Upgrading Windows And SQL Server - Best Practise
Feb 6, 2002
Hi Folks,
I am about to upgrade my main database server (5 db's - largest 16Gb) from
NT 4 SP 6a / SQL Server 7 SP3 to Windows 2000 SP 2 / SQL Server 2000 SP 2
I am planning to detach the db's, backup to tape a few times and then totally
trash the server, rebuilding it with the new software, restore the db's from
tape and the reattach the db's.
Any reason I should not use this method and can folk advise the best practice
way of achieving this?
Regards
Paul
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Paul Starling
ERP Database Administrator
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J
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If more fields are changed during the update, than add more records into the logging table.
What is best practise to achieve this?
Thanks,
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Hi,
I have some data that is updated every day but I don't know when. I'm trying to make a solution that runs a SQL query to check if this data has been updated. If it has, I'll send the updated data with FTP as as text file.
How would you solve this?
My idea is to have 2 SSIS packages.
- Package1: One runs at the same time every day (inserts any missing updates to a table)
- Package2: One runs every hour to check the missing updates table, and runs Package1 if any update for a missing data is found.
My only worries is if Package1 is running and at the same time Package2 decides to run Package1 then I could get into trouble if I'm using temp tables with the same name for the text file updates etc.
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Hi, hoping I can get a few view on a question I have relating to the above.
I am new to Stored Procedures and Triggers and I am trying to understand 'best practice' a little better. Here is my question: If I have a table that stores information, and when any field in that table is updated (and changes) I would like to inactive the row, prior to change and then add the change by way of a new, active row. This way I can see what it was before and that it's inactive, and what the active value is.
Hope this makes sense, if this is the wrong way to manage change history any suggestions would be appreciated.
A second question I have is as follows: If I have a table that stores a number, based on that number, what would be the best way to create new records in a different table that pulls from the first table. Where the number stored in table 1 represents how many times the record is to be created in the second table.
Thanks. If anyone needs more data, please feel free to ask, I will help as best as I can and appreciate any advice & comments that you can give.
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Hi,
I work with a large team developing ASP.NET application that has a large database with over 50 complex stored procedures. It is proving more and more difficult and time consuming to centralise the development and update of the database changes and I was wondering if there were any best practises/tools that could be recommended. I have looked on the web for good articles and haven't found anything difinitive (except that Team Foundation Server is the way forward)..
A brief background to the current process is that everyone develops on the same database, and then updates the stored procedure scripts in source safe (manually). Then when we do a new release someone builds a script of all the database updates and runs it. There are issues related to developers updating there stored procedures over other peoples and other concurrency.
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Surely this must be a common issue? Anyone have any good ideas/concepts?
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Cheers,
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Hallo there,
I just upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Windows Vista Bussiness and tried to reinstall SQL Server 2005 Developers Edition. After the installation i downloaded (using microsoft windows update) and installed all the service packs for sql and vista available.
My problem is when i open sql server management studio and try to connect to my default instance using windows authentication and database engine, an 18456 error occurs.
I enabled all the protocols and all the ports
I disabled windows firewall and antivirus (eset nod32)
I installed all service packs available
I have also installed Visual Studio 2005 without installing sqlexpress
But nothing happens!
Please i am very desperate, any information will be gratefully accepted.
This is my installation Information
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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.3042.00
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 2005.090.3042.00
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)
Microsoft MSXML 3.0 5.0 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.6001.18000
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.1434
Operating System 6.0.6001
Thank you in advance,
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We have never had any problems with the MSDE, so it was no problem that we installed the german version (by mistake) because there never was any output at installation time.
When we now upgrade the existing MSDE installing the new version of our software, there are often problems and there are error messages, unfortunately in german, which cannot be read by most of our international users.
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Hi,
We just upgraded 2 sql servers from sql server 2000 sp3a to sql server 2005 build 2153, and merge rep exists between these 2 servers.
However, after sql server upgrade, we had to reinitialize merge replication and now the merge agent is reporting 2 errors
1)
Error messages:
The Merge Agent failed to upgrade triggers, metadata and stored procedures on the Subscriber to versions compatible with SQL Server 2005. Restart synchronization, and if this failure continues to occur reinitialize the subscription. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199403)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199403
Invalid column name 'metadata_select_proc'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 207)
Get help: http://help/207
Invalid column name 'delete_proc'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 207)
Get help: http://help/207
2)
Command attempted:
{call sp_MSensure_single_instance (N'Merge Agent Name', 4)}
Error messages:
The merge process could not connect to the Publisher 'Server:database'. Check to ensure that the server is running. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199368)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199368
Another merge agent for the subscription(s) is running or the server is working on a previous request by the same agent. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 21036)
Get help: http://help/21036
looking inside the sp_MSensure_single_instance stored procedure, it's trying to obtain an exclusive lock on resource 'Merge Agent Name' but fails and returns -1
this is the stored procedure executed by sp_MSensure_single_instance and @retcode = -1 and thus cannot obtain exclusive lock on resource
EXEC @retcode = sys.sp_getapplock @Resource = 'Merge Agent Name',
@LockMode = 'Exclusive',
@LockOwner = 'Session',
@LockTimeout = 0,
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DateAdd(DateInteval.Day, ..., ...)
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Works on both SQL Server 2000 servers and SQL Server 2005 servers.
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My question is:
Which upgrade plan do I take? Do I:
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