Logical File Names
Apr 24, 2002Hi,
Does anyone know how to change the logical file name of a database?
Appreciate any help.
Steve
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Renaming Logical File Names
Jul 23, 2005Is there a way to rename the logical file names? I'm not talkingspecifically about the physical files, because those can be changedduring a restore, but the values immediately to the left of those inEnterprise Manager such as DBName_Data and DBName_log. EnterpriseManager lets me change them during a restore, but when I do it gives anerror. Any ideas?
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Apr 30, 2015Is there any danger with renaming the LOGICAL file names behind the database?
There are a bunch of databases that were restored copies and all of them have the same logical database file name. I'm trying to get some growth data so I want the logical files to be different (prefer them to match the actual database name) so I can more easily identify them.
For instance:
database_id name type_desc name physical_name
1 DLMdb1 ROWS DLMDB1 D:dlmdb1.mdf
1 DLMdb1 LOG DLMDB1_log E:dlmdb1.ldf
2 DLMdb2 ROWS DLMDB1 D:dlmdb2.mdf
2 DLMdb2 LOG DLMDB1_log E:dlmdb2.ldf
3 DLMdb3 ROWS DLMDB1 D:dlmdb3.mdf
3 DLMdb3 LOG DLMDB1_log E:dlmdb3.ldf
Am I safe to rename the logical names? I can't think of anything that references those logical file names that I would be breaking [backups, applications].
SQL Server 2008 :: Logical And Physical File Names Of All Databases
Apr 3, 2011Is there a query or sp that I can pull all databases on the server along with their logical file names and physical file names?
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The flat files will have similar naming: C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM and C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM.I want to run the package as an sql job in two steps, one for each table.I need to dynamically pass the table names and file names (together with the path) to the IS package.
What Is A Logical File?
Nov 7, 2000In the database properties screen, there are four tabs: General, Transaction Log, Options, Permissions. In the General Tab, it lists four columns: File name, Location, Space Allocated, File Group.
The string in the File name column has a value such as MY_DATABASE_DAT, whereas the Location column has a value like D:mssql7dataMY_DATABASE.MDF.
The Location value is clearly the Windows file name. The "File name" (which I have seen called the "logical file") is a mystery to me. What is it used for? How can it be changed? Is there a problem if two different databases have the same "logical file" name?
(For example, if you do sp_detach_db, copy the file to another place and then sp_attach_db the new file to another database name, you have two different databases with the same "logical file" name.)
Much thanks to anyone who can shed light on this.
Same Logical File Name For Two DB.
Jul 5, 2000Hi everyone,
I have a database (xyz) one Machine A. On the same machine I want to create a copy of the (xyz)database with different name(xyz_1). When I restore with move option it will restore but the thing is logical file names of xyz and xyz_1 are same. I know I can change these file names by manupulating the system table.
My question is If I didn't change the logical file names of database xyz_1(new). Is there any problems or issues may arise.
Thank you,
Dindu.
How To Change Logical File Name
Jan 18, 2000I cannot find the answer to this: how do you update the logical file name for a database? Restore database "Alpha" over "Beta" specifying WITH MOVE parms allows "Alpha"'s physical files to overlay "Beta"'s, but now "Beta"'s logical file names are "Alpha_Data" and "Alpha_Log".
Updating sysfiles directly gives back a 270; "Get outta here!"
Can this not be done?
Databases- Same Logical File Name
Apr 24, 2000Hi
Every one
One thing i found out that my 2 databases in server A
Has same logical file name .
I have try to change the name but it is not allowing me to change.
I had refer BOL it says that we should have unique logical file name in a server for each database.
Question i have is does it going harm me i don't know this
if any one u know please suggest me.
Problem I already started getting is I do backup 5 small databases of 10 to 20 mb in one tape only. The 2 database which has same logical file name out
of which one is getting copied & another is not ,All other database it backup
perfecly.
But at the same time in a hard disk if i take backup of this database in a same device it works perfecly so i don't understand where the problem is
If any has any idea please suggest me
Thanks
Nirmal.
Renaming Logical File Name
Mar 14, 2003I'm moving a database (XYZtest) from the test server to the production server via sp_detach/sp_attach. I want the logical file names to be XYZ_data, rather than XYZtest_data, etc. I can easily rename the disk files, but how do I rename the logical file names?
Thanks,
Al
Change Logical Name Of Db And Log File
Jul 20, 2005Hi,Is there an option (stored procedure) or whatever to change to logical nameof the databasefile and the database log file ?Arno de Jong, The Netherlands.
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Mar 9, 2000Is there a way to rename the logical file for a database. For example, if I am moving a development database into production, I can use backup - but the backup takes the logical file names of the database and puts it into my production server. Now I have a production database with "dev_data1" for a logical file.....Can I change that name....?
Thanks!
Dean
Indexes On Seperate Logical File...
Sep 22, 2000Hi all -
Quick question... I want to move all my non-clustered indexes to their own seperate drive array. How would I accomplish this?
Do I just add the filename at the end of the statement like you do in Oracle? (EXAMPLE: CREATE INDEX IDX_Cls_Code on dbo.Class(Code) on secondary.ndf)
If this isn't correct, can someone please post the correct syntax?
Thanks!
Rich
Cannot Shrink Log File 2 (ABC_Log) Because All Logical Log Files Are In Use....
Nov 6, 2003A small database ABC with data only 5 mb but its log is growing everyday around 20 mb. I want to shrink its size like for other databases on daily bases.
1. backup log ABC with truncate_only
2. DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (ABC, 10)
got following error:
<<Cannot shrink log file 2 (ABC_Log) because all logical log files are in use.>>
with no_log also tried but have the same error when dbcc shrinkdatabase..
any idea?
thanks
-D
Difference Between Backing Up To A File And A Logical Backup Device?
Jun 16, 2007What's is the between backing up a database to a file and a logical backup device?
If I point the logical backup device to a file on the filesystem, it's same as backing up to a file? isn't?
Thanks
Integration Services :: Move Multiple Files Based On File Names Listed In A Spreadsheet / File?
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Jan 2, 2008Hi All,
I am using query analyzer to execute my sqls .
I want to take out .mdf and .LDF files and put it in another machine .
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Jan 2, 2008Hi,
Every day I ftp a zip file. Inside the zip file are 4 text files. Every day the names of the 4 files are different, so I can't know beforehand what the names are.
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How To Search File Names? Help!
May 29, 2002Hi ALL!
Our application needs to search for exact match of file names (which will be 70 characters in length) in a table which has thousands of file names in its file_name field. What is the best way to this? Shall we index the table on file_name column? Or any othe way, as the application will do this search several times all day. Any ideas are appreciated.
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Backup File Names Truncating
Apr 18, 2002I'm performing a full backup of a database, and the file name that I am creating for the backup is truncating. This keeps happening and can't figure out why.
I have a stored proc that I run:
CREATE PROC usp_Backup_old_srvra_to_srvrb
AS
DECLARE @DOW varchar(10),
@Filelocation varchar(50)
--Get Day of Week and set backup file name
SET @DOW = DATENAME(dw,GETDATE())
SET @FileLocation = 'SERVERAE$MSSQL7BACKUP'+ @DOW + '__old_BKUP_SRVR_0418_0800.bak'
BACKUP DATABASE TEST
TO DISK = @FileLocation
WITH INIT,
STATS
RETURN (0)
The backup file that was created ended up being:
THURSDAY__old_BKUP_SR
Any idea why it didn't pick up the whole file name that I wanted?
Can DTS Import Varying File Names?
Oct 5, 2000I receive several TXT files daily that need to update information in SQL Server databases. The process requires that all TXT files be appended to a master file and also update individual files' information based on the TXT file name. For example:
File TABLE1_x_ddmmyy.TXT (ddmmyy = date, x = "O" or "B") is to be appended to the master file and also update SQL table "TABLE1" by setting a flag for those records in the table that match a unique key that is provided in the TABLE1.TXT file.
In VFP, I had the following process in place:
a) open the TXT file.
b) read its file name and open the corresponding VFP file
c) update the VFP file based on the key provided in TXT
d) append the key to the master file.
e) repeat c-d for next record in TXT
f) repeat c-e for next TXT file
Using the same process with ADO takes a considerable time since I am processing one line at a time.
Is there any way to do this using a DTS package of some sort? How can I read the TXT file names in SQL Server?
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File Names With Rowcounts Using DOS Command
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There are 18 text files(file names are dynamic) and each file having different row counts in some “xyz” folder.
Here, I need to generate 19th text file which has the list of file names with row counts.
I am planning to import all of the text files into database and trying to generate 19th one.
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I would imagine that you can do this through a script task but I'm not sure how to reference the connection object. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Restore Database To Different File Names
May 9, 2008Hi SQL server experts,
I'm trying to restore from a backup file.
I need to restore the datafile and logfile to different names.
I modified the options page, changed the 'Restored As' file name.
I clicked on the General page and Clicked on the Options page again, the old values came back.
How do I handle this?
Thanks in advance.
Pingx
Save Input Flat File Names.
Feb 19, 2008Background:
I am new to SSIS.
I have a data flow task within a For Each Loop Container.
Its reading a Demilited Flat File and inserting into a DB table.
The Flat File Source reads a specified folder and picks up all files with extension .txt
Question:
How can I record and save the file names the package picks up and loads it in ?
For eg:
If I have under C:Test folder
File1.txt
File2.txt
File3.txt
And the package picks up all the files above and loads them in, is it possible to read the file name its processing ?
I have a need to read these file names ( in this example File1,File2,File3 ) and store them in a DB table.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.
AkB
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Can anyone make recommendations here that might help?
Oh, this is SQL200 in case that impacts what you might advise!!!!
SSIS Runs Out Of Temp File Names
Apr 24, 2007Hi,
A collegue of mine is having some issues. I hope someone can help
Hi all,
This is my first call for technical assistance so go easy on me.
I'm having a problem in one of my SSIS packages. In brief, the process involves copying the rows from an untyped table to a typed table. There are about 45,000 rows in this table and during the copy ("OLE DB source" to "OLE DB destination") the process appears to hang for about 5 minutes eventually crashing with a "The buffer manager could not get a temporary file name. The call to GetTempFileName failed."
After several attempts using all the trace info I could master this is the order of events with some interesting numbers and facts:
1. The SSIS package goes swifty through "Validation", "Prepare for Execution" and "Execution" in less than 1 second, with "Execute phase is beginning" being the last message on the "Progress tab".
2. Using Performance counters I note that in the next 5 mins the values for "BLOB bytes read" slowly rises and then after a couple of mins so does ""BLOB files in use" the latter reaching a figure of 65534
3. When this figure is reached, SSIS starts creating thousands of zero-size files with the name DTS####.tmp (where #### is hex e.g. DTSB4C1.TMP) in the TEMP folder (C:Documents and Settings<username>Local SettingsTemp in my case).
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5. My conclusion (thus far) is that SSIS creates all these 1000s of tmp files but in my case hits some kind of maximum (either a folder limit or runs out of hex combinations for the file names) and then crashes.
6. The only thread I found on the internet suggested setting up an environment variable "BLOBTempStoragePath" and assigning a value of "C:Temp1;C:Temp2;C:Temp3;C:Temp4" so that SSIS can span across a number of "temporary" folders instead of the 1 default folder contained in the "TEMP" environment variable.
7. Setting the above environment variable in Windows 2000 did not work for me (tried it as both a user variable and a system environment variable). So here are the facts so far - ANY assistance will be hugely appreciated - I have no idea why all these temporary files are being generated - I have created SSIS packages handling data sets 10 times bigger than this one without these problems so I don't think it's size related.
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Mar 19, 2008Hi,
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Dynamic File Names For Raw Files Created By Conditional Expressions
Feb 26, 2007Hello,
I have a huge table of around 6.2 billion rows in Oracle and I need to load this table to SQL Server. I am creating multiple raw files based on contact_dates in the table. I have used conditional expressions to branch out and create raw files. I need to specify static file names for each branch or I have to create multiple variables for each branch and use expressions to create file names.
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I read in another thread that
"It is not possible to create packages or new objects within packages using SSIS."
I also read in the books online that "The input and the input columns of the Excel destination have no custom
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