Databases Disappearing!!
Jun 16, 2004
Ok, I'm new here and I REALLY need some help here.
In my organisation, we have a Server with MSSQL 7 running with some databases. Some of the databases are published for replication.
Now, since Monday, we've been losing databases that are in use! :confused:
The files are disappearing and being marked as suspect in SQL. The physical file has been deleted from the machine even when SQL is running and on some databases are replicating. In one instance, we were making permission changes on a user and it just said that the file is no longer there. And when we checked, the msdb system database had disappeared as well. So now the server is showing up as having no databases. We were able to recover some of them through backups and a handy recovery tool. But now we are helpless as to WHY this is happening. We suspect Virus but we have Norton CorporateEdition running and Liveupdate updating every day.
I've searched the web for any one that had the same problem, but nothing came up. Only some stuff saying that space was an issue, but not on a drive with 21GB remaining and the biggest database is 3GB...
Any help, insight or resolution will be greatly appreciated.
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Jan 12, 2001
I have a similar problem to the one indicated by David Van Diest. I could not find any answers to his query.
Could anyone help!
Thanks
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:24:55 -0600
From: David Van Diest
[sql7] DTS and disappearing indexes
I have noticed that if I use the Microsoft ODBC driver for SQL Server when I
transfer data from one database to another my indexes disappear. If I pick
other odbc source and then fill in the data source my indexs do not go away.
Anyone else see this behavior? I don`t think it should be working this way.
Thanks,
Dave
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Nov 7, 2001
I am experiencing a situation where I issue a lengthy SQL command to MS SQL Server 7.0 through MTS and it "disappears" - no errors or recordsets are returned. The command is "SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE LASTNAME LIKE 'SMITH%'". When I issue this command from SQL Query Analyzer it takes 27 seconds to return 87 rows. When I issue this exact same command through MTS it does not return at all.
I've used the SQL Profiler to analyze the requests. It shows the commands from MTS starting but they never stop (or at least the profiler never reports them as stopping). The same commands coming from Query Analyzer are reported as starting and stopping without fail.
Here's a twist: I can issue less demanding commands (ie, one that doesn't take so long to process) through MTS and they come back fine. For example, when a user logs into my application, I use an SQL statement to verify the user name and password and status the user as logged in. This is routed through MTS and it comes back fine in less than a second. Same application, same PC, same MTS and SQL server, same SQL database. The only difference is that the CUSTOMERS table has over 800,000 records and the USERS table has only 5 records.
PLEASE HELP!
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Oct 25, 2001
HELP!!!
I have three servers replicating. One is a publisher and two subscribers. If I put data in the publisher, some of it will disappear after replicating. When data is entered in one of the subscribers, the same thing happens.
Anyone have any ideas??? I am doing a merge replication and all servers are running SQL Server 2000.
Kameron
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I am not sure where to put this but correct me if i'm in the wrong forum.
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Apr 5, 2005
The problem i am facing here is disappearing data in sql server 2000. I
not sure what is the problem, but it is getting worse and worse. Anyone
can point me to a right direction whether this is a security
vulnerability which i need to download the patch, or is it my computer
is infected with virus., or is it a bug in sql server?
I remember having read somewhere about this problem also, but not sure
in which website already. Anyone, please help!!! Because we are going
to deploy to production server soon, and this is a problem that need to
be solve ASAP..
Thanks in advance...
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Hello together,
strange things going on:
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2. Table statistic shows 50 rows, select count(*) returns 55 rows.
In both cases if you do an insert the newly inserted row sometimes can be retrieved by a select statement sometimes not. Row statistics sometimes is updated correctly, sometimes not.
Integrity check for these databases says everything is fine. DBCC CHECKDB, DBREINDEX, UPDATESTATISTICS, ... does not help or says everything is fine.
Already opened a case at HP's Microsoft support and they involved Microsoft itself but all are a little bit clueless at the moment.
As this is our main DB cluster and several databases are affected we had to stop most of our applications since last Thursday and now we are getting a little bit in trouble so any hint is very welcome.
Thanks in advance
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I'm new to SQL Server 2005 Express and I'd appreciate any help you can give me.
Thanks,
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Any suggestions?
Code Snippet
IF EXISTS(
SELECT *
FROM sys.procedures
WHERE name = N'VerifyPart'
)
DROP procedure VerifyPart;
--create a procedure for the part code tab verify part function
go
create procedure VerifyPart
(
@PartNumber varchar(50) = null,
@LastUpdated varchar(30) = null
)
as
--Update Part Number
update Parts
set LastUpdated = @LastUpdated
where PartNumber = @PartNumber
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The plan gets associated with a job that has it run daily, every six hours, with no end date.
The plan runs just fine. Then this morning, on one of the servers, the plan and its job are just gone.
This is the second time this has happened. And it's not the same server that it happened on the first time.
Why would a maintenance plan just disappear?
Anyone?
J
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Hi,
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Thanks,
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS
Event Category: (2)
Event ID: 9001
Date: 16/04/2007
Time: 12:31:40
User: N/A
Computer: PBVSRV
Description:
The log for database 'Putboringen' is not available. Check the event log for related error messages. Resolve any errors and restart the database.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 29 23 00 00 15 00 00 00 )#......
0008: 12 00 00 00 50 00 42 00 ....P.B.
0010: 56 00 53 00 52 00 56 00 V.S.R.V.
0018: 5c 00 53 00 51 00 4c 00 .S.Q.L.
0020: 45 00 58 00 50 00 52 00 E.X.P.R.
0028: 45 00 53 00 53 00 00 00 E.S.S...
0030: 07 00 00 00 6d 00 61 00 ....m.a.
0038: 73 00 74 00 65 00 72 00 s.t.e.r.
0040: 00 00 ..
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Thanks
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