We usually wait until a service pack has been released for a product like SQL Server before using it in production. Is this over cautious or the norm?
Thanks
Danny
Sould one has a seperated environment for production and test system? How do you do it on a same server? Install two instance? How do you seperate test DBs from the production DBs?
Please advise...Thank you
Hi,
I want to make some steps towards securing production database.
1. Give limited rights to Developers, i.e. db reaonly, db writedeny
2. Make strong password for local and Domain
3. Use Windows authentication
4. Enable log for 'Failed Login' attempts.
What steps I need to take in addition to those?
I developed an asp.net application in visual web developer 2005 express edition and SQL sever 2005 express with Advanced services. The application has been deployed and iam wondering what tools are availabel to for backing up my data. Are there any tools i can use to back-up my database. Iam not talking of third party tools but tools a vailable in sql sever 2005 express with advanced services or visual web developer express.
OR can write a vb.net Sub procedure that i run and have my database backed up. If so where can i start or what other options may i explorer.
I have this script that captures metrics and sizes using T-SQL. When running in development I have no issues. I can run under the context of any database and get results back. When deploying to production servers no results are returning. I'm trying to figure out what permissions are needed for this to return results.
No error message is being returned either. My access is limited for triage against Production? I need to be able to have Production DBA set the right permissions so this job can run correctly.
DECLARE @allocation_table table
(
dbname sysname,
reservedpages bigint,
usedpages bigint,
pages bigint
[Code] ....
Hi,
Is it possible to deploy both SQL2000 and SQL2005 on the same server in the production environment?
Is it recommended? Next year we will be deploying a SQL2005 solution and was wondering if we could get away with installing it on the same server as the SQL2000 server, or whether we should put it on another server.
We have up to a maximum of 50 concurrent users.
Thanks.
I have been looking for some documentation that would support or rejectmy opinion on Production -vs- Development naming conventions. Ibelieve that each environment should be housed on separate servers withidentical names, access, users, stored procs....... If you eitheragree or disagree with this methodology, I would appreciate your input.TIA,Bill
View 5 Replies View Relatedhi all!
This is my problem. My package executes fine when i set the connection string with the same database where i execute the query. If i execute with another database connection stirng if fails bacause while executing the pacakge it trys to access the same connection string at design mode.
when i try to execute through cmd prompt by setting conn <new database connection string> it fails.
Is package configuration is the only solution. how can i change conn string depending on different server?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jas
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01fb'
An exception occurred: 'EOF'
Used the same connection string and DSN (i.e pointing to the same database/server) in both environments. ASP works in Test Environment. Fails in Production Environment.
Test and Production have same versions of software.
Environment Details:
OS: Windows 2003 SP2
MDAC: 2.8
Database: HP Neoview
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Venkata.
Our DBA is out for about 6 weeks. One of his regular jobs is to take a Database that is in our Prod environment and copy it to our Training environment.
I have backed up and restored to different servers before, however the Database name in Prod is different than in the Train environment in this case.
In other words I have a PROD database named DATABASE-XX that I want to copy to another SQL server and restore it to DATABASE-XX-TRAIN.
Is there anything special I need to do, other than backup on PROD, copy to TRAIN and restore to the corresponding DB in TRAIN?
How do you apply Service Pack 1 to Sql Server Express 2005?
View 1 Replies View Relatedyestarday there is an article released about the service pack for the service pack 2 for sqlserver wo downloaded before mar 5 , 2007.
but to my development server i didn't download sp2 yet. Ifs it safe to download the sp2 for sqlserver 2005 enterprise edition now??
thanks,
We will be implementing our first SQL cluster in December. Our current plan calls for a shared development/test database server with one physical server, but two SQL Server instances. Our production environment will be a SQL cluster. Is it necessary to create a clustered test environment for testing patches, hot-fixes, etc...?
Thanks, Dave
I have heard that turning off 'primary key-to-foreign key-relationships' between tables , helps to boost performance in production environments. Is this really true?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSetting up Transaction Replication in test environment. I am willing to bet that most of you take a production backup (if so, how, and using what?), restoring the database to your test environment, then running a snapshot to your subscriber and away you go.
But perhaps you take a backup of your publisher and subscriber, if so, how do you know there are no inconsistences because there were transactions sitting on the distributor?
What do you do if you have additional indexes on the subscriber for reporting, that are not on the publisher?
Here at work we are having issues with getting consistent databases set up with T Rep, missing rows, duplicate keys at subscriber etc. How to avoid these issues.
Hi, sorry but I donīt speak english, my problem:
I install Service Pack 3 to Sql Server 7, but the Store Procedure are missing now, please help me.
Any one know what is the lasted service pack for SQL server 6.5
Thank you very much.
Judy
Any one here knows what is the lastest service pack for SQL server 6.5?
Thank you very much.
Judy
Does Anyone know if there is a way to verify the SQL Service Pack Version on 7.0 on Windows 2000 Advanced server?
I'm getting this results for select @@version
Microsoft SQL Server 7.00 - 7.00.623 (Intel X86)
Nov 27 1998 22:20:07
Copyright (c) 1988-1998 Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 1)
Thanks
Rea
I installed Service Pack 5 on SQL 7.0 successfully, but when I go back to run @@version, it gives me Service Pack 2 which is the old pack. Does anyone know why and had an experience with this?? Thanks wonderful people!!!
View 4 Replies View RelatedHas anyone out loaded sp1 that can tell me if there are any issues that I need to be aware of?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a cluster server, with SP3 coming out I wanted to upgrade the SP2 I have right now, when I start SP3 installation it starts and quickly exits from the program. DO I need to uncluster the server before applying SP3? or there is a way arround it?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhas anyone had this experience before after we installed service pack 2 our jobs are taking about 10hrs, some run it says it's succesfull but it didn't update the tables.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHello,
I'm installing SQL Server 7.0 on my server, which service pack is good to intall? SP4, I've heard has many bugs? Pls. guide me.
Thanks.
Sejal
How do I determine which SP has been applied to a server.
@@version returns 'Microsoft SQL Server 6.50 - 6.50.416'
Thanks.
Anyone know where I can download the lastest service pack
for 6.5??
Hi,
I have installed service pack-1 on SQL SERVER 7.0
Standard Edition. After the pack is installed @@version is
still showing 7.00.623 instead of 7.00.699
HELP !!!
Thanks
I'm currently using Base SQL 7.00.623, do I need to apply SP1 before putting SP2 or can go directly to SP2.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone else have any concern about this Watson technology creeping in to SQL Server in SP3? I don't like it in Explorer and I'm sure not going to like it in SQL Server!
BTW, Forrest article about the new security patches at http://www.databasejournal.com/news/article.php/1475241 is in error, I think, when it refers to SP4.
Is the sql server 2000 service pack 3 worth applying to production database server or should I still wait. i do have sql 2000 service pack 2 on the server ?
Thanks
I am binding bunch of SQL object change t/sql code into one service pack and then distribute to around 1500 databases.
gradually, I feel I need to put the table/proc/trigger/field/datatype/data size.... all the changes into a kind of database so that could let me or other developers quickly pull out all the change info against a particular object, say table customer. It may have changed 15 times already, from enlarge customerName data size from 30 to 50, add a unique constraint to force the customerName uniquenss, add an index on companyPhone field, modify a delete trigger when an customer becomes inactive to append to a historyCustomer table before delete it....
Of course, the db should also include servicePack release date, each object release reason, approved by.....
At first, it sounds simple and not a big deal, but when I draw something and found the relationship between table--field--datatype--size--constraint is not so simple. Is there something even 'raw' available there already, so I might take a short cut and move on?
thanks
-D
How would i find out whhich service pack applied to a sql server 2000?
Thanks in advance!!!