how do you design a dev box?
how do you replicate from prod to dev?
Ideas will be appreacited.
do you get a bak file and restore it?
DTS ?
linkservers?
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Using SQL 7.0 I'd like to replicate just schema from DB on server A to DB on server B, then be able to replicate data only form DB on server B to DB on server A. I need help!!
Thanks for ANY information you can give me...
~Jepadria
I have table with column values as below. I need to change the folder name from QA to PROD.
C:QADocumentspdf1
C:QADocumentspdf2
C:QADocumentspdf3
C:QADocumentspdf4
C:QADocumentspdf5
and I need to change the path as below:
C:PRODDocumentspdf1
C:PRODDocumentspdf2
C:PRODDocumentspdf3
C:PRODDocumentspdf4
C:PRODDocumentspdf5
Hi
How to move DTS packages from Dev env to Prod Env.(I know Export /Import).
Thanks in Advance.
any suggestions on having one web config that once put on the dev servers uses the dev sql server and when put on prod will use the production sql server?
would like to encrypt it and be done with it. but it needs to recognize the server it's on.
I have a connection class that does this - but i need to use sqldatasource and not objectdatasource.
for the first time in my long SQL DBA live I see such a behaviours. My tempdb database is growing every damn second since a this morning. Now it reached 30Gb, the log file is empty (217 Mb).
We use SQL 2000 Ent on Win 2000 Advance Server. Running Siebel Call Center (7.5 ver) with about 300 users.
Some users time to time obtain and hold a huge amount Exclusive locks on the tempdb extents
Where do I look for a leak?
Any ideas?
thx
Dim
Hi all,
I've got two SQL Server 2000 (SP ??) instances (on two separate machines; Win Server 2003 Standard) that I've inherited. I want to use one of them as a reporting instance of production for a single ~4GB database, updated nightly.
In other DBMS's I'd set up log shipping or a simple dump-and-load to keep the two in sync, but I'm not very familiar with SQL 2000 (I used to admin a SQL Server 7 back-in-the-day but have been on Sybase ASE, MySQL (blech) and 'Orable since).
Any suggestions to do this easily and (fairly) painlessly?
Would I want to set up replication between the two? If so, which flavor?
-- To me, this seems a bit overkill. Plus I hate to muck with production unless I really need to
Would I use DTS to do this?
-- Seems straightforward but as I understand it, DTS under-the-covers is a bcp-type process, which can be fairly slow.
Or a simple dump-and-load (with copy)?
-- This seems the best option as we're already doing a nightly dump. However, the data will have to be shuffled off to the other server (or some sort of network share set up that it can access) and then a script fired off when the dump is complete. This seems the most "brittle" of the three options (if the dump hasn't finished yet, then the script copy and import will fail, etc.)
Surely this has been done over and over again (searching the archives didn't tell me anything, but the site search tool isn't that great).
Thanks!!
Hello,
I have recently become a release manager for SRSS in our company.
Since then I've been swamped with requests to migrate reports, permissions and subscription lists from development environment to production.
Each time I have to do it manually with a lot of clicks. It is a real pain...
So, may be... may be there is an automation tool out there to help me? Does anybody know?
This tool or s/w package should move a report file along with its permissions and subscription lists from one server to another.
Please advise!
thanks,
I have been using the index tuning wizard to review some of my stored procs,and views. So far most of my indexes have been set up well, but I am curiousas to how they would look under a production system load. I was thinking ofrunning a profile for about 30 minutes or so on the prod system, and thenusing that profile for the index tuning wizard to see what it says.Would this be of value?Can running a profile on a prod system be dangerous?--BV.WebPorgmaster - www.IHeartMyPond.comWork at Home, Save the Environment - www.amothersdream.com
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a package that uses configurations to override package settings based on what environment the package runs in. The package's configuration entries begins with an initial XML config entry that overrides the package's connection manager to a SQL database that holds the remaining configs in a table. Subsequent config entries then fetch their settings from the table. This package is run from a SQL job.
This all works fine in dev. When I moved everything into prod the packages are not getting configured and are using their values stored in the DTSX files. I've triple checked the XML config file, the tables with the configs, and the packages. There are no error messages. I've added some debuging steps to the package to verify that the configs in the table are not getting into the package.
I've also tried manually changing the configs in the table where the package is set to look if the initial XML config fails to adjust the config database location. The package still fails to see any configs from the table.
What could be different between dev and prod that would produce this situation? Both dev and prod have identical copies of the package and the job and are currently pointed to the same configurations database.
By the way, the other connections in the package work for both source selects and destination inserts. Only the configurations are failing, and again there is no error message.
We have two different SQLServer 2005 databases, one for development and one for prod. I'm pretty new to DTS, and even newer to SSIS, and am working on converting a bunch of DTSs to SSIS.
Our DTS packages essentially were duplicated and edited for production because of the different server names, and some different directory names for sources and destinations. So the dev package would connect to the DBDEV database, and the prod to DBPROD, for example. When I create a package in dev and then copy it to prod, I have to go in and change all of the connections to now point to prod. There are also global variables pointing to various directories that need to be modified. Worse yet, there are also variables to directories set in ActiveX Script Tasks (which are deprecated and so need to be replaced). This is kludgy and error prone. So, since I'm learning SSIS and converting the packages, I would like to make them better.
What is a good way to specify the connections in a dynamic way? That way, when the packages are moved from dev to prod, the prod database can just be specified in one place. In other words, what are some best practices that I should know about? I'm reading this forum, and checking out links I find therein, but I also do better with specific examples (because I am so new to this).
Thank you for any guidance you can provide.
-thursday's geek
For critical systems running SQL 2000 I've always believed the development, QA and production instances should all be the same edition of SQL Server. I didn't want to take a chance of something performing differently in development then in QA and production due to dev being Standard Edition and QA and production being Enterprise Edition.
For SQL Server 2005 would you agree with this approach? I'm only referring to critical systems. Non-critical I am willing to take the chance.
What are your thoughts?
Dave
So, we are about 3 weeks away from going into production, and somehow we failed to give much thought to deploying our RS project into production.
We have over 110 report models that need to be deployed into production, and until now, we just deploy into our dev and test environments using Visual Studio. But, in our production environment, our deployers will not have Visual Studio.
Is there any simply backup/restore method that can be used to move our test environment into production? Please don't suggest a copy of each file one at a time /sigh.
Appreciated,
Scott
does anyone know of any potential issues of using a 32 bit sql server 2005 instance used for disaster recovery of a 64 bit sql 2005 cluster ?
thanks
Hi,
I currently have a 2000 Ent. production server and a stand by server ready for transaction log shipping.
Is it possible to setup transaction log shipping on a live environment without any interruptions?
I'm currently backing up the log every 1 hour, I'd like to increase to 15 minutes.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Gary
I am migrating from local to Dev,QA and Prod.
I created a .dtsconfig file containing database connection strings to Dev database. What is the "location" on the Dev server where this .dtsconfig file nees to be deployed to??
Thanks for your help.
Hi All,
We're trying to run an EXE from SSIS through "Execute Process" task.
The EXE folder contains other DLLs as well.
The EXE interacts with the database and reporting services and sends some e-mails(max 500 a day) out to customers.
My question is:
Is it ok to run this kind of EXE on the production SQL box?
If not, why?
(People argue that running EXEs is not advisable on production boxes)
Q: Why did Microsoft introduce "Execute Process" task when we cannot run EXEs on the production box?
If somebody can educate whether it's ok to run such EXEs on prod SQLs.
In either case, some explanation is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Siva.
Hey!
DDS triggers 3 - 4 times on Report Servers with 15 mints apart..any ideas?
We are running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express.
All queries on our Production database are timing out. Viewing the error log file the following show up over and over again:
Autogrow of file 'tempdev' in database 'tempdb' was cancelled by user or timed out after 3937 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Autogrow of file 'Prod' in database 'Production' was cancelled by user or timed out after 33156 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Our production database is about 1 gig in size with 3.5 million records. I tried setting the autogrow from 30% which it was before to 100MB, but no luck, still timing out and getting the errors above. Permission should be all good, nothing has changed.
There is about 50gigs of available disk space as well, so that's not the problem. Thanks for the help.
I'm having an issue to restoring database from prod to report server. I'm getting following error.
When I did Manually I got first error as below.
Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
This is the second error
Msg 3044, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
Invalid zero-length device name. Reissue thestatement with a valid device name.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 37
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Msg 5011, Level 14, State 5, Line 45
User does not have permission to alter database 'XeP', the database does not exist, or the database is not in a state that allows access checks.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 45
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
Script Which I used.
USE Master;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
-- 1 - Variable declaration
DECLARE @dbName sysname
DECLARE @backupPath NVARCHAR(500)
[Code] .....
Created Prod order status report, in status, we have different status
created =0
start =4
released =3
reported as finished =5
ended =7
I have the report, in report don't want to show the Prod order for ended status, how can I add the filter for this so it can show for all the other status not ended status. when I did on filter <7 , it did not work
Hi all,
I need one more help!
we can select the dtsconfig file with the Environment variable(indirect configuration);
but i need to select the configuration file at runtime; i've to load the package from the server and apply local configuration file to the package and run in a web server;
Requirements;
1. i have packages with its xml configurations for connection strings alone!
2. i deployed it on the server
3. Trying to execute the packages in a web page onclick event;
We have ASP.net WebPage; in On_Click Event, i have this code;
Application ap = new Application();
Package pk = ap.LoadFromSqlServer("\PROJECT", "itsssqldb", "pmo_package_user", "password", null);
pk.ImportConfigurationFile(@"Packagesdev_staging.dtsConfig");
pk.Execute();
here PROJECT is the Package name; i'm loading the package from the Common Sequel Server 2005; and applying the configuration file to that package and trying to execute this;
but its not using the config file what i mentioned; its returning failure!!
Can you please help me to resolve this issue!,
(The intention of doing this job is to select the configuration file( prod, dev) at runtime)
I am new (very new) to SQL. I 'm trying to set up SQL 7 to replicate a particular table on a daily schedule and then FTP the file out to a remote directory. Sounds easy! I'm sure it is, I just need someone to walk me through the steps.
If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.
Hi my friends,
I'm replicating with SQL Server 2000(updated Service Pack 3) get error:
SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure 'BREEZE1' as the Distributor for 'BREEZE1'.
Error 14113: Could not execute "'"C:program filesmicrosoft sql server80 ools\binnosql" -E -l60 -t60 -d"distribution" -b -i"c:MSDESQLBinnMSSQL\installinstdist.sql" -o"c:msdesqlinnmssql\installinstdist.out"'". Check 'instdist.out' in the install directory.
'distribution' is not configured as a distribution database.
Deleting database file 'c:msdesqldatamssqldatadistribution.ldf'.
Deleting database file 'c:msdesqldatamssqldatadistribution.mdf'.
I have a feeling this is failing because I have not C:msdesqlinnmssqlinstall directory at all.
Is there something I'm doing wrong...If the SP3 can affect???
This code :
declare @filenumber as char
set @filenumber = '65'
declare @filenu2 as char(6)
set @filenu2 = CONVERT(CHAR(6),(replicate('0',(6-len(@filenumber)))+ @filenumber ))
select @filenu2 as x
This should return 000065
but it returns 000006
i have stepped through it the replicate should replicate the 0 4 times
(6 - len of @filenumber) instaed its doing it 5 ??
Merge replication. We switched a publication over from push to pull and are now initiating everything within an application. We have just encountered a situation where it is now completely impossible to replicate DDL.
When this was a push subscription, we could execute the following and it would fly straight through the engine and hit every subscriber without having to do anything at all:
ALTER TABLE <tablename>
ADD <columnname> <datatype> NULL
Now that it is a pull subscription when I issue an ALTER TABLE and add a nullable column to the end of the table, it does NOT replicate at ALL. We get the following error message:
The schema definition of the destination table 'dbo'.'Player' in the subscription database does not match the schema definition of the source table in the publication database. Reinitialize the subscription without a snapshot after ensuring that the schema definition of the destination table is the same as the source table. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199478)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199478
The process was successfully stopped. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199481)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199481
It apears that we are now required to either reinitialize every subscriber every time we add a column or we are required to first distribute the DDL change to each subscriber, make sure they all have it, then add it to the publisher before anyone replicates, and then reinit every single one of them without a snapshot. This makes absolutely no sense at all.
The interesting thing is that we can add articles at will and those get applied with absolutely no problems at all to the subscribers without having to do anything other than add the article and generate a new snapshot.
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I just start my job as sql server DBA. We have disaster recovery plan. We implement Log shipping . My question after the server failiure, when production server up again ,how to point stand by server to production server?, any help will be appreciated.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi everyone, I've recently been thrown into a DBA role (I've never done any DBA work except writing a few SQL queries), so please go easy on me if these are stupid questions. My first task is to find the best way to replicate data between two SQL Server production databases. The data is to come from Production DB #1 to Production DB #2 (for access by a different system). The data has to be super-close -- not necessarily real-time, but within a few minutes. So when data is updated in #1, #2 shouldn't be be lagged by more than 45 minutes (5-10 is ideal). There are hundreds of thousands of records.What would be the best way to do this? Are there options in SQL Server 2005 to do "differential" updates from DB1 to DB2? Or is that how "transactional replication" works? If we were to implement a "full recovery model", will this impact any sort of replication? Thanks.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWE have a production database that we need to sync with about 100
salesman's laptops. These laptops will not always be online and
would need to sync on the fly.
We are thinking of having a separate distribution database to handle
the load and creating either a pull subscription or even just a DTS
package. We would like to have the salesmen just signon and go to an
ASP page and hit an Icon and either the pull subscription or the dts
package would start the sync..
Anyone tried this before and have any other ideas??
Thanks for any help??
SB
I have set up a simple trans rep from a server in the office to the web. both servers are NT4sp6aSQL 7.0. Tables only.
The publication and distribution db are on the server at the office, and there is a full time connection through the firewall.
The initialization and first replication works perfectly, but after that, there is a message from the snapshot agent that "no subscriptions needed initialization", the logreader says thare are no replicated transactions and the Distribution agent says there are no replicated transactions. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance
Hi, there
I have a situation here....
I have Production DB and Development DB in the same SQL7.0 box....
I want to update the data and SP from Pro. to Dev at least once a day...
So this is my plan.
1. Back up(Pro.) and restore(Dev.) so I can have the same DB in the same box.
2. Using a Replication (Pulication and Subscription) ro update the data and SP.
3. Because DTS can not update the SP, I use the replication instead of DTS.
I need to update the SP, too..(Front end is ACCESS and backend is SQL7.0 DB)
Is there any other methods or way to make ti happen... Any suggestion can help...
Thanks in advance
Jay
Can you have a database setup for both replication to server A and log shipping to server B?
Thanks,
Ken Nicholson
Hi,
I'm new to replication.
I configured Server named TESTER as publisher & distributer. Create new publication for database named TEST ( type : Transactional ), then Create a new push subcriptions for database TESTREPLICATION ( on the same Server : TESTER). Then I open a table in database TEST to input some data but I couldn't see any tables or data in database TESTREPLICATION ( I chose Continuously, not scheduled).
Yet, after the lunch, I could see the tables, no data. I tried to choose Start Synchronizing but not helped.
Please tell me if I configured incorrectly ?
Thanks,