL Server Express Dabase File). Is there anyway that I could convert it to SQL Server Compact Edition File?
By the way does anyone here got any problem with programming in SQL Server Compact Edition? It troubles me.
Thanks,
bombie