SQL Server 2008 :: Moving Tables To New File Group
Mar 16, 2015
I'm presented with an issue where by I need to reclaim a fair bit of unused space currently sat in the primary data file for my database. I don't want to run DBCC SHRINKDATABASE as we all know this could potentially have a some serious negative effects relating to index fragmentation.
So, how do I get the free space out of the data file? - I've decided to:
1. Add new new file group
2. Add a clustered index for all tables on the new file group
3. Shrink the primary file group as much as possible (hopefully giving me the free space back)
4. Drop the newly created clustered indexes for all tables
There are no clustered indexes currently for any of the tables!, so me temporarily creating/dropping one shouldn't be an issue. Are there any other ways I can get the free space back to the OS?
Recently maintenance was done removing some tables from the original filegroup in one drive of our SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition 64bits to another created on a separate physical drive. I was expecting the full amount of data moved to the secondary filegroup to show up as unused on the primary filegroup but that doesn't seem to be the case. Do I have to do anything after the move to release that space, not to disk, but to the database as unused?
I have few issues regarding the transfer of the tables from one file group to another file group in SQL 2008 and also How can we backup and restore the particular database based on file group level.
Let’s say I have a tables stored within the different FG. such as
Here all I want to transfer the dim.table1 ,dim.table2 from DEFAULT_FG to the Primary File group .So is there simple methods for transfer the dim.table1,2 from one FG to another .I have tried somewhat but I couldn’t get the exact way.Secondly after moving those dim.table1 ,dim.table2 from DEFAULT_FG to Primary ,All I want to backup and restore the database only containing the Primary and FG1,FG2… not a DEFAULT_FG.Is it possible or not.?
We are receiving following alerts frequently about 1:40 AM in the morning. We have backups running on 11:00 PM everyday and rebuild job running at 2:00 AM. Not sure the exact cause of this error.
Error:
The file group "PRIMARY" for the database "tempdb" in SQL instance "MSSQLSERVER" on computer "XYZ" is running out of space.
tempdev Initial size : 133,100 MB Growth: By 10 percent, Limited to 140000 MB templog Initial Size : 5,475 MB Growth: By 10 percent, Unlimited
I have a table called ACTIVATION_CONSUMPTION which is in PRIMARY file group, in order to move this table to new file group [FG_ACTV], I have done the following
1. ALTER DATABASE [MYDB] ADD FILEGROUP [FG_ACTV] (i have not attached a file to this file group)
2. IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[ACTIVATION_CONSUMPTION]') AND name = N'ACTIVATION_CONSUMPTION_PK') ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACTIVATION_CONSUMPTION] DROP CONSTRAINT [ACTIVATION_CONSUMPTION_PK] GO
I have multiple xml data file in a directory say C:XMLData abc1.xml, abc2.xml, abc3.xml etc.
Need to loop through each file in ssis with Foreach loop container, and get the file name say abc1, and load the data of abc1.xml to abc1 table in sql server DB.
Next iteration will pick up the abc2.xml and find the abc2 table in sql server DB then insert the data in abc2 table.
While each iteration, xml source should also point each xsd file correspondingly.
Tables are already created in DB
I solved my problem up to getting the file name from ech iteration and assigned file name to variable, in oledb destination data access mode I select Table or view name variable, then corresponding table will get selected for data insertation.
Just wanted to know how can I read each xsd file for each xml data files while iteration.
I have a partitioned table in which one of the partitions is on the Primary filegroup. I want to move the data off of that Primary filegroup, and and on to a new filegroup named RTFG6.
Scheme and function currently defined as:
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [PS1_Left_id] AS PARTITION [PF1_Left_id] TO ([RTFG1], [RTFG2], [RTFG3], [RTFG4], [RTFG5], [PRIMARY])
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [PF1_Left_id](int) AS RANGE LEFT FOR VALUES (10, 15, 35, 48, 53)
I've tried split and merge, and for whatever reason, always end up with the Primary filegroup holding data.
How do i get it off of Primary completely, and onto RTFG1 to RTFG6?
I don't want to export to a holding table and re-create the table if i can avoid it, due to identity columns and relationships with multiple tables.
Just ran the 6.5 to 7.0 upgrade. It put all tables into a 1 large file. Is there a way to move a single table out of the file and into a second filegroup?
I have a DB with TDE enabled on Enterprise edition sql server 2008r2. I am actually planning on moving the DB to sql server 2008r2 standard edition. How to accomplish it properly. I don't think SQL Server 2008r2 standard edition support TDE. I can only think of turning off the encryption, but is there anything else I should know?
I am working on a task. Currently we are taking a database backup and keeping that backups in a folder. The backups doesn't have time stamp on it. My task is need to get the latest backup and copy that backups into some other server and then restore the database from there.I am planning to create SSIS package.Do we need script task for this task.How to get the .bak with latest create or moidified date. For now we doesn't have timestamp so need to go based on modified date?
I have to move all the tables in a database from one file group to another file group.All my tables have millions of records and the indexes are in correct file group but not the tables. How much time will it take to complete the whole process ?
Client ID Client Name Date Score 1 Smith 12/31/2014 25 1 Smith 10/15/2014 45 2 John 08/11/2014 55 2 John 06/18/2014 15 3 Rose 04/15/2014 12 4 Mike 07/23/2014 28 5 Mary 01/5/2014 56 6 Lisa 08/1/2014 54 6 Lisa 05/10/2014 34
Now I want to use Row Number function or any way where I can get the result as below
Client ID Client Name Date Score RowNo 1 Smith 12/31/2014 25 1 1 Smith 10/15/2014 45 2 2 John 08/11/2014 55 1 2 John 06/18/2014 15 2 3 Rose 04/15/2014 12 1 4 Mike 07/23/2014 28 1 5 Mary 01/5/2014 56 1 6 Lisa 08/1/2014 54 1 6 Lisa 05/10/2014 34 2
I am working to move an application from MySQL to SQL Server. The person who developed the MySQL application has little database experience, and took some shortcuts that the lax nature of MySQL allows. One query with which I am struggling looks something like this:
SELECT StartTime + Offset, min(Sensor), max(Sensor) FROM SensorData WHERE SensorID = @SensorID AND StartTime + Offset > @BeginTime AND StartTime + Offset < @EndTime GROUP BY (StartTime + Offset) / 100 ORDER BY StartTime + Offset
What we are trying to accomplish is to return minimum and maximum sensor values over a number of periods between the BeginTime and EndTime. When I run this query in MySQL on a sample dataset, it returns a small number of rows, with each one being the min/max values for a portion of the overall period.
Under MS SQL Server 2008, SP3, I get the two following error messages: Column 'SensorData.StartTime' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause. Column 'SensorData.Offset' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
'Banquets - All Day' as revName, SUM(t.c_items_total) AS Banquet_Total, SUM(t.cover_count) as Total_Covers, -- (t.c_items_total) / (t.cover_count) as AvgPer_Cover--
[Code] ....
The output needs to be grouped by the t.c_items_total...I just need the avg per cover (person) / items_total.
select b.isin, a.market, a.ccy, a.stock_mkt, max(a.year) ,max(a.month), max(a.day) from market_table a inner join isin_table b on a.id = b.id where a.isin_closing_date=0 and a.market in ('XFFA', 'XFFA') and b.isin_type= 'I' and b.isin = 'DEX' group by b.isin, a.market, a.ccy, a.stock_mkt
what's needed is to get the earliest record all times, no mater the currency :
I have groups of records in a table, and I would like to set a necessary condition on each group. The condition is that EXACTLY ONE of the records in each group has a flag field set to True (bit = 1). I can naturally write triggers for update, insert and delete events that test for such a condition.
Something along the lines of this condition:
(select count(ClovekAutoID) from TableOfClovekNames tCN where JeHlavni = 1 group by ClovekAutoID having COUNT(JeHlavni ) > 1) = 1In fact,
I tried this just on whim, but naturally, the SS engine told me to go roll my hoop, that subqueries are not allowed in constraint expressions.
I want to fetch below 3 records from the above scenario i.e. latest record of each amount (Latest is determined using "descr" column i.e. 4 is greater then 3 -
I'd like to get the column ID_NumofAttach to be populated by the total number of ID_Attachlevel column by the same ID_BegAttach or ID_EndAttach and populate where ID_Attachlevel is 0.
partition with single file group or multiple file group which one best.
we have some report running from partition table, few reports don't have any partition Key and after creating 400 partition with 400 file group it is slow.what is best practices to crate 400 file group or single file group.
While running the below query, getting the error: Am I missing any of the columns to include in the SELECT column_list?
Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Column 'sys.master_files.database_id' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
<code> select a.[Database Name],a.[Type],a.[Size in MB],b.LastUserUpdate from ( SELECT database_id,[Database Name]= DB_NAME(database_id), [Type]= CASE WHEN Type_Desc = 'ROWS' THEN 'Data File(s)' WHEN Type_Desc = 'LOG' THEN 'Log File(s)' ELSE Type_Desc END ,
For a database, we have 4 data files in a particular file group and the file sizes are almost 70 GB each.
Do I come across any performance issues if I create/pre-allocate an additional data file in the same file group so that the existing files don't grow too much?
In a server we had File Growth,And then We had to Add New Hard Drive And New File On It.And Now We have New server with a Huge Hard Drive.But all files remaind.Can I Reduce This files to One data file or not ?
is there any more efficient way for example to implement the next query?
SELECT s1.article, dealer, s1.price FROM shop s1 JOIN ( SELECT article, MAX(price) AS price FROM shop GROUP BY article) AS s2 ON s1.article = s2.article AND s1.price = s2.price; WHERE dealer = 'dealer sample'
I'm in the process of tuning a SQL Server v7 box and have decided that the transaction log would be better placed on its own disk. How do I move a transaction log ?
I have a text file and moved the data to sql server using import and export data. These are step I am doing.
1. Open Microsoft Sql Server and select DTS Import Export Wizard 2. Using the wizard , I am selecting the Data Source as Text File and provided the file name. 3. In the next option, I am choosing Delimited , followed by Tab option.
4. Then, I am selecting the required Destination and the required Database also. 5. I am choosing the files specified and Run the file.
This method works perfectly.
However, I want a method, where I could avoid steps 1 thru 5 and provide the user a singe step. I mean just an execute of a stored procedure should do the steps 1 thru 5. Is that possible.
My searches have come up blank, so I'm hoping someone else can point me in the right direction. I'm done some development in SQL Server Express, working on tables and procedures. I've now got to move those tables/procedures into SQL Server and I don't know of an easy way to do this. Are there any tools I can take advantage of that would allow me to get all these objects moved? The only way I can see to do it is to move objects over one-by-one. This would be really time-consuming, and I'd like to avoid it if possible. I'm positive I'm not the first one to try this, but what should I be searching for? Are there tools/procedures I should be looking for? Appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
Historically I've always written a VB script to copy a file from a sharepoint library. I don't like this method because I have to input a username & password in the script and maintain a config file.
Yesterday I was playing around with using a file system task. The sharepoint file has a UNC path so why not? I created a simple test package with a single file system task that copies the sharepoint file (addressed via UNC) to another network location. Package runs fine locally.
I try running on our utility server but am getting a "The file name [SHAREPOINT UNC PATH] specified in the connection was not valid" error. Package is running with a proxy on the server and the proxy account has the same permissions to the sharepoint site (so far as I can tell) as me.
one of my database data file is 100 GB and the log file is 500 GB.DB is in full recovery model and the transaction logs happen once in 6 hours.Even then, the Database log file isn't reducing in size.
We have a file based asp.net app built using Visual Web Developer and Sql Server Express 2005. We have finished development and testing and are now moving to the deployment stage. As a first step, we would like to be able to view it on a test machine using IIS (instead of VWDs built in web server). We have created a virtual directory in IIS and can view our app correctly at http:localhost/ForIIS_test.
However, when we get to a page that tries to access our Sql Sever Express database, we get the following error: An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:Documents and SettingsClaudeMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSitesForIIS_testApp_Data estDatastore.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share. Does anyone know how to overcome this problem? Any help appreciated. Claude.
