Ok, I have a new one. Several of my devices are showing with negative sizes when viewed in edit in enterprise manager. I cannot edit them as the change now button is grayed-out. Oddly enough they are all located on the same drive. The master (on C drive), and the tempdb (on D drive) both show as the default device. I am very confused. User access to the information is fine. What gives?
View 2 RepliesSQL Enterprise manager is reporting my database device size to be a negative number.
Primarily, this is the case for the log files, but also occurs on a few of the .dat files.
Is there a correction? Is this a display error, or an actual size conflict/
I have several clients who are reporting a negative file size on their database devices in Enterprise Manager. The sp_helpdevice procedure reports the size correctly. Any suggestions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a database in development in SQL Server 6.5 that needs to be occasionally deleted and rebuilt from a script when table structures are changed. I found that when very complex queries were performed, the 2 MB default size of tempdb filled up and returned errors, so I went to the Enterprise Manager to expand tempdb, learned that I had to first expand a device to expand tempdb into, and foolishly chose to expand tempdb into the same device space used by my application, instead of into one of the system databases. Now when I try to delete the device in preparation for its rebuild, the Enterprise Manager responds with an error message saying the device can't be deleted because it contains system tables. Is there any way to get the expanded portion of tempdb out of my application device so that the device can be deleted, without reinstalling SQL Server?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBasically I've been using Visual Studio 2005 for a few weeks now moving a Pocket PC project from 2003 to 2005. When I hit the Start Debugging Button every time until today the project would rebuild and deploy to my pocket PC allowing me to debug etc but now I get
The remote connection to the device has been lost.
Please verify the device conection and restart debugging.
I used to get this problem in VS2003 sometimes and just like the numerous posts on different sites that I've looked at the problem eventually goes away and I'm none the wiser. One guy said that he found that if he went to bed the problem was resolved when he came back!
My PDA running Windows 2003 2nd Edition is directly connected to my PC via a USB port. I've rebooted my PC and done a soft reset on the PDA but it didn't help. I'm using ActiveSync 4.1.
Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?
Hi to All
when i m trying to execute following code
backup database web
to disk = 'c:inetpubwwwrootackupmybakup.bak'
with format
I m Getting Error like :
Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot open backup device 'c:inetpubwwwrootackupmybakup.bak'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.
Server: Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
This error is Generated only when i m trying to access folders within "wwwroot" but not in any other folders , even command runs success fully for "wwwroot" folder . !!
but not for any subfolders of wwwroot.
Can Any One Help Me ??
Anyone here with a ready to go sqlscript that lists all db's, files, sizes, owner etc? I guess it's a combination of sp_databases, sp_helpdb and sp_helpdb [db].
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hi,
i'm planning to create a DB of about 1TB of text.
can SQL EXPRESS handle this sizes of data? what about SQL 2005?
does it matter if i put all the data in 1 table?
Thanks.
Hello,
I was told a while ago that your Log should be 2 times the size as your data. Is this a good rule of thumb?
Lee
Does anyone know of a quick way to find out what the largest indexes on a database are? I have a number of tables and was wondering if there's a stored proc or query that I can execute that will list the indexes and their size in order by size? Thanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of a quick way to find out what the largest indexes on a database are? I have a number of tables and was wondering if there's a stored proc or query that I can execute that will list the indexes and their size in order by size? Thanks
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I hope this isn't a totally stupid question, but I was wondering how to check the physical size the DBs take up on disks...
Does MSSQL save DBs as a specific file-extension? Is there an SQL command I can run that will give extensive info on DB sizes?
Any help welcome :)
Thanks!
When you have the autogrowth turned on for log files. What happens when you put a max file size on it? Will just overwrite the old logs to keep the file at the max size or will it just create a new file every time it hits the max size?
Thanks!
I'm putting together a manual system that tracks data growth in a certain database. I was going to use sp_spaceused as a part of it, but then realized the datatypes for size are CHAR, not INT or BIGINT. I was going to do counts, averages, etc. on those columns but that wouldn't work against a CHAR field obviously. I could easily write a little something to strip out the KB, but was hoping there was another way to get those figures.
Secondly...has anynoe seen a stored procedure/code/etc. that just calculates the largest/smallest/average row size for a table? I haven't been able to find anything anywhere...
Any insight would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks!
Hello again everyone....
I have another question for everyone....
I am currently cleaning up my database to get its total size down and am not sure how nvarchar and varchar work exactly.
When defining the length of a varchar or nvarchar in enterprise manager, will that effect the size of the entry (as far as data size) no matter what the length of the entry? In other words, will there be a difference in Data Size for an entry with the length of 4 characters with a definition of varchar(4) versus an entry with the length of 4 characters with a definition of varchar(50).
****If there is no difference, is there any reason in trying to best guess the size to give nvarchar or varchar columns? It would seem easier to just define the lengths of columns which need variable lengths to 200 or 400 just to save time in not trying to best guess what the size might be...*****
Thanks ahead for any help...
-Alec
Hi,
I am looking to runa query to get the sizes of the tables in my SQL 7 DB.
I know I can access the info in Enterprise Manager, under "Tables & Indexes".
But I need to get this info via a query.
I need rows and size.
I figured out how to get rows through the sys tables:
select sysobjects.name, sysindexes.rows
from sysobjects,sysindexes
where sysobjects.name = sysindexes.name
and xtype = 'U'
Is the size of each table stored in a sys table as well? I can't find it.
Hey all,
Got a little problem. have 2 matching tables on different servers with the EXACT same column layout and data (the tables are being replicated with MSSQL7) and one table is 200MB while the other is 2000MB. I'm running MSSQL7 SP2. Any ideas???
-Marc
Hi,
my log files are growing like anything. One of my log file size is 20GB.
How i have to reduce the log file size.
If i run DBCC command is it come backs...
Pls tell me the way how i have to find the free space and reduce logsizes.
After taking backups also my log file sizes are not reducing.
Thanks!
Kavira
I have inherited a number of databases which were substantially over sized when they were set up. I'd like to reduce both the log and database files to be smaller than their original sizes, what's the easiest way to do this? If anyone has any experience of doing this please reply.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHi All,
I ran the following query to get the log file sizes for all databases:
select (size*8.00)/1024,filename from master..sysaltfiles
When I compared the results from this query with the transaction log properties in EM, not all of the sizes match.
For example, EM shows the transaction log size for tempdb to be 2 MB but the results of the query shows that transaction log size for tempdb is .5 MB. Which query can I run to get the numbers that would match between two? Thanks.
Wonder if anyone can help me out here.
I'm trying to set up a job to run overnight that mails me the size of all the databases on SQL Server.
The way I'm getting the size of the db's is by running the following in SQL Query Analyzer...
EXEC sp_MSforeachdb @command1="print '?' select cast(name as varchar(32)), round(size * 8 / 1.024,3) from ?..sysfiles"
Can anyone suggest a way that I can export the results of this to a text file that can then be mailed to me as part of a scheduled job.
Or can anyone suggest a better/easier way of doing this??
Thanks in advance. :)
Admin is kind of new to me. Could someone recommend how to reduce these file sizes?
In Dev, my MDF is 16 MB, LDF .5 MB.
I run a script to recreate the schema and insert rows on the Host.
When downloading a db backup from the Host and restoring it to Dev, my MDF is 24 MB, LDF 25 MB.
The same dataset grew by ~35 MB!!!
Any advice is welcome. Thank you. Rick
Can any one direct me to sources for best practices of field types and sizesto use for commonly used information such as address, names, city, businessnames ....Thanks, Brian
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have reporting services installed on a windows 2003 server. If i open a report directly on the server using Internet Explorer 7 and reportviewer and click the print button on the report viewer control. The print document lines up perfectly on the output page and prints beautifully. I have a winforms app that calls the same report as an IMAGE and then prints it. The size of the output on the print page is way off and the font is almost triple. I have it working in another clients environment with similar serve setup and same versions. I have tried different print drivers and different workstations but I think it has something to do with reporting services config. Can someone please help. I have set all margins in the .rdl file to 0 and when i create the PrinterSettings object I set all margins to zero again.
Thanks in advance.
Mike
Got a question,
still new to sql server express, been playing with it for a while, kinda enjoying it.
But
If you were designing a database that had many tables with the possibility of a large amount of data, would you keep them all in one database or would you disperse them into multiple databases. There will be some relations used in some of the tables, but not all.
I believe I will end up with about 21 different tables, 9 of them have the potential for 1,000's of records.
I do appreciate anyone's thoughts or concerns
Davids Learning
How can I get the table sizes for data and transaction logs just like we had in SQL Server 7.0 on the first screen of the Entreprise Manager?
I remember having a bar showing used space in blue and unused in magenta. I bet there are a couple of functions that can be added in a script that will retreive this info.
How can I get the table sizes for data and transaction logs just like we had in SQL Server 7.0 on the first screen of the Entreprise Manager?
I remember having a bar showing used space in blue and unused in magenta. I bet there are a couple of functions that can be added in a script that will retreive this info.
Hi,
Is there a query I can run to retrieve a list of all tables and their sizes in a database? I want something that is like the feature in Enterprise Manager when you click on a database and then the 'Tables & Index' link. It lists the tables and their respective size. I want to push this into a spread sheet.
The reason why I am doing this is the compare data between 2 different databases. Since I cannot find a tool that will compare the data, the closest I can get (without bcp-ing out all data and comparing) is to look at the sizes of each table.
Thanks!
Joyce
I am in the middle of capturing a workload to try and tune a SQL instance and was wondering what kinds of sizes people capture in terms of traces. I am only 1 day into a capture and I believe a typical workload would be a week long capture and I am already at 10GB of files. I am only capturing rpc_completed and sql_batch_completed.
What sizes of workloads do other people capture and then where do you analyse them, do you have particular dedicated server for this kind of thing as at present I am looking to use my local PC. Also what rollover file sizes do people tend to use, I am currently using 1GB.
I have one .mdf and two .ndf files on the same drive. The .mdf file size =275GB, one .ndf file size = 300GB and other .ndf file size = 135GB. Is this normal to have 3 different file size? if not what can I do to fix this? I don't have option to make all files to initial size equal to 300GB as a .ndf.If I have to add a .ndf file (in case of running out the above drive), what initial file size should I set up for new file on new drive? And how data gets distributed across all 4 files (including new .ndf on different drive)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got a 9gig DB which when backed up using the gui comes to 5gigs.When backed using the SQL "backup database" command it comes to 20gigs.Can someone suggest a good reason for the difference?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a fairly quick and dirty way to shrink the file size allowedfor a DB on SQL server after the DB is in use?Our old DBA allowed 3 gb for log files and we don't need nearly thatmuch. However, the space is still being used and reserved. Can Ishrink that "maximum" and clear up the space?I don't want to just copy all the tables and primary keys and open anew one with the new data, though that is plan A right now.I cant just change sysfiles, it yells at me.
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