Has anyone had experience using ‘VERITAS Backup Exec For Windows Servers Agent for MS SQL Server’ to run backup jobs? If so, what are the pros and cons?
I have always preferred using SQL Server Agent (not the maintenance plans) to run backup jobs and don’t know why anyone would want to use 3rd party software to do something SQL Server Agent does perfectly. Any advice?
Hello,
I would like to know if anyone has a recommended method for having backups to tape while running log shipping. For example, is it possible to copy the transaction log backups used for log shipping to tape and apply them to a Full Database Restore from a 3rd Party Backup tool such as Veritas?
My goal is to be able to do a point-in-time restore from tape and still be able to use SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping.
Thanks,
Erik
I am trying to use NConstruct to generate my Nhibernate files. i can't connect to the sql server. In the past I have ran into similar problems with MyGeneration and other 3rd party tools. In those cases If I ran the tool as an administrator, it worked out ok. For NConstruct there is no option to run as administrator. I ran the SQL Server Surface Configuration tool to allow local and remote connections for named pipes and tcp already. I read all the blogs written for asp.net, and people often complain about the learning curve for Nhibernate or lack of Tutorials for Nhibernate. What I found in my case is that the steepest learning curve is to get the Microsoft Products Configured and Working Correctly! If anyone can be of any assistance, I would deeply appreciate it
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn your own opinions, what is the best backup tool for SQL Server, taking value for money into account where possible.
I am looking to purchase 3rd party software for my company and would greatly appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks.
I thought I was successful in linking SQL to a Third Party LDAP in the past, but I cannot get it to work now. It has been about 2 years ago I played with this. The LDAP does require authentication and I think that is where the problem lies, but if anyone can tell me if there is a way to do this and what the steps are I would greatly appreciate it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi folks
wld really appreciate it if anyone could guide me to a good third party tool for replication on sql server.
thanks in advance
achal
Hi,
I'm using one report tool by 'AriaCom' and have got such problems with FREE SQL in that tool. Pls advise!
Message:
SQLExecDirect>[ODBC 195][37000][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]'instr' is not a recognized built-in function name.
Message:
SQLExecDirect>[ODBC 195][37000][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]'mid' is not a recognized built-in function name.
Dear all,
Our system is using .Net 1.1 and SQL Server 2000.
In our system, the timeout of SqlCommand is set to 300 seconds (~5 mins). However, there was a case that exception 'ThreadAbortException' was thrown in .Net (IIS Server), with its corresponding query was blocked over 11 minutes.
The case raised a question: 'Which party manages the timeout after the sql command is sent to DB? .Net, IIS Server or SQL Server?' If the timeout is managed by .Net or IIS, is there any setting making SQL Server 2000 possible to kill the aborted process earlier?
Thanks for helps.
Gabriel
Hi all,
I'm currently running a SQL Server 2005 setup (or so I believe) to use Windows Authentication. When I load Management Studio, the following popup box appears:
Server Type (greyed out): Database Engine
Server Name: Thor
Authentication: Wndows Authentication
U/N and P/W: greyed out
I can connect to my databases using PHP by specifying 'Thor' as my DB host, the DB name and then the username and password of a user I created.
The problem is that I cannot connect to my local server using EMS Data Export 2005 for SQL Server. I can use it to connect to a remote SQL DB on our web server but if I try to connect locally, it generates an error saying that the 'SQL Server does not exist or access denied'.
Does anyone have any experience with connecting to a local SQL server? I'm assuming that I need to setup my server to allow for external connections or something but I'm in the dark on the matter.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thanks.
i want to show data Party Name and Time interval wise. here is my table from where i will fetch data. so pasting table data here.
Call start Call duration Ring duration Direction Is_Internal Continuation Party1Name Park_Time
------------------------- ---------------- ------------- --------- ----------- ------------ --------------- -----------
2015/06/08 08:06:08 00:02:28 2 I 0 0 Emily 0
2015/06/08 08:16:38 00:00:21 0 I 0 1 Line 2.0 0
2015/06/08 08:16:38 00:04:13 5 I 0 0 Jen 0
[code]...
now i am not being able to cross join this CTE with my table to get data party name wise and time interval wise. say for if no data exist for a specific time interval then it will show 0 but each party name should repeat for time interval 9:00:00 - 9:30:00 upto 17:30:00. i like to add what filter need to apply to get data for incoming, outgoing, call transfer and miss call.
For Incoming data calculation
where direction='I' and
Is_Internal=0 and continuation=0 and
RIGHT(convert(varchar,[call duration]),8)<> '00:00:00'
For outgoing data calculation
[code]...
The space allocated to the Log in question is 180 GB. During this time period I was running TLog backups every 5 minutes, yet the log continued to chew through to 80 GB used, even after the process was complete and a final TLog backup had been taken. It continued to stay very large until the Full backup was complete -- or something else that I'm unaware of completed. Like every other DBA I typically take a TLog backup to shrink the log, but what appeared to be the case here was the Full completed and it released the used log space. All said, will Transaction Log backups not free up the log during Full backups?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI developed a intranet web application that stores about 1000+ new entries into a SQL Server database over the course of about a half hour. This runs 24/7 so its a very busy application. SQL Server is running on a server with a RAID 5 array which runs very good but I want to better guard against data loss. If I run a backup at 8:00 AM and the roof falls on the server crushing and destroying it at 5:00 PM, we just lost thousands of records that were made between 8am and 5pm that cannot be replaced.
I was thinking of adding a second server so when an entry is made it would be stored on both servers. The second server would be located at a different location so if 1 gets crushed we could just pick up where we left off and I wouldn't have to update my resume.....
Does this sound like a good idea or could anyone recommend a better solution?
Thanks in advance.
Is it possible to backup a remote SQL Server database to my local system? It is not working for me as I'm getting error as given below
Cannot open backup device 'path'. Device error or device offline
Any idea??
Does anyone know how to get SQL Server to see a network drive for backups? Even when trying to create a backup device on a network drive using UNC naming, SQL Server seems to have a problem with accepting it. If you browse for a place to put the device, only the local drive is accessible.
Please help. Thanks. John
I am working on a new SQL Server 7.0 system and have gotten to the issue of backing up and restoring the database. I am fairly new to SQL Server 7.0 and I am not sure how good the built in backup/resore is in SQL Server 7.0. The other optioin I have is Seagate Backup Exec which is currently being used for network backups.
Does anyone have any advide/information on this?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
Can anyone tell me some advantages/disadvantages to using ARCServe for
backups vs SQL Server 6.5 backup?
Thanks for the help!
Toni
Our e-business group will be running SQL Server as a backend and C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET application on the front end. Besides my enternal backups of user data on the database. What would you suggest for the Network team to backup and how offen. This is for productions. I usally get a full drive dump on the Dev network daily appended,and weekly archived. Any suggestion for production.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a job scheduled to backup a production database every night at 10pm. It will run fine for a number of days and then fail with the error:
Msg 3201, Sev 16: Cannot open backup device 'PCSLogisticsDB'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details. [SQLSTATE 42000] Msg 3013, Sev 16: BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] Msg 0, Sev 0: Associated statement is not prepared [SQLSTATE HY007] The backup set is valid. [SQLSTATE 01000]
When I go back and run it manually it works fine and then will run on it's own for a few more days. I've checked and File System backups aren't running at the time the backup kicks off. Has anyone experienced this?
I'm looking for an opinion on an architecture I'm thinking of rolling out.I have a HA cluster with 3 nodes:
Primary -- Main SQL Server
Failover -- Passive node, only used in DR scenario
Reporting -- Read Intent only queries directed here, SSRS.
I am pondering with the idea of balancing the backups out between 2 nodes as follow:
Primary: Full backup weekly, daily incremental.
Reporting: Log backups every 5 minutes.
I have tested that I can indeed restore the logs from the secondary node using the Full and Diff from the other server, no worries there.My concern is what will happen to the logs on the primary and fail-over server. Will they just grow, grow and grow?
Can SQL server handle High Availability or does it have to go downoccasionally for a cold backup? Does it support incremental backups?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a backup set which maintains only a fixed number ofdays. As such, I've got the following script:BACKUP DATABASE [mydb] to [mydb Backup Set] WITH NOINIT, NOUNLOAD,NAME=N'My Database Backup', NOSKIP, STATS=10, NOFORMAT,RETAINDAYS=5DECLARE @i INTselect @i=position from msdb.backupset where database name='mydb'and type!='F' amd backup set id=(select max(backupset set id) frommsdb.backupset where database name='mydb')RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM [mydb Backup Set] WITH FILE=@iThis script was created automatically, but I added the RETAINDAYS bit. Ionly want the past five days of backups available, but when I check thelist, I've got backups dating back to December 2003! The older backupsare correctly being marked as expired, but they are still on the list!How can I purge the list to only have the last five days of backups?Thanks in advanceJohnny
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan anyone please confirm if SQL Server 7 allows differential or indeed transaction logs backups? I noticed in Enterprise Manager that while trying to configure a backup for the Master database, only complete was highlighted and the other types including file and filegroup was greyed out....
View 2 Replies View Relatedwe are looking into a new tape drive and they say it is NT compatable and that its built around NT. My question the backup that is build in to sql 7.0 is it built around NT. I would think so since its a microsoft product
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for the best method to backup SQL Server databases. Currently we are
running a dump database statement to disk and backing up the files to tape through Arcserve.
One problem that I am having is the statement to dump the database. I would like to retain
the dump for at least three days and be able to restore the database from any one of those
three days. My current statement is:
"DUMP DATABASE CHOISDAT TO DISK=`D:BACKUPCHOIS.BAK` WITH
NOUNLOAD , STATS = 10, INIT , RETAINDAYS = 3, NOSKIP"
but, every other day I receive the message from SQL executive:
"Can`t open dump device `D:BACKUPCHOIS.BAK`, device error or device off line.
Please consult the SQL Server error log for more details. (Message 3201)"
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
P.S.
Is there anyway to tell the Maintenance Wizard to delete the backups. I tried using the wizard but
the backup files still remain on the disk and I have to delete them every week.
Hi,
How can i make sure that i dont have any data loss in the event of DB crash.
I take daily full database backup dump to the disk and every 4 hrs transaction log dump.
What shoud be the backup strategy to get 100 % database from the backup/ to get in point in time receovery.
Best regards,
Madhu
For some reason my backups (Transaction log and full backups) have started failing. When looking at the job histoy for the step that failed it reports:
*****(0.011 MB/sec). [SQLSTATE 01000] (Message 3014) Backup, CHECKALLOC, bulk copy, SELECT INTO, and file manipulation (such as CREATE FILE) operations on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup, CHECKALLOC, or file manipulation operation is completed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3023) Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times (3) without succeeding. The step failed.*****
I have tried running the SQL for the step manually and I get:
Backup, CHECKALLOC, bulk copy, SELECT INTO, and file manipulation (such as CREATE FILE) operations on a database must be serialized. Reissue the statement after the current backup, CHECKALLOC, or file manipulation operation is completed.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 36
Backup or restore operation terminating abnormally.
The step is only determining what day of the week it is and putting it in to a '@bkupday' variable then: "BACKUP LOG [model] TO @bkupday WITH NOINIT , NOUNLOAD , NAME = N'Model Log Backup', NOSKIP , STATS = 10, DESCRIPTION = N'Model log backup', NOFORMAT" for each database and log.
This had been working fine, but for some reason has now started playing up. (trying to workout wether this ties in with when I started merge replication of one of the DBs)
Any one got any ideas as to what might be causing this as it's happened for a couple of nights now?
Cheerz.
Hello,
If I understand correctly I cannot do table & databse backups and restores or exports & imports as with Enterprise Manager in SQL 2000 because I have the lowest level version of the Studio Express Manager. Is that right?
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to regain that funtionality? It will be used for managing local (on my pc) and remote databases.
If it involves downloading and installing a different Studio version:
1. which one would that be?
2. is there a cost?
3. do I need to UNINSTALL my current version?
4. if so, how do I preserve my existing local databases (since there's no backup capability)
Many thanks in advance for any advice out there!
Richard
Not sure if there is anyway to do hots on sql server .From all I haveheard an EMC can do clones and fractures in order to implement a hotbackup or some kind of it in sql server.Seemingly the DBA has to do something toenable the fracture of the clone . Is anyone familiar with this ?Your input is highly appreciatedMB
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi there,
I am looking to be able to backup our database automatically on a daily basis. It is for a SQL Server 2005 Express Database. Does the Express edition have automated backups or does it have to be carried out manually?
I'm not sure of which steps to take.
Could someone please advise
Thanks
Hi All,
I have to load data from from a text file ( approx 3-5 million rows) into a table .
I can use straight bcp with the format file , but the loading of data has to follow some business logic
Let me know if there are any third party tool to load the data instead of regular bcp
I have SqlServer 7.0 on Windows NT 4.0
Thanks in advance
Does anyone know any software to backup single tables ? i recall one software that extracts the data into a text file called SQLinsert or something but wondering if they are others around ?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhello,
what are some good db managements tools that are available? I installed Toad from Quest and the Red Gate's toolbelt but I haven't play with them yet. I would like to know what is the most useful tool to invest time in.
Thanks.
Hey guys I really need your help.
We've outsourced our software last year, and it really a big mess for us since that company has been clashed. Then it so happened that the system failed to function well. Our batch transactions was working about 56 mins.. that is 24 records. Then it happened that this time 28 records was finished for about an hour. Our business hour is 8 hours only. That's why we have a back log now. We also failed to validate transaction since it takes a lot of effort before we update the database. It's working before but as our database becomes larger there are many errors occur in our application. Majority is runtime error. Then it happened that now we cannot move on anymore. We are using SQL server 2000 with VB6.0 application. our server memory is 1GB. Do you think adding additional memory will solve our problem?
Thanks!!