I have a database data file almost at 2tb maxing out a windows drive. Only 16gb left. Should I just add another data file on another Windows drive for growth? Or just move current huge data file to a new GPT drive? Or do both adding another data file and moving existing to its own new GPT drive?
Primary objective is to make do for now.
I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime
REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
Has anyone run into this?
I am able to run SSIS packages as SQL Server Agent jobs with a Control Flow items "File system task", if I move a file (test.txt) from a drive (c on the server (where SQL Agent jobs run) to a subdirectory on the same drive. But, if I try to move a file on a network drive, the package fail.
What I can do to solve this issue.
Bye!
Daniel
I have a several indexes on a filegroup that I would like to move to a different physical drive. I am aware of the sp_detach...sp_attach routine which allows moving the .mdf and .log files to a different location. How would I go about moving a .ndf file though?
TIA
I haven't found the definitive answer on how or if this can be done without removing replication. I'm thinking ALTER DATABASE modify_file is the way to go. Anybody know if this will work or a better way to go about it?
Thanks
Hi Guys,
What is the fast way to move huge table (77 million) records with 25 columns across servers? The servers are not linked though.
Thanks for the help.
How do I move all the databases to a new drive in the same machine?What effects/problems will be?
Thanks!
I need to move Sql of the C drive on a server to another drive. Any Ideas.
Thanks Brett
I obviously did not search the archives on the right terms so what isthe easiest and fastest way to move a 3G database from a nearly full Cdrive to the nearly empty D drive that should have been used.I could back it up, drop it, recreate it using the D drive, and restoreit but it seems like there should be a way to just move the datafileand use if from the new location.I am thinking that detatch/attach is the best method, but I would likeconfirmation or suggestions on how to proceed or things to be aware ofwhen using this method.-- Mark D Powell --
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Hello,
I need to move all log files for my SQL 2005 databases to another drive. I don't wish to shrink the files, I need to move the logs to another drive spindle. I did find an article (Article ID: 224071) that describes moving both the database and logs using sp_detach and then sp_attach. What is the best way just to move the logs to another drive on the same server, and that keeps the databases in their original location?
Thanks.
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Thanks,
Ray
I have a database that has been running well for a few years.
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It has now become very large and is creaking and running slow sometimes.
Is it possible to now create a secondary data file or do i have other options?
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Craig
Hi all,
I found my database log file is 26GB and the database file is just about 280MB. We are doing full backup everyday. However, my sql server seems running very slow now and please advise:
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2. Would the huge size of the log file be the reasons slowing up my sql server?
3. Would anyone give me direction knowing more on the transaction log?
Thank you and appreciated!
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I am very new to sql and dont even know where to go to enter commands, so youll have to bear with me here. I've read about truncating and shrinking and some other things, I am just worried and dont want to mess anything up. I know this is probably a simple task, but like I said, with the truncate command I was reading about, I dont even know where to go to type it in!!! If someone could please help it would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.
I have a .bak file of 72gb. But my database size is only 32gb, I got this value from sp_spaceused?
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this is regarding SQL Sever 2000. ( it was upgraded form sql7). its log file is increasing in very high manner. say 40 gb, 50 gb and now 57 gb. Mdf file is around 15 mb. we created back up and tried to restore to another system. its asking 57 gb free space. how to proceeed with file recovery. we have backups but it askes more space for log file. how to retrieve the data.
rgds
Pramod
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regards,
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Thanks
Puskas
Help,
Have a user who needs many data changes to a huge table with over 2 million rows.
He hopes to do this by running a series of queries.
Last time our log grew gargantuan. I know 7.0 is wonderful & dynamic, but after
an hour of rambling through books online I'm more confused than ever.
Is there a way we can code into his query at intervals any hard coded checkpoints
or log backups? Do we need to dbcc shrinkfile the logfile?
Thanks,
Mark Blackburn
mark@mbari.org
I am writing a .NET service, and I need to insert files in a SQL DB for temporary storage.
I have never inserted a file into a SQL database before. I am thinking about using the image field type. Has anyone done this before? How did you do it?
I am creating a database for an application through script. After the tables, views, and sp's are created, the database is populated with data. After all of this (and before the application is even run), the log file is about 700MB. If I shrink the database, it takes the log down to 1MB. The mdf file is about 165 MB before and after it has been shrunk.
I have two questions:
1. Is there something I should look for in my database scripts or is there a setting that could prevent this from being created so large.
2. Is there a script I can run in my sql code after the database has been created and populated to shrink it.
Thank you for your help