Hey All,
Hope this is the right place for this post.
I set up logshipping between two databases recently. everything looks fine. the backup, copy and restore jobs are all suceeding(from the job log). the problem is no Tlogs are being restored in secondary database. The restore job skips all the tlogs and says it did not find any tlog back up file to restore!! The jobs finishes with this:
007-07-17 14:40:30.59 Could not find a log backup file that could be applied to secondary database 'SaaSNet_dataStore'.2007-07-17 14:40:30.59 The restore operation was successful. Secondary Database: 'SaaSNet_dataStore', Number of log backup files restored: 02007-07-17 14:40:30.59 Deleting old log backup files. Primary Database: 'SaaSNet_DataStore'2007-07-17 14:40:30.59 The restore operation was successful. Secondary ID: '5808a414-2ada-41d2-a8a0-2cf84f85174a'
I have a table Catalog_Item with 365000 rows. I wish to move the contents of the table to an identical database on a different server using bcp. The table has no primary keys, foreign keys, or indexes. I am able to successfully bcp out the data in character format and native format.
I attempt to bcp the data in to the identical table on the other server, but the bcp ALWAYS fails at 19000 or 20000 rows; it does not complete, just hangs there in the command window, with no more info. When I use a small data set of 5000 rows, the same happens at the end of those 5000. I have tried to redo the bcp in native mode, and character mode. I have tried to specify the first line starts at 125000. I have tried to bcp the data into a different database on a different server; that also quits at 19000 or 20000 rows.
BCP of other large data sets into the same database occurs smoothly. Only this combination of table and data set is giving this problem.
I am having trouble connecting to an SQL Server from an ASP.NET page written in C#. I have reduced the code in my page to this: public void Page_Load( object s, EventArgs e ) {
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection( "Server=server;User ID=user;Password=pass;" ); conn.Open();
} and I get the following error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
This works for other server/user/pass except the one I am having trouble with. The SQL Server is using SQL & Windows Authentication. I am able to connect from the machine that is running the webserver via osql, ODBC, and MS Access using the same arguments (server, user, and pass), so I know that the SQL server does exist, and the User/Password should give me access. Does anyone have any ideas why this isn't working or what ASP.NET is does differently from the other access methods? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark Dane
I have created a maintenance plan which backups to a device which I have created. However the device does not show in explorer and maintenance plan cannot find it when it trys to open the device. Consequently I'm not getting a backup. Even if I delete the device and re create it things don't change.
I was working at a customer site and wanted to verify that backups were indeed being run successfully before I began to make changes.
I noticed a dump device for the production database with the nightly backup in it but I cannot find the task that produces this dump. I did find the task that dumps the log each hour.
Is there another area that some of you DBAs used to schedule dumps other than the task manager that I might be missing? Maybe an AT job?
Hi all,I have a statement that reads as follows:select [Sales Ledger] - gl as differencefrom(SELECT SUM(RPAAP / 100) AS [Sales Ledger] FROM F03B11) Q1join(SELECT SUM(GBAPYC + GBAN01 + GBAN02 + GBAN03 + GBAN04 + GBAN05 +GBAN06+ GBAN07 + GBAN08 + GBAN09 + GBAN10 + GBAN11 + GBAN12)/100AS GLFROM F0902WHERE (GBAID = '00667809') AND (GBFY = 3)) Q2My first nested statement however I keep getting the message:Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 8Line 8: Incorrect syntax near 'Q2'.I just cannot fathom why this is so?Any suggestions would be most helpful.Moby*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
Hi, I am trying to do logShipping from one server to another. I created the logins and restored the DB(user) with the option - "Leave DB ReadOnly and able to restore logs" I was surprised to see that the DB got restored but there were no users in that DB. Since this is a read-only DB I cannot run commands like Sp_change_users_login etc.....and neither can I create a user. Any thoghts what might have gone wrong? TIA.
Everyday we take a Fullbackup followed by every 15 mins we take transaction log backup.
Day 1:
Full Backup at 12:00 AM Transaction log backup from 4:00 AM to 11:45 PM
Day 2:
Full Backup at 12:00 AM Transaction log backup from 4:00 AM to 11:45 PM
Day 3: . . .
On Secondary server
Everyday will restore the full backup daily and followed by the transaction log backup restore with no recovery mode.
Day 1:
Full Backup Restore at 2:00 AM Transaction log backup Restore from 5:00 AM to 12:45 AM
Day 2:
Full Backup Restore at 2:00 AM Transaction log backup Restore from 5:00 AM to 12:45 AM
Day 3: . . .
The problem we have is
A third server which is remote need the full backup for the first time only and everyday they need a log backup alone and not the daily fullbackup to logship the server. Will that be possible using the logs alone for logshipping but not considering the full backup file.
Third server
Like:
One time Full Backup Restore at 4:00 AM
Day 1:
Only Transaction log backup Restore from 9:00 AM to 4:45 AM
Day 2:
Only Transaction log backup Restore from 9:00 AM to 4:45 AM
Day 3: . . .
Don't the server throws an error saying that
Msg 4305, Sev 16: The log in this backup set begins at LSN 13000001816200001, which is too late to apply to the database. An earlier log backup that includes LSN 13000001723100001 can be restored. [SQLSTATE 42000] Msg 3013, Sev 16: RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000]
We don't know how to fullfil the request. I don't think Logshipping wizard skips the full backup file for logshipping if it has been schedule for full backup everyday and logbackup every 15 mins.
Please help. is there anyway we can solve this problem.
i have configured logshipping how to change roles is the question. By using sp_changeprimary role the database has become suspected sp_change secondary role and sp_change monitor role is not working please guide on this issue
HiI have a problem in logshipping any one help would be appreciated.during logshipping when i am adding data (log.data,transactlog)to thedestination database when i select the destination server name(server2)itdidn't showing any drives present .instead showing local drives.if i select3rd server then it shows perfect all the available drives .If any one knowsthe error please let me know u help would be appreciated.Thanks,pardhi--Message posted via SQLMonster.comhttp://www.sqlmonster.com/Uwe/Forum...eneral/200509/1
In general, patch management solutions use an approach very similar to inventory and deployment, although, obviously, implementation details vary. Inventory relies on an external database to establish what is considered to be a recommended patch level and provides criteria for validating whether a particular patch has been installed. Products from Microsoft and Shavlik Technologies (on which HFNetChk, MBSA, and SMS 2.0 Feature Pack are based), keep track of published patches on the Microsoft Web site using the same mechanism, based on an XML formatted file called mssecure.xml. This file, available centrally at predefined locations, serves as a template against which the status of updates on target systems is compared. mssecure.xml can be obtained directly or via its compressed, digitally signed version, mssecure.cab. Both files can be downloaded from:
the Microsoft Web site at https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/search/mssecure.xml and http://download.microsoft.com/download/xml/security/1.0/nt5/en-us/mssecure.cab the Shavlik.com Web site at https://xml.shavlik.com/mssecure.xml and http://xml.shavlik.com/mssecure.cab
Calling any OLAP Guru's. Were attempting to improve a vendors BI process which involves running MDX queries against our SSAS cube, then saves the data into their own proprietary database which is taking to long.
We currently run this process on a x16 CPU, 65GB top end server attached to expensive disk subsystem, however a dual-core processor laptop completely out performs the expensive hardware by around 45% quicker. Both when the configuration is identical or when we ramp up the processes on the expensive hardware it still performs miserably compared to the laptop. Perfmon counters or Profiler don't so much difference when comparing the server and laptop.
Does anyone know why the laptop completely outstrips the expensive top end hardware perfmance wise although the configuration profile is identical?
Hi all, I found problem with my database and was wondering if anyone here could shed some light on the issue.
I have two tables, Absences and AbsenceDates. The first one records the absence of an employee and the second one records a record for each day of the occurance. I do a full select on the second table and I see primary keys that do NOT exist in the select of the second table. so I dug further and here is what I found.
Select * from Absences (rowcount in Query Analyser is: 20883) Select * from Absences Order By AbsenceID Desc (rowcount is 443)
The second select contains the data that I am missing in the first select. So, I called a friend and they said to run DBCC CHECKDB and I did. The data came back as follows...
DBCC results for 'Absences '. There are 21337 rows in 243 pages for object 'Absences'. CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 0 consistency errors in database 'EmployeeAbsenteeism'. DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
now if you add up the rows that the other two selects return it comes to 21326, not 21337. I am assuming that the value that DBCC gets is from sysobjects and that some sort of update would need to be run for it be accurate. This I don't care about too much, what I really need is for my main select statement to return ALL of the data, not just what it feels like returning.
My experience is with programming mainly (6 years in .net) and not DBA, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Brent
Sorry, this was supposed to go to data corruption forum... reposting..
I'm currently running Profiler sessions to track down Lock Timeoutproblems.My Profiler view contains (amongst others) the dbid column.Much of the time, this displays familiar dbids, such as 2 (tempdb) and5 (my main user db). However, it also regularly displays IDs of 0 and132.Using SELECT DB_NAME(), these translate as "master" and "NULL"respectively.Does anyone know:a) why dbid = 0 translates to "master", when the actual id of thisdatabase is 1, andb) why Profiler reports these dbids in the first place?
I have encountred situations like this before, but this onehas me stumped.I have a pretty simple SP that collects information aboutresidential properties from a large database. First step is toquery on the basis of address or location, and collect a temptable of property IDs. Second step is to populate a compositetable of property information by joining the IDs to a table ofcharacterisitics. Third step is to update some fields by findinga single value from multiple candidates in large tables -- onehas 275 million, another 325 million rows -- e.g., the price ofthe most recent sale for a property.As an SP, this takes absolutely forever, and it seems it's doingendless scans of the large tables. So to analyze it, I took thecode and ran it as a script -- turned the parameter definition atthe top into a DECLARE statement, set values for the variablesthat are the input parameters, no other changes, and go. Presto!It runs in no time flat, and the query plans reveal it's usingthe indexes just like it's supposed to. But the SP might takean hour to do the same thing.Any suggestions about what to look for? I believe both versionshave fresh query plans -- I have recompiled (and dropped andrecreated) the SP, and the plain script should have a fresh plan.Maybe it's because the parameter values are known when the scriptruns, but not when the SP is complied? I would really appreciateany pointers, and can provide more information as needed.Thanks,Jim Geissman
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[LOG]([TYPE] [smallint] NULL ,[TIME_STAMP] [datetime],[ID] [varchar] (44))ID is non-unique. I want to select all IDs where the last entry forthat ID is of type 11.Below is the query that I used. Notice that the subquery used is anested (not correlated) subquery meaning that it doesn't use resultsof outer query. This subquery should only be executed once. However,on large number of rows (3 million), this query never returns.I have also attempted to run subquery separately. That takes 1 minute.Then I put the results in temp table and joined that temp table withthe main query. That takes about 2 minutes.Unfortunately, that solution is unacceptable to us since we have tosupport both MSSQL and Oracle with the same queries, and the syntaxfor temp tables or table variables is different in Oracle.Mysterious.Here's the query:-- main queryselect IDfrom logwhere ID in(-- subqueryselect id from log l1where time_stamp =(select max(time_stamp)from log l2where l2.id = l1.idand l2.type = 11))
I was hoping someone could shed some light on wierd situation i'm experiencing. I have the following query:
select count(*) LeadCount from auto_leads al where received > dbo.GetDay(GetDate())
dbo.GetDay simply returns a smalldatetime value of today's date.
Now I recently got thrown into a data mess and for some reason this query takes 8 seconds to run. Now the first thing I did was update the stats on the Received column of this auto_leads table. I re-run the query and I'm still getting 8 seconds. I look at the execution plan I can make figure out why this is happening.
I then change the above query so the filter received > dbo.GetDay(GetDate()) is now just received > '5/31/2006' and the query comes back immediately. This doesn't make sense to me because the GetDay function is really simple and comes back immediately. I then try the following query to confirm it isn't a problem with the GetDay function:
declare @Today DateTime
set @Today = dbo.getday(GetDate())
select count(*) leads from auto_leads al join type_lead_status tls on (tls.type_lead_status_id = al.type_lead_status_id) where received > @Today
Sure enough, the query came back immediately. Next thing to go through my mind is that the query execution plan has been cached by SQL Server using the execution plan from before I updated the stats on the received column. So I executed sp_recompile 'auto_leads' and tryed the original query again. Still taking 8-10 seconds to come back.
So my question, is why when I remove the GetDay function call in my query filter is the query slow, as opposed to me just passing a variable into the query? Thanks!
I have a varchar field with leading alpha, plus 1 or 2 numerics, like 'A2' or 'A20'
And yet,
select cast(substring(T2.ALPHANUM_CODE, 2, 4) as numeric)
from ...
where ...
/* and substring(T2.ALPHANUM_CODE,2,1) not like '[0-9]' */
/* and substring(T2.ALPHANUM_CODE,3,1) not like '[0-9]' */ /* and substring(T2.ALPHANUM_CODE,4,1) not like '[0-9]' */ /* and substring(T2.ALPHANUM_CODE,5,1) not like '[0-9]' */
this generates a cast as numeric conversion error in my result set. However, if I supplement my query with each of the commented WHERE clause add-ons in turn, I get 4 zero-record result sets.
So, how can I have nothing but digits 0 thru 9 in each of 4 positions, but the cast as numeric attempt of those 4 character positions as a string fails?
I am trying to format a background color based on the field's value. But the expression always returns the false result. Here is the expression I am using
Both fill the background color blue when the textbox clearly contains RSB. I'm not sure why it cannot find the value. The field data type is Char(4). The textbox values are all uppercase.
This all started when I was trying to use a report parameter for conditional formatting and I realized that it wasn't working. I broke down the expression by directly trying a value.
I have setup logshipping between 2 SQL Server 2000 servers. It looks like everything is working (The transaction log files are being created, The log files are being copied to the secondary server. The restore job on the secondary server is running every 15 minutes successfully).
I cannot tell if it is actually applying the transactions.
If it is applying the transactions, it is not updating the monitor.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this problem?
Hi Guys, Our servers are all standard edition of SQL Server 2000. We are trying to build Disaster recovery site with standby sql servers.
We have 2 options for this:- one is Replication(Transactional) and the other is Logshipping.
Since we don't have standard edition, Log shipping is not and option. However, we can buy just one sql enterprise edition for this pupose if logshipping requirs only one enterprise edition.
IF I CHOOSE THE LOGSHIPPING OPTION, CAN I IMPLEMENT THE STANDBY SERVER BY ONLY HAVING ONE ENTERPRISE EDITION SQL SERVER (STANDBY SERVER) where as all the pulishers are standard edition sql servers??
IF NOT IF WE CHOOSE TO GO BY TRASACTIONAL REPLICATION, HOW HARD IS TO CREATE THE STANDBY SERVER WHEN WE HAVE MOST OF THE TABLES WITHOUT PRIMARY KEYS PERTICULALY FOR THIS SERVER??
Thanks for your input and I always appreciate all you guys help in this forum. Thanks :confused: :confused:
I'm trying to set up transactional replication. The publication and subscription wizards completed successfully. When I try a test transaction I got this:
Category:SQLSERVER Source: SAMPLER Number: 2812 Message: Could not find stored procedure 'sp_MSins_Config'.
I can't find 'sp_MSins_Config' in any database, I can't find it with a Google search or on MSFT's. What the heck is this proc?
Every Sunday morning (a different time each week) there is a full backup created for every database on the server. The backup is not a scheduled backup from any maintenance plan or SQL Agent job. The backup set is unrestorable and has a strange name in the format of 'DBNAME_00_12c95fb7_399d_41ce_9a0d_b5728b6a00ba_'
Because this backup is listed as the last full backup and will not restore, it is causing a problem with our disaster recovery plans as nothing will restore from this point forward to the next full backup.
Does anyone know how a backup record like this can get created, and/or how to find the source. The backups are listed in the backupsets table in msdb - are there other system tables that may hold some clues as to the source of these backups?
In simple terms, our system is as such: We have a website. As someone clicks a button on the website, a stored procedure is executed against our database.
Every single day, between 12:15AM and 12:45AM we have a few stored procedures timing out, with the following message, for example:
2007-04-10 00:37:03,268 [3632] ERROR Service - caught exception Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlExc eption exception, Boolean breakConnection)
I checked and saw that although there are jobs running at that time, all of these jobs are running periodically (e.g. every 30 minutes) and would cause timeouts at other times as well, if they were to blame. Other jobs are running at far away times and checking their history I know that their duraion in no way intersects the time-out times.
I also ran profiler during peak hours and know that no stored procedure of ours has a duration anywhere near 30 seconds (which is the currently set timeout period, although all of our sps run within milliseconds).
I am really puzzled as to what exactly is causing these timeouts. Would anyone suggest any approach to identify the problem. For example, I thought about running profiler (server side tracing) between 12AM and 1AM, but am not sure which counters are best to capture. Any suggestion on this?
My application fetches a batch of data through a web service and writes 1000entities per batch to a SQL Server 2000 database. There are 4 tables inevery batch. There are the following number of SQL commands executed peraverage of every batch;Table #1: always 1Table #2: 5Table #3: 5Table #4: 3The problem is that the performance slows down for every batch. Below is anexcerpt from my log file;2004-12-15 12:00:01 Starting job... (RAM usage: 6,38 mb)2004-12-15 12:00:39 data fetch time: 00:00:28 (RAM usage: 23,04 mb)2004-12-15 12:00:39 Total data fetch time: 00:00:37 (RAM usage: 23,04 mb)2004-12-15 12:00:39 Inserting/updating 1000 entities...2004-12-15 12:01:20 Write SQL time: 00:00:402004-12-15 12:01:49 data fetch time: 00:00:24 (RAM usage: 26,87 mb)2004-12-15 12:01:49 Total data fetch time: 00:00:29 (RAM usage: 26,87 mb)2004-12-15 12:01:49 Inserting/updating 1000 entities...2004-12-15 12:02:59 Write SQL time: 00:01:102004-12-15 12:04:06 data fetch time: 00:00:29 (RAM usage: 27,48 mb)2004-12-15 12:04:06 Total data fetch time: 00:01:06 (RAM usage: 27,48 mb)2004-12-15 12:04:06 Inserting/updating 1000 entities...2004-12-15 12:05:30 Write SQL time: 00:01:232004-12-15 12:06:05 data fetch time: 00:00:31 (RAM usage: 27,03 mb)2004-12-15 12:06:05 Total data fetch time: 00:00:35 (RAM usage: 27,03 mb)2004-12-15 12:06:05 Inserting/updating 1000 entities...2004-12-15 12:07:37 Write SQL time: 00:01:32As one can see, the Write SQL time increases per every batch.I would like this time to stay around one minute per batch.There are one trigger per table. There is one parent table which has aprimary-foreign key relationship to the three sub tables.I have 2% automatic file size growth set on both the data and the log file.Thank you in advance to the guru which helps me out with this!
I'm importing several hundred thousand lines of text data with multiple columns in each record. While SSIS can redirect a line with an error to an error output is there any way it can "tell me" which column or columns caused the error on that row? (After al,l it certainly recognized that a column was bad, so I'm hoping it can just tell me what it found.)
have a question about logshipping and full database backup: during a full database backup the log will be backed up too and emptied. If I run a full backup on databases which is setup for logshipping - does it mean I will loose data on the standby side ?
I have logshipping configured b/w Primary and DR site, Tlogs interval is every 15 minutes. Now I would like to setup another secondary for reporting purpose but I would like to restore Tlogs with a frequency of 20hrs(its long).
will this break backup chain that affects DR?what will be the size of Tlog that will be taken every 20 hours assume 10MB for 15 minutes . I assume it should have all the changes from last restore to reporting server is this correct. we are fine to kill the sessions while applying Tlog nightly .DB size is 1TB we use Redgate backup compressed size is 200GB and Tlogs are few MB's.
I am new to Forum. So not sure if i am posting my problem under the right topic.
We have a sql server 2005 enterprise edition 4 way cluster on windows 2003 advance server.
I am logshipping these database to a different server at a different location.
My logshipping went fine until one the cluster server failed and the server instance failed over to another node.
The backup that happened around that time got copied over to the secondary by the copy job.
The log file that got copied to the secondary server tried restoring and i think it failed int he middle of restoring it.
(You would think that the sql would knoe if the backup is in complete and will move on to the next file. Not sure what happened there.)
There is no indication of the *.TUF file in the directory where i have the log files.
I tried restoring it manually and i got the following error
Msg 4319, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
A previous restore operation was interrupted and did not complete processing on file 'sessionlog1'. Either restore the backup set that was interrupted or restart the restore sequence.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
I looked in the msdb..log_shipping_secondary_databases and looked for the last file that it restored and tried restoring it again with the following restore command by removing and adding some of the keywords that you see after the "WITH" clause.
MSFT do not recommand to use continne_after_error unless its absolutley necessary. I stilll get the above error.
restore log sessiondata
from disk = 'I:sql13qasmlogssessiondatasessiondata_20070901124516.trn'
with restart, CONTINUE_AFTER_ERROR, norecovery
When i add the restart int he with clause,
The restart-checkpoint file 'J:Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQL.5MSSQLBackupsessiondata.CKP' was not found. The RESTORE command will continue from the beginning as if RESTART had not been specified.
Msg 4319, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
A previous restore operation was interrupted and did not complete processing on file 'sessionlog1'. Either restore the backup set that was interrupted or restart the restore sequence.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
RESTORE LOG is terminating abnormally.
I checked it the backup directory and i can't locate the .CKP file.
Does anyone ever come accross this issue?
Is there anyother way i could recover this DB in a standby or norecovery mode.
Any kind of help to resolve this issue (beside copy the full backup and redo the whole log-shipping process again) would be appreciated. sicne my primary and secondary server are totally ina different location, i need to ship a tape, if i need a full backup. This is the 3rd time its happening on that cluster. its frustrating to ship a tape everytime this happens.
